ENGLISH-CH-1 &CH-2 TEST

Read the given extract and answer the following questions as directed.
Has given my heart A change of mood and saved some part of a day I had rued
1. Name the poet of the poem.
a. William Wordsworth
b Robert brown
c Robert Frostd W.B. Yeast
2. What happened when the dust of snow fell on the poet?
1. the poet became angry
2. the poet's mood was uplifted
3. the poet's coat got wet
4. The poet moved away from the tree
3. ln the line of the poem 'Of a day I had rued' what is the meaning of the word 'rued'?
(i) forgotten
(ii) bitterly regretted
(iii) happily, passed
(iv) not liked
4. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
(a) abcd abcd
(b) abcabc
(c) ababacad
(d) ababcdcd
5. What is the message of the poem?
(a) stay away from Hemlock tree
(b) stay away from crow
(c) nature heals us no matter how bad our day is
(d) We must save our nature

Answer the following in about 30-40 words.

6. The poem' Dust of snow' shows that human judgement can be misleading. How?
7. What do the 'crow and hemlock' represent -Joy or sorrow? What does the dust ofsnow that the crow
shakes of a hemlock tree stand for?

Answer the following in about 100-120 words.

i. Small things in life make significant changes in our life. Elaborate with reference tothe
poem 'Dust of snow.'
ii. What did Lencho hope for?
iii. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like 'new coins'?
iv. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho's fields?
v. What were Lencho's feelings when the hail stopped?
vi. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
vii. Who reads the letter?
viii. What did the postmaster do then?
ix. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
x. What made him angry?
xi. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell
you this?
xii. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter
'God'?
xiii. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
xiv. Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in
the
situation? (Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of
it. An ironic
situation is strange or amusing because it is the opposite of what is expected.)
xv. Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would
you say he
is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.
1. Greedy, naive, stupid, ungrateful, Selfish, comical, unquestioning
xvi. There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and
between
humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?