This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > English > Poem The Road Not Taken > Class 9 English Poem Chapter 1 The Road Not Taken – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 English Poem Chapter 1 The Road Not Taken Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does Poet's long stare at the path signify? A) (a) the time taken by people to decide and making a choice. B) (b) poet loves nature. C) Idling away of time. D) (d) relaxation hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (a) the time taken by people to decide and making a choice. 2. What is the primary theme of 'The Road Not Taken'? A) Choices and their consequences. B) Love and loss. C) War and peace. D) Friendship and betrayal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Choices and their consequences. 3. Why did the poet choose the second road? A) Because it was well built. B) Because it was beautiful. C) Because it was not used by many people and was appealing to the poet. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because it was not used by many people and was appealing to the poet. 4. The Road Not Taken is a ..... poem A) Descriptive. B) Lyrical. C) Narrative. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 5. The meaning of the word Dilemma is. A) A situation where one has to make a difficult choice. B) A problem that cannot be solved. C) Feeling sorry for others. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A situation where one has to make a difficult choice. 6. Our ..... depends on the choices that we make today. A) Future. B) Past. C) Yesterday. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Future. 7. Which options are the correct definitions of 'Anaphora'? A) Two or more sentences begin with same word. B) Consonant sound is repeated in the same line. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two or more sentences begin with same word. 8. Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'? A) Edward Thomas. B) Robert Frost. C) Robert Son. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Frost. 9. What will the poet say to his future generations A) How he fell down and got hurt. B) How he got robbed by a thug. C) How he determined his future. D) How he killed a tiger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How he determined his future. 10. Which theme does the speaker develops throughout the poem? A) People should not make choices. B) How to quickly make important decisions. C) People need to have problems in life. D) People need to make choices in life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People need to make choices in life. 11. What shows that the road has not been used by many people? A) The green and untrammeled grass on it. B) The mud on it. C) The broken stones on it. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The green and untrammeled grass on it. 12. In 'The Road Not Taken, ' what does the speaker regret? A) Not being able to travel both roads. B) Choosing the wrong road. C) Traveling alone. D) Not having a map. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not being able to travel both roads. 13. Which intersection point the poet stood? A) A. crossroads. B) Two roads. C) Three roads. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two roads. 14. Interpret what "roads" symbolize in the poem. A) Having a long or short life. B) Successes and failures. C) Choices we make in life. D) Events and people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Choices we make in life. 15. At the beginning of the poem, what is the conflict the speaker goes through? A) Where to eat breakfast. B) Whether to keep walking or stop to take rest. C) Which road to take. D) Whether to go forward or turn back. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Which road to take. 16. In what year was "The Road Not Taken" written? A) 1905. B) 1910. C) 1915. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1915. 17. The word "diverged" means went in different directions." What is a line in the poem that provides a clue to the meaning of "diverged" ? A) To where it bent in the undergrowth;. B) Because it was grassy and wanted wear;. C) Had worn them really about the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To where it bent in the undergrowth;. 18. What does the speaker say he will tell "with a sigh" ? A) That he got lost. B) That he followed others. C) That he regrets his choice. D) That his choice made a difference in his life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That his choice made a difference in his life. 19. The traveler in the poem symbolizes ..... A) A youth who is going to decide his career. B) A person who is going to become a politician. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A youth who is going to decide his career. 20. Why was the poet able to travel one road only? A) Because he had to walk alone. B) Because he had no vehicle. C) Because he was one person. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because he was one person. 21. Which literary device is predominantly used in 'The Road Not Taken'? A) Metafar. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metafar. 22. Which line shows that no one walked on both roads that morning? A) "Oh, I kept the first for another day" . B) "I doubted if I should ever come back" . C) "In leaves no step had trodden black" . D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "In leaves no step had trodden black" . 23. What do the following lines from "The Road Not Taken" mean?And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler ..... A) The speaker thinks both paths are equally good. B) The speaker is only one person and knows that one cannot travel two roads at the same time. C) The speaker would rather travel with someone, so they could each explore a path. D) The speaker regrets not taking the other road at the start. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker is only one person and knows that one cannot travel two roads at the same time. 24. The author of this poem is ..... A) Ponyboy Curtis. B) Walt Whitman. C) Anne Frank. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Frost. 25. "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference."Was the sigh of ..... A) Regret. B) Despair. C) Relief. D) Disbelief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relief. 26. State true or false1.The poet was in dilemma, facing a fork in a forest A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. What is the main theme of the poem 'The Road Not Taken'? A) Choices and their consequences. B) Nature and its beauty. C) Friendship and loyalty. D) Adventure and exploration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Choices and their consequences. 28. What do yellow woods represent? A) Poets. B) People. C) Older people. D) Choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Older people. 29. What do the words 'Long I stood' mean in the poem? A) Poet was thinking. B) Poet was in relaxing mood. C) Poet was enjoying the nature. D) Poet's dilemma as to which road to choose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poet's dilemma as to which road to choose. 