MCQ Questions for Class 9 English Beehive Rain on the Roof with Solutions
Chapter Name | Multiple Choice Questions for Rain on the Roof |
Author Name | Coates Kinney |
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Book Name | NCERT First Flight Textbook for Class 9 |
MCQ Questions for Rain on the Roof Class 9 English
1. What makes an echo in the poet’s mind?
(i) his poverty
(ii) his successes
(iii) the music of pattering rain
(iv) all these things
Answer
(iii) the music of pattering rain
2. Where is the rain making a noise?
(i) in the room
(ii) on the roof
(iii) in the garden
(iv) in the lanes
Answer
(ii) on the roof
3. Who comes in the poet’s memory?
(i) the rain
(ii) his father
(iii) his mother
(iv) his friends
Answer
(iii) his mother
4. Where does the poet’s mother live?
(i) in another town
(ii) in a village
(iii) with the poet
(iv) she has died
Answer
(iv) she has died
5. Who are the darling dreamers?
(i) the poet and his brothers
(ii) the street children
(iii) the school children
(iv) none of these
Answer
(i) the poet and his brothers
6. What does the poet listen?
(i) the sweet music of insects
(ii) sweet music of piano
(iii) the sweet music of raindrops
(iv) all the options are incorrect
Answer
(iii) the sweet music of raindrops
7. Select the correct meaning of ‘refrain’.
(i) stop making noise
(ii) sound of piano music
(iii) making refined efforts
(iv) the noise of the rain
Answer
(iv) the noise of the rai
8. What is the name of the poet of the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’.
(i) Robert Frost
(ii) Subramanian
(iii) Coates Kinney
(iv) W.B. Yeats
Answer
(iii) Coates Kinney
9. What does this poem talk about?
(i) about rain
(ii) rain falling
(iii) rainfall and disturbance
(iv) healing powers of the rain
Answer
(iv) healing powers of the rain
10. What revives the sweet memories in the poet’s mind?
(i) busy schedule
(ii) daily routine
(iii) raindrops falling on the roof
(iv) none
Answer
(iii) raindrops falling on the roof
11. Which literary device has been used in this poem?
(i) alliteration & personification
(ii) metaphorical
(iii) anaphora
(iv) none
Answer
(i) alliteration & personification
12. Which memories of the poet are revived with the pitter patter sound of rainfall?
(i) college days
(ii) young age
(iii) office days
(iv) chidhood memories
Answer
(iv) chidhood memories
13. What does starry spheres mean?
(i) places where stars are born
(ii) sky filled with stars
(iii) star groups in the sky
(iv) all
Answer
(iii) star groups in the sky
14. What is the favourite activity of the poet during the rainy season?
(i) listening to the music
(ii) eating snacks
(iii) roaming on the roof
(iv) lie on the bed and listen to the pitter-patter sound of the rain
Answer
(iv) lie on the bed and listen to the pitter-patter sound of the rain
15. Who are darling dreamers in the poem?
(i) children who miss their mothers
(ii) mothers
(iii) hard working mothers
(iv) poet’s memories
Answer
(i) children who miss their mothers
16. What is the memory that comes to the poet’s mind repeatedly?
(i) his mother
(ii) his friends
(iii) his siblings
(iv) none
Answer
(i) his mother
17. What poetic device has been used in ‘Starry Spheres’ and ‘darling dreamers’?
(i) Metaphor
(ii) Alliteration
(iii) Personification
(iv) All of these
Answer
(ii) Alliteration
18. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
(i) abcbdefe
(ii) aabbccdd
(iii) abbccdde
(iv) aaabbbab
Answer
(i) abcbdefe
19. Which of these words is the use of the literary device of onomatopoeia?
(i) Bliss
(ii) Shadows
(iii) Shingles
(iv) Patter
Answer
(iv) Patter
20. What is bliss in the poem for the poet?
(i) His memories
(ii) His mother
(iii) Listening to the sound of rainfall
(iv) All of these
Answer
(ii) His mother
21. What haunts the poet?
(i) His friends
(ii) Sounds of rainfall
(iii) His mother’s memory
(iv) None
Answer
(iii) His mother’s memory
22. What weeps in rainy tears?
(i) Poet
(ii) Darkness
(iii) Poet’s mother
(iv) None of these
Answer
(i) Poet
23. What does ‘woof’ mean?
(i) Dreams
(ii) Memories
(iii) Woven cloth
(iv) None of these
Answer
(iv) None of these
24. What are shingles?
(i) Tiles on the roof
(ii) Window pane
(iii) Wall
(iv) None of these
Answer
(ii) Window pane
25. How does the mother look at the children?
(i) With hatred
(ii) With sadness
(iii) With pity
(iv) With fondness
Answer
(iii) With pity
26. What does ‘cottage-chamber’ mean?
(i) Type of bed
(ii) A room in the cottage
(iii) A separate building next to the cottage
(iv) All of these
Answer
(i) Type of bed
27. Which of these is NOT a sound word?
(i) Tinkle
(ii) Patter
(iii) None of these
(iv) Both A and B
Answer
(ii) Patter
28. Recollections mean ______?
(i) Memories
(ii) Dreams
(iii) Nightmares
(iv) None of these
Answer
(ii) Dreams
29. What does the tinkle cause an echo?
(i) Mind
(ii) Heart
(iii) Stomach
(iv) None of these
Answer
(iii) Stomach
30. What does ‘list’ mean?
(i) Listen
(ii) A list
(iii) Write down
(iv) None of these
Answer
(i) Listen