Chapter 08: On the Grasshopper and Cricket

1. Who is the poet of the poem “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”?

  • John keats
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Ruskin Bond
Answer
John keats

2. What makes the birds faint?

  • Earth’s poetry
  • Hot sun
  • Frost
  • Rain
Answer
Hot sun

3. Where does the grasshopper take rest?

  • Beneath the weed
  • Behind the stone
  • Grassy hills
  • None of the above
Answer
Beneath the weed

4. Who sings the poetry of earth in the summer season?

  • Grasshopper
  • Cricket
  • Crow
  • Skylark
Answer
Grasshopper

5. Complete the line in Stanza 2 that says, “The poetry of earth is ______”

  • Never dead
  • Ceasing never
  • Dead never
  • Never ceasing
Answer
Ceasing never

6. What has the frost wrought?

  • Poetry of earth
  • Warmth
  • Silence
  • All of the Above
Answer
Silence

7. Who sings the poetry of earth in the winter season?

  • Grasshopper
  • Cricket
  • Crow
  • Skylark
Answer
Cricket

8. Complete the line in Stanza 1 that says, “The poetry of earth is ____”

  • Never dead
  • Ceasing never
  • Dead never
  • Never ceasing
Answer
Never dead

9. Where do the birds take shelter?

  • Cooling tree
  • Beneath the weed
  • Behind the stone
  • Grassy hills
Answer
Cooling tree

10. Whose warmth is ever increasing?

  • Grasshopper’s song
  • Cricket’s song
  • Birds chirping
  • Poetry of earth
Answer
Cricket’s song