ENGLISH POEM 30 QUESTIONS QUIZIZZ CLASS VIII CBSE BOARD Poem 6 - The Duck and the Kangaroo Poem 7- When I Set out for Lyonnesse Poem 8- On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

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Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,‘Good gracious ! how you hop
!Over the elds 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 elds 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 re ection
;Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck,And there seems
but one objection.‘Re ection’ 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