DAYBREAK by H W Longfellow : Quiz No 2

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DAYBREAK by H. W. Longfellow: Latest Questions

A. Complete the sentences which follow, choosing the correct answers from the alternatives given: (Each question carries 1 mark)
1. What does ‘Daybreak’ mean? 
2. What type of poem is ‘Daybreak”? 
3. Who announces Daybreak? 
4. Whom does the wind first address in the poem? 
5. Whom does the wind tell to make room for him ? 
6. Whom does the wind hail on the sea? 
7. What does the wind advise the mariners? 
8. “Sail on, Ye mariners, …” – What does the word ‘Ye’ mean? 
9. “And hurried landward far away” – Why is the wind in haste? 
10.What does the wind say to the forest ? 
11.“Hang all your leafy banners out !” – What are ‘leafy banners’? 
12. How does the wind try to awaken the sleeping bird? 
13.“It touched the wood-bird’s folded wing” – What does the expression ‘folded wings’ signify? 
14.What does the wind ask the wood-bird to do? 
15. How can ‘chanticleer’ herald the arrival of the daybreak? 
16. What is the ‘clarion’ of the chanticleer? 
17. What is the meaning of ‘clarion’? 
18. Why does the wind ask the fields of corn to bow down? 
19. What is ‘belfry-tower’? 
20. “Proclaim the hour.” – Who is called to proclaim the hour? 
21. Where does the wind finally reach? 
22.  How does the wind express his sorrow for the dead ? 
23. What does the wind tell the dead souls lying in the grave? 
24. Give an example of ‘personification’ from the poem.

B. Answer the following questions in not more than 100 words each: (Each question carries 5 marks)

(i) The poet personifies the wind in “Daybreak”. How does he do this ?
Or, How is the wind personified in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”?
Or, Describe the activities of the wind as you find in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”.
Or, Give an account of the activities of the wind in the sea and on land as described in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”?
Or, Discuss the journey of the wind, carrying the message of daybreak in Longfellow’s poem, “Daybreak”. 
ii) Explain the significance of the title of the poem “Daybreak”. 

(iii) Consider Longfellow as a poet of Nature with reference to the poem, “Daybreak”.

(iv) “It crossed the churchyard with a sigh …” – Who crossed the churchyard? Why did it sigh ? What did the wind say while crossing the churchyard? Why did it say so?     1+1+1+2
Or, What picture of dawn does the poem ‘Daybreak” present?

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These questions are to be practised well specially for Class - XI Annual Exam, 2016 (Eng B).
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THE POETRY OF EARTH by John Keats: Latest Questions

 A.  Answer the following questions, each in a complete sentence:   (Each question carries 1 mark)

(i)   What does Keats celebrate in this poem ?

(ii)  Why does Keats make the voices of the grasshopper and the cricket follow each other ?

(iii)   The poet contrasts summer with frost and then introduces warmth into frost. Why does he do this ?

(iv)  Where does the grasshopper rest at ease in summer ?

(v)  What does the cricket’s song seem to ‘one in drowsiness half lost’ ?

(vi)    “… he has never done with his delights…” – Whose delights are spoken of here ?

(vii)  How are the birds in summer according to Keats ?

(viii) What does the voice speak of in Keats’ “The Poetry of Earth” ?

 B.  Answer the following questions, each in about 100 words: (each question carries 6 marks)

(i) Show, after Keats, that the poetry of earth never comes to an end.

Or, How does Keats prove that poetry of earth is never dead ?

(ii)  What pictures of the two seasons does Keats draw in “The Poetry of Earth” ? How are the two pictures related ?  4+2

(iii) Name the poet who composed “The Potry of Earth”. What is meant by “The Poetry of Earth” ? How does the poet read “The Poetry of Earth” ?  1+2+3

(iv) Identify the voices of poetry in the poem. How does Keats establish continuity through these voices ?

