Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Question and Answer with Quiz | Semester 1 | Class 12 (WBCHSE)

1. What does the poet say about Earth’s beauty in the first line?
   A) It is filled with noise
   B) It has nothing better to show than this
   C) It is full of sadness
   D) It is dark and gloomy
   ✅ Answer: B

2. Who does the poet call dull of soul?
   A) Someone who sleeps too much
   B) Someone who never travels
   C) Someone who ignores the scene
   D) Someone who talks loudly
   ✅ Answer: C

3. What quality of the scene touches the poet most?
   A) Loudness
   B) Pollution
   C) Majesty
   D) Movement
   ✅ Answer: C

4. What poetic device is used in “a sight so touching in its majesty”?
   A) Alliteration
   B) Simile
   C) Hyperbole
   D) Oxymoron
   ✅ Answer: C

5. What is the city compared to in line 4?
   A) A mountain
   B) A garden
   C) A garment
   D) A jewel
   ✅ Answer: C

6. What does the city wear like a garment?
   A) Its buildings
   B) The noise of people
   C) The beauty of the morning
   D) Pollution
   ✅ Answer: C

7. How does the poet describe the city in the morning?
   A) Busy and noisy
   B) Silent and bare
   C) Crowded and dark
   D) Dirty and old
   ✅ Answer: B

8. What structures are mentioned in line 6?
   A) Shops and schools
   B) Ships, towers, domes, theatres, temples
   C) Lakes, rivers, roads
   D) Streets and houses
   ✅ Answer: B

9. What lies open to the fields and sky?
   A) The market
   B) The sea
   C) The city
   D) The bridge
   ✅ Answer: C

10. What is the condition of the air in line 8?
    A) Smoky and dark
    B) Foggy and cold
    C) Smokeless and bright
    D) Rainy and grey
    ✅ Answer: C

Understanding the Poetic Imagery (11–20):

11. What is the main feature of the morning air?
    A) It is hot
    B) It is smoky
    C) It is clean and smokeless
    D) It is stormy
    ✅ Answer: C

12. How does everything appear in the morning light?
    A) Faded and dull
    B) Bright and glittering
    C) Wet and slippery
    D) Dark and gloomy
    ✅ Answer: B

13. What natural element is being described as steeping?
    A) The river
    B) The valley
    C) The sun
    D) The moon
    ✅ Answer: C

14. What does “steep” mean in this context?
    A) Jumping
    B) Covering fully
    C) Falling
    D) Heating
    ✅ Answer: B

15. What places are steeped in sunlight?
    A) Mountains and cities
    B) Valleys, rocks, and hills
    C) Bridges and rivers
    D) Skies and fields
    ✅ Answer: B

16. What kind of calm does the poet mention?
    A) Slight calm
    B) Temporary calm
    C) Deep calm
    D) Unwanted calm
    ✅ Answer: C

17. Which line shows the poet’s emotional response?
    A) “Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;”
    B) “All bright and glittering…”
    C) “Ships, towers, domes…”
    D) “Like a garment wear…”
    ✅ Answer: A

18. How does the river move according to the poet?
    A) Forcefully
    B) Randomly
    C) Slowly
    D) At its own sweet will
    ✅ Answer: D

19. What does the poet mean by “the mighty heart is lying still”?
    A) The city is dead
    B) The city is resting
    C) The city is sleeping
    D) The city is destroyed
    ✅ Answer: B

20. What is the tone of the entire poem?
    A) Angry and loud
    B) Fearful and panicked
    C) Calm and admiring
    D) Sad and sorrowful
    ✅ Answer: C

Vocabulary & Literary Devices (21–30):

21. What does the word “dull” mean in this poem?
    A) Not shiny
    B) Boring
    C) Without feeling or emotion
    D) Unclean
    ✅ Answer: C

22. Which of the following is an example of personification?
    A) “Bright and glittering”
    B) “The river glideth at his own sweet will”
    C) “Never did sun more beautifully steep”
    D) “Open unto the fields”
    ✅ Answer: B

23. The line “like a garment” is an example of:
    A) Metaphor
    B) Alliteration
    C) Simile
    D) Hyperbole
    ✅ Answer: C

24. What is the form of this poem?
    A) Ballad
    B) Petrarchan Sonnet
    C) Ode
    D) Limerick
    ✅ Answer: B

25. Which rhyme scheme does the poem follow?
    A) ABAB CDCD
    B) AABBCCDD
    C) ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
    D) ABCD ABCD
    ✅ Answer: C

