Important The Poetry of earth MCQ ( Multiple Choice Questions) for West Bengal HS students. The poem was written by John Keat.
Q: The birds hide in trees because of
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a) hot sun
b) rain
c) cold
d) frost
Answer: a) hot sun
Q: The Grasshooper takes the lead in
a) winter
b) summer
c) autumn
d) spring
Answer: b) summer
Q: The Cricket’s song comes from –
a) the stone
b) the meadows
c) the trees
d) the grassy hills
Answer: a) the stone
q: When the birds are faint with the hot sun, they rest
a) beneath some pleasant weed
b) among some grassy hills.
c) in cooling trees
d) in the new-mown mead.
Answer: c) in cooling trees
Q: The silence is wrought by
a) frost
b) warmth of the stone
c) hot sun
d) the cricket’s song
Answer: a) frost
Q: The seasons that are portrayed in the poem ‘The poetry of Earth are’
a) summer and winter
b) autumn and spring
c) summer and spring
d) autumn and winter
Answer: a) summer and winter
Q: ‘From the ________there shrills the Cricket’s song’.
a) hedge
b) mead
c) cooling trees
d) stove
Answer: d) stove
Q: ‘….he has never done with his delights’ — the words ‘he’ refers to
a) the bird
b) the grasshopper
c) the cricket
d) the humming insec
Answer: b) the grasshopper
Q: Grasshopper takes the lead in –
a) Winter luxury
b) Autumn luxury
c) Spring luxury
d) Summer luxury
Answer: d) Summer luxury
Q: The frost has wrought –
a) increasing warmth
b) increasing cold
c) silence
d) deligh
Answer: c) silence
Q: The birds are faint because of
a) summer luxury
b) the hot sun
c) the warmth of the stove
d) the frost
Answer: b) the hot sun
Q: In ‘The Poetry of Earth’, the poet refers to the ‘voice’ of
a) Grasshopper
b) Cricket
c) bird
d) nature
Answer: a) Grasshopper
Q: The Octect of the poem “Poetry of Earth” is about
a) summer and grasshopper
b) summer
c) grasshopper
d) summer and birds
Q: Poetry of Earth has
a) a sestate and a quatrain
b) an octat and a sestate
c) 3 quatrains and a couplet
d) none of the above
Answer: b) an octat and a sestate
Q: The sleeping man thinks of the grasshopper when he hears the voice of –
a) the termite
b) the birds
c) the cricket
d) the bees
Answer: c) the cricket
Q: The grasshopper sings in the……..
a) trees
b) flowers
c) new-mown mead
d) house
Answer: c) new-mown mead
Q: The poetry of earth is never
a) dead
b) alive
c) continuous
d) audible
Answer: a) dead
Q: ……..is never done with his delights
a) cricket
b) grasshopper
c) birds
d) butterfly
Answer: b) grasshopper
Q: The shrill voice from behind the stone belongs to the –
a) grasshopper
b) birds
c) cricket
d) mouse
Answer: c) cricket
Q: The song of the cricket, to the ear of a drowsy person resembles the song of the –
a) grasshopper
b) cuckoo
c) nightingle
d) sky lark
Answer: a) grasshopper
Q: “The Poetry of Earth” is
a) a lyric
b) an ode
c) a sonnet
d) a didactic poem
Answer: c) a sonnet
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Q: The cricket’s song arises from the…
a) hedge
b) cooling trees
c) pleasant weeds
d) stove
Answer: d) stove
Q: When tired out with fun, the grasshopper rests beneath –
a) the cooling trees
b) some pleasant weed
c) the hot sun
d) the hedges
Answer: b) some pleasant weed
Q: In winter the frost around creates…
a) commotion
b) silence
c) shrill sound
d) drowsiness
Answer: b) silence
Q: The birds in summer –
a) fly under the hot sun
b) hide in cooling trees
c) never stop singing
d) rests beneath the weed
Answer: b) hide in cooling trees
