CBSE Class 8 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 1 – The Ant and the Cricket
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CBSE Class 8 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 1 – The Ant and the Cricket
Question 1.
Did he wish to repay the ant?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
(d) Not mentioned in the poem
Answer
Answer: (a) Yes
Question 2.
What would he die of, if the ant didn’t help him?
(a) Starvation and famine
(b) Starvation and sorrow
(c) Starvation and poverty
(d) Starvation and weakness
Answer
Answer: (b) Starvation and sorrow
Question 3.
What did he want from the ant?
(a) Mouthful of grain
(b) Shelter from rain
(c) New clothes
(d) Only a and b
Answer
Answer: (d) Only a and b
Question 4.
When did the cricket begin to complain?
(a) Summers and spring
(b) When he was drenched in rain
(c) When he found his cupboard was empty
(d) All of the above
Answer
Answer: (c) When he found his cupboard was empty
Question 5.
Whose fables is the poem “The Ant and The Cricket” adapted from?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Paulo Coelho
(c) Dan Brown
(d) Aesop
Answer
Answer: (d) Aesop
Question 6.
What did the ant advise him to do all winter?
(a) Sing
(b) Dance
(c) Sleep
(d) Rest
Answer
Answer: (b) Dance
Question 7.
Who said “I am your servant and friend”?(a) ant
(b) cricket
(c) both
(d) no one
Answer
Answer: (a) ant
Question 8.
The poet has described the cricket as-
(a) Silly
(b) Young
(c) Accustomed to sing
(d) All of the above
Answer
Answer: (d) All of the above
Question 9.
What was the policy of the ants?
(a) Never borrow, never lend
(b) Always give and take
(c) Share and grow
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: (a) Never borrow, never lend
Question 10.
Which word is closest to the meaning ‘scarcity of food’?
(a) Sarvation
(b) Hunger
(c) Misery
(d) Famine
Answer
Answer: (d) Famine
(1)
A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,
Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
Question 1.
The two qualities Of the Cricket described here are
(a) foolish and a singer
(b) wise and a singer
(c) foolish and a writer
(d) intelligent and a speaker.
Answer
Answer: (a) foolish and a singer
Question 2.
The passage is taken from
(a) Geography Lesson
(c) The Ant and the Cricket
(b) On the Grasshopper and Cricket
(d) The Duck and the Kangaroo.
Answer
Answer: (c) The Ant and the Cricket
Question 3.
‘Accustomed to’ means
(a) happy
(b) unhappy
(c) used to
(d) irritated.
Answer
Answer: (c) used to
Question 4.
The weather in the poem is
(a) warm and gay
(b) cold and dry
(c) rainy and stormy
(d) hot and sunny.
Answer
Answer: (b) cold and dry
(2)
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To see if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Question 1.
Why was he ‘dripping with wet’ ?
(a) It was raining hard.
(b) He had dived in a pond.
(c) He had no shelter.
(d) He had taken a bath.
Answer
Answer: (c) He had no shelter.
Question 2.
Who was suffering from starvation and famine ?
(a) the Ant
(b) the Cricket
(c) the poet
(d) a man.
Answer
Answer: (b) the Cricket
Question 3.
What does the word ‘grant’ mean ?
(a) kind
(b) generous
(c) take
(d) give.
Answer
Answer: (d) give.
Question 4.
What did he expect to get from the miserly ant ?
(a) good advice
(b) food
(c) shelter
(d) food and shelter.
Answer
Answer: (d) food and shelter.
(3)
Says the ant to the
cricket, “I’m your servant
and friend,
But we ants never
borrow ; we ants never
lend.
But tell me, dear cricket,
did you lay nothing by
When the weather was
warm ?” Quoth the cricket,
“Not I !
Question 1.
What do the ants not do according to the passage?
(a) don’t borrow
(b) neither borrow nor lend
(c) don’t lend
(d) don’t help.
Answer
Answer: (b) neither borrow nor lend
Question 2.
The ant scolded the Cricket because
(a) he never lent
(b) he never borrowed
(c) he never saved
(d) he was foolish.
Answer
Answer: (c) he never saved
Question 3.
The word ‘Quoth’ means
(a) wept
(b) laughed
(c) said
(d) asked.
Answer
Answer: (c) said
Question 4.
What do you think that of the ant’s behaviour ? What was it like ?
(a) a servant
(b) a friend
(c) both
(d) neither
Answer
Answer: (d) neither
(4)
Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket.
Folks call this a fable. I’ll warrant it true :
Some crickets have four legs, and some have two.
Question 1.
Why did he lift the wicket ?
(a) because it was so light.
(b) because he was tired.
(c) because he wanted his visitor to go.
(d) because it was cold.
Answer
Answer: (c) because he wanted his visitor to go.
Question 2.
Who lifted the wicket ?
(a) the Ant
(b) the Cricket
(c) the poet
(d) a man.
Answer
Answer: (a) the Ant
Question 3.
The word ‘fable’ here means
(a) able
(b) poem
(c) epilogue
(d) story with a moral.
Answer
Answer: (d) story with a moral.
Question 4.
What does the poet mean when he says that ‘some crickets have two legs’ ?
(a) These are some strange crickets with two legs.
(b) The poet dislikes all crickets.
(c) The poet is referring to people who do not save for a rainy day.
(d) All men are crickets with two legs.
Answer
Answer: (c) The poet is referring to people who do not save for a rainy day.
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