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Dust of Snow (Poetry)

Objective Type Questions

1.Who is the poet of the poem ‘Dust of (c)Changing his mood (d)None of these.
Snow?
4.Where was the crow sitting?
(a)Robert Frost (b)Ogden Nash
(a)On a banyan tree (b)On a neem tree
(c)Walt Whitman (d)W.B. Yeats
(c)On a pine tree (d)On a hemlock tree.
2.What did the crow shake on the
5. What has the poet saved in the
poet?
poem Dust of snow?
(a)Dust of soil (b)Dust of snow
(a)Some part of the day
(c)Dust of tree (d)Dust of ash
(b)Some books
3.The dust of snow affected the poet
(c) Some stories
by…..
(d)Some money
(a) Making him superior

(b)Making him energetic

Ans. 1-a.2-b. 3-c. 4-d. 5-a

Fire and Ice (Poetry)

Objective Type Questions

1.Who has written the poem “Fire and (c) W.B. Yeats(d)S.T. Coleridge
Ice”?
2.What does ice symbolize in the poem
(a) Robert Frost (b)John Keats Fire and Ice?

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(a)Desire (b)Hatred (c) Love (d)Pain

(c) Love (d)Pain 4.What is the meaning of Perish?

3.What does fire symbolize in the (a) Rise (b)Birth


poem Fire and Ice?
(c)Glow (d)Die
(a) Desire (b)Hatred

5.According to Robert Frost, what will (a) World (b)Water


end one day?
(c)Air (d)Plants

Ans.1-a .2-b.3-a 4.d.5-a

A TIGER IN THE ZOO (Poetry)

OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

1.Who has written the poem A Tiger in the Zoo?

(a) Leslie Norris (b)Robert Frost.

(c)W.B. Yeats (d)John Keats.

2.The tiger looks at…..

(a)Cars (b)Stars

(c)House (d)None

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3.Who passes near the water hole?

(a)Elephant (b)Buffalo

(c)Deer (d)None

4.What sound does the tiger hear at night?

(a)Patrolling cars (b)Flowing river

(c)Truck Horn (d)All of the above.

5.Where is the tiger’s strength locked?

(a)Behind the jungle (b)Behind the bars.

(c)Behind his nature (d)None of the above.

6.How does the tiger feel in the cage?

(a) He was in sad mood (b)He was in happy mood

(c)He was in angry mood (d)He was surprised

7.The poem draws a contrast between…..and…..

(a)Animals, human beings.

(b)Tiger in zoo, tiger in a forest

(c)Tiger in a zoo, humans

(d)Humans, tiger in forest.

Ans. 1-a. 2-b.3-c.4-a .5-b. 6-c. 7-b

HOW TO TELL WILD ANIMALS (POETRY)

Objective Type Questions

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1. What two things does a Chameleon 4.What is the special feature of the
not have? crocodile?

(a) Does not have ears and more (a) Weeps while eating its prey
(b)Does not have ears and wings.
(b)Happy while eating its prey.
(c)Does not have nose and wings.
(c)Angry while eating its prey
(d)None of the above.
(d)None of the above.
2.Which animal can we meet in our
yard? 5.Where are the Asian Lions found?
(a) Lion (b)Pig (a)Eastern countries of the world
(b)Northern countries of the world.
(c)Deer (d)Bear.
(c) Southern countries of the
3.How is the Bengal Tiger described?
world(d)Western countries of the world.
(a) Noble dinosaur (b)Noble wild beast.
Ans.1-b.2-d 3-b 4-e 5-a
(c)Noble dragon (d)None of the above.

A letter to God (Prose)

OBJECTIVE Type Questions

1.Who read the letter sent by Lencho?

(a)His wife (b)The postmaster (a)G.L Fuentes (b)Anne Frank.

(c)The God (d)His son (c)Gavin maxwell (d)Eleanor Estes

2.Who is the author of the lesson A 3.How much money was arranged by
letter of God? the postmaster?

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(a)100pesos (b)500pesos 7.What destroyed Lencho’s fields?

