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Directions (1-5): Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow, by selecting the most appropriate option.
My sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Her pleasure will not let me stay
She talks and I am fain to list:
She’s glad the birds are gone away,
She’s glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.
Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow;
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.
(a) a couple’s conversation about which season each prefers
(b) the speaker’s dislike of autumn weather
(c) the speaker’s desire to spend time with his companion
(d) how sadness helps the speaker appreciate late autumn
Q2. The literary device the poet uses to characterize the speaker’s ‘sorrow’ is
(a) symbolism
(b) parallelism
(c) foreshadowing
(d) personification
Q3. ‘She’s glad her simple worsted grey’. The word ‘simple’ here
(a) plain
(b) straightforward
(c) easy
(d) rudimentary
Q4. The phrase ‘desolate, deserted’ is an example of
(a) allusion
(b) alliteration
(c) metaphor
(d) metonymy
Q5. The speaker’s attitude in the poem is one of
(a) fear and despair
(b) excitement and anticipation
(c) melancholy tempered with contentment
(d) frustration with his companion
Directions (6-10): Answer the following questions on Verbs.
Choose the correct tense.
Q6. I have to __to the finish line and back.
(a) run away
(b) run
(c) run off
(d) run out off
Q7. Thanks a lot, but you ____________ me a red rose!
(a) didn’t have to give
(b) hadn’t given
(c) couldn’t give
(d) given
Q8. When she ____________ out the rug, a lot of dust flew through the air.
(a) had shaken
(b) shook
(c) shake
(d) had shook
Q9. He spoke so quickly I couldn’t ____________ his address before he hung up.
(a) take after
(b) take down
(c) look over
(d) put off
Q10. The student handed in a poem and the teacher promised to ___________ it.
(a) look over
(b) take note
(c) made up
(d) put off
Solutions
S1. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S2. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S3. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S4. Ans.(b)
Sol.
S5. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S6. Ans.(b)
Sol.
S7. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S8. Ans.(b)
Sol.
S9. Ans.(b)
Sol.
S10. Ans.(a)
Sol.
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