Objective Questions
1.In the second line of the poem, Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ‘Nurse’ stands for —
(A) a plant
(B) a fruit
(C) a tree
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (C)
2. In the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast ‘Whispering neighbours’ stand for-
(A) agents of Life Insurance
(B) agents of State Bank of India
(C) agents of Sahara India
(D) agents of death
Answer ⇒ (D)
3. “Trolls’ mentioned in the poem, ‘Now The Leaves are Falling Fast’ are …….. mythological creatures.
(A) Scandinavian
(B) Indian
(C) Russian
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (A)
4. ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’ is ………… poem.
(A) a pessimistic
(B) optimistic
(C) a pessimistic-cum-optimistic
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (C)
5. Who has composed the poem, Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ?
(A) W.H. Auden
(B) Walter de la Mare
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(D) Rupert Brooke
Answer ⇒ (A)
6. Auden won the Pulitzer prize in-
(A) 1947
(B) 1948
(C) 1949
(D) 1950
Answer ⇒ (B)
7. For Auden poetry was-
(A) a light game
(B) an interesting game
(C) a serious game
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (C)
8. Auden was –
(A) a poet
(B) a verse dramatist’
(C) a serious game
(D) All of these
Answer ⇒ (D)
9. ‘Now The Leaves are Falling’ is-
(A) a lyric
(B) an ode
(C) a sonnet
(D) an elegy
Answer ⇒ (A)
10. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ ………… the frustration inherent in human life.
(A) reacts
(B) enacts
(C) accepts
(D) protests
Answer ⇒ (B)
11. W.H. Auden has written the poem-
(A) John Keats
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer ⇒ (C)
12. The prams are —
(A) running
(B) standing
(C) lying
(D) rolling
Answer ⇒ (D)
13. The travellers are we ………….. beings, moving towards our death.
(A) human
(B) animal
(C) urbon
(D) rural
Answer ⇒ (A)
14. Human life is no better than —
(A) life
(B) death
(C) journey
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (B)
15. The leaves are falling —
(A) slow
(B) soon
(C) fast
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (C)
16. Trees shed their leaves in –
(A) rain
(B) summer
(C) winter
(D) autumn
Answer ⇒ (D)
17. The ……………. has become dumb to see the leafless trees.
(A) hen
(B) sparrow
(C) nightingale
(D) peacock
Answer ⇒ (C)
18. ………….. waterfall could bless the travellers passing through that way.
(A) Yellow
(B) White
(C) Red
(D) Grey
Answer ⇒ (B)
19. The falling of …………….. refer to the speedy arrival of death.
(A) leaves
(B) stones
(C) snows
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (A)
20. The ……………… of death are the whispering neighbour.
(A) messenger
(B) friends
(C) enemies
(D) God
Answer ⇒ (A)
21. ‘Whispering neighbours, left and right’ is a line from the poem—
(A) An Epitaph
(B) Song of Myself
(C) Now the Leaves Are falling Fast
(D) Snake
Answer ⇒ (C)
22. ‘Nurse’s flowers will not last’ is a line written by—
(A) John keats
(B) John Donne
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) W.H. Auden
Answer ⇒ (D)
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the poet mean when he says “Now the leaves are falling fast”?
Ans. The leaves are symbolic of old people. As leaves fall fast in winter, so are the people dying in their old age.
2. Who are the ‘travellers’ and how will they be ‘blessed’?
Ans. The aged are the travellers. They will be blessed by the white cold waterfall of the mountain head. That is death.
3. Who are the ‘whispering neighbours’?
Ans. The agents of death are the whispering agents. In old age people always obsessed by thoughts of death.
4. How does human life become miserable?
Ans. Humans grow old. In old age they become inactive and weak. They are cut off from society. They are lonely and miserable.
5. In what way will the travellers be blessed?
Ans. The white waterfall or the cold hand of death will bless them. It rescues them from their miseries.
6. Who are the ‘trolls’ in the real world?
Ans. Anxiety and frustration are the trolls in the real world. They move about all over keeping people sleepless at night. People have no peace. Everyone feels helpless, lonely and isolaled. There is no relief or protection from them.