English CSE

Which of the following is the reason given why there is war?

• Desire for what others have.

• To exact revenge for a wrongdoing.

• To fight over women.

• To prove that one’s race is better than the other.

What is the author’s stand on war?

• It is horrible

• It is important

• It is a means to control population

• It is a natural product of man’s reason.

What is the best title for the selection?

• War

• The Need for War

• The Products of War

• The Elements of War

What does statement “All animals wage perpetual war...” mean?

• All war never ends.

• There is always some kind of war occuring someplace.

• Only animals and not man engage in war.

• All animals make war all the time.

What is the poet’s view on life?

• Life is empty.

• Life is lonely

• Life is an empty dream

• Life is not an empty dream.

What is the antecedent of the pronoun its in the line “And the grave is not its goal;”?

• dream

• life

• real

• earnest

According to the author, what should be our goal in life?

• To enjoy each moment

• To act and continually improve our life day by day.

• To beat sorrow.

• To die happily.

What figure of speech did the author use in the first stanza?

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• irony

The author is a South African Negro during the Apartheid Policy when most blacks were treated as inferior. To what could he be alluding to in the last two lines of the poem?

• white people

• slaves

• snow

• ice

What effect does the poem have upon the Negroes?

• It made them more sad

• It made them feel downtrodden

• It increased their anger towards Whites

• It increased their determination.