MCQs: To Autumn
Q.1 Who wrote the ode “To Autumn”?
1. Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. William Wordsworth
3. John Keats
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer: 3
Explanation: “To Autumn” was written by the Romantic poet John Keats in 1819.
Q.2 In which year was “To Autumn” written?
1. 1815
2. 1819
3. 1820
4. 1825
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats composed “To Autumn” in September 1819, during the final phase of his great poetic career.
Q.3 “To Autumn” was first published in which
collection?
1. Lyrical Ballads
2. Songs of Innocence and Experience
3. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
4. Endymion
Answer: 3
Explanation: The poem appeared in the 1820 collection “Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.”
Q.4 “To Autumn” is the last of Keats’s how many
famous odes?
1. Three
2. Four
3. Six
4. Eight
Answer: 3
Explanation: “To Autumn” is considered the last of Keats’s six great odes.
Q.5 Which poetic form does “To Autumn” belong to?
1. Sonnet
2. Elegy
3. Ode
4. Ballad
Answer: 3
Explanation: The poem is an ode celebrating the beauty and abundance of autumn.
Q.6 How many stanzas are there in “To Autumn”?
1. Two
2. Three
3. Four
4. Five
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem is divided into three stanzas, each containing eleven lines.
Q.7 What is the meter predominantly used in “To
Autumn”?
1. Trochaic tetrameter
2. Iambic pentameter
3. Heroic couplets
4. Free verse
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem is mainly written in iambic pentameter.
Q.8 What is the rhyme scheme of the first four
lines in each stanza?
1. AABB
2. ABAB
3. ABBA
4. ABCB
Answer: 2
Explanation: Each stanza begins with the rhyme pattern ABAB.
Q.9 Which season is personified in the poem?
1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Winter
4. Autumn
Answer: 4
Explanation: Autumn is personified as a living, human-like figure throughout the poem.
Q.10 Autumn is described as the “close
bosom-friend” of whom?
1. The moon
2. The river
3. The maturing sun
4. The clouds
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats describes Autumn as the intimate companion of the “maturing sun.”
Q.11 Which image in the first stanza emphasizes
abundance?
1. Frozen rivers
2. Bare trees
3. Apples bending cottage trees
4. Falling snow
Answer: 3
Explanation: The heavy apples bending the branches symbolize ripeness and plenty.
Q.12 What do the bees think according to the poem?
1. Winter will arrive soon
2. Warm days will never cease
3. The flowers are dying
4. Spring has returned
Answer: 2
Explanation: Because of the abundance of flowers, the bees imagine that warm days will last forever.
Q.13 Which nut is mentioned in the first stanza?
1. Walnut
2. Almond
3. Hazel
4. Chestnut
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats refers to “hazel shells” filled with sweet kernels.
Q.14 What literary device is most prominent in the
line “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”?
1. Irony
2. Simile
3. Alliteration
4. Hyperbole
Answer: 3
Explanation: The repetition of the “m” sound in “mists and mellow” creates alliteration.
Q.15 What does Autumn help to “fill all fruit
with”?
1. Sweetness
2. Color
3. Ripeness to the core
4. Fragrance
Answer: 3
Explanation: Autumn ripens fruits completely, symbolizing fullness and maturity.
Q.16 In the second stanza, Autumn is often seen
sitting where?
1. On a mountain
2. On a granary floor
3. Beside the sea
4. In a palace
Answer: 2
Explanation: Autumn is personified as resting carelessly on a granary floor.
Q.17 What lifts Autumn’s hair softly?
1. Morning breeze
2. River wind
3. Winnowing wind
4. Storm wind
Answer: 3
Explanation: The “winnowing wind” gently lifts Autumn’s hair.
Q.18 What causes Autumn to fall asleep in the
fields?
1. The scent of roses
2. The fume of poppies
3. The sound of crickets
4. The heat of the sun
Answer: 2
Explanation: Autumn is described as drowsed by the “fume of poppies.”
Q.19 Which agricultural tool is mentioned in the
second stanza?
1. Plough
2. Axe
3. Hook
4. Spade
Answer: 3
Explanation: The “hook” refers to a sickle-like harvesting instrument.
Q.20 What does Autumn spare while asleep?
1. The ripe apples
2. The next swath and its twined flowers
3. The bees
4. The granary
Answer: 2
Explanation: Autumn’s hook “spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.”
Q.21 Autumn is compared to which worker carrying a
laden head across a brook?
1. Shepherd
2. Reaper
3. Gleaner
4. Miller
Answer: 3
Explanation: Autumn resembles a gleaner carrying harvested grain.