THE POETRY OF EARTH by John Keats : Quiz No 1

ASLEEP IN THE VALLEY by Arthur Rimbaud: Latest Questions

A.  Answer the following questions, each in a complete sentence:   (Each question carries 1 mark)
(i) What is the theme of this poem ?
(ii) What kind of poetry does the poet use to drive home the pity of war ?
(iii) To which historical event does the setting of this war goes back ?
(iv) What was Rimbaud’s nationality ?
(v) In what manner does the soldier lie in the countryside ?
(vi) ‘The humming insects don’t disturb his rest’  Why?
(vii) What is the smile of the dead soldier compared to?
(viii) ‘… they fill the hollow full of light’. – What does ‘the hollow’ describe?
(ix) What does the slow stream leave on the bright grass?
(x) What is the soldier’s pillow is made of fern.


B.  Answer the following questions, each in about 100 words: (each question carries 6 marks)
(i)  Justify the title of the poem ”Asleep in the Valley”.
(ii)  How does the poet Arthur Rimbaud look upon war ?
Or, How is Arthur Rimbaud’s attitude against war revealed in his poem “Asleep in the Valley”?
Or, Evaluate “Asleep in the Valley” as an anti-war poem.
(iii)  How does the soldier lie in “Asleep in the Valley”?
(iv)  How does the picture of the soldier describe the tragedy of war ? Explain.
(v)  What do we normally associate with the word ‘asleep’? When does the readers recognise that the soldier is asleep in a different state ?

ASLEEP IN THE VALLEY by Arthur Rimbaud : Quiz No 1

ON KILLING A TREE by Gieve Patel : Quiz No 2

ON KILLING A TREE by Gieve Patel: Latest Questions

    A.      Answer the following questions, each in a complete sentence:   (Each question carries 1 mark)

(i)                  Where does irony lie in the poem ?

(ii)                In what form of verse is this poem written in ?

(iii)               On what tone does the poem end ?

(iv)              What makes this poem easy to read ?

(v)                Where will green twigs rise from ?

(vi)              “And then it is done” – What act is referred to here ?

(vii)             What is to be done with the root in the poem “On Killing of a Tree” ?

(viii)           How, according to Gieve Patel, has the tree grown ?

(ix)              What kind of task is it to kill a tree ?

(x)                What type of poem is “On Killing a Tree” ?

    B.      Answer the following questions, each in about 100 words: (each question carries 6 marks)

(i)             Describe in detail the growth of the tree as given in the first stanza of the poem “On Killing a Tree”.

(ii)                How does the tree heal itself ?

           Or, How is the life-force of the tree described in the poem “On Killing a Tree” ?

(iii)               The poem “On Killing a Tree” describes man’s cruelty and violence to nature. Discuss.

(iv)              How can the tree be killed in “On Killing a Tree” ?

THANK YOU MA'AM by Langston Hughes: Latest Questions

SAQ

A.      Answer the following questions each in a single sentence : (1 mark each question)

1.       When and where did Roger and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones meet ?

2.       How did Mrs. Jones ensure that he could not break free from her grip ?

3.       Which one of these lines spoken by Mrs. Jones tells you that she can read Roger’s mind ?

4.       What was the name of the boy who tried to snatch the bag ?

5.       Why did the boy try to snatch the pocket book ?

6.       Why did Mrs. Luella Bates give the boy ten dollars ?

7.       Where did Mrs. Luella Bates turn the boy loose ?

8.       What was the price of the cake the boy was given a part of in “Thank You Ma’am ?

9.       Where did Luella take the boy in ‘Thank you Ma’am” ?

DAQ

B.     Answer the following questions in not more than 100 words each : (6 marks each question)

(i) Why did the boy in “Thank You Ma’am” not run away though he found the door open ? 
Or, Why did Roger not try to run away later although he had an opportunity to do so ?
(ii)What features of the character of Mrs. Luella Bates are exposed in the short story “Thank You Ma’am” ?
Or, Give a character sketch of Mrs. Jones. 
(iii)“I wanted a pair of --------- shoes.” – What reply did the speaker get and how did he react.

(iv) Justify the title of the short story “Thank You Ma’am”.

(v)What lesson did Roger learn from Mrs. Jones ?