Snake (MCQs)
Literature Reader (Communicative)
Q1. Who has
written the poem ‘Snake’?
A. D.H. Lawrence
B. W.B. Yeats
C. Shakespeare
D. None of these
Q2. What is
the rhyme scheme of the poem?
A. AABBC DDEEF
B. ABABA CDCDC
C. Free verse
D. ABCBD BCDCE
Q3. What was
the poet carrying to take water?
A. mug
B. pitcher
C. glass
D. bucket
Q4. Find a synonym for ‘pitcher’-
A. mug
B. jug
C. bottle
D. tub
Q5. Who was there at the trough when the poet
reached?
A. His cousin
B. a snake
C. a cow
D. God
Q6. What was the snake doing at the trough?
A. catching a prey
B. passing by
C. drinking water
D. admiring the
beautiful garden
Q7. What was the weather on that day?
A. snowy
B. cold
C. rainy
D. hot
Q8. What was the poet wearing?
A. trousers
B. legging
C. pyjamas
D. shorts
Q9. Why did the poet go to the trough in the garden?
A. to water plants
B. to meet the snake
C. to hit the snake
D. to fetch water
Q10. What did the poet do when he saw the snake at
the trough?
A. He tried to shoo it
away
B. He waited silently
for his turn
C. He screamed for
help
D. He called the
police helpline
Q11. How did the snake try to harm the poet?
A. it attacked him
B. it flew towards him
C. it hissed and
scared him
D. it didn’t do
anything to harm him
Q12. What figure of speech is used-
‘In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great
dark carob-tree’
A. Allusion
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Antithesis
D. simile
Q13. What figure of speech is used-
“ And trailed his yellow-brown slackness
soft-bellied down, over the edge of the stone trough And rested his throat upon
the stone bottom,
And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a
small clearness,”
A. Anaphora
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Allusion
D. simile
Q14. Who has been personified in the poem?
A. carob tree
B. Mount Etna
C. Snake
D. All of these
Q15. What
figure of speech is used-
And lifted
his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken”
A. Anaphora
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Allusion
D. simile
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