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THE POETRY OF EARTH MCQ

THE POETRY OF EARTH MCQ
Compiled By
P. K. Bawali

MCQ N0 01-05

1. The Poetry of Earth is written by   —  
a)    Keats 
b)  Blake 
c)    Shelley 
d)    Shakespeare 
Ans:  Keats  

2. The Poetry of Earth’ is a/an  —  
a)     Ballad  
b)    Sonnet 
c)    elegy 
d)   ode. 
Ans:  Sonnet     

3. Faint with the hot sun the birds hide themselves   —  
a)    in their nest  
b)    under a shade   
c)    in cooling trees
d)    in water. 
Ans:   in cooling trees 

4. The Grasshopper is associated with the season —  
a)   winter  
b)   autumn   
c)    spring   
c)    summer 
Ans:  summer  

5. The Grasshopper sings  —  
a)    from hedge to hedge    
b)    in the forest   
c)    hiding in cooling trees
d)   in a hut .
Ans: from hedge to hedge

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6. The hot sun makes all the birds  —  
a)   sing in joy   
b)   fly away to a distant land 
c)    faint   
d)    gay.  
Ans:  faint  

7. The sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’ is also known as  —  
a)   Summer and Winter  
b)    on the grasshopper and the cricket 
c)    Nature  
d)    Songs of Nature 
Ans:  on the grasshopper and the cricket  

8. The Grasshopper takes the lead in  —  
a)   summer luxury   
b)   autumn luxury  
c)    winter luxury  
d)   spring luxury 
Ans:  summer luxury  

9. Being tired, the Grasshopper rests beneath some  —  
a)   bare weed  
b)    bare tree   
c)    pleasant weed  
d)    pleasant tree .
Ans:   pleasant weed  

10. When birds stop singing on a hot summer day, we hear the song of a/an —
a)   Cricket  
b)    Frog   
c)    Grasshopper     
d)    Owl 
Ans:     Grasshopper   

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MCQ N0 11-15

11. Expressions like hot sun and cooling trees suggest that the season is   —
a)   winter  
b)   spring   
c)    autumn  
d)   summer. 
Ans:    summer.  

12. In the beauty of summer. the Grasshopper moved about  —  
a)   joyfully   
b)    indifferently   
c)      sorrowfully  
d)     reluctantly 
Ans:   joyfully  

13. The poetry of earth is cleaning  —  
a)    forever  
b)    never   
c)     for sometime   
d)  for a moment .
Ans:   never   

14.  In the poem The Poetry of Earth, the frost evokes the image of  —  
a)   summer  
b)    autumn  
c)   winter   
d)   spring  
Ans:    winter  

15. The Cricket in the cold and silent winter   —  
a)   takes rest  
b)    moves to a cooling shade  
c)    chirps in song   
d)    dances in joy.  
Ans:   chirps in song   

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MCQ N0 16-20

16.  The Cricket finds warmth  —  
a)   in the bush 
b)     in cooling trees  
c)  in the new mown mead   
d)  near a stove .
Ans:   near a stove  

17. The songs of the Cricket is heard from   —  
a)    behind the fireplace   
b)   the hedge   
c)    the new-mown mead   
d)  the hiding place. 
Ans:   behind the fireplace  

18. The song of the Cricket seems to be  a continuation of  —  
a)   the birds’ song in Nature  
b)   the Grasshopper’s song   
c)   summer   
d)  spring. 
Ans:   the Grasshopper’s song  

19 The rhyme-scheme of the octave of the sonnet, The Poetry of Earth is  —  
a)   abab cdcd  
b)    ABBA ABBA  
c)    abba cddc   
d)  abab cdcd .
Ans:   ABBA ABBA  

20. The rhyme-scheme of the sestet of the “The Poetry of Earth is  —  
a)   CDE CDE   
b)   cd cd ee  
c)    efef gg   
d)   cdc ded. .
Ans:   CDE CDE

