This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > English > Poems > The Trees > Class 10 English Poem Chapter 8 The Trees – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 English Poem Chapter 8 The Trees Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The poem reflects how trees ..... to free themselves to go to their natural habitat. A) Think. B) Discuss. C) Yearn. D) Do not want. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yearn. 2. What tries to free themselves from the cracks of the veranda floor? A) Roots. B) Twigs. C) Boughs. D) Leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roots. 3. Name the literary device used in "The moon is broken like a mirror, " A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 4. Since the forests are empty ..... A) No birds sit. B) No insects hide. C) Sun doesn't create shadow. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 5. Why do the villagers celebrate at the end of the story? A) They have received a reward. B) They no longer have to pay taxes. C) The forest will be preserved. D) They have a new leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The forest will be preserved. 6. Question 11.What do the roots do all night? A) Try to free themselves. B) Try to respire. C) Try to appear long. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Try to free themselves. 7. What is the MOST important for human beings to breath A) Family. B) Education. C) Money. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxygen. 8. All nights the roots work to disengage themselves from the cracks in the veranda floor. What does disengage mean? A) Disentangle. B) Entangle. C) Hide. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disentangle. 9. Long-cramped boughs shuffle under the roof like newly ..... A) Planted weeds. B) Discharged patients. C) Seen moon. D) Grown plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discharged patients. 10. Where are the decorative plants kept? A) In open areas. B) In play areas. C) In houses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In houses. 11. The poet in her letters ..... A) Mentions the departure of the trees. B) Doesn't mention the departure of the trees. C) Creates lively images of the trees. D) Writes a lot about the herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doesn't mention the departure of the trees. 12. What does the poetess write? A) Long poems. B) Long letters. C) Long essays. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long letters. 13. Who has been personified in the line "no sun bury its feet in shadow" A) Sun. B) Feet. C) Shadow. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 14. How do the trees react to their confinement in the poem? A) They wither away. B) They break through the windows. C) They grow taller and stronger. D) They remain still. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They break through the windows. 15. What is the poetess head full of? A) Plants. B) Whispers. C) Birds. D) Insects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whispers. 16. I sit inside, doors open to the verandawriting long lettersin which I scarcely mention the departureof the forest from the house.The night is fresh, the whole moon shinesin a sky still openthe smell of leaves and lichenstill reaches like a voice into the rooms.Find the word which means 'hardly'. A) Lichen. B) Veranda. C) Departure. D) Scarcely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scarcely. 17. By morning, the forest will be full of ..... A) Insects. B) Birds. C) Trees. D) Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trees. 18. What rushes out to meet the trees? A) Man. B) Fire. C) Water. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wind. 19. Why are the trees important to Amrita and her village? A) They protect them from wild animals. B) They shade the village, protect from sandstorms, and indicate water sources. C) They provide wood for cooking. D) They are used for building houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They shade the village, protect from sandstorms, and indicate water sources. 20. When the trees move out, ..... rush to meet them. A) Moon. B) Small plants. C) Winds. D) Rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Winds. 21. Who is the poet/poetess of the poem 'The 'Trees'? A) Walt Whitman. B) Adrienne Rich. C) Carl Sandburg. D) W.B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adrienne Rich. 22. In the passage it says "The trees, Stacey, " I said softly, "They sing no more" What is that an example? A) Allusion. B) Odimini. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 23. Why does the poet mention 'no sun bury its feet in Shadow'? A) To emphasize the darkness in the forest without trees. B) To depict the coldness in the forest without trees. C) To describe the patterns made by the sun rays passing through the trees in a forest. D) To highlight the heat in the forest without trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To describe the patterns made by the sun rays passing through the trees in a forest. 24. Question 13.Name the literary device used in "The moon is broken like a mirror, " A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 25. What are the boughs compared to? A) A newly discharged patient. B) A newly admitted patient. C) A chronically sick patient. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A newly discharged patient. 26. Identify the figures of speech:No sun bury its feet in shadow A) Simile. B) Metafar. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 27. How do we get Oxygen? A) Water. B) Hospital. C) Trees. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trees. 28. In the poem, where are the trees initially described as being located? A) In a forest. B) By the river. C) In a park. D) Inside a house. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inside a house. 29. People have destroyed nature for their own selfish motive and have planted trees in their veranda (passage) and thus have created artificial nature. What does this line suggest? A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Allusion. D) A Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 30. What does Amrita teach her children about the trees? A) They should be cut down when needed. B) They are like family who protect and support them. C) They will make good wood for building. D) They should never be touched or used. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are like family who protect and support them. 31. In the starting of the third stanza the moon ..... A) Is fresh and shining. B) Is broken like a mirror. C) Is unseen. D) Is half. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is fresh and shining. 