| NOW THE LEAVES ARE FALLING FAST |
1. In the second line of the poem, Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ‘Nurse’ stands for —
(A) a plant
(B) a fruit
(C) a tree
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒{C}
2. In the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast ‘Whispering neighbours’ stand for-
(A) agents of Life Insurance
(B) agents of State Bank of India
(C) agents of Sahara India
(D) agents of death
Answer ⇒{D}
3. “Trolls’ mentioned in the poem, ‘Now The Leaves are Falling Fast’ are …….. mythological creatures.
(A) Scandinavian
(B) Indian
(C) Russian
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒{A}
4. ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’ is ………… poem.
(A) a pessimistic
(B) optimistic
(C) a pessimistic-cum-optimistic
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒{C}
5. Who has composed the poem, Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ?
(A) W.H. Auden
(B) Walter de la Mare
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(D) Rupert Brooke
Answer ⇒{A}
6. Auden won the Pulitzer prize in-
(A) 1947
(B) 1948
(C) 1949
(D) 1950
Answer ⇒{B}
7. For Auden poetry was-
(A) a light game
(B) an interesting game
(C) a serious game
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒{C}
8. Auden was –
(A) a poet
(B) a verse dramatist’
(C) a serious game
(D) All of these
Answer ⇒{D}
9. ‘Now The Leaves are Falling’ is-
(A) a lyric
(B) an ode
(C) a sonnet
(D) an elegy
Answer ⇒{A}
10. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ………… the frustration inherent in human life.
(A) reacts
(B) enacts
(C) accepts
(D) protests
Answer ⇒{B}
11. W.H. Auden has written the poem-
(A) John Keats
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer ⇒{C}
12. The prams are —
(A) running
(B) standing
(C) lying
(D) rolling
Answer ⇒{D}
13. The travellers are we ………….. beings, moving towards our death.
(A) human
(B) animal
(C) urbon
(D) rural
Answer ⇒{A}
14. Human life is no better than —
(A) life
(B) death
(C) journey
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒{B}
15. The leaves are falling —
(A) slow
(B) soon
(C) fast
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒{C}
16. Trees shed their leaves in –
(A) rain
(B) summer
(C) winter
(D) autumn
Answer ⇒{D}
17. The ……………. has become dumb to see the leafless trees.
(A) hen
(B) sparrow
(C) nightingale
(D) peacock
Answer ⇒{C}
18. ………….. waterfall could bless the travellers passing through that way.
(A) Yellow
(B) White
(C) Red
(D) Grey
Answer ⇒{B}
19. The falling of …………….. refer to the speedy arrival of death.
(A) leaves
(B) stones
(C) snows
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒{A}
20. The ……………… of death are the whispering neighbour.
(A) messenger
(B) friends
(C) enemies
(D) God
Answer ⇒{A}
21. ‘Whispering neighbours, left and right’ is a line from the poem—
(A) An Epitaph
(B) Song of Myself
(C) Now the Leaves Are falling Fast
(D) Snake
Answer ⇒{C}
22. ‘Nurse’s flowers will not last’ is a line written by—
(A) John keats
(B) John Donne
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) W.H. Auden
Answer ⇒{D}