Class 12 English Poetry Ch-6 The Soldier MCQs Exam 2027

Topic 1: About the Poet (Rupert Brooke)

1. Who has composed the poem, ‘The Soldier’?

   (A) Rupert Brooke

   (B) T.S. Eliot

   (C) D.H. Lawrence

   (D) W.H. Auden

2. Rupert Brooke was born in :

   (A) 1887

   (B) 1890

   (C) 1915

   (D) 1885

3. Rupert Brooke died in :

   (A) 1914

   (B) 1915

   (C) 1916

   (D) 1920

4. Rupert Brooke died of :

   (A) Heart attack

   (B) Septicemia

   (C) Cancer

   (D) Kidney failure

5. Rupert Brooke was the son of a :

   (A) Teacher

   (B) Doctor

   (C) Housemaster at Rugby School

   (D) Businessman

6. Who described Rupert Brooke as ‘the handsomest young man in England’?

   (A) W.B. Yeats

   (B) T.S. Eliot

   (C) Walter de la Mare

   (D) D.H. Lawrence

7. Rupert Brooke belongs to : [BSEB, 2021A]

   (A) The 20th Century

   (B) The 19th Century

   (C) The 18th Century

   (D) The 17th Century

8. Rupert Brooke is remembered as a : [BSEB, 2021A]

   (A) Trench poet

   (B) Georgian poet

   (C) Realistic poet

   (D) War poet

9. Which of the following is a ‘War Poet’? [BSEB, 2022A]

   (A) Kamala Das

   (B) Rupert Brooke

   (C) John Keats

   (D) John Donne

10. Rupert Brooke has written the poem—

    (A) Snake

    (B) An Epitaph

    (C) The Soldier

    (D) Song of Myself

Topic 2: Form and Structure of the Poem

11. ‘The Soldier’ is written in the form of a : [BSEB, 2019A]

    (A) Ballad

    (B) Sonnet

    (C) Epic

    (D) Lyric

12. A sonnet is a poem of ……… lines.

    (A) 16

    (B) 14

    (C) 18

    (D) 20

13. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called : [BSEB, 2023A]

    (A) Octave

    (B) Sestet

    (C) Couplet

    (D) Quatrain

14. The last six lines of a sonnet are known as :

    (A) Octave

    (B) Sestet

    (C) Sonnet

    (D) Chorus

15. A sonnet is divided into how many parts?

    (A) Two

    (B) Three

    (C) Four

    (D) Five

16. The poem ‘The Soldier’ consists of …….. lines.

    (A) 12

    (B) 14

    (C) 10

    (D) 16

Topic 3: Theme and Subject Matter

17. ‘The Soldier’ is a …. poem. [BSEB, 2018A]

