This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 9 > Class 9 English Poem Chapter 8 On Killing A Tree – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 English Poem Chapter 8 On Killing A Tree Quiz 5 (21 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who wrote the poem "On Killing a tree" ? A) Robert Frost. B) Rudyard Kipling. C) Gieve Patel. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gieve Patel. 2. What is the simple message of the poem? A) Cut trees. B) Save trees. C) Use their branches. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Save trees. 3. What is the meaning of 'snapped out' in the poem? A) Separated out. B) Dispersed out. C) Scattered out. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Separated out. 4. What does the poet mean by 'leprous hide'? A) Branches. B) Leaves. C) Roots. D) Bark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bark. 5. Once the roots are uprooted, it will get exposed to the sun and the air. As a result, the roots start dying due to the heat. The roots become brown and the soft surface becomes hard and dry. After some time, it loses its shape and starts twisting. Finally, the tree will die. A) Stanza 2. B) Stanza 4. C) Stanza 3. D) Stanza 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza 4. 6. What does the poet symbolize a tree too? A) A good tradition. B) A deep-rooted evil. C) A noble thing. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A deep-rooted evil. 7. Who wrote this peom A) Ghalil Gibran. B) Helen keller. C) Willaim shakespear. D) Gieve patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gieve patel. 8. What must be pulled out in order to kill the tree? A) The Tree's Life Force. B) The Tree's Roots. C) The Tree's Leaves. D) The Tree Trunk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tree's Roots. 9. How can a tree be killed? A) By cutting it down with an axe. B) By burning it. C) By uprooting it. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By uprooting it. 10. What does the poet explain in the first stanza? A) How to kill a tree. B) The cruelty of mankind. C) Uses of Trees. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 11. Explain the metaphor used in the line 'It is only a matter of time.' A) It implies that time is a living being with its own consciousness and intentions. B) Time is compared to a force or factor that will inevitably lead to a certain outcome. C) It means that time is a physical object that can be manipulated. D) The line is suggesting that time is an illusion and does not really exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time is compared to a force or factor that will inevitably lead to a certain outcome. 12. To kill a tree completely, its roots need to be taken out of the deep soil where it is hiding inside the Earth. The root is the strength of the tree. It gives support to the tree and its most vulnerable as well as the sensitive part. It needs to be snapped out entirely from deep inside the Earth. A) Stanza 2. B) Stanza 4. C) Room3. D) Stanza 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Room3. 13. What does the tree symbolize in the poem 'On Killing A Tree'? A) Destruction and the power of human intervention. B) Beauty and serenity. C) Growth and development. D) Resilience and the indomitable spirit of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resilience and the indomitable spirit of nature. 14. What is needed to kill a tree? A) A simple jab. B) Hacking. C) Choking. D) Pulling out the roots entirely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pulling out the roots entirely. 15. What are the subtopics covered in the poem 'On Killing A Tree'? A) Nature, growth, beauty, symbolism. B) Love, relationships, heartbreak, longing. C) Methods, resilience, consequences, emotional impact. D) History, culture, tradition, heritage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Methods, resilience, consequences, emotional impact. 16. What does this poem speak about? A) Merciless, thoughtless and callous behavior of humans towards trees. B) Save plants. C) Human's kindness. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Merciless, thoughtless and callous behavior of humans towards trees. 17. What does Leprous hide mean? A) Weak roots. B) Discolored bark. C) Grown up branches. D) Powerful tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discolored bark. 18. What will again expand to a full sized tree? A) Roots. B) Fruits. C) Green twigs. D) Flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green twigs. 19. Name the poet of 'On killing a tree'. A) William Wordsworth. B) William Blake. C) Gieve Patel. D) Ruskin Bond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gieve Patel. 20. Which literary device is used in 'anchoring earth' and 'leprous hide'? A) Hyperbole. B) Metafar. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metafar. 21. Which statement about the. Tree is true? A) The bleeding barks of the tree will heal the tree of the tree is getting any damage. B) The tree was there before a hundred years. C) That tree was planted by a child. D) The tree was laying towards a river which has a lot of crocodiles. 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