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The Acorn and the Pumpkin

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

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1.

 

Once there was a country bumpkin

Who observed a great big pumpkin

To a slender stem attached;

While upon an oak tree nourished,

Little acorns grew and flourished.

"Bah!" said he. "That's badly matched."

Choose The rhyming words

a)

Bumpkin - Pumpkin , Attached - Matched, Nourished -Flourished

b)

little -while

c)

grew - oak

d)

badly -once

2.

Meaning of Bumpkin

a)

had a hand

b)

station

c)

A foolish person

3.

Meaning of Brittle

a)

Something that breaks easily

b)

hard but liable to break easily.

c)

sweet made from nuts and set melted sugar.

d)

overthrown

4.

 

Meaning of fatigued

a)

happy

b)

very tried

c)

sleep

d)

lying

5.

 

Meaning of had hand in something

a)

be involved in doing something

b)

rest

6.

"If, despite my humble station,

I'd a hand in this Creation,

Pumpkins on the oaks would be;

And the acorn, light and little,

On this pumpkin stem so brittle

Would be placed by clever Me."

Chose the rhyming words

a)

station- Creation

be-me

Little -Brittle

b)

played -pumkin

c)

oaks -acorn

7.

Meaning of Sprawling

a)

sleep

b)

rest

c)

lying

8.

Station

a)

a person s social rank or postion

b)

adimt

c)

very tried

9.

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10.

Who wrote the poem The Acorn and The Pumpkin

a)

W.B Yeats.

b)

Sylvia Plath.

c)

Rudyard Kipling.

d)

Jean de La Fontaine