Sonnet No 18: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” (M.C.Q) Multiple Choice Questions and Answers, Class XII, WBCHSE

Sonnet No 18 – Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day by William Shakespeare

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day MCQ

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day Questions and Answers

1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Is Sonnet no.-

a. 16
b. 17
c. 18
d. 19

Ans. C

2. The word ‘temperate’ means-

a. Warm
b. Moderate
c. Friendly
d. Temporary

Ans. B

3. The theme that Shakespeare explores in Sonnet 18 is-

a. Immortality of youth and beauty
b. Carpe diem
c. Death as an agent of nature
d. Timelessness of poetry

Ans. A

4. Who is the sonnet addressed to-

a. Shakespeare’s wife
b. Queen Elizabeth
c. A young woman
d. A young man

Ans. D

5. The poet compares his beloved to-

a. A summer flower
b. Summer breeze
c. A summer’s day
d. Summer tune

Ans. C

6. Compared to a summer’s day, the poet’s friend is-

a. more lovely and temperate
b. more sweet and soothing
c. more attractive and beautiful
d. more sensuous and passionate

Ans. A

7. The poet states that ‘fair’-

a. Is subject to change
b. Is the opposite of unfair
c. Can only diminish marginally
d. Is never subject to change

Ans. A

8. Nature’s changing course is-

a. Dimmed
b. Temperate
c. Untrimmed
d. Lovely

Ans. C

9. ‘But thy eternal summer shall not fade’. The word opposite in meaning to ‘eternal’ is-

a. Universal
b. Momentary
c. Temporal
d. Decayed

Ans. A

10. Whose eternal summer shall not fade?

a. Shakespeare’s
b. The fair youth
c. The black lady
d. Queen Elizabeth

Ans. B

11. The poet asserts that his friend will never lose possession of his-

a. Property
b. Health
c. Beauty
d. Wealth

Ans. C

12. ‘Nor shall death brag thou wand ‘rest in his shade,’- here ‘shade’ refers to-

a. Talk loudly
b. Talk cheerfully
c. Claim boastfully
d. Take away

Ans. C

13. The rough winds of summer-

a. Blow the flowers away
b. Shake the darling buds of May
c. Prevent the birds to fly
d. Blow a beautiful scene

Ans. B

14. Summer has-

a. Short duration
b. Long duration
c. Constant temperature
d. Constant brightness

Ans. A

15. ‘The eye of heaven’ in Shakespeare’s Sonnet No 18 refers to-

a. The sun
b. The moon
c. The poet
d. The clouds

Ans. A

16. How is the gold complexion of the sun dimmed-

a. By the clouds
b. By the shade of the tree
c. By a canopy
d. By the shade of a building

Ans. A

17. Death in the poem is personified as-

a. Kind and helpful
b. Sweet and smart
c. Calm and quiet
d. Proud and boastful

Ams. D

18. The poet’s friend is expected to grow-

a. With time
b. With the eternal lines of the poem
c. With the love of the poet
d. With nature’s changing course

Ans. B

19. How can eternal summer be maintained?

a. Through poem
b. Through beauty
c. Through preservation
d. Through conservation

Ans. A

20. What is the controlling simile in the poem?

a) summers day
b) eternal summer
c) clouds
d) flowers.

Ans. A

21. “Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” The word ‘thou’ refers to –

a) the poet’s ladylove
b) the poet’s friend
c) the poet’s mother
d) the poet himself.

Ans. B

22. The word ‘temperate’ means

a) temporary
b) warm
c) friendly
d) moderate.

Ans. D

23. The fair youth’s beauty surpasses the beauty of

a) nature
b) Summer
c) Autumn
d) winter

Ans. B

24. The poet compares his beloved to a-

a) wintry day
b) summer’s day
c) sunny day.
d) spring day

Ans. B

25. The winds that blow in summer in Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 18 are

a) warm
b) balmy
c) rough
d) slow.

Ans. C

26. Buds of May are –

a) darling
b) tender
c) beautiful
d) green.

Ans. A

27. What kind of complexion does the sun have?

a) golden
b) yellow
c) blue
d) red.

Ans. A

28. Shakespeare’s young friend is more lovely and temperate than the

a) buds of May
b) eye of heaven
c) rough winds
d) Summer’s day.

Ans. D

29. The expression ‘summers lease’ is suggestive of –

a) the brevity of the summer
b) the eternal presence of summer
c) the sporadic presence of summer
d) the silence of summer.

Ans. C

30. The poet states that summer –

a) is not eternal
b) is hot and humid
c) is eternal
d) is constant.

Ans. A

31. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.” – The reference here is to –

a. the Mars
b. the Sun
c. the Moon
d. Jupiter.

Ans. B

32. Rough winds in Summer days destroy

a. flowers
b. buds
c. trees
d. fruits.

Ans. B

33. The “darling buds” are shaken by rough winds in –

a. March
b. April
c. May
d. June.

Ans. C

34. Whose “gold Complexion” becomes dimmed sometime? –

a. the friend’s
b. the sun’s
c. nature’s
d. the poet’s.

Ans. B

35. How is the gold-complexion of the sun dimmed?

a. by a canopy
b. by the clouds
c. by the trees
d. by the shade.

Ans. B

36. The poet states that fair –

a. is subject to change
b. is the opposite of unfair
c. can only diminish marginally
d. is never subject to change.

Ans. A

37. The eye of heaven in Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 18 refers to –

a. the sun
b. the moon
c. the poet
d. the clouds.

Ans. A

38. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade.” – The opposite word of ‘eternal’ is

a. decayed.
b. universal
c. momentary
d. temporal

Ans. C

39. Nature’s changing course is –

a. dimmed
b. temperate
c. untrimmed
d. lovely.

Ans. C

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