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21 The poem The Poetry of Earth’ contains  —  
a)   twelve lines 
b)    right lines  
c)   eleven lilines thirteen lines   
d)  fourteen  lines   
Ans:    fourteen  lines   

22 Most of the lines of the sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’ contains   —  
a)   eight syllables  
b)   ten syllables   
c)   fourteen syllables   
d)  twelve syllables. 
Ans:   ten syllables   

23. 0The poem ‘The Poetry of Earth’ is a   —  
a)    petrarchan  sonnet     
b)   Shakespearean sonnet   
c)   Spenserian sonnet   
d)  curtailed sonnet  .
Ans:    petrarchan  sonnet 

24 In Keats’ sonnet ‘The Poetry of Earth’, the winter silence is broken by  —  
a)   the voice of the Grasshopper  
b)    the shrillings of the cricket   
c)   the melodious voice of a nightingale
d) the revelry of the common people .
Ans:    the shrillings of the cricket 

25 To a drowsy man, the chirpings of the Cricket is a reminder of the music of  — 
a)   the birds in spring  
b)   a professional singer  
c)    the frogs   
d)   the Grasshopper  in the summer months   
Ans:   the Grasshopper  in the summer months

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MCQ N0 26-30

26. In The Poetry of Earth, Keats uses contrast between  —  
a)   winter and spring  
b)   spring and summer  
c)    summer and autumn 
d)    summer and  winter  
Ans:   summer and  winter  

27 .”…a voice will run From hedge to hedge” -Here ‘a voice’ refers to the voice of    —  
a)    a song-bird  
b)    the poet  
c)    the Grasshopper 
d)    the Cricket 
Ans:   the Grasshopper  

28. The Grasshopper is happy in  —  
a)   Winter  
b)   Spring   
c)    summer  
d)    Autumn 
Ans:   summer  

29. Which of the following is a thematic line?  —  
a)  The poetry of earth is never dead 
b)  That is the Grasshopper’s-he takes the lead  
c)   He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed   
d)   And seems to one in drowsiness half lost.  
Ans:   The poetry of earth is never dead  

30. What is the opening line of the sonnet, “The Poetry of Earth’?  —  
a)   The poetry of earth is ceasing never  
b)   When all the birds are faint with the hot sun  
c)    The poetry of earth is never dead   
d)    He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. 
Ans:   The poetry of earth is never dead

MCQ N0 31-35

31. Which of the following lines express the same idea as expressed in the opening line?  —  
a)  He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed   
b)  And seems to one in drowsiness half-lost  
c)   When all birds are faint with the hot sun 
d)    The poetry of earth is ceasing never  
Ans:   The poetry of earth is ceasing never 

32 . “The poetry of earth is never dead.”-What does the word ‘Poetry’ refer to?  —  
a)   songs  and music of nature  
b)   poetic composition of Keats  
c)    songs of birds   
d)   murmur and other sounds 
Ans:  songs  and music of nature  

33. All the birds are faint because of  —  
a)   Coldness    
b)    Hot sun    
c)   Excessive sound   
d)  cooling trees. 
Ans:  Hot sun  

34. The voice of the Grasshopper will run from  —  
a)   the stove   
b)  the cooling trees   
c)   hedge to hedge about new-mown mead   
d)   some pleasant trees  
Ans:   hedge to hedge about new-mown mead   

35. “That is the Grasshopper”-Here ‘that’ refers to  —  
a)   The beauty of the Grasshopper    
b)   the colour of the Grasshopper   
c)   The voice of the Grasshopper  
d)   the movement of the Grasshopper .
Ans:   The voice of the Grasshopper   

MCQ N0 36-40

36. “A voice will run” – Whose voice is this?  —  
a)   The voice of the song-birds   
b)   The voice of the Cricket 
c)  The voice of the poet 
d)   The voice of the Grasshopper  
Ans:  The voice of the Grasshopper  

37. He takes the lead.”-Who is ‘he’?  —  
a)   Grasshopper    
b)   a song-bird   
c)   Cricket
d) the poet
Ans:   Grasshopper  

