A Psalm of Life | Multiple Choice Question | MCQ | +2 2nd Year | CHSE Odisha

 A Psalm of Life

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Multiple Choice Question and Answer










1. What is Psalm?





2. Who does the poet address in the opening lines of the poem "A Psalm of life"?





3. Who say in mournful numbers that life is but an empty dream?





4. How is a soul that is inactive?





5. According to the poet, things are not _________.





6. How is life?




7. What is not the aim of life?





8. What is not life's goal?





9. What does biblical expression "Dust thou art, to dust thou returnest" signify?





10. What is said for only the body and not for the soul?





11. How should a soul be?





12. What shouldn't be our destines way or goal?




13. How should a man act





14. tomorrowHow should be each ?





15. What is long?





16. What does "Art is long, and Time is fleeting" imply?





17. How are our hearts?





18. What do you understand by "muffled drums"?





19. Why are heart beats compared to funeral marches?





20. What are the sounds of the beating heart compared to?





21. What does the poet compare the world with?





22. What does the poet say about life?



23. What does the word "bivouac" mean?





24. How should we be in the battle of life?





25. Who are dumb driven cattle?




26. Which of the following means "conflict"?





27. What should we never trust?





28. The poet advises us not to trust _________ however pleasant or positive it may seem.





29. What should we keep buried?





30. The poet advises us not to dwell in the _______.





31. What should we do?





32. Why should we live in the present?





33. What do lives of great men remind us?





34. What do we leave behind when we die?





35. Where do we leave our footprints?





36. Whom will our sublime lives inspire?




37. Lives of great men also inspire those who have failed in life and feel ______.





38. How would the lives of noble men help those in distress?





39. What does "With a heart for any fate" mean?





40. What does the poet advice the readers?





41. What is fleeting?





42. What does "Still achieving, still pursuing" mean?




43. Henry Wardsworth Longfellow is a/an ________ poet.





44. Longfellow is the first American citizen to be honoured in ________ in London, England.





45. "A Psalm of Life" belongs to the genre of poetry called ________.






46. "Carpe Diem" means ________.





47. What does "earnest" mean?





48. What does "a forlorn and shipwrecke brother mean"?





49. What does "Take heart again" imply?





50. Which word in the poem "A Psalm of Life" means "Ocean"?





51. "A Psalm of Life" means ______.





52. "Life is earnest" means ________.



53. "Dust you art" means ________.





54. According to the poet, the soul is ________.





55. Future should not be trusted because _________.




56. Present should be trusted because _______.





57. "Foot prints" means _______.





58. "A forlorn and ship wrecked brother" means ______.





59. "Learn to labour and to wait" means ________.





60. Past should not be trusted because ________.





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