Q.22 What does Autumn patiently watch “hours by
hours”?
1. Falling leaves
2. Harvest workers
3. The last oozings of the cider-press
4. Swallows in the sky
Answer: 3
Explanation: Autumn watches cider slowly ooze from the press.
Q.23 Which season’s songs are mentioned in the
opening of the third stanza?
1. Summer
2. Winter
3. Rainy season
4. Spring
Answer: 4
Explanation: The speaker asks, “Where are the songs of spring?”
Q.24 What does the speaker tell Autumn not to think
about?
1. Winter’s arrival
2. Summer’s heat
3. The songs of spring
4. The falling leaves
Answer: 3
Explanation: The speaker says Autumn has its own music and should not mourn spring.
Q.25 Which creatures form the “wailful choir”?
1. Bees
2. Swallows
3. Small gnats
4. Crickets
Answer: 3
Explanation: The “small gnats” create a mournful musical effect.
Q.26 Which trees are mentioned near the river?
1. Oaks
2. Pines
3. River sallows
4. Cedars
Answer: 3
Explanation: “River sallows” refers to willow trees growing along the riverbank.
Q.27 Which animals “loud bleat from hilly bourn”?
1. Goats
2. Lambs
3. Deer
4. Horses
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem refers to “full-grown lambs” bleating from the hills.
Q.28 Which bird whistles from the garden-croft?
1. Sparrow
2. Peacock
3. Red-breast
4. Skylark
Answer: 3
Explanation: The “red-breast” (robin) whistles softly in the garden.
Q.29 What are the swallows doing in the final line?
1. Sleeping
2. Building nests
3. Gathering for migration
4. Searching for food
Answer: 3
Explanation: The swallows gathering in the skies symbolize the coming winter.
Q.30 Which theme is central to “To Autumn”?
1. Political revolution
2. Industrialization
3. Acceptance of mortality and change
4. Religious conflict
Answer: 3
Explanation: The poem reflects on ripeness, transience, mortality, and the cyclical nature of life.
Q.31 How does Keats mainly portray autumn in the
poem?
1. As a frightening season
2. As a season of decay only
3. As a season of abundance and maturity
4. As a symbol of destruction
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats celebrates autumn’s richness, calmness, and fulfillment.
Q.32 Which Romantic quality is strongly reflected
in “To Autumn”?
1. Admiration for machinery
2. Love of nature
3. Urban realism
4. Satirical humor
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem exemplifies Romantic fascination with nature and beauty.
Q.33 Which sense is especially appealed to in “To
Autumn”?
1. Taste only
2. Sight only
3. Hearing only
4. Multiple senses through sensuous imagery
Answer: 4
Explanation: Keats uses rich imagery appealing to sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.
Q.34 What does the phrase “soft-dying day”
symbolize?
1. Birth of a new era
2. The decline of daylight and life
3. Victory in battle
4. Religious awakening
Answer: 2
Explanation: It suggests the gentle ending of the day and symbolizes mortality and transience.
Q.35 Which poetic tradition strongly influences “To
Autumn”?
1. Epic tradition
2. Metaphysical poetry
3. Pastoral tradition
4. Gothic tradition
Answer: 3
Explanation: The poem celebrates rural life and nature, hallmarks of pastoral poetry.
Q.36 Which earlier Keats ode is indirectly recalled
by the swallows in “To Autumn”?
1. Ode on Indolence
2. Ode to Psyche
3. Ode on Melancholy
4. Ode to a Nightingale
Answer: 4
Explanation: The swallows and bird imagery echo the nightingale from the earlier ode.
Q.37 What does the harvest imagery symbolize in the
poem?
1. Human greed
2. Political power
3. Creativity and the cycle of life
4. Industrial progress
Answer: 3
Explanation: Harvesting represents fulfillment, artistic creation, and inevitable loss.
Q.38 Which tone best describes the overall mood of
“To Autumn”?
1. Violent and chaotic
2. Calm and reflective
3. Bitter and angry
4. Comic and playful
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem maintains a serene, meditative tone throughout.
Q.39 What is implied by the final image of
migrating swallows?
1. Endless summer
2. The arrival of spring
3. The inevitability of change and departure
4. Human victory over nature
Answer: 3
Explanation: The swallows symbolize transition and the unavoidable movement toward winter.
Q.40 What lesson has the speaker ultimately learned
in “To Autumn”?
1. Beauty must be eternal to matter
2. Mortality destroys all joy
3. Acceptance of time deepens appreciation of beauty
4. Nature is inferior to imagination
Answer: 3
Explanation: The poem concludes with a mature acceptance of mortality and change as part of life’s beauty.
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