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๐Ÿ“– Poetry Extracts – Year-wise MCQs (First Flight)

๐Ÿ“ Year 2025 – Extract

Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful. Ink, Blink and Mustard, they rudely called him Percival. They all sat laughing in the little red wagon At the realio, trulio cowardly dragon.
1. Who is the poet of the above extract?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Ogden Nash
(c) Carl Sandburg
(d) Robin Klein
Answer: (b) Ogden Nash
2. Whom did Belinda tickle?
(a) Ink
(b) Blink
(c) Mustard
(d) Custard
Answer: (d) Custard
3. They all sat in the little red wagon.
(a) playing
(b) laughing
(c) talking
(d) studying
Answer: (b) laughing

๐Ÿ“ Year 2024 – Extract

I am an orphan, roaming the street. I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet. The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.
1. From which poem of your textbook has this extract been taken?
(a) Fog
(b) The Ball Poem
(c) Amanda
(d) For Anne Gregory
Answer: (c) Amanda
2. The word 'orphan' means:
(a) a child having no friend
(b) a child having no father and mother
(c) a child who roams the street
(d) a child who likes freedom
Answer: (b) a child having no father and mother
3. What does the girl actually want?
(a) she wants freedom and silence
(b) She wants to be an orphan
(c) She wants to remain bare feet
(d) She wants to walk on soft dust
Answer: (a) she wants freedom and silence

๐Ÿ“ Year 2023 – Extract

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
1. What has been personified in the above extract?
(a) harbour
(b) city
(c) fog
(d) cat
Answer: (c) fog
2. After sitting, fog
(a) disappears
(b) moves on
(c) sits there only
(d) gets dense
Answer: (b) moves on
3. The poet of the above extract is
(a) Pablo Neruda
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Robin Klein
(d) Carl Sandbury
Answer: (d) Carl Sandburg

๐Ÿ“ Year 2022 – Extract

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball. What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water. No use to say 'O there are other balls'.
1. What has happened to the boy?
(a) The boy was amusing
(b) The boy was happy
(c) The boy was sad
(d) The boy was cheerful
Answer: (c) The boy was sad
2. Which word means the same as "merrily"?
(a) cheerlessly
(b) unhappily
(c) jovially
(d) miserably
Answer: (c) jovially
3. The boy has lost his ball, it is in the
(a) market
(b) garden
(c) house
(d) water
Answer: (d) water

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