26. What is the ‘volta’ (turn) in the poem?
    A) Between lines 8 and 9
    B) At the last line
    C) After line 5
    D) It has no turn
    ✅ Answer: A

27. Which word describes the city’s usual state (not in the poem)?
    A) Busy
    B) Silent
    C) Empty
    D) Closed
    ✅ Answer: A

28. “Glideth” means:
    A) Flows smoothly
    B) Falls fast
    C) Moves upward
    D) Stays still
    ✅ Answer: A

29. Which feeling is shown in the line “Dear God! the very houses seem asleep”?
    A) Anger
    B) Joy
    C) Surprise and peace
    D) Confusion
    ✅ Answer: C

30. Why is the air described as “smokeless”?
    A) To show it’s winter
    B) To show it is clean and calm
    C) To show pollution
    D) To show people are burning fires
    ✅ Answer: B

Textual Interpretation (31–40):

31. Who is the speaker in the poem?
    A) A farmer
    B) A city mayor
    C) The poet himself
    D) A child
    ✅ Answer: C

32. What is the poet surprised to find?
    A) A big crowd
    B) Such calmness in a big city
    C) The sun setting
    D) A stormy sky
    ✅ Answer: B

33. Which time of day is described in the poem?
    A) Midnight
    B) Afternoon
    C) Early morning
    D) Sunset
    ✅ Answer: C

34. How does the poem reflect Romantic poetry?
    A) Focus on logic
    B) Love for nature and emotion
    C) Political ideas
    D) Use of drama
    ✅ Answer: B

35. What is unusual about this poem for Wordsworth?
    A) He writes about war
    B) He praises a city, not nature
    C) He writes comedy
    D) He criticizes city life
    ✅ Answer: B

36. “All bright and glittering” refers to:
    A) The people
    B) The buildings
    C) The streets
    D) The poet’s clothes
    ✅ Answer: B

37. Which bridge is the poet standing on?
    A) London Bridge
    B) Tower Bridge
    C) Westminster Bridge
    D) Brooklyn Bridge
    ✅ Answer: C

38. What does “splendour” mean in the poem?
    A) Confusion
    B) Light and glory
    C) Sorrow
    D) Pain
    ✅ Answer: B

39. Which figure of speech is found in “mighty heart is lying still”?
    A) Simile
    B) Irony
    C) Metaphor
    D) Oxymoron
    ✅ Answer: C

40. What kind of setting does the poem create?
    A) A festival scene
    B) A peaceful morning cityscape
    C) A crowded market
    D) A battlefield
    ✅ Answer: B

Deeper Understanding (41–50):

41. Why does the poet say “Dear God!”?
    A) He is scared
    B) He is shocked by noise
    C) He is amazed by beauty
    D) He is angry
    ✅ Answer: C

42. What emotion does the poet feel most deeply?
    A) Anger
    B) Excitement
    C) Peace and awe
    D) Sadness
    ✅ Answer: C

43. What is the message of the poem?
    A) Cities are always dirty
    B) Even cities can be beautiful and peaceful
    C) Travel is bad
    D) Nature is harmful
    ✅ Answer: B

44. Which element is missing in the city in this poem?
    A) Light
    B) People
    C) Noise and smoke
    D) Buildings
    ✅ Answer: C

45. Why does the poet use the word “glittering”?
    A) To show cheapness
    B) To show brightness and beauty
    C) To confuse
    D) To describe darkness
    ✅ Answer: B

46. What does the poem celebrate?
    A) City crowds
    B) The silence and beauty of morning
    C) Loud city sounds
    D) Rain and storm
    ✅ Answer: B

47. “Ne’er saw I, never felt…” shows:
    A) Pain
    B) Habit
    C) Strong surprise and feeling
    D) Anger
    ✅ Answer: C

48. The poem’s focus is on:
    A) Politics
    B) Economics
    C) Natural and urban beauty
    D) War
    ✅ Answer: C

49. What is Wordsworth’s opinion of London in this poem?
    A) Hateful
    B) Dirty
    C) Majestic and peaceful
    D) Busy and boring
    ✅ Answer: C

50. What literary period does this poem belong to?
    A) Modernist
    B) Romantic
    C) Victorian
    D) Medieval
    ✅ Answer: B