    (A) nature

    (B) war

    (C) love

    (D) happy

18. The poem ‘The Soldier’ is a ………… poem.

    (A) nature

    (B) patriotic

    (C) love

    (D) happy

19. The poet in ‘The Soldier’ is depicting the miseries of—

    (A) war

    (B) nature

    (C) relation

    (D) love

20. Which poem is a tribute to the soldiers who fought for their country?

    (A) Song of Myself

    (B) The Soldier

    (C) My Grandmother’s House

    (D) Snake

21. Rupert Brooke inspires patriotism in the …….. phase of the First World War. [BSEB, 2020A]

    (A) middle

    (B) early

    (C) late

    (D) end

22. The poem ……… is a patriotic poem.

    (A) Song of Myself

    (B) Fire-Hymn

    (C) The Soldier

    (D) An Epitaph

Topic 4: Textual Analysis and Indebtedness

23. The speaker of the poem ‘The soldier’ is a —

    (A) doctor

    (B) soldier

    (C) teacher

    (D) trader

24. The speaker of the poem ‘The Soldier’ is very much indebted to : [BSEB, 2024A]

    (A) England

    (B) America

    (C) India

    (D) France

25. The poet says that if he dies in a foreign country, that land will forever be :

    (A) America’s

    (B) France’s

    (C) England’s

    (D) Germany’s

26. The speaker is not afraid of : [BSEB, 2020A]

    (A) Life

    (B) Death

    (C) Enemy

    (D) War

27. A dust whom …. bore, shaped, made aware, …….. : [BSEB, 2022A]

    (A) Ireland

    (B) India

    (C) England

    (D) Iceland

28. The term ‘concealed’ in ‘The Soldier’ stands for : [BSEB, 2023A]

    (A) hidden

    (B) disappeared

    (C) absent

    (D) mysterious

29. Rupert Brooke speaks in the guise of an ………… soldier.

    (A) English

    (B) American

    (C) French

    (D) European

30. Rupert Brooke praises— [BSEB, 2019C]

    (A) England

    (B) Germany

    (C) Russia

    (D) America

31. According to ‘The Soldier’, England has given her natives her flowers :

    (A) to worship

    (B) to love

    (C) to offer

    (D) to sell

32. The place where the soldier would be buried should be treated as the part of …….. after his death.

    (A) Germany

    (B) England

    (C) Italy

    (D) France

33. The dust stands for the …………

    (A) leader

    (B) teacher

    (C) farmer

    (D) soldier

34. The word ‘Eternal’ used in the poem means :

    (A) Temporary

    (B) Short-lived

    (C) Everlasting

    (D) Rare

35. The soldier in the poem ‘The Soldier’ is—

    (A) French

    (B) English

    (C) German

    (D) Spanish

36. The poet in ‘The Soldier’ is in love with his ……

    (A) country

    (B) sister

    (C) wife

    (D) parents

37. The images and praises of ……… run through both the stanzas. [BSEB, 2022A, 2024A]

    (A) England

    (B) America

    (C) France

    (D) India

Topic 5: Important Lines and Context

38. ‘And think, this heart, all evil shed away’ is a line from : [BSEB, 2022A]

    (A) Snake

    (B) Fire-Hymn

    (C) The Soldier

    (D) An Epitaph

39. ‘Her sights and sounds, dreams happy as her day’ is taken from—

    (A) Snake

    (B) Fire-Hymn

    (C) The Soldier

    (D) Now the Leaves are Falling Fast

40. The line ‘In hearts at peace, under an English heaven’ is taken from …… [BSEB, 2019A, 2020A, 2021A]

    (A) Ode to Autumn

    (B) The Soldier

    (C) Song of Myself

    (D) Fire Hymn

41. ‘A pulse in the eternal mind’ is from : [BSEB, 2025A]

    (A) Snake

    (B) Song of Myself

    (C) Ode to Autumn

    (D) The Soldier

42. ‘A pulse in the eternal mind, no less’ is written by—

    (A) John Keats

    (B) Walter de la Mare

    (C) Walt whitman

    (D) Rupert Brooke

43. ‘If I should die, think only, this my me’ is taken from—

    (A) An Epitaph

    (B) Fire-Hymn

    (C) The Soldier

    (D) Snake

44. ‘My tongue, every …… of my blood, form’ from this soil, this air,’ is a line often compared with:

    (A) drop

    (B) atom

    (C) molecule

    (D) part

45. “In that rich earth a richer dust concealed” — here ‘richer dust’ refers to:

    (A) Gold

    (B) The body of the soldier

    (C) Precious stones

    (D) Fertile soil

46. The speaker of ‘The Soldier’ belongs to :

    (A) England

    (B) Russia

    (C) America

    (D) Germany

47. ‘The Soldier’ is a poem that deals with:

    (A) Patriotism

    (B) Nature

    (C) Religion

    (D) Romance

48. Rupert Brooke’s poetry is known for its:

    (A) Cruelty

    (B) Idealism

    (C) Pessimism

    (D) Hatred

49. The poet calls the heaven in the poem:

    (A) Holy heaven

    (B) Pure heaven

    (C) English heaven

    (D) Eternal heaven

50. The soldier wants to be remembered as a symbol of:

    (A) England’s glory

    (B) Fear

    (C) War’s cruelty

    (D) Defeat