CBSE Class 9 English Rain on the Roof MCQs

Question. What poetic device has been used in ‘Starry Spheres’ and ‘darling dreamers’?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Alliteration
(c) Personification
(d) All of these

Answer :   B

Question: It was a bliss to press the ——- in a rainy day.
(a) Pillow
(b) Door
(c) Blanket
(d) TV button

Answer:    A

Question . Select the name of the poet of the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’.
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Subramanian
(c) Coates Kinneycorrect
(d) W.B. Yeats

Answer :   C

Question . Which memories of the poet are revived with the pitter patter sound of rainfall?
(a) college days
(b) young age
(c) office days
(d) chidhood memories

Answer :   D

Question. Select the correct meaning of ‘refrain’.
(a) stop making noise
(b) sound of piano music
(c) making refined efforts
(d) the noise of the rain

Answer :   D

Question: Starry sp heres refers to the sky full of –
(a) Dew drops
(b) Stars
(c) Smog
(d) Clouds

Answer:    B

Question . What makes an echo in the poet’s mind?
(a) his poverty
(b) his successes
(c) the music of pattering rain
(d) all these things

Answer :   C

Question - What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
(a) abcbdefe
(b) aabbccdd
(c) abbccdde
(d) aaabbbab

Answer :   A

Question . Where is the rain making a noise?
(a) in the room
(b) on the roofcorrect
(c) in the garden
(d) in the lanes

Answer :   D

Question - What is the memory that comes to the poet’s mind repeatedly?
(a) His mother
(b) His friends
(c) His siblings
(d) None of these

Answer :   A

Question. What does the poet enjoy listening to?
(a) the classical music of piano
(b) film music
(c) pattering sound of raindrops
(d) old songs

Answer :   C

Question - What weeps in rainy tears?
(a) Poet
(b) Darkness
(c) Poet’s mother
(d) None of these

Answer :   B

Question: Old poetic word for before was –
(a) Rc
(b) Arc
(c) Orc
(d) Erc

Answer:   D

Question . What are the humid shadows doing in the sphere?
(a) steeping
(b) resting
(c) floating in the aircorrect
(d) doing nothing

Answer :   D

Question . Who are the darling dreamers?
(a) the poet and his brothers
(b) the street children
(c) the school children
(d) none of these

Answer :   A

Question - What does ‘cottage-chamber’ mean?
(a) Type of bed
(b) A room in the cottage
(c) A separate building next to the cottage
(d) All of these

Answer :   B

Question . What revives the sweet memories in the poet’s mind?
(a) busy schedule
(b) daily routine
(c) raindrops falling on the roofcorrect
(d) none

Answer :   C

Question - What does the tinkle cause an echo?
(a) Mind
(b) Heart
(c) Stomach
(d) None of these

Answer :   B

Question. What does starry spheres mean?
(a) places where stars are born
(b) sky filled with stars
(c) star groups in the sky
(d) all

Answer :   C

Question . What is the name of the poet of the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’.
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Subramanian
(c) Coates Kinney
(d) W.B. Yeats

Answer :   C

Question . Who wrote the poem “Rain On the Roof”?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Christina George
(c) Coates Kinney
(d) Coates Kimley

Answer :   C

Question . The poet here describes
(a) A dark summer night
(b) An evening
(c) A dark rainy night
(d) Both (a) and (c)

Answer :   C

Question . What does the speaker describe as “bliss” in the poem?
(a) The feeling of lying down and pressing the pillow during the rain
(b) The feeling of going out and getting drenched in the rain
(c) The feeling of having the loved one around in the rain
(c) None of the above

Answer :   A

Question . What does “list” mean in this poem?
(a) Used as a word for “listen”
(b) An arranged order of items on a paper
(c) Push
(d) Forget

Answer :   A

Question . What does “refrain” mean in this poem?
(a) Indicates repetitiveness
(b) Keeping away
(c) Selling off
(d) Indicates staying apart

Answer :   A

Question . The last stanza of the poem reflects
(a) The calmness of rainy season
(b) Poet’s immense love for his mother
(c) Poet’s way of admiring nature
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Answer :   B