Asleep In The Valley MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) - Arthur Rimbaud - WB H.S

Class-XII

Poetry

Asleep In The Valley

-Arthur Rimbaud

Asleep In The Valley MCQ

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

1.The poem “Asleep in the Valley” is a/an –

(A) Ode 

(B) Haiku 

(C) Sonnet 

(D) Dramatic monologue.

ANS) C) Sonnet

2.What kind of poem “Asleep in the Valley” –

A) lyrical 

(B) satirical 

(C) rhetorical 

(D) epic

ANS) B) Satirical

3.“Asleep in the Valley” is a –

(A) Petrarchan sonnet 

(B) Shakespearean sonnet 

(C) Spenserian sonnet 

(D) Hopkinian sonnet.

ANS) A)Petratchan sonnet

4.The poem is about –

(A) nature 

(B) love 

(C) a pretty girl 

(D) the futility of war.

ANS) D) The Futility of war

5.Rimbaud’s poem reflects the —

A) fruitfulness 

(B) heroism 

(C) romanticism 

(D) fruitlessness.

ANS) D) Fruitlessness

6.The setting of the war goes back to –

(A) world war I

(B) world war II

(C)the cold war 

(D) 1870sEurope.

ANS)D) 1870s Europe

7.The poem “Asleep in the Valley” reflects —

A) the pity of war 

(B) the glory of war 

(C) the beauty of the valley 

(D) the beauty of the soldier.

ANS) A)The pity of war

8.The word ‘green’ in the poem signifies –

(A) monotony 

(B) youth and life 

(C) boredom 

(D) lifelines.

ANS) B) Youth and life 

9.The humming insect did not disturb the soldier as –

(A) he was dead 

(B) he was peaceful 

(C) he was a nature lover 

(D) he was violent.

ANS) A) He was dead

10.The soldier’s pillow is made of –

(A) flowers 

(B) fern 

(C) grass 

(D) leaves.

ANS) B) Fern

11.The soldier lies in the valley because he is a –

(A) winner of the war 

(B) casualty of war 

(C) sleeping person 

(D) tired person.

ANS) B) Casuality of war

12.The valley referred to in the poem “Asleep in the Valley” is small

(A) yellow 

(B) red 

(C) green 

(D) grey.

ANS) C) Green

13.The soldier was –

(A) decorated with flowers 

(B) mutilated 

(C) lying with his feet burying in the earth 

(D) lying in the bushes with his feet in flowers.

ANS) (D) lying in the bushes with his feet in flowers.

14.The sun’s rays fill the ———– full of light.-

(A) blank (B) empty (C) hollow (D) valley.

ANS) C) hollow

15.And leaves long strands of silver.- Here ‘silver’ refers to the –

(A) silvery sea beach 

(B) ropes made of silver 

(C) silver river bank 

(D) silver-coloured sand on the river bank.

ANS) (D) silver coloured sand on the river bank.

16. …They fill the hollow full of light. Here ‘hollow’ refers to –

(A) the valley 

(B) the open mouth of the soldier 

(C) holes caused by bullets 

(D) none of the above.

ANS) (A) the valley

17. The valley described by Rimbaud was –

(A) rocky 

(B) sandy 

(C) green 

(D) barren.

ANS) (C) green

18.The two red holes depict –

A) arrow piercing 

(B) blood clots 

(C) stab marks 

(D) bullet wounds.

ANS) (D) bullet wounds.

19. The bullets wounds have left two red holes –

(A) on the chest of the soldier 

(B) on the side of the soldier 

(C) on the skull of the soldier 

(D) on the feet of the soldier

ANS) (B) on the side of the soldier

20. The boy poet refers to –

(A) Gieve Patel 

(B) William Shakespeare 

(C) Arthur Rimbaud 

(D) John Keats.

ANS) (C) Arthur Rimbaud

21.The soldier’s one hand lies –

(A) on his head 

(B) on his cheek 

(C) on his forehead 

(D) on his breast.

ANS) (D) on his breast.

22.The poet requests Nature –

(A) to lull the soldier to sleep 

(B) to disturb the soldier’s sleep 

(C) to keep the soldier warm 

(D) to make the soldier catch cold

ANS) (C) to keep the soldier warm

23.The sleep of the soldier should not be disturbed –

(A) by the flowing stream 

(B) by the flow of sunrays from the mountain top 

(C) by the humming insects 

(D) by the cold of the grass bed

ANS) (C) by the humming insects

24.The rays of the sun are compared with—

(A) stream 

(B) pool of fire 

(C) the beauty of a flower 

(D) none of these.

ANS) (D) None of these.

25.The smile of the soldier is –

(A) cold 

(B) warm 

(C) innocent 

(D) none of these.

ANS) (C) innocent