Gr. V Test on Ls. 1 Ice-cream man

What is the summer heat compared to in the 1st stanza of the poem?

• Cement's icy cool

• Brick's a blaze of heat

• Equatorial climate

• Torrid

What has the Icecream man's cartwheel being described as?

• Squeaking

• Screeching

• Trundling

• Wobbling

Name the flavours which the Icecream man carries with him.

• Fudge, butterscotch and pineapple

• Mozzarella, cheddar and mayonnaise

• Muffin, cupcake and pastries

• Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry

What other things does the Icecream man sell?

• Frosty-fizzy drinks

• Cold coffee

• Choco lava cake

• Expresso

Describe the various colours of the bottles.

• Red, purple, blue or green

• Green, orange, white or pink

• Black, brown, red or yellow

• Blue, white, grey or purple

The Icecream man's cart has been compared to a ............ .

• Flower-bed of lotus and lilies

• Flower-bed of roses and sweet peas

• Flower-bed of lilacs and red sorrel leaves

• Flower-bed of lavender and petunias

The children cluster round him ......... .

• as good as gold

• as sweet as sugar

• as thin as reed

• as thick as honey bees

The poem is composed by ...... .

• Rachel Field

• Enid Blyton

• Sylvia Plath

• Virginia Woolf

The figure of speech used in this poem is ..... .

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Imagery

What is the meaning of the word 'cluster' ?

• Heap or pile

• Group of dissimilar things

• Group of similar things

• bright flame or fire