CBSE Class 10 English The Trees MCQs Set 03

Question. Name the poet of the poem ‘The trees”
(a) Adrienne Rich
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Carolyn Wells
(d) Walt Whitman
Answer: (a) Adrienne Rich

Question. Who has been personified in the line “no sun bury its feet in shadow”
(a) sun
(b) feet
(c) shadow
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) sun

Question. What are the trees compared to?
(a) insects
(b) newly discharged patients
(c) birds
(d) children
Answer: (b) newly discharged patients

Question. What reaches like a voice into the rooms?
(a) Noise of the roots
(b) shuffling of the branches
(c) smell of leaves and lichens
(d) light of the moon
Answer: (c) smell of leaves and lichens

Question. What rushes to meet the trees?
(a) wind
(b) light
(c) Sun
(d) Moon
Answer: (a) wind

Question. The pieces of the moon can be seen in the crown of which tree?
(a) Apple tree
(b) Hemlock tree
(c) oak tree
(d) walnut tree
Answer: (c) oak tree

Question. What had been empty?
(a) trees
(b) forest
(c) house
(d) World
Answer: (b) forest

Question. What is the poetess doing?
(a) writing long letters
(b) reading
(c) sleeping
(d) watching television
Answer: (a) writing long letters

Question. Name the literary device used in ‘The moon is broken like a mirror,”
(a) metaphor
(b) simile
(c) alliteration
(d) imagery
Answer: (b) simile

Question. By morning, the forest will be full of _____
(a) insects
(b) Sun
(c) trees
(d) birds
Answer: (c) trees

Question. What rushes out to meet the trees?
(a) Wind
(b) Man
(c) Water
(d) Fire
Answer: (a) Wind

Question. What does the poetess compare the tree branches to?
(a) An old patient.
(b) A newly discharged patient.
(c) A Doctor
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) A newly discharged patient.

Question. Where are the decorative plants kept?
(a) in open areas
(b) in play areas
(c) in houses
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) in houses

Question. What type of trees are described in the poem ‘The ‘Frees’?
(a) Tall Trees
(b) Short Plants
(c) Decorative trees
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) Decorative trees

Question. Name the literary device used in “The moon is broken like a mirror,”
(a) metaphor
(b) simile
(c) alliteration
(d) imagery
Answer: (b) simile

Question. The roots are entangled in the
(a) earth
(b) pot
(c) cracks
(d) stone
Answer: (c) cracks

Question. The cracks have appeared on
(a) the ceiling
(b) the flower pots
(c) the roof
(d) the veranda floor
Answer: (d) the veranda floor

Question. The word ‘disengage’ means
(a) combine
(b) separate
(c) join
(d) refuse
Answer: (b) separate

Question. The dramatic changes in body features associated with puberty are mainly because of the secretions of:
(a) Estrogen from testes and testosterone from ovary
(b) Estrogen from adrenal gland and testosterone from pituitary gland
(c) Testosterone from testes and estrogen from ovary
(d) Testosterone from thyroid gland and estrogen from pituitary gland
Answer: (c) Testosterone from testes and estrogen from ovary

Question. The number of pairs of nerves which arises from the spinal cord is:
(a) 21
(b) 31
(c) 41
(d) 51
Answer: (b) 31

Question. A big tree falls in a forest, but its roots are still in contact with the soil. The branches of this fallen tree grow straight up (vertically). This happens in response to:
(a) Water and light
(b) Water and minerals
(c) Gravity and water
(d) Light and gravity
Answer: (d) Light and gravity

Question. Trees are usually the shelter of –
(a) Birds
(b) Human beings
(c) Rabbits.
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) Birds

Question. What do the roots do all night?
(a) try to free themselves
(b) try to respire
(c) try to appear long
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) try to free themselves

Question. The plant hormone which triggers the fall of mature leaves and fruits from the plant body is:
(a) Auxin
(b) Gibberellin
(c) Abscisic acid
(d) Cytokinin
Answer: (c) Abscisic acid

Question. Why can’t birds sit and insects hide in them?
(a) Because they are very tall.
(b) Because they are too much short.
(c) Because they are decorative trees
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) Because they are decorative trees

Question. Where do the decorative plants grow?
(a) in open areas
(b) in small pots and pans
(c) in houses
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) in small pots and pans.

Question. In a summer tree
(a) Make a cool shelter
(b) Give us no cool shelter
(c) Make us warmer
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) Make a cool shelter

Question. The poet is writing long letters sitting
(a) in a garden
(b) on ther of
(c) outside
(d) inside
Answer: (d) inside

Question. What shines in the night?
(a) halogen light
(b) full sun
(c) full moon
(d) night bulb
Answer: (c) full moon