Class 9 English - A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal - MERIT YARD
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal - MERIT YARD
1 / 40Who is the poet of the poem 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal'?
A) Robert Frost
B) Vikram Seth
C) William Wordsworth
D) Gieve Patel
2 / 40What does the word 'Slumber' mean in the poem?
A) Deep sleep
B) A dream
C) Death
D) Laziness
3 / 40What did the slumber 'seal' in the poem?
A) The eyes
B) The poet's spirit
C) The door
D) A letter
4 / 40The poet had no _______ fears.
A) Ghostly
B) Human
C) Animal
D) Dark
5 / 40Who is 'she' referred to in the poem?
A) A loved one (Lucy)
B) The poet's mother
C) Nature
D) The Earth
6 / 40The poet thought she could not feel the touch of _______.
A) Water
B) Wind
C) Earthly years
D) Sunlight
7 / 40In the second stanza, she has no _______ now.
A) Money
B) Motion or force
C) Dreams
D) Friends
8 / 40She neither hears nor _______.
A) Sees
B) Speaks
C) Walks
D) Cries
9 / 40How does she move now?
A) On her feet
B) Rolled round in earth's diurnal course
C) In the wind
D) She doesn't move
10 / 40What does 'Diurnal' mean?
A) Nightly
B) Yearly
C) Daily
D) Monthly
11 / 40With what things is she rolled round?
A) Animals and birds
B) Rocks, stones and trees
C) Stars and moon
D) Clouds and rain
12 / 40What is the theme of the poem?
A) Beauty of nature
B) Fear of ghosts
C) Death and Immortality
D) Traveling the world
13 / 40How many stanzas are there in this poem?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
14 / 40What is the total number of lines in the poem?
A) Six
B) Ten
C) Eight
D) Twelve
15 / 40The poem is known as one of the _______ poems.
A) Nature
B) Lucy
C) War
D) Travel
16 / 40Wordsworth is famously called a _______ poet.
A) Ghost
B) War
C) Nature
D) Scientific
17 / 40In the first stanza, the poet was in a state of _______.
A) False security/Blindness
B) Great sorrow
C) Intense anger
D) Physical pain
18 / 40What does 'earth's diurnal course' refer to?
A) Earth's revolution
B) Earth's daily rotation
C) Earthquake
D) Digging the earth
19 / 40How does the poet feel in the second stanza?
A) Happy
B) Subdued/Accepting reality
C) Confused
D) Excited
20 / 40The girl has now become a part of _______.
A) The city
B) Nature
C) A story
D) Heaven only
21 / 40Which word means 'motionless'?
A) Force
B) No motion
C) Course
D) Spirit
22 / 40The rhyme scheme of the poem is _______.
A) aabb
B) abab
C) abba
D) abcb
23 / 40"She seemed a thing that could not _______."
A) Feel
B) Hear
C) Speak
D) Die
24 / 40What is 'spirit' in the poem?
A) Alcohol
B) Soul/Inner self
C) Ghost
D) Energy
25 / 40The tone of the poem is _______.
A) Funny
B) Solemn/Serious
C) Violent
D) Angry
26 / 40The first stanza refers to the _______.
A) Future
B) Past
C) Reality
D) War
27 / 40The second stanza refers to the _______.
A) Dreams
B) Present reality
C) Past
D) Childhood
28 / 40Which poetic device is used in 'rolled round'?
A) Simile
B) Alliteration
C) Oxymoron
D) Pun
29 / 40What is 'Lucy's' current state?
A) Traveling
B) Dead and buried
C) Ill
D) Waking up
30 / 40Does she have any 'force' now?
A) Yes, a lot
B) No
C) Only a little
D) Sometimes
31 / 40Who is the 'I' in the poem?
A) Lucy
B) The poet
C) The reader
D) A friend
32 / 40"Rolled round in earth's diurnal course" is a _______.
A) Simile
B) Imagery
C) Personification
D) Hyperbole
33 / 40Is she affected by time now?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Very much
D) Yearly
34 / 40What is the meaning of 'Spirit Seal'?
A) To kill the soul
B) To block emotions/thinking
C) To save someone
D) To paint a spirit
35 / 40What is the overall feeling of the poem?
A) Joyful
B) Deeply peaceful yet sad
C) Very scary
D) Meaningless
36 / 40The poet shows Lucy's unity with _______.
A) The city
B) Natural objects
C) Animals
D) Other people
37 / 40Which word is used for 'hard large minerals'?
A) Trees
B) Rocks/Stones
C) Course
D) Seal
38 / 40The poem describes the _______ of life.
A) Endlessness
B) Fragility
C) Ugliness
D) Noise
39 / 40Does Lucy speak in the poem?
A) Yes, at the end
B) No
C) Only in first line
D) In the title
40 / 40Lucy has become _______ after death.
A) A ghost
B) Part of cosmic nature
C) A star
D) Forgotten
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