This document contains a poem titled "Said the Duck to the Kangaroo" and a multiple choice quiz about the poem. The poem is about a duck asking a kangaroo for a ride on its back while hopping. The kangaroo agrees to give the duck a ride as long as it sits still and says "Quack" all day. The quiz contains 30 multiple choice questions about details and vocabulary from the poem.

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30 Questions
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,‘Good gracious ! how you
hop !Over the fields and the water too,As if you never would
stop !The phrase ‘Good gracious’ here, shows
a) shock b) fear
c) anger d) surprise
The one which moves easily ‘over the fields and water
too’ is
a) the Duck b) the Kangaroo
c) the deer d) the lion.
The word ‘gracious’ means
a) decent b) good-looking
c) kind d) happy
Please give me a ride on your back !’Said the Duck to the
Kangaroo.‘I would sit quite still, and say nothing but
“Quack,”The whole of the long day through !
The Duck
desired to
a) say ‘Quack’ b) stay still
c) ride on Kangaroo’s back d) say nothing

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The word ‘quite’ means the same as
a) quiet b) silent
c) noisy d) utterly
Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,‘This requires a little
reflection ;Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck,And
there seems but one objection.
‘Reflection’ means the
same as
a) work b) thought
c) action d) attention
The Duck bought the socks
a) to comfort himself b) to make the feet look better
c) to cause no trouble to Kangaroo d) to be fashionable.
Said the Kangaroo, ‘I’m ready !All in the moonlight pale,But
to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady !And quite at the
end of my tail !’
It was a pale moonlight when
a) the Kangaroo agreed b) the Kangaroo refused
c) the Kangaroo prepared himself and the
duck for a ride
d) the Kangaroo and the Duck quarrelled
with each other.
The Duck was asked to sit
a) comfortably b) quietly
c) noisily d) still
What do the words Good gracious show in the poem?
a) shock b) fear
c) anxiety d) surprise

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Who is the poet of the poem “When I set out for
Lyonnesse”?
a) T.S. Eliot b) Thomas Hardy
c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Firdaus Kanga
“The rime was on the spray” What do you mean by the
word “rime”?
a) Rhyme b) Frost
c) Leaves d) Trees
Who could have not guessed what happened in
Lyonnesse?
a) The poet b) Prophet
c) Wisest wizard d) Both (b) and (c)
What enlightened his loneliness?
a) Starlight b) Magic in his eyes
c) Radiance d) All of the Above
Why did he go to Lyonnesse?
a) To supervise Church restoration b) To supervise hotel restoration
c) To celebrate New Year d) On a vacation
When I set out for LyonnesseA hundred miles away,The rime
was on the spray ;And starlight lit my
lonesomenessLyonnesse is
a) a beautiful river b) a beautiful hill
c) a country in the legends d) an imaginary name.

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No prophet durst declare ;Nor did the wisest wizard
guessWhat would bechance at LyonnesseWhile I should
sojourn there.No one could predict
a) what might happen tomorrow b) how the wizard would act
c) what might happen at Lyonnesse d) what had happened earlier.
A wizard is
a) a clever person b) a magician
c) a learned man d) a fearful person.
The word ‘sojourn’ means the same as
a) silence b) shake
c) stay d) solar
How far was Lyonnesse?
a) A hundred miles away b) Two hundred miles away
c) Three hundred miles away d) Very near
Whose warmth is ever increasing?
a) Grasshopper’s song b) Cricket’s song
c) Birds chirping d) Poetry of earth
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

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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
Who sings the poetry of earth in the summer season?
a) Grasshopper b) Cricket
c) Crow d) Skylark
Where does the grasshopper take rest?
a) Beneath the weed b) Behind the stone
c) Grassy hills d) None of the above
Where do the birds take shelter?
a) Cooling trees b) Beneath the weed
c) Behind the stone d) Grassy hills
What has the frost wrought?
a) Poetry of earth b) Warmth
c) Silence d) All of the Above
What makes the birds faint?
a) Earth’s poetry b) Hot sun
c) Frost d) Rain

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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
runFrom hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead,The
‘voice’ mentioned here is the voice of
a) a grasshopper b) a cricket
c) a bird d) the poet
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
runFrom hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead,
The
word ‘cooling’ here means
a) pleasing b) amusing
c) comforting d) brightening

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Answer Key
1. d
2. b
3. c
4. c
5. d
6. b
7. c
8. c
9. d
10. d
11. b
12. b
13. d
14. a
15. a
16. c
17. c
18. b
19. c
20. a
21. b
22. a
23. b
24. a
25. a
26. a
27. c
28. b
29. a
30. c