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Test questions for Seven Ages of man

Directions: Answer the following questions. Write the letter of the best answer.
1. Based on the poem, the poet compares the world to a __________.
a. story book
b. film
c. stage
d. playground

2. Which among the given words is synonymous to the word “exit”?

a. Birth
b. Life
c. Doors
d. Death

3. In the second stage of life, how does the poet describe the second stage of
man’s life?
a. Mews and pukes
b. Goes to school unwillingly
c. Cries in his nurse’s lap
d. Sings and plays

4. According to the poet, as a young lover, man ________.

a. learns to dance
b. composes ballads for his beloved
c. goes hunting in the forest
d. does exercises to build his muscles

5. In which stage the poet describes man as a soldier?

a. Third
b. Fourth
c. Fifth
d. Sixth

6. “Creeping like a snail” is an example of ___________.

a. metaphor
b. alliteration
c. personification
d. simile

7. “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women were merely ___________.
a. puppets
b. actors
c. players
d. dummies

8. Which stage of life is being referred to in the line “at first the newborn mewling
and puking in the nurse’s arms”
a. Infancy
 b. Early childhood
c. Teenage
d. Adulthood

9. “They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many
parts, his acts being seven ages”. What do you mean by ‘acts’ in the last line?
a. Acts in the last line means opportunity in his life-time
b. Acts in the last line means strength or power in his life-time
c. Acts in the last line means roles which a person enact in his life-time
d. Acts in the last line means modeled in his life time.

10. “Mewing” means _________?

a. laughing
b. crying
c. afraid
d. anger

11. Then a soldier, full of strange oaths, and feared like a pard, jealous in honour,
sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon’s
mouth. What is the soldier ready to do?
a. Fight for name and fame
b. Save life for name and fame
c. Die for name and fame
d. Secure his own name and fame

12. Then the whining school boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping
like snail unwilling to school. How does the schoolboy walk to school?
a. Slowly like a snail while going to school
b. Very fast like a cheetah while going to school
c. Slowly like a turtle while going to school
d. Vigorously like a lion while going to school

13. Who is the person being described in this stanza “Jealous in honour, sudden,
and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation, Even in the cannons mouth.
And then the justice, In fair round belly, with good capon lin’d.”
a. Soldier
b. Doctor
c. Lawyer
d. Businessmen

14. The speaker in “the seven ages of man” holds the opinion that all people
a. are foolish and make mistakes
b. are like actors playing roles
c. will see the seven ages of man
d. are quick to quarrel

15. What does “sans everything” probably mean _______________?

a. Imminent dark
b. Crushing poverty
c. Complete dark
d. Horrible disease