2. The School Boy

The poet loves to rise _______.

• a) winter morning

• b) on a Monday morning

• c) in sighing and dismay

• d) in a summer morn

‘sweet company’ refers to _____.

• skylark

• huntsman’s horn

• bird’s song

• all the above three

According to Blake, the bird that is born for joy cannot _______.

• a) sit in learning’s bower

• b) sit in a cage and sing

• c) sit in sighing and dismay

• d) drive all his joy away

The phrase which does not refer to formal schooling from the following is ______.

• a) buds are nipped

• b) fruits are gathered

• c) plants are stripped

• d) blossoms are blown away

‘Under a cruel eye outworn’ refers to _______.

• a) a skylark

• b) the distant huntsman

• c) the parents

• d) authoritarian ways of teaching

The distant huntsman winds his horn, and ______sings with him.

• a) the bird

• b) the skylark

• c) the teacher

• d) the child

Going to school on a summer morn ________.

• a) is a pleasant experience

• b) makes the birds sing on every tree

• c) drives all joy away

• d) is like sitting in a cage

The little ones spend the day _______.

• a) in sighing and dismay

• b) watching the birds sing on every tree

• c) in joy

• d) watching the distant huntsman wind his horn

The poet loves to rise in a summer morn ________.

• a) when there is a holiday

• b) in sighing and dismay

• c) under a cruel eye outworn

• d) when the birds sing on every tree

The distant huntsman_______ his horn.

• a) plays

• b) winds

• c) finds

• d) drives