1. The falling of ………….. refer to the speedy arrival of death.
(A) leaves
(B) stones
(C) snows
(D) None of these
Answer:(A) leaves
2. The ………….. of death are the whispering neighbour.
(A) Messenger
(B) friends
(C) enemies
(D) God
Answer:(A) messenger
3. The prams are —
(A) running
(B) standing
(C) lying
(D) rolling
Answer:(A) human
4. The travellers are we beings, moving towards our death.
(A) human
(B) animal
(C) urban
(D) rural
Answer:(A) human
5. Human life is no better than —
(A) life
(B) death
(C) journey
(D) None of these
Answer:(B) death
6. ‘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
Answer:(C) Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast
7. ‘Nurse’s flowers will not last is a line written by—
(A) John Keats
(B) John Donne
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) W.H. Auden
Answer:(D) W.H. Auden
8. Who is the poet of ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast?
(A) John Keats
(B) W. H. Auden
(C) Rupert Brooke
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer:(B) W. H. Auden
9. The prams were……….
(A) big
(B) still
(C) rolling
(D) Lost
Answer:(C) rolling
10. W. H. Auden was born in?
(A) 1917
(B) 1900
(C) 1907
(D) 1910
Answer:(C) 1907
11. W.H. Auden died in?
(A) 1968
(B) 1958
(C) 1973
(D) 1965
Answer:(C) 1973
12. W. H. Auden won the Pulitzer prize in
(A) 1937
(B) 1958
(C) 1948
(D) 1842
Answer:(C) 1948
13. The travellers are the persons.
(A) young
(B) old
(C) sick
(D) orphan
Answer:(B) old
14. Travellers will be blessed with the
(A) river
(B) waterfall
(C) pond
(D) lake
Answer:(B) waterfall
15. Diseases make human life……….
(A) miser
(B) mouser
(C) miserable
(D) wealthier
Answer:(C) miserable
16. The leaves were fast
(A) snowing
(B) cut
(C) falling
(D) growing
Answer:(C) falling
17. The prams are-
(A) Running
(B) Rolling
(C) Standing
(D) Broken
Answer:(B) Rolling
18. Who disturbs the ‘real delight’ of the ageing persons-
(A) Nurse’s flowers
(B) Starving people
(C) Whispering neighbors
(D) Cold
Answer:(C) Whispering neighbors
19. W.H. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in the year?
(A) 1947
(B) 1958
(C) 1948
(D) 1946
Answer:(C) 1948
20. What is falling fast?
(A) Snow
(B) Flowers
(C) Leaves
(D) Ball
Answer:(C) Leaves
22. ‘Now The Leaves are Falling’ is
(A) a lyric
(B) an ode
(C) a sonnet
(D) an elegy
Answer:(A) a lyric
23. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast the ………… frustration inherent in human life.
(A) reacts
(B) enacts
(C) accepts
(D) protests
Answer:(B) enacts
24. W.H. Auden has written the poem—
(A) John Keats
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer:(C) W.H. Auden
25. Who is the poet of ‘Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast’?
(A) John Keats
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) Rupert Brooke
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer:(B) W.H. Auden
26. W.H. Auden was born in?
(A) 1917
(B) 1908
(C) 1907
(D) 1913
Answer:(C) 1907
27. W.H. Auden died in?
(A) 1963
(B) 1953
(C) 1973
(D) 1965
Answer:(C) 1973
28. The leaves are falling —
(A) slow
(B) soon
(C) fast
(D) None of these
Answer:(C) fast
29. Trees shed their leaves in —
(A) rain
(B) summer
(C) winter
(D) autumn
Answer:(D) autumn
30. The ………….. has become dumb to see the leafless trees.
(A) hen
(B) sparrow
(C) nightingale
(D) peacock
Answer:(C) nightingale
31. ……………… Waterfalls could bless the travellers passing through that way.
(A) Yellow
(B) White
(C) Red
(D) Grey
Answer:(B) White
32. In the second line of the poem, Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ‘Nurse’ stands for—
(A) a plant
(B) a fruit
(C) a tree
(D) None of these
Answer:(C) a tree
33. In the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ‘Whispering neighbours’ stand for—
(A) agents of Life Insurance
(B) agents of the State Bank of India
(C) agents of Sahara India
(D) agents of death
Answer:(D) agents of death
34. ‘Trolls’ mentioned in the poem, ‘Now The Leaves are Falling Fast’ are mythological creatures.
(A) Scandinavian
(B) Indian
(C) Russian
(D) None of these
Answer:(A) Scandinavian
35. ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’ is a poem.
(A) a pessimistic
(B) optimistic
(C) a pessimistic-cum-optimistic
(D) None of these
Answer:(C) a pessimistic-cum-optimistic
36. 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
Answer:(A) W.H. Auden
37. Auden won the Pulitzer prize in—
(A) 1947
(B) 1948
(C) 1949
(D) 1950
Answer:(B) 1948