38. Who has never done/With his delights” in The Poetry of Earth’?  —  
a)    A song-bird    
b)   The Cricket    
c)    the Grasshopper   
d)    The poet. 
Ans:  the Grasshopper   

39. Who eninys summer luxury in the poem  “The poetry of Earth”?  —  
a)    A song-bird    
b)   The Cricket   
c)    the Grasshopper      
d)   The poet. 
Ans:   the Grasshopper   

40. Whose song shrills from a stove in the popoe “The Poetry of Earth’?  —  
a)    a song-bird    
b)   the Cricket    
c)   the Grasshopper
d) the poet.  
Ans:   the Cricket

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MCQ N0 41-45

41.Who “rests at ease beneath some plpleasa weed”?  —  
a)   all song-birds    
b)   the Cricket  
c)   the Grasshopper   
d)   the poet. 
Ans:  the Grasshopper  

42. The word that describes the winter evening in the poem, ‘The Poetry of Earth’ is  —  
a)   new-mown    
b)   lone 
c)   luxury 
d)   pleasant .
Ans:    new-mown  

43. Which of the following words describes the condition of the birds in summer in the poem, “The Poetry of Earth’?  —  
a)   faint     
b)   pleasant   
c)   hot 
d)   cooling 
Ans:  faint  

44 The epithet that has been used to describe the trees in “The Poetry of Earth’ is  —  
a)   faint    
b)  cooling    
c)   pleasant   
d)   hot .
Ans:   cooling  

45. The sun in the poem, The Poetry of Earth’ is  — 
a)   cooling   
b)   faint  
c)    hot  
d)   pleasant  
Ans:   hot

MCQ N0 46-50

46. How is the weed where the Grasshopper rests in the poem, “The Poetry of Earth”?  —  
a)    faint   
b)    hot  
c)     pleasant    
d)   new-mown 
Ans:    pleasant   

47. What wrought a silence on a lone winter evening in the sonnet, ‘The Poetry of Earth”?  —  
a)   the Grasshopper   
b)   the Cricket   
c)    the  frost   
d)  the hot sun.  
Ans:   the  frost  

48. How has Keats animated the grasshopper an the cricket in his poem, The Poetry of Earth”?  —  
a)    by giving them human voice   
b)    by  using capital letter  
c)     by making them silent   
d)    by mentioning them in the poem. 
Ans:    by  using capital letter  

49. Which literary device does Keats use in Poetry of Earth’?  —  
a)    contrast    
b)    simile  
c)     oxymoron 
d)  irony  
Ans:   contrast 

50. To a half-asleep man, the shrill chirping of Cricket adds meaning to the lonely winter evening by —- 
a)    reminding him of the music of  Grasshopper in the summer months    
b)    recalling the songs of the birds   
c)    reminding him of the music of birds in winter   
d)    reminding him of the music of the insects in winter. 
Ans:   reminding him of the music of  Grasshopper in the summer months

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JOHN KEATS’ THE POETRY OF EARTH SAQ
Compiled by
P. K. BAWALI

THE POETRY OF EARTH SAQ In this post we gave some important SAQ (Short Answer Question) type question from John Keats Poetry of Earth

THE POETRY OF EARTH SAQ
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:

SAQ NO 1 – 8

1. What type of poem is Keats “The Poetry of Earth’.
ANS: Keats’ The Poetry of Earth’ is a Petrarchan sonnet. The Poetry of Earth mt cartoon  

2. What is the rhyme-scheme of the poem The Poetry of Earth? 
ANS: The rhyme-scheme of the poem The Poetry of Earth is :- /abba/ abba/ cde/ çde/. 

3. Which insect carries the song of summer in Keats’ The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ The Poetry of Earth’ the Grass. hopper carries the song of summer. 

4. Which insect carries the song of winter in Keats’ The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS:  In Keats: The Poetry of Earth the Cricket carries the song of winter.

