This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > English > Poem A Legend Of The Northland > Class 9 English Poem Chapter 5 A Legend Of The Northland – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 English Poem Chapter 5 A Legend Of The Northland Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How do we know that the weather in Northland is extreme? A) We find reindeers here. B) Children wear thick fur clothes and look like bear cubs. C) People sleep through long nights. D) The reindeers are swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children wear thick fur clothes and look like bear cubs. 2. Why do people of Northland find it difficult to sleep through the night? A) Because it's too cold. B) Because the nights are too long. C) Because they don't have warm clothing. D) Because it's frozen all around. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because the nights are too long. 3. How many pieces of cake did the Saint ask? A) A single one. B) A single slice. C) A half of the cake. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A single one. 4. Why can't people sleep the winter nights through in Northland? A) Because the nights are too short there. B) Because the nights are too long there. C) Because it is all the time night there. D) Because there is no night there. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because the nights are too long there. 5. Who is the poetess of the poem 'A Legend of the Northland? A) Robert Frost. B) Phoebe Cary. C) William Butler Yeats. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phoebe Cary. 6. What did the old lady do with the cakes? A) Ate them all herself. B) Shared them with Saint Peter. C) Gave them to the birds. D) Put them on the shelf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Put them on the shelf. 7. What was the selfish woman changed into? A) Into a woodpecker. B) Into a fox. C) Into a crow. D) Into an eagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Into a woodpecker. 8. Quote examples of Alliteration used in the poem. A) Tell the tales to you. B) Faint with fasting. C) Cakes that seem too small. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 9. Once, when the good Saint Peter Lived in the world below, And walked about it, preaching, Just as he did, you knowWhat is the rhyme scheme of this stanza? A) Abab. B) Father. C) ABCA. D) Abcb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abcb. 10. What punishment was inlaid upon the old lady? A) Her cakes will always be small. B) Her business will always be at a loss. C) Her physical form was changed into a bird and that she will have to bore for food. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her physical form was changed into a bird and that she will have to bore for food. 11. Which type of poem is 'A Legend of the Northland'? A) Sonnet. B) Elegy. C) Ballad. D) Song. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 12. Identify the tone of the poetess. A) Pensive. B) Sarcastic. C) Nostalgic. D) Informative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Informative. 13. What is the main moral of the story? A) We should not be greedy. B) We should share our things with others. C) Both A and B. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B. 14. Name the poet of the poem 'A Legend of the Northland' A) Phoebe Cary. B) William Shakespeare. C) Robert Frost. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phoebe Cary. 15. Who was the preacher of the poem? A) Saint John. B) Saint Jesus. C) Saint Bishop. D) Saint Peter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saint Peter. 16. The words like away, boring and rolled have been repeated in the poem. What poetic device is it? A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Repetition. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 17. 'Where a little woman was making cakes And baking them on the hearth;'What is a 'hearth'? A) Concrete area in front of a fireplace where cakes or bread are baked. B) Flat bread. C) Oven. D) Fireplace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete area in front of a fireplace where cakes or bread are baked. 18. What did the little woman dress like? A) A scarlet cap. B) Burned clothes. C) Both a and b. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 19. What did people of northland harness to their sledges? A) Reindeers. B) Oxen. C) Foxes. D) Bullocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reindeers. 20. Where is the poem set in? A) Netherland. B) Switzerland. C) Scotland. D) Northland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Northland. 21. Who is the poet of "A Legend of the Northland" ? A) Phoebe Cary. B) Kenney. C) Ruskin Bond. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phoebe Cary. 22. What made St. Peter angry? A) The woman's selfishness. B) The woman's indifference. C) The woman's pride. D) The woman's kindness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The woman's selfishness. 23. Where did Saint Peter live then? A) On the moon. B) In the heaven. C) On the earth. D) On the clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On the earth. 24. 'And surely such a woman was enough to provoke a saint.' What kind of woman is referred to in the expression 'such a woman'? A) Greedy. B) Selfish. C) Miserly. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 25. How are the days and nights in Northland in winter? A) The days are short and the nights are long. B) The nights are short and the days are long. C) Both the days and the nights have equal duration. D) All the options are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The days are short and the nights are long. 26. Find the literary device used belowIn their funny furry clothes A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 27. What makes saint Peter angry? A) Women's selfishness. B) Women's greediness. C) Women's integrity. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women's selfishness. 28. Do you think that the old lady would have been so ungenerous if she had known who Saint Peter really was? A) No, she would have been generous. B) It's hard to say. C) It doesn't matter. D) Yes, she would still be ungenerous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, she would have been generous. 