Exercise
Category : 9th Class
Passage - 1
Buttercups and daisies - Oh the pretty flowers, Coming ere the springtime To tell of sunny hours.
Read the passage carefully and tick the correct answers:
The poet refers to the season in the stanza:
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Autumn
(e) None of these
Buttercups and daisies grow during the:
(a) Same season
(b) Different season
(c) Sunny hours
(d) Rainy season
(e) None of these
According to the poet, the flowers talk of:
(a) Their stay in the sunshine
(b) Brightness of the sun
(c) Their adventure during the sunshine
(d) Exciting activity undertaken during the day
(e) None of these
The poet seems to be a lover of:
(a) Nature
(b) Scenery
(c) Environment
(d) Flowers
Passage - 2
The day is past, the sun is set, And the white stars are in the sky; While the long grass with dew is wet, And through the air the bats now fly.
Read the passage carefully and tick the correct answers:
The stanza reflects the time of the day:
(a) Morning
(b) Evening
(c) Dusk
(d) Night
(e) None of these
The line 'The day is past, the sun is set' hints:
(a) Day has ended .as the sun has set
(b) Day has finished with the setting of sun
(c) The sun has set and so the day is over
(d) Sun has set after the day has ended
(e) None of these
Why is the long grass with dew wet?
(a) Dew could not dry away from the long grass
(b) The sun's rays could not penetrate inside the long grass to dry the dew
(c) It is monsoon and due to rain the long grass is wet with dew
(d) As the dew is inside long grass so it cannot dry
(e) None of these
From your understanding of the stanza, guess the season which the poet is talking about:
(a) Winter
(b) Summer
(c) Spring
(d) Monsoon
(e) None of these
Passage - 3
Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Read the passage carefully and tick the correct answers:
From the stanza, it could be established that the poet is talking about:
(a) Nature
(b) Heaven
(c) Love
(d) Virtue
(e) None of these
The poet is of the view that:
(a) An action of kindness and sense of love can make our earth a heaven
(b) Love and kindness make the heaven
(c) Great deeds are nothing less than love and kindness
(d) We should share love and kindness
(e) None of these
It could be estimated that the author is:
(a) Sym pa the tic towards others
(b) Free from different complexities of life
(c) Having a puritan soul
(d) Full of ethical values
(e) None of these
The meaning of 'Eden' in the stanza is:
(a) Heaven
(b) Beautiful garden
(c) Platform of values
(d) Junction of peace
(e) None of these
Passage - 4
When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Read the passage carefully and tick the correct answers:
The poet in the stanza refers to:
(a) Sun
(b) Moon
(c) Stars
(d) Little light
(e) None of these
The starts appear in the sky:
(a) When it is dark at night
(b) After the blazing sun is gone
(c) During the middle of night
(d) When the sun is not in the sky
(e) None of these
Why do stars twinkle at night?
(a) They are bigger than the sun
(b) Stars could not been seen during day
(c) Stars have their own light
(d) They are far away from us
(e) None of these
The word 'blazing' means:
(a) Warm
(b) Extremely hot
(c) Balmy
(d) Strikingly hot
(e) None of these
Passage - 5
When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside my lay To keep me happy all the day.
Read the passage carefully and tick the correct answers:
The stanza hints that the poet is a:
(a) Man
(b) Child
(c) Old man
(d) Patient
(e) None of these
The lines -
And all my toys beside my lay
To keep me happy all the day.
means:
(a) Poet keeps his toys alongside and play to keep him happy
(b) Without toys nothing is important to the poet
(c) Poet want to pass his time playing
(d) Poet loves to keep himself happy by playing
(e) None of these
What time was the poet recalling while writing this poem?
(a) While sleeping on two pillows
(b) Time of playing with toys
(c) When he lied in his bed
(d) Period of illness
(e) None of these
The poet wants to keep himself throughout the day:
(a) Happy
(b) At ease
(c) Comfortable
(d) Contented
(e) None of these
Passage - 1
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. D
Passage - 2
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. A
Passage - 3
1. D
2. A
3. A
4. B
Passage - 4
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. B
Passage - 5
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. A
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Passage - 3
Passage - 4
Passage - 5
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