Trains

Who is the poet of the poem trains?

• Salman Rushdie

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Humayun Kabir

• No one

The poet compare the goods train to

• Herd of elephant

• A large serpent

• A peacock

• Dark night

The poem is about the poets fascination with

• Trains

• Elephants

• Snake

• Shadows

Sometime a train comes flashing past with many windows lips by many lamps. The poet is talking about

• Passenger train

• Goods train

• Ship

• Car

In the poem marriage procession has been used as a metaphor for a

• Passing train at night

• Passing ship at night

• A herd of elephants

• A giant snake

On hot afternoons you go to sleep and with disease heat zones all the world. Here the poet is talking about

• The endurance of trains on hot afternoons

• About Indian summer

• About a marriage procession

• About a goods train

But at the end of their restless journey where do they go and finally rest. What does the poet want to know about the trains.

• Their journey

• Their final destination

• The length of the train

• The colour of the train

Which metaphor is used in the poem

• Like huge elephants

• Marriage procession

• Dance and wall with movement Swift

• The dog lies in the shade with hanging tongue

Which of the following is a personification

• Some are dark and journey Tediously that dance and whirl with movement Swift

• Slowly move like huge elephants

• The dog lies in the shade with hanging

• Marriage procession

Which one of these is a simile

• Moves the long shadow we outline for away like a huge serpent crawling through the night

• Some a dark and journey tedious the dance and whirl with a movement Swift

• The dog lies in the shade with hanging tongue

• Marriage procession