29. What did saint peter do during his travel around the world? A) He looked after the poor and rich. B) He preached people. C) He met the greedy women. D) He begged for cakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He preached people. 30. What is the meaning of provoke? A) Being Restless. B) Make angry. C) Annoying. D) Other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make angry. 31. The selfish woman was changed into a A) Woodpecker. B) Ashes. C) Pigeon. D) Crow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Woodpecker. 32. What is the figure of speech used in the line-'baked as thin as wafer' A) Metafar. B) Similie. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Similie. 33. What did he ask the little woman? A) For clothes. B) For food. C) For water. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For food. 34. What curse did Saint Peter pronounce on the selfish woman? A) That she shall build her shelter as birds do. B) That she shall bore hard, dry wood for her scanty food. C) That she shall keep boring all day. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 35. What made St. Peter angry with the woman? A) Her cake. B) She made a thin cake for him. C) Her greedy actions. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her greedy actions. 36. Name the teacher who allowed a Muslim boy inside his house. A) Sivasubraminia. B) Ramasastry Iyer. C) Ramasamy. D) Shivanantha:. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sivasubraminia. 37. What is a legend? A) A popular belief. B) A true story. C) A fictional story. D) An old traditional story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An old traditional story. 38. What did the Saint do to the little woman? A) Help her. B) Blame her. C) Bless her. D) Curse her. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Curse her. 39. Word which means "fire place" ? A) Oven. B) Baking place. C) Brazier. D) Hearth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hearth. 40. What did the saint say about the woman? A) The saint said about her that she was lucky. B) The saint said about her that she was generous. C) The saint said about her that she was kind. D) The saint said about her that she was selfish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The saint said about her that she was selfish. 41. What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for? A) Shelter. B) Food. C) Money. D) Clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food. 42. What did the old lady become after she turned into a bird? A) A woodpecker. B) A crow. C) A pigeon. D) A sparrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A woodpecker. 43. The ballad is a story which have long stanza A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 44. What are the "humid shadows" referred? A) The dark sky. B) The stars. C) The roof. D) The dark clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The dark clouds. 45. The poem 'A Legend of the Northland' is written in the form of a ..... A) Sonnet. B) Lyric. C) Ballad. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 46. The little woman made a cake for St/ Peter but never gave it because ..... A) She thought it was too big to give away. B) She thought it was too small for the holy man. C) She thought the holy man won't like it. D) She didn't have much left with her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She thought it was too big to give away. 47. Why can't people in Northland sleep through the night in winters? A) Because the sun shows up early. B) Because the nights are too short. C) Because they feel cold. D) Because the nights are too long. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because the nights are too long. 48. Why was Saint Peter starving? A) He was fasting. B) He was no money. C) He didn't want to waste his money. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was fasting. 49. What happened to the old lady after Saint Peter punished her? A) She learned her lesson. B) She turned into a bird. C) She became poor. D) She disappeared. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She turned into a bird. 50. Where does the woodpecker keep boring all day? A) Burned tree. B) Moist tree. C) Dry tree. D) Decayed tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dry tree. 51. A Legend of The Northland is written by ..... A) Phoebe Cary. B) Wordsworth. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phoebe Cary. 52. Who is compared to bear cubs in the poem. A) The old lady. B) Saint peter. C) Children living in Northland. D) Reindeer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Children living in Northland. 53. Into which bird was the old lady transformed into after being cursed by the saint? A) Kingfisher. B) Woodpecker. C) Penguin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Woodpecker. 54. What happened to the old woman's clothes A) They were burnt black as she went up through the chimney. B) They were torn by wild animals. C) They were taken away by the thieves. D) They were lost in the wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were burnt black as she went up through the chimney. 55. Find the literary device used belowBlack a coal in the flame A) Metafar. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 56. The word which means to repeated sound of the rain? A) Refrain. B) Bliss. C) Tinkle. D) Patter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 57. Why did the poet use alliteration in the poem? A) To add pun to it. B) To give a rhyming scheme. C) To make it lyrical. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make it lyrical. 58. Identify the important expression that has been taken from the poem. A) Black as coal. B) Saint peter cursed the woman. C) Greedy woman. D) They tell them the curious story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black as coal. 59. Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem. A) Abc. B) Abcb. C) Abcd. D) ACCB. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abcb. 60. Saint Peter asked for a ..... A) Bread. B) Sandwich. C) Cake. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cake. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 9 QuizzesClass 9 English Poem Chapter 5 A Legend Of The Northland Quiz 1Class 9 English Poem Chapter 5 A Legend Of The Northland Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books