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WorksheetsGoing for Water
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
The poem 'Going for Water' was written by
Thomas Hardy
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
D.H. Lawrence
What is the central theme of the poem?
Importance of preserving rivers and brooks
Importance of education
Importance of air pollution
None of the above
What did the children carry with them?
a school bag
a water bag
pail and can
an earther pot
Which line from the poem indicates the narrator's unawareness of the brook?
But once within the wood, we paused
Not loth to have excuse to go
And so we went with pail and can
To seek the brook if still it ran
Which season is being described in the poem?
summer
autumn
winter
monsson
What description is given for the season in this poem?
the cold autumn evening was fair
the warm autumn evening was fair
a scorching hot summer day
a cold winter morning
What is the poet's focus in the first stanza?
calamities like earthquakes
drought and water scarcity
frozen lakes and unclean water
air pollution and global warming
What belonged to the children?
the house and the well
the fields and the woods
the fields and the brook
the woods and the brook
Which among the following is not a synonym for 'dawned'?
rose
emerged
came out
submerged
In the poem, the words 'barren boughs' means...
trees without leaves
branches without leaves
woods without trees
branches in full bloom
Pick out the figure of speech from the given sentence.
'Like gnomes that hid us from the moon'
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
What is a synonym for the word 'ere'
after
before
evening
above
Who is 'she' in the poem?
the Earth
the sky
the moon
a beautiful lady
A silver blade in the poem refers to
a gushing river
a frozen river
a silver sword
a sharp silver knife
The brook seems to be silver because
reflection of the sunlight
reflection of the starts
reflection of silver
reflection of the moonlight
Pick out the figure of speech from the given sentences -
The barren boughs without the leaves,
Without the birds, without the breeze
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Repetition
Pick out the figure of speech from the given line -
A slender tinkling fall that made
Personification
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
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;
abcd
abcb
abab
abdb
