CBSE Class 10 English Dust of Snow MCQs Set 04

Question. Who is the poet of the poem “Fire and Ice”?
(a) Leslie Norris
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Carolyn Wells
(d) Robin Klein
Answer: (b) Robert Frost

Question. What does the poet compare fire with?
(a) hatred
(b) desire
(c) hot
(d) both a and c
Answer: (b) desire

Question. What is the meaning of “perish”?
(a) bloom
(b) rise
(c) die
(d) glow
Answer: (c) die

Question. What would suffice if the world were to perish twice?
(a) ice
(b) fire
(c) hatred
(d) both (a) and (b)
Answer: (d) both (a) and (b)

Question. What would be a better option to end the earth?
(a) fire
(b) ice
(c) both are equally competent
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) both are equally competent

Question. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
(a) abaa bcbcb
(b) aaba bcbcb
(c) aaab bcbcb
(d) abab bcbcb
Answer: (a) abaa bcbcb

Question. Name the poetic device used in the line “I hold with those who favour fire”
(a) Assonance
(b) Alliteration
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) Both a and b

Question. Name the poetic device used in the line “Some say the world will end in fire”
(a) Metaphor
(b) Imagery
(c) Alliteration
(d) Oxymoron
Answer: (b) Imagery

Question. Name the poetic device used in the line “To say that for destruction ice is also great”
(a) Metaphor
(b) Imagery
(c) Alliteration
(d) Oxymoron
Answer: (b) Imagery

Question. Where has he used personification?
(a) fire
(b) ice
(c) earth
(d) both a and b
Answer: (d) both a and b

Question. Why do some people say that the world will end in ice?
(a) because love among people is increasing fast.
(b) because hatred among people is increasing fast.
(c) because lust among people is increasing fast.
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) because hatred among people is increasing fast.

Question. What is ‘Ice’ a symbol of?
(a) Lust
(b) Love
(c) Desire
(d) Hatred
Answer: (d) Hatred

Question. What is ‘fire’ a symbol of?
(a) love and new desires
(b) lust and endless desires
(c) love and beginning of a new thing.
(d) Revolution
Answer: (b) lust and endless desires

Question. What will the world end in?
(a) Fire and Ice
(b) Fire
(c) Ice
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) Fire and Ice

Question. What will fire do to the world?
(a) put the world to an end.
(b) put the world to a new beginning.
(c) make the world developed
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) put the world to an end.

Question. The world may end either in fire or in
(a) Ice
(b) Rain
(c) Storm
(d) Earthquake
Answer: (a) Ice

Question. The poet favours the
(a) Nothing
(b) Ice
(c) Fire
(d) Storm
Answer: (c) Fire

Question. _____ is the better option if the world had to perish.
(a) Fire
(b) Ice
(c) Strom
(d) Rain
Answer: (b) Ice

Question. _____ is the better option to destroy the world.
(a) Rain
(b) Strom
(c) Fire
(d) Ice
Answer: (d) Ice

Question. The poet brings about the contrast between the ice and _____ through this poem.
(a) Slow Hatred
(b) Destruction
(c) Love
(d) Fire
Answer: (a) Slow Hatred

Question. The destruction procedure is slow through
(a) Fire
(b) Storm
(c) Ice
(d) Rain
Answer: (c) Ice

Question. The cause of man’s destruction is
(a) family
(b) gold
(c) lust
(d) money
Answer: (c) lust

Question. If the world is to perish twice, the poet favours
(a) atom bomb
(b) water
(c) ice
(d) fire
Answer: (d) fire

Question. What enough to destroy the world is
(a) dictatorship
(b) affection
(c) love
(d) hatred
Answer: (d) hatred

Question. What does violent desire refer to in this poem?
(a) fire
(b) ice
(c) both a and b
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) fire

Question. According to Robert frost, what will end one day
(a) Fire
(b) Ice
(c) Both a and b
(d) the world
Answer: (d) the world

Question. Can hatred destroy the world?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) May be
(d) may not be
Answer: (a) Yes

Question. What is the Meaning of ‘desire’?
(a) Favour
(b) Repulsion
(c) Quest
(d) wish
Answer: (d) wish

Question. What does the poet want to Convey through this poem?
(a) We should not be greedy
(b) all humans should check their desires and hatred
(c) restrain our desires and love fellow beings
(d) both a and c
Answer: (d) both a and c

Question. What do some people say ?
(a) they believe that this existing world will end in fire
(b) they believe that this existing world will end in moon light
(c) they believe that this existing world will end in sun light
(d) they believe that this existing world will end in darkness
Answer: (a) they believe that this existing world will end in fire

Question. What do the other say?
(a) they believe that the world will end in water
(b) they believe that the world will end in Flames
(c) they believe that the world will end Frozen to Ice
(d) they believe that the world will end in Sea
Answer: (c) they believe that the world will end Frozen to Ice

Question. Whom does the poet support?
(a) the poet stands with those who believe that this existing world will end in fire
(b) the poet stands with those who believe that this existing world will end in Moon light
(c) the poet stands with those who believe that existing world will end sun light
(d) The poet stands with those who believe that this existing world will end in darkness
Answer: (a) the poet stands with those who believe that this existing world will end in fire

Question. What has the poet tasted?
(a) the poet has tasted the fruit juice
(b) the poet has tasted the sadness
(c) the poet has tasted the passion and pangs of love and desire
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) the poet has tasted the passion and pangs of love and desire

Question. Both, Fire and Ice will be enough for _____.
(a) Humanity
(b) Nature
(c) Destruction
(d) all living beings
Answer: (c) Destruction

Question. Both the elements mentioned in the poem have one similarly what is this similarity?
(a) they both are very important
(b) they both are friends to humans
(c) they both can end the world
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) they both can end the world

Question. Which word is opposite to ‘adequate’
(a) fire
(b) desire
(c) Perish
(d) Inadequate
Answer: (d) Inadequate