Extra Questions
Extract Based Questions
Read the following extracts carefully and choose the correct option.
Question 1 :
“Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
i) The poet tells that young men love Anne for her…………
a) beautiful looks
b) personality
c) sweet nature
d) honey coloured hair
ii) What is the colour of Anne’s hair?
a) Black
b) Brown
c) Honey coloured
d) Grey
iii) What does the word rampart meant here?
a) A wall
b) A boundary
c) A parapet
d) Lock of hair
iv) What does the word despair mean?
a) Hurt
b) Hopelessness
c) Frustration
d) Anguish
Answer :
i) b) beautiful looks
ii) c) honey coloured
iii) d) Lock of hair
iv) b) Hopelessness
Question 2 :
“But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”
i) Who is the speaker of these lines?
a) The poet
b) Anne Gregory
c) Some young men
d) None of these
ii) Why does Anne want to change her hair colour?
a) To attract others
b) To avoid other’s attraction
c) To show external beauty is not real
d) None of the above
iii) What does Anne want in reality?
a) Someone who loves her for her real self
b) Avoid people who are drawn to her outer beauty
c) To live alone
d) To find a suitable life partner
iv) What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
a) aaab
b) abcbdb
c) aabbcc
d) aabcbc
Answer :
i) b) Anne Gregory
ii) c) To show external beauty is not real
iii) a) Someone who loves her for her real self
iv) b) abcbdb
Question 3 :
“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
i) Who is the poet of the poem?
a) Ogden Nash
b) WB Yeates
c) Walt Whitman
d) Card Sandburg
ii) What is the subject of this poem?
a) Beauty is temporary
b) Inner beauty is more important
c) Humans are drawn to external beauty only
d) All of the above
iii) Who found a ‘text’?
a) The poet
b) Anne Gregory
c) An old religious man
d) A young man
iv) Find a word from the passage which is an antonym of ‘conceal or hide’.
a) Proclaim
b) Declare
c) Mention
d) Raise
Answer :
i) b) WB Yeates
ii) c) humans are drawn to external beauty only
iii) c) An old religious man
iv) b) Declare