(c) 70pesos(d)1000pesos (a)Locusts (b)Hailstones.

4.How much money did Lencho want? (c)Leaves. (d)Salt.

(a) 100pesos (b)50pesos 8.Why did Lencho need money?

(c) 10pesos(d)70pesos (a) To save his family

5.Lencho had grown ……in his fields. (b)To buy a tractor

(a)Barley (b)Corn (c)To go to city (d)To herd cattle.

(c)Rice (d)Wheat 9.Lencho wrote a letter to…..

6.Where was Lencho’s house situated? (a)Postmaster (b)God

(a)In a city (b)In the forest (c)His wife (d)Postman.

(c)Bottom of the hill. (d)Top of a hill. Ans.1-b. 2-a. 3-c. 4-a.5-b.6-d.7-b.8-a

NELSON MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Prose)

Objective Type Questions

1.According to Nelson Mandela, what (a) Its mineral (b)Its people


is courage?
(c)Its traditions (d)Its forests.
(a)Triumph over love (b)Triumph over
3.Which party did Mandela join?
fear
(a)National African party (b)Indian
(c) Triumph over poverty (d)Triumph
National congress.
over selfishness.
(c)Universal party. (d)African national
2.According to Nelson Mandela, What
congress.
is a country’s greatest wealth?

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4.How many deputy presidents were 9.The spectacular array of South


elected? Africa jets was displayed by…..

(a) Two (b)Three (a) Military (b)Crowd

(c)One (d)None (c)Leaders (d)Villagers

5.What does depths of oppression 10.Who was daughter of Nelson


create? Mandela?

(a)Poverty (b)Richness. (a)Nancy (b)Maria

(c)Heights of character (d)Freedom (c)Zenani (d)Lucky

6.A man who takes away freedom of 11.Which day was the largest
another man is….. gathering of international leaders on
south African soil for the installation
(a) Rude (b)A prisoner of hatred
of South Africa’s first democratic,
(c) Criminal (d)Innocent. nonracial government?

7.According to Mandela, what comes (a) 9th May (b)10May.


naturally to heart?
(c) 11th May (d)12th May
(a) Hatred (b)Love
12.Who, according to Mandela, is not
(c)Discrimination (d)Unity free?

8.Which flame can never be (a)Oppressor (b)Oppressed


extinguished?
(c) Both(a) and (b)(d)None of the above.
(a)Man’s love (b)Man’s hatred
Ans.1-b.2-b.3-d.4-a.5-c.6-b.7-b.8-c.9-
(c)Man’s goodness (d)None of these. a.10-c11-b.12-c

Two stories about flying

His First Flight (Prose)

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Objective Type Questions

1.Who has written the story His first (d)None of these.


flight?
6.The lesson His first Flight is
(a)Liam O’ Flaherty (b)Anne Frank about…..

(c)Frederick Forsyth (d)Nelson Mandela (a) Pigeon (b)Pilot

2.What was the seagull afraid of ? (c) Parrot(d)Seagull.

(a)Running (b)Flying 7.What did the seagull pretend?

(c) Swimming (d)None of these. (a) Running fast (b)Falling asleep

3.What food did the seagull’s mother (c)Crying (d)Swimming


get for it?
8.Who was alone on the budget?
(a)Insect (b)Crab
(a)Brother of seagull (b)Mother seagull
(c)Prawn (d)Fish
(c)Father seagull (d)Young seagull
4.Why did mother seagull stop
9.How many brothers did young
midway while giving fish?
seagull have?
(a) To push him to fly(b)She got tired
(a) One (b)Two
(c)She didn’t want to give (d)None of
(c)Three (d)Four
these.
10.Who was with the young seagull on
5.What did his parents threaten him
the ledge?
with?
(a) His mother (b)His father
(a) Never to talk with him.
(c)His brother (d)He was alone
(b)To punish him.
Ans. 1-a 2-b 3-d 4-a.5-c.6-d.7-b.8-d.9-
(c)To starve him.
b.10-d

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BLACK AEROPLANE(Prose)

OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

1.Who is the author of The Black (a) Radio (b)Compass


Aeroplane?
(c)speedometer (d)Engine.
(a)Gavin Maxwell (b)Anne Frank
6.Which controls station did the pilot
(c) Frederick Forsyth(d)Eleanor Estes. contact on his way back?