5. What does the poet mean by The poetry of earth is never dead? 
ANS: By the statement, “The poetry of earth is never dead”, Keats means that the music of Nature never stops.  

6.  How does the hot sun affect all the Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth”? 
ANS; In Keats’ sonnet, “The Poetry of Earth the hot sun makes all the birds tired and exhausted. 

7. Why do all the birds faint in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ sonnet, “The Poetry of Earth’ all the birds faint because of the scorching heat of the sun. 

8. Where do all the birds hide in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ sonnet, ‘The Poetry of Earth’ all the birds hide in the cooling shade of the trees.

SAQ NO 9 -12

9.  “….. a voice will run.”-Whose voice is referred to here? (H.S. 2015) 
ANS: The voice of the Grasshopper is referred to here. 

10. Who takes the load in summer luxury in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth? (H.S. 2015) 
ANS:  The Grasshopper takes the lead in summer Kury in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth 

11. Who has never done with his delights in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: The Grasshopper has never done with hig delights in Keats’ sonnet, ‘The Poetry. of Earth’. 

12. Where does the Grasshopper rest when it tires out with fun in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth the Grasshopper rests beneath some pleasant weed when it tires out with fun.

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SAQ NO 13 – 16

13. What does the poet mean by “he has never done with his delights “? 
ANS: By the statement, “he has never done with his delights”, the poet means that the immense joy the Grasshopper gets from chirping merrily. would never come to an end. 

14. Where will the voice of the Grasshopper run when all the birds retire to rest in Keats! sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth the voice of the Grasshopper will run from hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. 

15. Why do the birds hide in cooling trees? 
ANS: The birds hide in cooling trees because they are exhausted by the scorching heat of the summer, and so they want to take rest. 

16. When, according to Keats, will the poetry ofearth cease? 
ANS: According to Keats, the poetry of earth will never cease.

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SAQ NO 17 – 21

17. What wrought a silence on a lone winter evening in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS:  In Keats’ sonnet, “The Poetry of Earth’ the frost wrought  a silence on a lone winter evening. 

18. What shrils on a lone winter evening in Keats’ sonnet, “The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’, the Cricket shrills on a lone winter evening. 

19. How does the person half lost in drowsiness perceive the Cricket’s song in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ sonnet, ‘The Poetry of Earth the person half lost in drowsiness, perceives the Cricket’s song as the song of the Grasshopper, singing among some grassy hills. 

20.  Why does the person half lost in drowsiness perceive the Cricket’s song as the song of the Grasshopper in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’ the person perelves so because the Cricket’s song rouses the memory of the Grasshopper’s song in the hills, in his subconscious mind.

SAQ NO 21 – 24

21. Who warms the winter frost with its music in Keats’ sonnet, “The Poetry of Earth’?
ANS: The Cricket warms the winter frost with its music in Keats’ sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’. 

22. Why does Keats make the voice of the Grasshopper and the Cricket follow each other in his sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In his sonnet, The Poetry of Earth’, Keats makes the voice of the Grasshopper and the Cricket follow each other in order to prove that the music of the earth never ceases. 

23. What does Keats use as a symbol of poetry in the poem, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In the poem, The Poetry of Earth, Keats uses music as a symbol of poetry. 

24. What does Keats present as the music of winter in the poem, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In the poem, The Poetry of Earth’, Keats presents the song of the Cricket as the music of winter.

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SAQ NO 25 – 28

25. What does Keats present as the music of summer in the poem, The Poetry of Earth”? 
ANS: In the poem, The Poetry of Earth’, Keats presents the voice of the Grasshopper as the music of summer. 

26. What does Keats present in the octave of the poem, Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In the octave of the poem, The Poetry of Earth’, Keats presents the voice of the Grasshopper as the music of summer. 

27. What does Keats present in the sestet of the poem, The Poetry of Earth’? 
ANS: In the sestet of the poem, ‘The Poetry of Earth, Keats presents the song of the Cricket as the music of winter. 

28. How does the Cricket warm the winter frost? 
ANS: The Cricket warms the winter frost with its music.