CBSE Class 8 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 5 – The School Boy
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CBSE Class 8 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 5 – The School Boy
Question 1.
Who is the poet of the poem “The School Boy”?
(a) William Blake
(b) Thomas Wilde
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) T.S. Eliot
Answer
Answer: (a) William Blake
Question 2.
Who does he compare himself to when he says “How can a child when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring.”?
(a) Book
(b) Flower
(c) Nip in the bud
(d) Caged bird
Answer
Answer: (d) Caged bird
Question 3.
“Nor in my _____ can I take delight”
(a) Book
(b) Learning bower
(c) Dreary shower
(d) All of the Above
Answer
Answer: (a) Book
Question 4.
What drives all the joy away?
(a) Caged bird
(b) Nip in the bud
(c) Blown blossoms
(d) School on a summer morning
Answer
Answer: (d) School on a summer morning
Question 5.
What does the boy like about the huntsman?
(a) Sound of his horn
(b) Hunting skills
(c) His personality
(d) All of the Above
Answer
Answer: (a) Sound of his horn
Question 6.
Who is he talking to when he says “if buds are nip’d…”
(a) His parents
(b) Teacher
(c) Caged bird
(d) All of the Above
Answer
Answer: (a) His parents
Question 7.
How shall the summer arise in joy, Or the summer fruits appear if _____.
(a) Buds are nipped
(b) Blossoms are blown
(c) Plants are stripped
(d) All of the Above
Answer
Answer: (d) All of the Above
Question 8.
“I _____ to rise on a sunday morn”
(a) Hate
(b) Despise
(c) Regret
(d) Love
Answer
Answer: (d) Love
Question 9.
“The little ones spend the day, in _____ and _____”
(a) Sighing, dismay
(b) Happiness, glory
(c) Happiness, joy
(d) Sighing, sorrow
Answer
Answer: (a) Sighing, dismay
Question 10.
Who sings along with the school boy?
(a) His parents
(b) Huntsman
(c) Skylark
(d) His friends
Answer
Answer: (c) Skylark
(1)
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree ;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me.
O ! what sweet company.
Question 1.
On a summer morning the poet sings with
(a) the hunter’s horn
(b) the birds
(c) the skylark
(d) the summer.
Answer
Answer: (c) the skylark
Question 2.
The summer morning is full of
(a) birds
(b) hunters
(c) music
(d) skylarks
Answer
Answer: (c) music
Question 3.
The birds sing in
(a) summer
(b) winter
(c) rainy season
(d) autumn.
Answer
Answer: (a) summer
Question 4.
The word ‘winds’ means
(a) airs
(b) sounds by blowing of horn
(c) fans
(d) songs.
Answer
Answer: (b) sounds by blowing of horn
(2)
Ah ! then at times I drooping sit,
And spend many an anxious hour.
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning’s bower,
Worn thro’ with the dreary shower.
Question 1.
He cannot take delight in his books because
(a) he is attracted towards nature
(b) he is dull
(c) he doesn’t like to study
(d) the books are uninteresting.
Answer
Answer: (a) he is attracted towards nature
Question 2.
The speaker in the poem is
(a) very happy
(b) unhappy
(c) playing
(d) enjoying.
Answer
Answer: (b) unhappy
Question 3.
The word anxious means
(a) carefree
(b) playful
(c) happy
(d) worried.
Answer
Answer: (d) worried.
Question 4.
At times the school boy sits drooping because
(a) he is always unhappy
(b) he does not want to study
(c) the atmosphere in the class is not good
(d) he has dropped something, good
Answer
Answer: (c) the atmosphere in the class is not good
(3)
O ! Father and Mother, if buds are nip’d,
And blossoms blown away,
And if the tender plants are strip’d
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and cares dismay.
Question 1.
Whose parents are being referred to here?
(a) the bird’s parents
(b) all parents
(c) of the poet
(d) of the school-boy.
Answer
Answer: (d) of the school-boy.
Question 2.
The phrase ‘tender plants’ refers to
(a) the young plants
(b) the young birds
(c) the young children
(d) the tender buds.
Answer
Answer: (c) the young children
Question 3.
The word strip’d means
(a) deprived
(b) uprooted
(c) cut
(d) watered.
Answer
Answer: (a) deprived
Question 4.
The poet of this poem is
(a) R.N. Tagore
(b) William Blake
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Zulfikar Ghose.
Answer
Answer: (b) William Blake
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