Class 10 English Poem: The Trees | MCQs with Answers – Objective Questions for Practice

[कक्षा 10th - अचूक बैच - The Trees - MERIT YARD]

Question 1 / 40Who is the poet of the poem 'The Trees'?

A) Robert Frost

B) Walt Whitman

C) Leslie Norris

D) Adrienne Rich

Question 2 / 40Where are the trees in the poem moving to?

A) To the forest

B) To the balcony

C) To the garden

D) To the roof

Question 3 / 40The forest has been empty for ______.

A) Many years

B) Many months

C) These days

D) Centuries

Question 4 / 40What couldn't the birds do in the empty forest?

A) Fly

B) Sit

C) Sing

D) Sleep

Question 5 / 40Where could the insects not hide?

A) In the grass

B) In the forest (which was empty)

C) In the house

D) In the soil

Question 6 / 40"No sun bury its feet in ______".

A) Water

B) Sand

C) Mud

D) Shadow

Question 7 / 40When will the forest be full of trees?

A) By morning

B) By evening

C) Next week

D) In a year

Question 8 / 40What works all night to disengage from the veranda floor?

A) Leaves

B) Branches

C) Roots

D) Insects

Question 9 / 40Where are the roots trying to free themselves from?

A) The garden soil

B) The pot

C) The cracks in the veranda floor

D) The roof

Question 10 / 40The leaves strain towards the _____.

A) Sun

B) Glass

C) Moon

D) Door

Question 11 / 40How are the small twigs described?

A) Soft and flexible

B) Green and fresh

C) Dry

D) Stiff with exertion

Question 12 / 40What are the boughs (branches) compared to?

A) Newly discharged patients

B) Soldiers

C) Snakes

D) Birds

Question 13 / 40Where is the poet sitting?

A) In the garden

B) On the roof

C) In the forest

D) Inside (her room)

Question 14 / 40The doors are open to the _____.

A) Garden

B) Street

C) Veranda

D) Kitchen

Question 15 / 40What is the poet doing?

A) Sleeping

B) Writing long letters

C) Reading a book

D) Watching TV

Question 16 / 40What does she "scarcely mention" in her letters?

A) The weather

B) Her health

C) The departure of the forest from the house

D) The moon

Question 17 / 40How is the night described?

A) Fresh

B) Dark and scary

C) Rainy

D) Cold

Question 18 / 40"The whole moon shines in a sky still _____".

A) Dark

B) Open

C) Closed

D) Blue

Question 19 / 40The smell of leaves and lichen reaches the room like a _____.

A) Perfume

B) Song

C) Ghost

D) Voice

Question 20 / 40"My head is full of ______".

A) Ideas

B) Pain

C) Whispers

D) Dreams

Question 21 / 40When will the whispers be silent?

A) Never

B) Tomorrow

C) Tonight

D) In the morning

Question 22 / 40What is breaking in the final stanza?

A) The roof

B) The glass

C) The door

D) The floor

Question 23 / 40The trees are stumbling forward into the _____.

A) Sun

B) House

C) Night

D) River

Question 24 / 40What rushes to meet the trees?

A) The rain

B) The moon

C) Winds

D) Birds

Question 25 / 40"The moon is broken like a ______".

A) Glass

B) Mirror

C) Plate

D) Diamond

Question 26 / 40Where do the pieces of the broken moon flash?

A) In the river

B) On the grass

C) In the sky

D) In the crown of the tallest Oak

Question 27 / 40Which tree is mentioned at the end of the poem?

A) Banyan

B) Pine

C) Oak

D) Hemlock

Question 28 / 40In this poem, the trees are a metaphor for:

A) Children

B) Animals

C) Women / Oppressed people breaking free

D) Men

Question 29 / 40"Like newly discharged patients" uses which poetic device?

A) Metaphor

B) Alliteration

C) Simile

D) Personification

Question 30 / 40"Sun bury its feet" is an example of:

A) Simile

B) Personification

C) Oxymoron

D) Irony

Question 31 / 40How do the patients move?

A) Running fast

B) Half-dazed, moving to the clinic doors

C) Jumping

D) Dancing

Question 32 / 40What does the "Empty forest" symbolize?

A) A sad place

B) A world without nature/women (suppressed state)

C) Winter

D) Night

Question 33 / 40What does "Long-cramped boughs" imply?

A) They are old

B) They are sick

C) They were suppressed and confined for a long time

D) They are short

Question 34 / 40What happens to the moon in the end?

A) It sets

B) It is shattered/broken like a mirror

C) It turns red

D) It hides

Question 35 / 40Why are the trees inside the house?

A) For decoration

B) To protect them

C) It is a greenhouse

D) No reason

Question 36 / 40"Lichen" refers to:

A) An animal

B) A fruit

C) Crusty patches of fungus/algae on trees

D) A flower

Question 37 / 40The conflict in the poem is between:

A) Man and Animal

B) Rich and Poor

C) Man and Nature

D) Old and Young

Question 38 / 40"Shuffle under the roof" means:

A) Dancing

B) Moving with difficulty/dragging

C) Sleeping

D) Running

Question 39 / 40The word "Exertion" means:

A) Fun

B) Physical or mental effort

C) Sleep

D) Happiness

Question 40 / 40The tone of the poem is:

A) Hopeless

B) Revolutionary / Hopeful / Liberating

C) Funny

D) Sad