GRADE: 6 Sec: ____

NAME: _______________________________

Read the passage and answer the following questions:

How do you like to go up in a swing,

Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,

Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—

Till I look down on the garden green,

Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

1. Choose the correct option-

a) How does the child feel about the ride?

i. He likes it very much
ii. It scares him
iii. It makes him sad
b) The pleasantest thing for every child is……………
i. To swing up into the blue air
ii. To run under the sun
iii. To get wet in the rain
c) While swinging, …………… are seen over the wall
i. Kites, birds, forests and rivers
ii. Bulidings, schools and trees
iii. River trees, cattle and the countryside
d) What does the child look down on in the third stanza?
i. The green garden
ii. The brown roof
iii. Both i and ii
e) Which of these things does the child not see in the second stanza?
i. Cattle
ii. Church
iii. The river
f) The child is riding on a ………..
i. Horse
ii. Swing
iii. Wagon
g) In the poem, the speaker thinks being in the swing is like …………..
 i. Running
ii. Skating
iii. Flying
h) What does the word pleasantest mean?
i. Least fun
ii. Most wonderful
iii. Scariest
i) The garden is below the …………… roof.
i. Thatched
ii. Brown
iii. Black

2. What is the pleasantest thing a child can do?

3. How do we know that the garden grows well?

4. How is air described in the poem?

5. What can be seen in the countryside?

6. What does the child see when the swing comes down?

7. What does the child compare the motion of swinging to?

8. What can the child see in the countryside?

9. Write two pairs of rhyming words from the poem.

10. What are the specialties of the countryside?

11. Why is the air blue in colour?

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