2.Why was the aeroplane twisting in (a) London (b)Delhi.


the air?
(c) Paris (d)Munish
(a) Due to storm (b)Due to night
7.The pilot was flying from…..to…..
(c)Due to lightening (d)Due to rain.
(a)England, Paris (b)France, England
3.Why did the pilot call Paris control?
(c) France, India(d)India, France.
(a) To know about air traffic
8.Why didn’t pilot turn the aeroplane
(b)For landing back towards Paris?

(c)For direction (d)For fuel (a) He wanted to meet his family

4.The pilot was not able to…. (b)He wanted to go on a holiday


anything.
(c)He did not want to miss the breakfast
(a)Speak (b)See (d)He did not like Paris.

(c)hear (d)all of these. 9.The woman in the control centre


looked at the narrator…
5.Which instrument of plane stopped
working first? (a) angrily (b)Strangely

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(c)Happily (d)Joyfully 11.What was the name of the plane


frown by the pilot?
10.In which direction did he follow the
black aeroplane? (a)Airbus (b)Dakota

(a) North (b)East (c) Boeing (d)None

(c)West (d)South Ans.1-c 2-a 3-c.4-b 5-b.6-c.7-b.8-c.9-


b.10-a.11-b

CHAPTER-4

FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK(Prose)

Objective Type Questions

1.Anne’s best friend was……. (a)Mr. Keesing (b)Miss Margot Frank.

(a)Her father (b)Her grandfather. (c)Mr. Otto Frank (d)Mr.s Kuperus

(c) Her diary(d)Her teacher 4.Anne decided to write a diary


because:
2.Which of these names did Anne give
to her diary? (a)She had no close friend

Or (b)She was a good writer

What was the name of Anne’s diary? (c) She loved to express her thoughts

(a) Kitty (b)Bitty (d)She wanted to be different.

(c)Kitten (d)Mitten. 5.Which of these is true about Anne?

3.Which of these assigned Anne an (a)She was outspoken


essay on the subject A chatterbox?
(b)She was careless
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(c) She was reserved 7.Who was Mr. Keesing?

(d)She was rude (a) Her teacher (b)Her counselor

6.Mr. Keesing asked Anne to write an (c)Her principal (d)Her relative


essay as-
8.Which of these best describes Mr.
(a) Home work Keesing?

(b)A project (a)Jovial and creative

(c)A punishment (b)Strict and innovative

(d)It was for the school magazine

(c)Tolerant and strict

(d)Jovial and innovative

Ans.1-c 2-a 3-a 4-a 5-a 6-c 7-a

EXTRACTS FROM PROSE

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:

The house – the only one in the entire valley sat on the crest of a low hill. From this
height one could see the river and the field of ripe corn dotted with the flowers that
always promised a good harvest. The only thing that the earth needed was a
downpour or at least a shower. Throughout the morning Lencho who knew his
fields intimately had done nothing else but see the sky towards the north-west

Question:

(a)From which lesson this text been (i)A Letter to God (ii)His first Flight
taken? (iii)Black Aeroplane

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(b)Where was Lencho’s house (i)Promised (ii)dotted (iii)intimately


situated?
Ans.(a)(i)A Letter to God
(a) At the foot of a hill (b)In the village
(b)(ii)On the crest of a low bill
(c)On the crest of a low hill
(c)(iii)Intimately
(c)Find out the word, from the above
passage, which is similar to the word
‘closely’

2.The moment the letter fell into the mailbox the postmaster went to open it. It said:
God: Of the money that I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me. Send me the
rest, since I need it very much. But don’t sent it to me through the mail because the
post office employees are a bunch of crooks. Lencho.”

Question:

(a)Lencho looked at…..as crooks.

(b)Find out a word opposite of honest from the extract.

