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MP Board 11th English Hornbill Poetry Extract MCQ Question Bank
Q.9 A. Extracts from the Poetry (Hornbill) 3 marks
Extract-1
The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went peddling.
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,
And she the big girl —- some twelve year or so.
All three stood still to smile through their hair,
At the uncle with the camera. A sweet face,
My mother’s, that was before I was born.
And the sea, which appears to have changed the less
Washed their terribly transient feet.
Questions:
i) What does the cardboard show?
(a) a photograph(b) a painting(c) Picture of a horse(d) none of these
ii) Who was not present at the beach?
(a) The poetess (b) Her uncle(c) Her aunts(d) Her mother
iii) What does transient mean?
(a) permanent (b) temporary(c) impermanent(d) both (b) and (c)
Extract-2
Some twenty- thirty- years later
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach.” The sea holiday
Was her past, mine was her laughter.
Both wry with the laboured ease of loss.
(i)Who are Betty and Dolly?
(a)Author’s cousins
(b)Uncle’s cousins
(c)Mother’s cousins
(d)None of the above
(ii) Which word in the extract has been used to mean ‘favourite’?
(a)beach(b)wry(c)past (d)ease
(iii) Which poetic device has been used in ‘laboured ease of loss.’?
(a)Alliteration (b)Oxymoron(c)Metaphor(d)Anaphora
Extract – 3
Till the gold finch come, with a twitching chirrup.
A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.
Then sleep as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
of chitterings, and a tremor of wings, trilling.
The whole tree trembles and thrills.
It is the engine of her family.
She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch end.
Showing her barred face identity mask.
Questions:
i) What is described as ‘sleek’ in the poem?
(a) goldfinch(b) lizard(c) Spider(d) Laburnum tree
ii) Who comes to feed the young ones?
(a) a lizard(b) goldfinch(c) a cuckoo(d) a sparrow
iii) Who gives shelter to the bird and her young ones?
(a) An old building(b) A peepul tree(c) An oak tree(d) Laburnum tree
Extract – 4
And who ort thou? said I to the soft falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the poem of Earth, said the voice of rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same.
Questions:
i) The poem of earth is-
(a) Tree (b) River(c) Rain (d) Flower
ii) What is the meaning of impalpable?
(a) Something that cannot be eaten(b) Something that cannot be digested
(c) Something that cannot be smelled(d) something that cannot be touched
iii) Which poem these lines have been taken from?
(a) The voice of the Rain(b) A photograph
(c) The laburnum top (d) Father to son
Extract – 5
When did my childhood go?
Was it the time I realised that adults were not
all they seemed to be,
The talked of love and preached of love,
But did not act so lovingly,
Was that the day!
Questions:
i) Who do not practice what they preach?
(a) Adolescents (b) Children
(c) Adults (d) Middle aged people
ii) Who is the composer of the poem from which these lines have been taken?
(a) Markus Natten (b) Shirley Toulson
(c) Elizabeth Jennings (d) Walt Whitman
iii) What does the poet miss?
(a) His school days (b) His childhood
(c) His adulthood (d) None of these
Extract – 6
The seed I spent or sown it where,
The land is his and none of mine?
We speak like strangers, there’s sign
Of understanding in the air,
This child is built to my design
Yet what he lives I cannot share,
Questions:
i) What does the father wish for?
(a) Understanding (b) Financial support
(c) Moral support (d) None of these
ii) What kind of a relationship the father and the son have?
(a) cordial (b) strained
(c) warm (d) good
iii) These lines show-
(a) friendship (b) understanding
(c) grief (d) happiness
Extract-7
The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still
in the afternoon yellow September sunlight,
A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen
(i) write the name of the poem and the poet.
(ii) Find the opposite of ‘noise’ from the poem.
(iii) How was the tree standing in the month of September?
(a)still and death-like (b) alive (c)green and happy (d) still and green
Extract-8
It is the engine of her family.
She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end
Showing her barred face identity mask
Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings
She launches away, towards the infinite
And the laburnum subsides to empty
(i) What happens to the laburnum tree after the goldfinch flies away?
(ii)What is the machine?
(iii)Who is the engine of her family?
Extract-9
Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterings and a tremor of wings, and trilling
The whole tree trembles and thrills.
(i)Who is ‘she’ in the second line? Where does she enter?
(a) She is the baby goldfinch who enters the thickness of the Laburnum tree
(b) ‘She’ is a squirrel who enters the thickness of the Laburnum tree
(c) ‘She’ is a lizard who enters the thickness of the Laburnum tree
(d) ‘She’ is the mother goldfinch who enters the thickness of the Laburnum tree
(ii)What does ‘machine’ refer to in the extract?
(a) If refers to the machine used to drill a hole in the tree
(b) It refers to the machine used to cut the tree
(c) It refers to the nest of the goldfinch where its young ones are staying
(d) It refers to the nest of the squirrel
(iii)Find a word from the extract which is the synonym of ‘entire’.
(a) abrupt(b) hole(c) whole(d) tremor
Extract-10
I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own
origin, and make pure and beautify it;
(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
Reck’d or unreck’d. duly with love returns.
Questions
(i) Who is latent and unborn?
(ii) Give the name of the poet.
(iii) How does the rain benefit the earth?
Extract-11
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed,
and yet the same,
I descend to lave the drouts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
Questions
(i) There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to?
(ii) Who rises out of the bottomless sea?
(iii) Give the name of the poem.