3. NOW THE LEAVES ARE FALLING FAST

1. 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

2. In the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast ‘Whispering neighbours’ stand for-

(A) agents of Life Insurance
(B) agents of State Bank of India
(C) agents of Sahara India
(D) agents of death

3. “Trolls’ mentioned in the poem, ‘Now The Leaves are Falling Fast’ are …….. mythological creatures.

(A) Scandinavian
(B) Indian
(C) Russian
(D) None of these

4. ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’ is ………… poem.

(A) a pessimistic
(B) optimistic
(C) a pessimistic-cum-optimistic
(D) None of these

5. 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

6. Auden won the Pulitzer prize in-

(A) 1947
(B) 1948
(C) 1949
(D) 1950

7. For Auden poetry was-

(A) a light game
(B) an interesting game
(C) a serious game
(D) None of these

8. Auden was –
(A) a poet
(B) a verse dramatist’
(C) a serious game
(D) All of these

9. ‘Now The Leaves are Falling’ is-

(A) a lyric
(B) an ode
(C) a sonnet
(D) an elegy

10. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ………… the frustration inherent in human life.

(A) reacts
(B) enacts
(C) accepts
(D) protests

11. W.H. Auden has written the poem-

(A) John Keats
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) T.S. Eliot

12. The prams are —

(A) running
(B) standing
(C) lying
(D) rolling

13. The travellers are we ………….. beings, moving towards our death.

(A) human
(B) animal
(C) urbon
(D) rural

14. Human life is no better than —

(A) life
(B) death
(C) journey
(D) None of these

15. The leaves are falling —

(A) slow
(B) soon
(C) fast
(D) None of these

16. Trees shed their leaves in –

(A) rain
(B) summer
(C) winter
(D) autumn

17. The ……………. has become dumb to see the leafless trees.

(A) hen
(B) sparrow
(C) nightingale
(D) peacock

18. ………….. waterfall could bless the travellers passing through that way.

(A) Yellow
(B) White
(C) Red
(D) Grey

19. The falling of …………….. refer to the speedy arrival of death.

(A) leaves
(B) stones
(C) snows
(D) None of these

20. The ……………… of death are the whispering neighbour.

(A) messenger
(B) friends
(C) enemies
(D) God

21. ‘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

22. ‘Nurse’s flowers will not last’ is a line written by—

(A) John keats
(B) John Donne
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) W.H. Auden