CHILDREN - MCQs

English 9th Chapter "CHILDREN" Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poem Children was written by ___________.
   
   1. Henry Leigh Hunt
   2. Robert Frost
   3. William Wordsworth
   4. Henry Longfellow
2. Henry Long fellow was an __________ poet.
   
   1. English
   2. Australian
   3. American
   4. Austrian
3. “And the questions that perplexed me have vanished quite away. “Here perplexed” means __________.
   
   1. surprised
   2. puzzled
   3. wondered
   4. worried
4. “vanished” means __________.
   
   1. disappeared
   2. appeared
   3. visible
   4. invisible
5. “Ye open the eastern windows” ‘Ye’ is used for ___________.
   
   1. the poet
   2. the people
   3. us
   4. children
6. Henry Longfellow was a professor at _________ University.
   
   1. Cambridge
   2. Oxford
   3. Harvard
   4. Washington
7. “And the brooks of morning run” “brook” means __________.
   
   1. canal
   2. stream
   3. river
   4. channel
8. ‘dread’ means __________.
   
   1. fear
   2. joy
   3. dried
   4. happiness
9. “Come to me, O ye children And whisper in my ear” whisper mean _________.
   
   1. to speak loudly
   2. to speak politely
   3. to speak harshly
   4. to speak slowly
10. ‘in my ear’ means ___________.
    
    1. in the ear of the children
    2. in the ear of the bird
    3. in the ear of the poet
    4. in the ear of the hearer
11. The poet has called the children _________ poems.
    
    1. lovely
    2. living
    3. short
    4. dead
12. When compared with your caresses ‘caresses’ means __________.
    
    1. to love
    2. to hate
    3. to get rid of
    4. to touch
13. “Ye are better than all the ballads.” In this line ‘Ye are better than’ is used for ________.
    
    1. the poet
    2. the brooks
    3. streams
    4. children
14. “For ye are living poems.” in this line ‘by living poems’, the poet means _________.
    
    1. winter
    2. flowers
    3. children
    4. good poems
15. Henry Longfellow was born in _________ and died in 1882.
    
    1. 1806
    2. 1807
    3. 1808
    4. 1809