Class 10 English · Chapter 7 · Test 6

Unit 7 Board Test

19 MCQs • Board-style practice covering vocabulary, poetic devices, comprehension, grammar, and key ideas based on Unit 7, Time by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

MCQs

19 questions · 20 min · 19 marks

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Sample questions

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Question 1
Who wrote the poem 'Time'?
- AWilliam Wordsworth
- BJohn Keats
- CPercy Bysshe Shelley
- DLord Byron
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Answer: C
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet and the writer of 'Time'.
Question 2
What is time compared to in the poem?
- AA mountain
- BAn unfathomable sea
- CA bright star
- DA flowing river
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Answer: B
The poet uses the image of a vast, unfathomable sea to describe time.
Question 3
What does 'brackish' mean?
- AFresh and sweet
- BSlightly salty
- CCompletely frozen
- DClear and pure
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Answer: B
Brackish water is somewhat salty or unpleasant in taste.
Question 4
What makes the sea's waters 'brackish' in the poem?
- ARainwater
- BThe salt of human tears
- CMelting ice
- DSea plants
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Answer: B
The poem connects the sea's bitterness with human sorrow and tears.
Question 5
Which figure of speech is used in 'Ocean of Time'?
- ASimile
- BMetaphor
- COxymoron
- DAlliteration
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Answer: B
Time is directly compared to an ocean, making this a metaphor.

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