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The Listeners

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Traveller knocked the door ________

a)

only once

b)

twice

c)

thrice

2.

What is the meaning of the word "smote"?

a)

confused

b)

knocked loudly

c)

animal's voice

d)

crowd sound

3.

Which one word has correct spellin?

a)

tarrut

b)

tarret

c)

turret

d)

turnet

4.

Where does the poem physically set in?

a)

River side

b)

Sea shore

c)

Moonlit wood

d)

Deserted island

5.

What was the traveller's mode of transport?

a)

A car

b)

A horse

c)

A bus

d)

A tram

6.

Which word(s) suggest that the setting involves a mansion or castle?

a)

Moonlit door

b)

Iron on stone

c)

turret

d)

Plunging hoofs

7.

Which words below are an example of alliteration?

a)

Leaned and looked

b)

Plunging hoof

c)

Traveller's head

d)

World of men

8.

Who are the characters in the poem?

a)

phantom listeners

b)

The trraveller

c)

The horse

d)

All the above

9.

who wrote the poem? the listeners

a)

Ruskin bond

b)

Walter de la mare

c)

Mark twain

d)

Anonymous

10.

What is the meaning of the word "Hearkening?"

a)

listening attentively

b)

crowding

c)

breathing quickly

d)

confused

11.

Pick out the sentence which has alliteration

a)

Above the travellers head

b)

of the forest ferny floor

c)

but only a host of phantom listeners

d)

is there anybody there?

12.

What is the meaning of the word "thronging"?

a)

confused

b)

crowding

c)

turret

d)

outskirts