Going For Water

The poem 'Going for Water' was written by

• Thomas Hardy

• Walt Whitman

• Robert Frost

• D.H. Lawrence

What is the central theme of the poem?

• Importance of preserving rivers and brooks

• Importance of education

• Importance of air pollution

• None of the above

What did the children carry with them?

• a school bag

• a water bag

• pail and can

• an earther pot

Which line from the poem indicates the narrator's unawareness of the brook?

• But once within the wood, we paused

• Not loth to have excuse to go

• And so we went with pail and can

• To seek the brook if still it ran

Which season is being described in the poem?

• summer

• autumn

• winter

• monsson

What is the poet's focus in the first stanza?

• calamities like earthquakes

• drought and water scarcity

• frozen lakes and unclean water

• air pollution and global warming

What belonged to the children?

• the house and the well

• the fields and the woods

• the fields and the brook

• the woods and the brook

In the poem, the words 'barren boughs' means...

• trees without leaves

• branches without leaves

• woods without trees

• branches in full bloom

Pick out the figure of speech from the given sentence.

'Like gnomes that hid us from the moon'

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

A silver blade in the poem refers to

• a gushing river

• a frozen river

• a silver sword

• a sharp silver knife