(c)What did the Lencho mean by the rest?

(i)Lencho meant fifty pesos (ii)Lencho meant forty pesos

(iii)Lencho meant thirty pesos(iv)Lencho meant twenty pesos

Ans.(a)The post office employees

(b)Crooks

(c)(iii)Lencho meant thirty pesos

3.I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man
who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred;he is locked behind
the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. I am not truly free If I am taking

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away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is
taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity

Question:

(a)Who is the writer of the lesson from which this text has been taken?

(i)G.L Fuentes (ii)Anup Kumar Datta

(iii)Nelson Mandela

(b)A man who takes away another man’s freedom is…

(a) A prisoner of superiority (b)A prisoner of self value

(c) A prisoner of hatred

(c)Find out the word from the above text which is opposite of the word ‘wide’

(i)Liberated (ii)Narrow

(iii)Robbed

Ans.(a)(iii)Nelson

(b)(iii) a prisoner of hatred

(c)(ii)Narrow

4.The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers and his sister and
already flown away the day before. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow
when he had taken a little run forward to the brink of the ledge and attempted to
flap his wings he became afraid. The great expanse of sea stretched down beneath,
and it was such a long way down- miles down. He felt certain that his wings would
never support him; so he bent way down- miles down. He felt certain that his wings
would never support him; so he bent his head and ran away back to the little hole
under the ledge where he slept at night.

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Questions:

(a)The word little means……. (c)Where did he sleep at night?

(i)Big (ii)Wide (i)On a tree (ii)Under the ledge

(iii)Small (iii)In water

(b)What happened when he ran to the Ans.(a)(iii)Small


brink of the ledge?
(b)(i)He became afraid
(a)He became afraid (b)He flew away.
(c)(ii)Under the ledge
(c)He fell into the sea.

5.The moon coming up in the east, behind me, and stars were shining in the clear
sky above me. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was happy to be alone high up
above the sleeping countryside. I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane over France
back to England. I was dreaming of my holiday and looking forward to being with
my family. I looked at my watch: at one thirty in the morning. I should call Paris
Control soon, I though. As I looked down past the nose of my aeroplane. I saw the
lights of a big city in front of me.

Question:

(a)How was the weather when the pilot (c)From which lesson has this text
started flying aeroplane? been taken?

(i)Cloudy (ii)Clear (iii)Foggy (i)A letter to god (ii)His first flight


(iii)The Black Aeroplane.
(b)The pilot was returning from…..
Ans.a (b)Clear
(i)England to France (ii)France to
England (b)(ii)France to England

(iii)New York to Paris (c)(iii)The Black Aeroplane.

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6.There was no answer. The radio was dead too. I had no radio, no compass, and I
could not see where I was. I was lost in the storm. Then, in the black clouds quite
near me. I saw another aeroplane. It had no lights on its wings, but I could see it
flying next to me through the storm. I could see the pilot’s face- turned towards me.
I was very glad to see another person. He lifted one hand and waved.

Questions:

(a)Opposite to dead- (i)The hundred dresses-I (ii)Glimpses of


India
(i)Slow (ii)Alive
(iii)Two stories about flying (iv)Amanda
(iii)Strong (iv)Big
(c)Give one word from the extract-
(b)Name the lesson from which this
which is used in searching the location.
extract has been taken.
Ans.(a)Alive (iii)Two stories about
flying (c)compass.

7. Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only
because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that
later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-
year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even
greater need to get all kinds of things off my chest.

Questions:

(a)Name the chapter- (i)Ruskin Bond (ii)Anne Frank.

(i)A letter of God (ii)Nelson Mandela; (iii)Liam O’Flaherty (iv)G.L. Fuentes


Long walk to freedom.
(c)What did Anne Frank to do to take
(iii)Two stories about flying (iv)From things off her chest?
the diary of Anne Frank.
(i)She would sleep a lot (ii)She would
(b)Who is the author of from the eat to lot
Diary of Anne Frank?
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(iii)She would play a lot (iv)None of (b)(ii)Anne frank


these.
(c)(iv)None of these.
Ans.(a)(iv)From the Diary of Anne
Frank

8. Paper has more patience than people.’ I thought of this saying on one of those
days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in
my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed
where I was, brooding: Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I’ m not
planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a
dairy’. Unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won’t make a bit of
difference.

