NCERT SOLUTION FOR CLASS 8 ENGLISH HONEYDEW POEM WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE CHAPTER 7

Question 1.
In the first stanza, find words that show that it was late evening’.
(a) Rime
(b) Starlight
(c) Spray
(d) Lonesomeness

(b) Starlight

Question 2.
Which word in second stanza means ‘stay or stop’?
(a) prophet
(b) balance
(c) sojourn
(d) wizard

(c) sojourn

Question 3.
What actually happened at Lyonnesse?
(a) impossible
(b) imperfect
(c) improbable
(d) immortal

(c) improbable

Question 4.
Why did people remain silent then and there ?
(a) surprised
(b) shocked
(c) both (a) & (b)
(d) none of the above

(c) both (a) & (b)

Question 5.
In the first stanza, find words that show
(i) that it was very cold.
(ii) that it was late evening.
(iii) that the traveler was alone.

(a) rime
(b) starlight
(c) lonesomeness

Question 6.
(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was
(a) improbable.
(b) impossible
(c) unforeseeable.

(a) improbable
(c) unforeseeable

Question 7.
(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