32. What is the poetess doing? A) Sleeping. B) Watching television. C) Reading. D) Writing long letters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writing long letters. 33. What does the poet mean by 'the night is fresh'? A) The night is calm and peaceful. B) The night is dark and scary. C) The night is new and refreshing. D) The night is cold and quiet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The night is new and refreshing. 34. What did Mr.Anderson want to do with the forest? A) Build a ranch. B) Bought it just to have land. C) Turn it into housing. D) Cut it down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cut it down. 35. What is the main theme of the poem "The Trees" ? A) Friendship. B) Freedom. C) Love. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freedom. 36. What promise does the Maharajah make at the end? A) To never enter the forest again. B) To allow villagers to guard the forest. C) To protect the forest and never cut down the trees. D) To reduce the number of trees cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To protect the forest and never cut down the trees. 37. Who is the narrator of "Song of the Trees" A) Big on. B) Little Man. C) Cassie. D) Stacey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cassie. 38. Name the poet of the poem "The trees" A) Adrienne Rich. B) Carolyn Wells. C) Robert Frost. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adrienne Rich. 39. Question 14.Where are the decorative plants kept? A) In open areas. B) In play areas. C) In houses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In houses. 40. What does the poet imply by 'all night The Roots work to disengage themselves from the cracks in The Veranda floor'? A) The roots of the trees are trying to break the cracks in the veranda floor. B) The roots of the trees are trying to come out of the cracks in the veranda floor. C) The roots of the trees are trying to hold onto the cracks in the veranda floor. D) The roots of the trees are trying to grow deeper into the cracks in the veranda floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The roots of the trees are trying to come out of the cracks in the veranda floor. 41. What reaches like a voice into the rooms? A) Noise of the roots. B) Shuffling of the branches. C) Smell of leaves and lichens. D) Light of the moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smell of leaves and lichens. 42. What had been empty? A) World. B) Trees. C) House. D) Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forest. 43. What is the main message of the story? A) The importance of respecting and preserving nature. B) The importance of obeying rulers. C) The danger of deforestation. D) The importance of unity among villagers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The importance of respecting and preserving nature. 44. The pieces of the moon can be seen in the crown of which tree? A) Walnut tree. B) Apple tree. C) Oak tree. D) Hemlock tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oak tree. 45. Why does the poet not mention the departure of the forest from the house in her letters? A) The poet does not want to share the departure of the trees with others. B) The poet is too busy to mention the trees' departure in her letters. C) Humans tend to ignore important things, just like the poet ignores the trees' departure. D) The poet is not aware of the trees' departure from the house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humans tend to ignore important things, just like the poet ignores the trees' departure. 46. In the Poem 'The Tree' poet/ poetess is talking about A) The Moon. B) The Trees. C) The Forest. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 47. Trees protect hope of a nation ..... what is a hope of a nation? A) Historical buildings. B) People. C) Wealth. D) Children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Children. 48. It is similar in human beings and Trees. what is it? A) Development. B) Growth. C) Length. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growth. 49. What type of writing is "Song of the Trees" ? A) Novella. B) Short Story. C) Poem. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novella. 50. Why are small twigs stiff? A) As they feel suffocated. B) As they have withered. C) As they are straining themselves. D) As they have become colourless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As they are straining themselves. 51. Towards the end, the moon is broken like ..... A) Pieces of bottle. B) A mirror. C) A sheet of glass. D) A snowball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A mirror. 52. How have trees been personified? A) By giving them human quality. B) By showing them helpless. C) By showing them suffocated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By giving them human quality. 53. What does Amrita do when the men come to cut the trees? A) Runs away to hide. B) Cries loudly. C) Hugs the trees and refuses to leave. D) Pleads with the Maharajah for mercy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hugs the trees and refuses to leave. 54. The trees in the poem are useful for: A) The birds. B) The insects. C) Both birds and insects. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 55. What type of trees are described in the poem 'The 'Trees'? A) Tall Trees. B) Short Plants. C) Decorative trees. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decorative trees. 56. In the First Stanza the Poetess says that ..... A) Tree are in the forest. B) Inside the houses. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tree are in the forest. 57. How does the Maharajah react when the villagers resist? A) He ignores them. B) He orders his soldiers to destroy the trees anyway. C) He becomes furious but listens to Amrita's plea. D) He imprisons them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He becomes furious but listens to Amrita's plea. 58. These plants are planted in A) Pots and pans. B) Garden. C) Fields. D) Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pots and pans. 59. Why does the poet compare the long branches to newly discharged patients moving to the clinic doors? A) To show the branches' excitement to go out into the forest. B) To emphasize the branches' need for medical attention. C) To highlight the branches' connection to the natural world. D) To depict the struggle of the branches to escape from the roof. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To depict the struggle of the branches to escape from the roof. 60. Where are the trees in the poem found? A) In the garden. B) In the forest. C) In the house. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the house. Next →Related QuizzesPoems QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 10 English Poem Chapter 8 The Trees Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books