CBSE Class 8 English The School Boy MCQs

Question. When did the boy love to rise?
(a) Winter morning
(b) Summer evening
(c) Summer morning
(d) All of these

Answer:  C

Question. “I _____ to rise on a sunday morn”
(a) Hate
(b) Despise
(c) Regret
(d) Love

Answer:  D

Question. ‘Of their joy in the springing day,’- who is ‘their’ referred here?
(a) Birds
(b) Students
(c) Plants
(d) All of these

Answer:  C

Question. How shall the summer arise in joy, Or the summer fruits appear if _____.
(a) Buds are nipped
(b) Blossoms are blown
(c) Plants are stripped
(d) All of the Above

Answer:  D

Question. How is the mood of the child?
(a) Unhappy
(b) Joyous
(c) Happy
(d) Crying

Answer:  C

Question. ‘And forget his youthful —–.’
(a) Wing
(b) Dying
(c) Spring
(d) Flying

Answer:  C

Question. “The little ones spend the day, in _____ and _____”
(a) Sighing, dismay
(b) Happiness, glory
(c) Happiness, joy
(d) Sighing, sorrow

Answer:  A

Question. Name the poet of the poem ‘The School Boy’
(a) P.B Shelley
(b) William Blake
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) John Milton.

Answer:  B

Question. What drives all the joy away?
(a) Caged bird
(b) Nip in the bud
(c) Blown blossoms
(d) School on a summer morning

Answer:  D

Question. The boy ——-to rise in a summer morning.
(a) Love
(b) Hate
(c) Feels annoyed
(d) Nothing

Answer:  A

Question. Where did the boy not find any delight?
(a) Under the tree
(b) Books
(c) Cage
(d) All of these

Answer:  B

Question. Where does the child spend his anxious hour?
(a) In the classroom
(b) In playground
(c) In the garden
(d) In the market

Answer:  A

Question. Who does he compare himself to when he says “How can a child when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring.”?
(a) Book
(b) Flower
(c) Nip in the bud
(d) Caged bird

Answer:  D

Question. Whom does the child complain to?
(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) Both father and mother
(d) God

Answer:  C

Question. Who is ‘I’ here?
(a) A bird
(b) A tree
(c) A small child
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. Who sings with the child in summer morning?
(a) Thrust
(b) Pigeon
(c) Cuckoo
(d) Skylark

Answer:  D 

Question. What did the skylark do with the boy?
(a) Dance
(b) Sing
(c) Entertain
(d) All of these 

Answer:  B 

Question. Who sings along with the school boy?
(a) His parents
(b) Huntsman
(c) Skylark
(d) His friends 

Answer:  C 

Question. The summer morning is full of
(a) birds
(b) hunters
(c) music
(d) skylarks 

Answer:  C 

Question. Whom does the child compares himself to?
(a) Buds
(b) Evils
(c) Joys
(d) Flowers 

Answer:  A

Question. He cannot take delight in his books because
(a) he is attracted towards nature
(b) he is dull
(c) he doesn’t like to study
(d) the books are uninteresting. 

Answer:  A 

Question. Who sings on every tree?
(a) The boy
(b) Monkey
(c) Insects
(d) Birds 

Answer:  D 

Question. Give the rhyming word of ‘bower’ from this poem.
(a) Shower
(b) Sit
(c) Outworn
(d) Dismay 

Answer:  A 

Question. ‘The little ones spend the day,’ – who is ‘the little ones’ mentioned here?
(a) The birds
(b) The hunters
(c) The students
(d) None of these 

Answer:  C 

Question. Where does the child spend his anxious hour?
(a) In the classroom
(b) In playground
(c) In the garden
(d) In the market 

Answer:  A