Question 1.
Who sings on a frosty winter day ?
(a) ant
(b) cricket
(c) grasshopper
(d) pigeon
(b) cricket
Question 2.
How did the birds feel during extreme summer ?
(a) faint
(b) pleasant
(c) gay
(d) none of the above
(a) faint
Question 3.
Which voice runs from hedge to hedge ?
(a) ant’s
(b) grasshopper’s
(c) cricket’s
(d) parrot’s
(b) grasshopper’s
Question 4.
What happens to the grasshopper during winter ?
(a) feels sulky
(b) hides in grassy hills
(c) sings and gay
(d) unpleasantly behave
(b) hides in grassy hills
Question 5.
Which word in the poem means ‘fade’?
(a) favour
(b) fatigue
(c) faint
(d) function
(c) faint
Question 6.
In the first stanza, find words that show
(i) that it was very cold.
(ii) that it was late evening.
(iii) that the traveller was alone.
(a) rime
(b) starlight
(c) lonesomeness
Question 7.
(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was
(a) improbable.
(b) impossible
(c) unforeseeable.
(a) improbable
(c) unforeseeable
Question 8.
(i) Read the line (Stanza) that implies the following:
“Everyone noticed something, and they made
guesses, but didn’t speak a word.”
All marked with mute surmise