30. Identify figures of speech2. "And be one traveller, long I stood A) Metafar. B) Inversion. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inversion. 31. In the first stanza, the word diverged means ..... A) Came together. B) Parted. C) Straightened. D) Increased. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parted. 32. The poet took the road that was less ..... A) Not travelled. B) Many travelled. C) Travelled. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Travelled. 33. 'I doubted if I should ever come back' reveals A) The irreversible nature of his decision. B) His happiness with his decision. C) His lack of desire to come back. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The irreversible nature of his decision. 34. What does Yellow woods mean? A) Falling leaves. B) Forest with yellow leaves in the autumn season. C) Wood yellow in color. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forest with yellow leaves in the autumn season. 35. The sigh was of ..... A) Relief. B) Relaxing. C) Fear. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relief. 36. What does the phrase "Way leads on to way" mean in this context? A) It goes from a road to another road. B) We have to make other choices in life, after a few choices, after which we may never be able to come back. C) When there are two roads, we take one road, it has other two roads, we take on of them, and then that road has more roads. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We have to make other choices in life, after a few choices, after which we may never be able to come back. 37. The line "to where it bent in the undergrowth" means the place where the road A) Meets other roads. B) Completely ends. C) Continues but nothing more can be seen. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Continues but nothing more can be seen. 38. What do the lines "Yet knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever come back" mean? A) Decisions are irreversible. B) When you make decision, it leads to another decision. This leads you down a path where you can't go back. C) Life takes you on a long journey you can't go back and change. D) The speaker is expressing sadness they can't come back to this point in time again in the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When you make decision, it leads to another decision. This leads you down a path where you can't go back. 39. What does grassy mean in the poem? A) The road which is not used by anyone. B) The comfortable road. C) The road with all the luxuries. D) Well-built road. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The road which is not used by anyone. 40. 'As just as fair' is a poetic device. Choose the correct one. A) Metafar. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 41. How many different roads could the narrator take? A) 21. B) 2. C) 5. D) 4. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 42. The phrase "Wanted wear" means that ..... A) The roads begged the poet for wear and tear. B) The roads had messages written on them, saying they wanted wear. C) They had not been used. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They had not been used. 43. Who is the author of the poem, 'The Road Not Taken'? A) Katherine Mansfield. B) Deborah Cowley. C) Isaac Asimov. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Frost. 44. His desire at the moment was to:- A) Cross the road. B) Travel on both roads. C) Travel further. D) See the forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Travel on both roads. 45. The tone of the speaker in the first stanza is ..... A) Hesitation. B) Thoughtfulness. C) Hesitation and thoughtfulness. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hesitation and thoughtfulness. 46. An effort to secure or attain; quest A) Renounce. B) Ultimately. C) Pursuit. D) Torment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pursuit. 47. What does the S stand for in TPCASTT? A) Sanity. B) Simile. C) Synechdoche. D) Shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shift. 48. The speaker chose the road A) To the right. B) To the left. C) That was well worn. D) That was less traveled on. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That was less traveled on. 49. In the poem 'The Road Not Taken', what does the 'yellow wood' symbolize? A) A place of happiness. B) A place of danger. C) A place of sadness. D) A forest in autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A forest in autumn. 50. Marked by working together A) Attitude. B) Crucial. C) Identity. D) Collaborative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collaborative. 51. What does the "yellow wood" symbolize? A) Spring and new beginnings. B) Autumn and a time of change. C) Summer and warmth. D) Winter and cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autumn and a time of change. 52. "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" can be interpreted to mean that one day, (-). (a) A) The traveler will be satisfied. B) The traveler will be disappointed. C) The traveler will travel the same road. D) A. perhaps the traveler will try the other road. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. perhaps the traveler will try the other road. 53. The speaker of the poem wishes that he or she did not have to make a choice between the roads.What lines from the poem support this statement? A) And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood. B) Though as for that, the passing there/Had worn them really about the same. C) And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood. 54. Choose a poetic device used in the poem. A) Oxymoron. B) Anaphora. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 55. Who is the poet of 'The Road Not Taken'? A) Walt Whitman. B) Robert Frost. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Frost. 56. The poet's name is ..... A) Adolf Frost. B) Isaac Asimov. C) Robert Frost. D) Adolf Rosenberg. E) Robert Rosenberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Frost. 57. Why did the poet stood so long? A) Becuase the poet was tired. B) Because the poet pondered for what to choose. C) Because the poet was enjoying the nature. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because the poet pondered for what to choose. 58. Determine which road the speaker says he took: A) He took the left one. B) He took the road that was less traveled. C) He took the shorter path. D) He continued through the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He took the road that was less traveled. 59. The poem teaches us that choices in life are reversible. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 60. What does the poem speak? A) About the people. B) About two roads. C) About the choices made by people. D) About the plight of roads. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) About the choices made by people. Next →Related QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 9 QuizzesClass 9 English Poem Chapter 1 The Road Not Taken Quiz 2Class 9 English Poem Chapter 1 The Road Not Taken Quiz 3Class 9 English Poem Chapter 1 The Road Not Taken Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books