For Anne Gregory Class 10 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Knowledge

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Get ready to revise and test your understanding of For Anne Gregory! This interactive MCQ quiz is designed to help CBSE Class 10 English students master key concepts, literary devices, and themes from the poem.

About the Quiz

Poem Name: For Anne Gregory
Poet: William Butler Yeats
Book: First Flight (CBSE Class 10 English)
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
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✔ Quick revision before exams
✔ Covers meaning, poetic devices, and key lines
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For Anne Gregory

1 / 15

What does the speaker mean by "Only God, my dear, could love you for yourself alone"?

God's love is the only true love

God's love is based on physical beauty

Human love is irrelevant to personal happiness

Human love is often superficial and based on appearance

2 / 15

But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.

Read the statements 1 and 2 given below and choose the option that correctly assesses these statements.

The speaker wants to change her hair colour so that it may appeal to young men.

The speaker’s appearance due to her gorgeous yellow hair is largely the reason young men hope to get her attention.

1 is true, 2 cannot be clearly inferred from the poem.

1 is false, 2 is true and clearly inferred from the poem.

1 cannot be clearly inferred from the poem, 2 is false.

1 is true and can be inferred from the poem, 2 is false.

3 / 15

What inference can be made about Anne Gregory's character based on the poem?

She is confident and self-assured

She is insecure and uncertain about her beauty

She is kind and compassionate towards others

She is vain and self-absorbed

4 / 15

The speaker's tone towards Anne Gregory's situation can best be described as:

Indifferent and detached

Mocking and sarcastic

Critical and judgmental

Sympathetic and understanding

5 / 15

What is the tone of the poet in the lines "But I can get a hair-dye And set such colour there, Brown, or black, or carrot, That young men in despair May love me for myself alone"?

Angry and resentful

Sarcastic and ironic

Humorous and lighthearted

Serious and introspective

6 / 15

But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”

Select the sentence in which the word ‘set’ is used in the similar manner as line 2 of the extract.

I want to set him up and get my work done this time.

Do you have another set of the books that I can read?

The set for the school play looked quite grand.

The dessert needs to set for two hours before being served.

7 / 15

What does the image of "honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear" symbolize in the poem?

The beauty of Anne Gregory's hair

The protection and security offered by love

The fragility and impermanence of youth

The allure and temptation of physical beauty

8 / 15

But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.

Choose the option that describes a situation of ‘despair’ as mentioned in the extract.

Worked very hard and was once again, for the 3rd time, unable to get selected in the audition for the dance competition.

Worked very hard and got selected in the audition for the dance competition.

Worked very hard for the dance competition audition. My best friend got selected but I didn’t.

Worked very hard to get selected in the audition for the dance competition, but the auditions got.

9 / 15

But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”

What is the poet’s tone in the extract?

thoughtful

authoritative

agitated

insulting

argumentative

Select the appropriate option.

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1, 5

1, 4

2, 4

10 / 15

The structure of the poem as a dialogue serves to:

Demonstrate the complexity of human relationships

Create dramatic tension between opposing viewpoints

Emphasize the speaker's authority on the subject

Add humor to a serious topic

11 / 15

“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

The above stanza strongly defies the idea of ___________.

external beauty

internal qualities

spiritual self

divinity

12 / 15

“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

Choose the option that displays the likely image of the man mentioned in the extract.

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13 / 15

“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

Choose the option that lists the person who correctly wrote a quote best representing the central idea of the given stanza.

Choose the correct option out of the ones given below.

Harpreet	Manav	Joel	Nawaz
You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.	Never apologize for being yourself.	God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be.	Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Manav

Harpreet

Joel

Nawaz

14 / 15

But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”

Identify the reason for the speaker’s need to colour her hair, as per the extract.

Her conviction that she is beautiful inside

Her need to change people’s perception about beauty

Her control over what makes her look beautiful.

Her desire to be loved for inner beauty

15 / 15

“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

‘yesternight’ is a word made of a combination of two words to form a new word. Hence, it is a compound word.

Choose the words that DO NOT fit the description.

For Anne Gregory Class 10 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Knowledge

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1, 4

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1	nn	87 %	5 minutes 49 seconds	13
2	Prachi	80 %	1 minutes 47 seconds	12
3	Alia Bhatt Kapoor	73 %	3 minutes 9 seconds	11
4	Hyt	60 %	2 minutes 23 seconds	9
5	Jki	60 %	2 minutes 25 seconds	9
6	Kd	60 %	7 minutes 56 seconds	9
7	Oji	47 %	3 minutes 37 seconds	7
8	Prachi	47 %	7 minutes 45 seconds	7
9	Heyyyy	33 %	4 minutes 39 seconds	5
10	Bg	27 %	1 minutes 7 seconds	4
11	SIDDHI	27 %	5 minutes 5 seconds	4

Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

✔ Summary & explanation of the poem
✔ Message and central idea
✔ Literary devices (rhyme scheme, alliteration, metaphor, etc.)
✔ Themes of beauty and love