Daybreak MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - WB HS

 Class-XI

Poetry

Chapter- 5

Daybreak

 -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Daybreak MCQ

MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

1) Daybreak’ is that poem which –

a) presents the poet’s concern for human activities

b) shows how Nature becomes vivacious when the day begins

c) represents life with all its joys and woes

d) points out the poet’s pessimism

Ans: shows how Nature becomes vivacious when the day begins.

2) The wind is symbolic in that –

a) it announces the end of the day

b) it awakes everything in nature for unusual activities

c) it presents harsh reality

d) it is a harbinger of hope and desire for the world.

Ans: b) it awakes everything in nature for unusual activities.

3) The banners of the forest were –

a) the leaves of the trees

b) the trees

c) the clouds

d) the flags hanging from the trees.

Ans: a) the leaves of the trees.

4) The poet celebrates day because –

a) the poem is written in daylight

b) the poet writes an ode to day

c) the wind announces the coming of day

d) day indicates life.

Ans: d) day indicates life.

5) The function of the wind is –

a) to come as a messenger

b) to announce the arrival of day

c) to carry a message from the sea

d) to prepare earth from the storm

Ans: b) to announce the arrival of day.

6) The wind told the churchyard to –

a) lie quietly

b) shout

c) rise

d) rise quietly

Ans: a) lie quietly.

7) ‘Daybreak’ is written in

a) 9 rhymed couplets

b) 12 rhymed couplets

c) 6 rhymed couplets

d) none of the above

Ans: a) 9 rhymed couplets

8) ‘Daybreak’ follows –

a) the spirited progression of the wind

b) the spirited progression of the day

c) the rising of the dead

d) none of the above.

Ans: a) the spirited progression of the wind

9) The poem, ‘Daybreak’, is a poem of –

a) despair

b) nature

c) supernaturalism

d) abstruse arguments

Ans: b) nature

10) In LongtelloW’s poem, “Daybreak’, the wind urges all, except the dead, to –

a) enjoy eternal sleep

b) sing the evening song

c) take rest at dawn

d) wake up at dawn

Ans: d) wake up at dawn.

11) ‘Daybreak’ as a poem reminds us of –

Alexander Pope

Shakespeare

William Wordsworth

Kamala Das

Ans: William Wordsworth

12) The wind sighed while crossing the –

a) sea

b) cemetery

c) churchyard

d) forest

Ans: c) churchyard.

13) The figure of speech used for the wind is –

a) personification

b) hyperbole

c) antithesis

d) irony.

Ans: a) personification

14) The fields of corn would bow down their heads –

a) to greet the coming morn

b) to greet the wind

c) to humiliate the wind

d) to show their indifference

Ans: a) to greet the coming morn.

15) The wind symbolizes –

a) evening

b) daybreak

c) commencement of all supernatural activities

d) death

Ans: b) daybreak

16) In this poem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is –

a) morbid

b) pessimistic

c) optimistic

d) fond of all supernatural activities in nature

Ans: c) optimistic.

17) The poet H.W. Longtellow has used the Wind as –

a) a harbinger of hope

b) an evil force of nature

c) a mere force of nature

d) something which symbolizes death

Ans: a) a harbinger of hope

18) In Longfellow’s poem, “Daybreak”, the wind is given the human ability to –

a) dance in joy

b) sing sweetly

c) look after the forest

d) communicate through speech

Ans: d) communicate through speech.

19) What did the wind do crossing the churchyard? –

a) sat

b) became sad

c) lie down

d) left a sigh.

Ans: d) left a sigh.

20) ‘Make room for me’ – means –

a) give place to lie

b) give passage to blow

c) leave a room to live

d) give a room at rent.

Ans: b) give passage to blow.

21) In Longfellow’s poem, “Daybreak’, the wind –

a) repeats the same words to all objects

b) uses same tone for different objects

c) uses different language for different objects

d) uses different language and tone for different objects

Ans: b) uses same tone for different objects.

22) In “Daybreak, Longfellow records –

a) the movement and speech of the wind

b) the movement and speech of different objects

c) the beauty of a sunlit morning

d) a simple picture of dawn

Ans: a) the movement and speech of the wind.

23) In ‘Daybreak’, the wind speaks like a human being. This is an example of –

a) allusion

b) metaphor

c) personification

d) simile

Ans: personification

24) The meaning of ‘daybreak’ is –

a) day

b) evening

c) morning

d) dawn.

Ans: d) dawn.