CBSE Class 10 English A Tiger in the Zoo MCQs Set 03

Question: What described “tiger in a jungle”?
a) Locked in concrete cell
b) his strength behind bars
c) ignoring visitors
d) baring his white fangs
Answer: d

Question: Name the poetic device used in the line “In his quiet rage”.
a) metaphor
b) assonance
c) Oxymoron
d) Consonance
Answer: c

Question: What describes “tiger in a cell”?
a) Locked in concrete cell
b) snarling around houses
c) shadow, long grass
d) baring his white fangs
Answer: a

Question: Why should he be lurking in shadow?
a) out of fear
b) out of anger
c) to catch the deer
d) both 1 and 2
Answer: c

Question: Name the poetic device used in the line “He stalks in his vivid stripes”.
a) metaphor
b) assonance
c) Oxymoron
d) Consonance
Answer: d

Question: The poem draws a contrast between _____ and _____.
a) animals, human beings
b) tiger in a zoo, tiger in a forest
c) tiger in a zoo, humans
d) humans, tiger in forest
Answer: b

Question: By “ignoring visitors”, what is the poet trying to say?
a) tiger knows his power is restricted
b) there is no use of showing rage
c) he is less terrorising because of the cage
d) all of the above
Answer: d

Question: What has been personified in the poem?
a) tiger
b) forest
c) zoo
d) all of the above
Answer: a

Question: Name the poetic device used in the line “On pads of velvet quiet”.
a) metaphor
b) assonance
c) Oxymoron
d) Consonance
Answer: a

Question: Name the poetic device used in the line “Baring his white fangs, his claws”.
a) metaphor
b) assonance
c) Oxymoron
d) Consonance
Answer: d