Objective

Poetry-3 Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast

by W. H. Auden

1. "Now The Leaves are Falling Fast" has been composed by ................

(A) W.H. Auden

(B) John Donne

(C) John Keats

(D) Walt Whitman | Ans- (A)

2. The line "And the nightingale is dumb" is taken from ................

(A) Fire Hymn

(B) Ode to Autumn

(C) Now the Leaves are Falling Fast

(D) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe | Ans- (C)

3. And the nightingale is dumb And the ......... will not come.

(A) trolls

(B) prams

(C) angle

(D) distress | Ans- (C)

4. Nurses to the grave are gone is from ...............

(A) An Epitaph

(B) Fire Hymn

(C) Now the Leaves are Falling Fast

(D) The Soldier | Ans- (C)

5. W. H. Auden won the ......... prize in 1948.

(A) Pulitzer

(B) Man Booker

(C) Nobel

(D) Sahitya Akademi | Ans- (A)

6. And the active hands must ......... lonely on the separate knees.

(A) Die

(B) Pluck

(C) Freeze

(D) Snatch | Ans- (C)

7. In the second line of the poem, "Now the Leaves are Falling Fast'' nurse stands for .................

(A) A plant

(B) A fruit

(C) A tree

(D) None of these | Ans- (C)

8. ln the poem "Now the leaves are Falling Fast" whispering neighbors stand for ...............

(A) agents of life Laurence

(B) agents of state bank of India

(C) agents of Sahara India

(D) agents of death | Ans- (C)

9. Trolls mentioned in the poem Now the Leaves are Falling Fast are mythological creatures.

(A) Scandinavian

(B) lndian

(C) Russian

(D) None of these | Ans- (A)

10. Now the Leaves are Falling Fast is .......... poem.

(A) A pessimistic

(B) Optimistic

(C) A pessimistic-cum-optimistic

(D) None of these | Ans- (B)

11. Who has composed the poem Now the Leaves are Falling Fast?

(A) W. H Auden

(B) Walter De La Mare

(C) D. H. Lawrence

(D) Rupert Brooke | Ans- (A)

12. Auden won the Pulitzer prize in ..............

(A) 1947

(B) 1948

(D) 1950 | Ans- (B)

13. For Auden poetry was ..............

(A) A light game

(B) An interesting game

(C) A serious game

(D) None of these | Ans- (C)

14. Auden was .................

(A) a poet

(B) a verse dramatist

(C) a critic

(D) All of these | Ans- (D)

15. Now the Leaves are Falling Fast is ...............

(A) A lyric

(B) An ode

(C) A sonnet

(D) An elegy | Ans- (A)

16. Now the Leaves are Falling Fast ............ the frustration inherent in human life.

(A) Reacts

(B) Enacts

(C) Accepts

(D) Protests | Ans- (B)

17. W. H. Auden has written the poem ..............

(A) Indian Civilization and Culture

(B) Bharat is My Home

(C) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe

(D) Now The Leaves are Falling Fast | Ans- (D)

18. The prams are ...........

(A) Running

(B) Standing

(C) Lying

(D) Rolling | Ans- (D)

19. The travelers are we ......... beings moving towards our death.

(A) Human

(B) Animal

(C) Urban

(D) Rural | Ans- (A)

20. Human life is no better than ..............

(A) Life

(B) Death

(C) Journey

(D) None of these | Ans- (B)

21. The leaves are falling .................

(A) Slow

(B) Soon

(C) Fast

(D) None of these | Ans- (C)

22. Trees shed their leaves in ...............

(A) Rain

(B) Summer

(C) Winter

(D) Autumn | Ans- (D)

23. The .......... has become dumb to see the leafless trees.

(A) Hen

(B) Sparrow

(C) Nightingale

(D) Peacock | Ans- (C)

24. .......... waterfall could bless the travelers passing through that way.

(A) John Keats

(B) White

(C) Red

(D) Grey | Ans- (B)

25. The falling of ......... refer to the speedy arrival of death.

(A) Leaves

(B) Stones

(C) Snows

(D) None of these | Ans- (A)

26. The .......... of death are the whispering neighbour.

(A) Messenger

(B) Friends

(C) Enemies

(D) God | Ans- (A)

27. Whispering neighbours left and right is a line from the poem ............

(A) An Epitaph

(B) Song of Myself

(C) Now the Leaves are Falling Fast

(D) Snake | Ans- (C)

28. Nurse flowers will not last is a line written by ...........

(A) John Keats

(B) John Donne

(C) Walt Whitman

(D) W. H Auden | Ans- (D)