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Going for Water

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The poem 'Going for Water' was written by

a)

Thomas Hardy

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Robert Frost

d)

D.H. Lawrence

2.

What is the central theme of the poem?

a)

Importance of preserving rivers and brooks

b)

Importance of education

c)

Importance of air pollution

d)

None of the above

3.

What did the children carry with them?

a)

a school bag

b)

a water bag

c)

pail and can

d)

an earther pot

4.

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

a)

But once within the wood, we paused

b)

Not loth to have excuse to go

c)

And so we went with pail and can

d)

To seek the brook if still it ran

5.

Which season is being described in the poem?

a)

summer

b)

autumn

c)

winter

d)

monsson

6.

What description is given for the season in this poem?

a)

the cold autumn evening was fair

b)

the warm autumn evening was fair

c)

a scorching hot summer day

d)

a cold winter morning

7.

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

a)

calamities like earthquakes

b)

drought and water scarcity

c)

frozen lakes and unclean water

d)

air pollution and global warming

8.

What belonged to the children?

a)

the house and the well

b)

the fields and the woods

c)

the fields and the brook

d)

the woods and the brook

9.

Which among the following is not a synonym for 'dawned'?

a)

rose

b)

emerged

c)

came out

d)

submerged

10.

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

a)

trees without leaves

b)

branches without leaves

c)

woods without trees

d)

branches in full bloom

11.

Pick out the figure of speech from the given sentence.

'Like gnomes that hid us from the moon'

a)

Alliteration

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

12.

What is a synonym for the word 'ere'

a)

after

b)

before

c)

evening

d)

above

13.

Who is 'she' in the poem?

a)

the Earth

b)

the sky

c)

the moon

d)

a beautiful lady

14.

A silver blade in the poem refers to

a)

a gushing river

b)

a frozen river

c)

a silver sword

d)

a sharp silver knife

15.

The brook seems to be silver because

a)

reflection of the sunlight

b)

reflection of the starts

c)

reflection of silver

d)

reflection of the moonlight

16.

Pick out the figure of speech from the given sentences -

The barren boughs without the leaves,

Without the birds, without the breeze

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Alliteration

d)

Repetition

17.

Pick out the figure of speech from the given line -

A slender tinkling fall that made

a)

Personification

b)

Alliteration

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Repetition

18.

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

The well was dry beside the door,

And so we went with pail and can

Across the fields behind the house

To seek the brook if still it ran;

a)

abcd

b)

abcb

c)

abab

d)

abdb