1. ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’ is ………… poem.

(A) a pessimistic
(B) optimistic
(C) a pessimistic-cum-optimistic ✓
(D) None of these

 

2. The prams are —

(A) running
(B) standing
(C) lying
(D) rolling ✓

 

3. Human life is no better than —

(A) life
(B) death ✓
(C) journey
(D) None of these

 

4. Trees shed their leaves in –

(A) rain
(B) summer
(C) winter
(D) autumn ✓

 

5. ………….. waterfall could bless the travellers passing through that way.

(A) Yellow
(B) White ✓
(C) Red
(D) Grey

 

6. The ……………… of death are the whispering neighbour.

(A) messenger ✓
(B) friends
(C) enemies
(D) God

 

7. ‘Whispering neighbours, left and right’ is a line from the poem—

(A) An Epitaph
(B) Song of Myself
(C) Now the Leaves Are falling Fast ✓
(D) Snake

 

8. ‘Nurse’s flowers will not last’ is a line written by—

(A) John keats
(B) John Donne
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) W.H. Auden ✓

 

9. W.H. Auden has written the poem-

(A) John Keats
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) W.H. Auden ✓
(D) T.S. Eliot

 

10. Who has composed the poem, Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ?

(A) W.H. Auden ✓
(B) Walter de la Mare
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(D) Rupert Brooke

 

11. For Auden poetry was-

(A) a light game
(B) an interesting game
(C) a serious game ✓
(D) None of these

 

12. ‘Now The Leaves are Falling’ is-

(A) a lyric ✓
(B) an ode
(C) a sonnet
(D) an elegy

 

13. In the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast ‘Whispering neighbours’ stand for-

(A) agents of Life Insurance
(B) agents of State Bank of India
(C) agents of Sahara India
(D) agents of death ✓

 

14. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ………… the frustration inherent in human life.

(A) reacts
(B) enacts ✓
(C) accepts
(D) protests

 

15. The travellers are we ………….. beings, moving towards our death.

(A) human ✓
(B) animal
(C) urbon
(D) rural

 

16. The leaves are falling —

(A) slow
(B) soon
(C) fast ✓
(D) None of these

 

17. The ……………. has become dumb to see the leafless trees.

(A) hen
(B) sparrow
(C) nightingale ✓
(D) peacock

 

18. The falling of …………….. refer to the speedy arrival of death.

(A) leaves ✓
(B) stones
(C) snows
(D) None of these

 

19. Auden won the Pulitzer prize in-

(A) 1947
(B) 1948 ✓
(C) 1949
(D) 1950

 

20. Auden was –
(A) a poet
(B) a verse dramatist’
(C) a serious game
(D) All of these ✓