QUIZ ( LITERATURE COMPONENT)

Literature Component (Set 1)

Question 1 - 7 refer to the poem.

There's been a death in the opposite house

As lately as today.

I know it by the numb look

Such houses have alway.

The neighbours rustle in and out,

The doctor drives away.

A window opens like a pod,

Abrupt, mechanically;

Somebody flings a mattress out, -

The children hurry by;

They wonder if It died on that, -

I used to when a boy.

The minister goes stiffly in

As if the house were his,

And he owned all the mourners now,

And little boys besides;

And then the milliner, and the man

Of the appalling trade,

To take the measure of the house.

There'll be that dark parade

Of tassels and of coaches soon;

It's easy as a sign, -

The intuition of the news

In just a country town.

Emily dickson

1. What is the tone used in the poem?

(A) Happy

(B) Sentimental

(C) Depressing

(D) Solemn

2. How does the persona know someone has died?

(A) By the number of people going in and out.

(B) By the solemn atmosphere of the house.

(C) By the doctor’s arrival.

(D) By the chidren hurrying pass.

3. What does the line ‘The neighbors rustle in and out’ tell us?

(A) They want to spread the news

(B) They come to examine the deceased

(C) They come to pay their last respects

(D) They want to feel sad 

4. From the poem, which phrase illustrates the sadness that has occurred in the house?

(A) ‘the children hurry by’

(B) ‘rustle in and out’

(C) ‘the numb look’

(D) ‘that dark parade’ 

5. The line ‘The intuition of the news, In just a country town’ means

(A) the purpose of the news is to sadden the town

(B) the town is actually a country

(C) the news is spread easily in this town

(D) the town is small and in grievance 

6. When did the person pass away?

(A) Today

(B) Yesterday

(C) Last year

(D) Not mentioned

7. From the 1st stanza, what does ‘such houses’ represent?

(A) Coffin

(B) A house where death has occured

(C) The persona’s house

(D) The afterlife

Literature Component (Set 2)

Question 8-14 refer to the poem

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

8. In stanza 1, what did the traveler do when he came across a fork in the road?

(A) He straight away chose the second road

(B) He stopped and carefully thought about which road he should take

(C) He refused to choose any of the roads

(D) He chose the first road

9. What does the word “them” in stanza 2 refer to?

(A) The two roads

(B) The claims

(C) The differences

(D) The doubts 

10. What is the best reason to choose the second road?

(A) It has less challenges

(B) It is more challenging

(C) It is easier

(D) It is more travelled on 

11. Which line in the poem tells us that the persona was not sure that he would get the chance to take the first road?

(A) Then took the other, as just as fair

(B) Oh, I kept the first for another day!

(C) I doubted if I should ever come back

(D) And sorry I could not travel both

12. What would be the best reason to choose the first road?

(A) The first road has better claims

(B) The first road is full of challenges

(C) The first road is more familiar and less challenging

(D) The first road is less travelled on

 

13. From stanza 4, describe what the poet thought about taking the particular road.

(A) He preferred the first road

(B) He regretted choosing the second road

(C) It was a wrong choice

(D) It had made a great difference in his life.

14. Why did the traveler feel he had made the correct choice?

(A) He said the road had ‘the better claim’

(B) He said the road ‘diverged in a yellow wood’

(C) He said the road ‘was grassy and wanted wear’

(D) He said the road was ‘less traveled by’