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The Trees
By– Adrienne Rich
Extract Based / comprehension test Questions and Answers of The Trees
Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow.
1. Winds rush to meet them. The moon is broken like a mirror, its pieces flash now in the crown of the tallest oak.
(a) Whom do the winds rush to meet?
(b) How does the moon look?
(c) Name the poem and the poet.
(d) How does the poet describe the moon?
Ans. (a) The trees that are stumbling forward into the night.
(b) The moon looks like a ‘broken mirror’.
(c) ‘The Trees’ by Adrienne Rich.
(d) The poet says that the moon seems to be broken like a mirror and its pieces shine in the crown of the tallest oak tree.
2. The trees inside are moving out into the forest,
the forest that was empty all these days
where no bird could sit
no insect hide
no sun bury its feet in the shadow
the forest that was empty all these nights
will be full of trees by morning.
(a) Where are the trees?
(b) Why was the forest empty?
(c) Which three things cannot happen in a treeless forest?
(d) In the first line of the extract, the poet means to say that the trees are trying————
Or
(a) The birds do not sit on these trees because the trees are————
(b) The trees help others by providing————-
(c) The trees are going ————-
(d) The trees are not in their rightful place because————-
Or
(a) The figure of speech used in these lines is ——-
(b) All these days the forest referred to here is ———-
(c) You cannot see in a treeless forest.
(d) The forest was empty because there were no———-
Or
(a) The trees are ‘moving’ here refers to———
(b) Where are the trees referred to in the stanza?
(c) What things don’t happen in the empty forest?
(d) What does “inside” refer to?
Ans. (a)In a house.
(b) Because all the trees have been shifted inside the house.
(c) No birds could sit, no insect could hide, and no sun bury its feet in shadow.
(d) to move into the forest
Or
(a) in the house
(b) oxygen and shelter
(c) into the forest
(d) they have been taken to the house
Or
(a) Personification
(b) empty
(c) birds and insects
(d) ‘Trees
Or
(a) the forests are again having trees
(b) In the house.
(c) Birds do not sit, insects do not hide and sun creates shadows.
(d) In the house.
3.I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
(a) Name the poet and the poem.
(b) Pick out the poetic device used in the stanza.
(c) The poet is busy writing long——–
(d) The poet does not mention `the departure of the forest from the house’ because ———
Or
(a) The speaker is———
(b) Why is the forest stumbling out of the house?
(c) The poet is writing long letters sitting ——-
(d) “I” in the above lines is———-
Or
(a) She is sitting at a place where she could———-
(b) The trees are moving ———
(c) Who is `I’ in the given lines?
(d) What does `I’ scarcely mention?
Ans. (a) ‘The Trees’ by Adrienne Rich.
(b) Simile.
(c) letters
(d) everyone is sleeping and it was too sudden and unexpected
Or
(a)the Poet, Adrienne Rich
(b) Going to the forest.
(c) in the veranda
(d) the poet, Adrienne Rich
Or
(a) see the trees going out
(b) into the forest
(c) The poetess.
(d) The departure of the forest from the house.
4. All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.
(a) Name the poet and the poem.
(b) What is happening?
(c) What work do the leaves do?
(d) The roots work all night to—————-
Or
(a) The poet has compared the branches of the trees to—————-
(b) According to the poet, he presents a conflict between—————
(c) Which figure of speech is used in the above-mentioned poem?
(d) Boughs were long-cramped. They are trying to————–
Ans. (a) ‘The Trees’ by Adrienne Rich.
(b) Trees are feeling suffocated in a house as they grow.
(c) They strain toward the glass.
(d) separate from the cracks
Or
(a) newly discharged patients
(b) trees and patients or man and nature
(c) Simile
(d) shuffle under the roof
5. The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
My head is full of whispers
which tomorrow will be silent.
(a) What description of the moon does the poet give?
(b) What is smell compared to?
(c) Which figure of speech is used here?
(d) Name the poet and the poem.
Ans. (a) The full moon shines.
(b) Voice.
(c) Simile.
(d) The poet is Adrienne Rich and the poem is ‘The Trees’.
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The Trees- About the Author & Introduction
The Trees- Central Idea & Style of the Poem
The Trees- Short & Detailed Summary
The Trees- Value Points of the Poem
The Trees- Summary in Hindi – Full Text
The Trees- Comprehension Passages
The Trees- Multiple Choice Questions in Quiz
The Trees- Important Extra Questions- Very Short Answer Type
The Trees- Important Extra Questions- Short Answer Type
The Trees- Important Extra Questions- Long Answer Type