Questions:

(a)From which lesson has this text (i)Man (ii)Paper (iii)Hands


been taken?
(c)Which of these words is similar to
(i)Black Aeroplane (ii)From the Diary of the word brooding?
Anne frank.
(i)Happy (ii)thoughtful (iii)Wandering
(iii)His first Flight
Ans.(a)(ii)From the diary of Anne Frank
(b)Who has more patience than
(b)(ii)Paper (c)(ii)thoughtful
people?

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EXTRACTS FROM POETRY

Q.1Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follows:

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow from

A hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

Question:

(a)Who is the poet of the above poem? (i)He falls asleep (ii)Dust of snow falls
on him.
(i)Carolyn Wells (ii)Robin klein
(iii)Robert frost (iii)He starts talking

(b)Where was the Crow? Ans.(a) (iii)Robert frost

(i)On hemlock tree (ii)On banyan tree (b). (i)On hemlock tree
(iii)On peepal tree.
(c).(ii)dust of snow falls on him.
(c)The poet’s mood got changed,
when……

Q.2. Some say the world will end in fire


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Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire.

I hold with those who favour fire.

Questions:

(a)Who is the poet of these lines? (i)Those who favour fire (ii)Those who
favour ice
(i)Carolyn Wells (ii)Robin Klein
(iii)Both
(iii)Robert Frost
Ans. a(iii)Robert Forest
(b)What does the poet compare fire
with? (b)(ii)Desire

(i)Hatred (ii)desire (iii)Hot (c)(i)Those who favour fire

(c)With Whom does the poet want to


stay?

3.But if it had to perish twice.

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction of hate

Is also great

And would suffice.

(a)From which poem have these lines (i)rise (ii)Die (iii)Glow


been taken?
(c)Who is the poet of these lines?
(i)Fire and ice )(ii)A tiger in the Zoo
(i)Carbon Wells (ii)Robin Klein
(iii)The Ball poem
(iii)Robert Frost
(b)What is the meaning of perish?
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Ans. (a)(i)Fire and Ice (c).(iii)Robert frost

(b)(ii)die

4.He hears the last voice at night,

The patrolling cars,

And stares with his brilliant eyes

At the brilliant stars.

Questions:

(a)From which poem the above lines (c)Which of the following is opposite of
have been taken? the word brilliant?

(i)Dust of Snow (ii)Fire and ice (i)Intelligent (ii)Glare (iii)Dull

(iii)A tiger in the Zoo Ans.(a). (iii)A Tiger in the Zoo

(b)What does he stare it? (b).(iii)Stars

(i)Cars (ii)Night (iii)Stars (c).(iii)dull

5.What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,

What, what is he to do? I saw it go.

Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then

Merrily over-there it is the water

No use to say “O there are other balls.

Questions:

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(a)Which word means the same as (c)From which poem the above lines
merrily? been taken?

(i)Cheerlessly (ii)Unhappily (i)Fire and Ice (ii)A tiger in Zoo

(iii)Jovially (iv)Misearbly (iii)The Ball Poem

(b)This poem is written by: Ans.(a)(iii)Jovially

(i)Robert Frost (ii)John Berryman (b)(ii) John Berryman

(iii)Robert Browning (iv)Collins (c)(iii)The Ball Poem


Howard.

6.Did you finish your homework Amanda?

Did you tidy your room, Amanda?

I thought I told you to clean your shoes,

Amanda!

Question:

(a)Who is the speaker of these lines? Ans.(a).(iv)Amanda’s parent or teacher

(i)Amanda’s parents (b)Amanda’s friend (b).Homework

(iii)Amanda’s cousin (d)Amanda’s (c).Robin Klein.


parent or teacher

(b)Amanda’s did finish her……..

(c)Who is the poet of the poem from


where extract has been taken?

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