CBSE Class 8 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 8 – On the Grasshopper and Cricket
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CBSE Class 8 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 8 – On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Question 1.
Who sings the poetry of earth in the winter season?
(a) Grasshopper
(b) Cricket
(c) Crow
(d) Skylark
Answer
Answer: (b) Cricket
Question 2.
Complete the line in Stanza 2 that says, “The poetry of earth is __________”
(a) Never dead
(b) Ceasing never
(c) Dead never
(d) Never ceasing
Answer
Answer: (b) Ceasing never
Question 3.
Who sings the poetry of earth in the summer season?
(a) Grasshopper
(b) Cricket
(c) Crow
(d) Skylark
Answer
Answer: (a) Grasshopper
Question 4.
Where does the grasshopper take rest?
(a) Beneath the weed
(b) Behind the stone
(c) Grassy hills
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: (a) Beneath the weed
Question 5.
Where do the birds take shelter?
(a) Cooling trees
(b) Beneath the weed
(c) Behind the stone
(d) Grassy hills
Answer
Answer: (a) Cooling trees
Question 6.
Complete the line in Stanza 1 that says, “The poetry of earth is __________”
(a) Never dead
(b) Ceasing never
(c) Dead never
(d) Never ceasing
Answer
Answer: (a) Never dead
Question 7.
What has the frost wrought?
(a) Poetry of earth
(b) Warmth
(c) Silence
(d) All of the Above
Answer
Answer: (c) Silence
Question 8.
Whose warmth is ever increasing?
(a) Grasshopper’s song
(b) Cricket’s song
(c) Birds chirping
(d) Poetry of earth
Answer
Answer: (b) Cricket’s song
Question 9.
What makes the birds faint?
(a) Earth’s poetry
(b) Hot sun
(c) Frost
(d) Rain
Answer
Answer: (b) Hot sun
Question 10.
Who is the poet of the poem “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”?
(a) John keats
(b) T. S. Eliot
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Ruskin Bond
Answer
Answer: (a) John keats
(1)
The poetry of earth is never dead :
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead,
Question 1.
The birds hide in trees because of
(a) rain
(b) tiredness
(c) cold
(d) heat.
Answer
Answer: (d) heat.
Question 2.
The ‘voice’ mentioned here is the voice of
(a) a grasshopper
(b) a cricket
(c) a bird
(d) the poet.
Answer
Answer: (a) a grasshopper
Question 3.
By ‘the poetry of the earth’, the poet means
(a) a song about the earth
(b) the music of birds etc
(c) the poetry of poets
(d) the pleasures of life.
Answer
Answer: (b) the music of birds etc
Question 4.
The word ‘cooling’ here means
(a) pleasing
(b) amusing
(c) comforting
(d) brightening.
Answer
Answer: (c) comforting
(2)
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills
The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
Question 1.
The winter evening is ‘lone’ because
(a) the poet has no company
(b) there is silence all around
(c) there is frost
(d) it is cold.
Answer
Answer: (b) there is silence all around
Question 2.
The cricket’s song
(a) pleases everybody
(b) breaks winter’s depression
(c) makes people angry
(d) is disliked by the people.
Answer
Answer: (b) breaks winter’s depression
Question 3.
the word ‘warmth’ in the passage means
(a) loudness
(b) shrillness
(c) heat
(d) cheer.
Answer
Answer: (c) heat
Question 4.
The poetry of earth is
(a) pleasant
(b) unpleasant
(c) constant
(d) loud.
Answer
Answer: (c) constant
(3)
That is the grasshopper’s — he takes the lead
In summer luxury — he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Question 1.
The grasshopper ‘has never done’ means
(a) he is never crying
(b) he is never content
(c) he is always singing
(d) he is always on the move.
Answer
Answer: (b) he is never content
Question 2.
The word ‘beneath’ means
(a) below
(b) neat
(c) above
(d) under
Answer
Answer: (d) under
Question 3.
the word ‘that’ refers to
(a) the voice
(b) the insect
(c) the bird
(d) the hedge
Answer
Answer: (a) the voice
Question 4.
The grasshopper is happy in
(a) winter
(b) spring
(c) summer
(d) autumn.
Answer
Answer: (c) summer
(4)
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost;
The grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.
Question 1.
The passage is describing a scene of
(a) summer
(b) winter
(c) rains
(d) autumn.
Answer
Answer: (b) winter
Question 2.
‘Drowsiness’ means
(a) tiredness
(b) depression
(c) half asleep
(d) working.
Answer
Answer: (c) half asleep
Question 3.
One is lost in drowsiness because of
(a) the bad weather
(b) the dark night
(c) tiredness
(d) loss of sleep.
Answer
Answer: (a) the bad weather
Question 4.
The lines refer to the song sung by
(a) a grasshopper
(b) a cricket
(c) a bird
(d) a girl.
Answer
Answer: (b) a cricket
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