Objective Questions
1.Who has composed the poem, ‘Ode To Autumn’ ?
(A) Keats
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) Shelley
Answer ⇒ (A)
2. ‘Ode To Autumn’ is written in—
(A) October 1819
(3) September 1819
(C) November 1819
(D) December 1819
Answer ⇒ (B)
3 .’Ode To Autumn’ is—
(A) an epic
(B) an elegy
(C) an ode
(D) a ballad
Answer ⇒ (C)
4. In ‘Ode to Autumn’ Keats deals with ………. in detail.
(A) Spring
(B) Winter
(C) Summer
(D) Autumn
Answer ⇒ (D)
5. ‘Ode To Autumn’ consists of —
(A) four stanzas
(B) three stanzas
(C) five stanzas
(D) six stanzas
Answer ⇒ (B)
6. The theme of Autumn is —-
(A) scarcity
(B) abundance
(C) fulfilment/maturity
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (C)
7. Keats was………. poet.
(A) a romantic
(B) a victorian
(C) modern
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (A)
8. Who called ‘Ode To Autumn’Keats’ most satisfying of all the odes ?
(A) Dryden
(B) Coleridge
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Arthur Compton-Rickett.
Answer ⇒ (D)
9. Each stanza of ‘Ode To Autumn’ consists-
(A) 11 lines
(B) 12 lines
(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines
Answer ⇒ (A)
10. Who has been personified in ‘Ode To Autumn’ ?
(A) Spring
(B) Autumn
(C) Winter
(D) Summer
Answer ⇒ (B)
11. John Keats has written the poem-
(A) An Epitaph
(B) Ode To Autumn
(C) The Soldier
(D) Fire-Hymn
Answer ⇒ (B)
12. Autumn is a season of mellow—
(A) no wind
(B) fruitlessness
(C) fruitfulness
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (C)
13. Autumn starts with the departure of the …………… season.
(A) winter
(B) spring
(C) rainy
(D) summer
Answer ⇒ (D)
14. …………….scene was a great lover of nature.
(A) John Keats
(B) John Donne
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) Walt Whitman
Answer ⇒ (A)
15. In ……………. new leaves and fruits come out on trees.
(A) spring
(B) autumn
(C) summer
(D) winter
Answer ⇒ (B)
16. ‘And gathering swallows twitter in the skies’ is taken from –
(A) snake
(B) The soldier
(C) ode to Autumn
(D) An Epitaph
Answer ⇒ (C)
17. ‘Season of mists and inellow fruitfulness’ is written by-
(A) John Donne
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) John Keats
Answer ⇒ (D)
Short Answer Questions
1. In what sense does the sun conspire with autumn?
Ans. The sun conspires with autumn to load plants and trees with abundance of fruit and ripen the fruit to the core.
2. How do the sun and summer help in ripeness of fruits in autumn?
Ans. The sun and summer help the blossoms turn into fruit, and let the fruit grow. In autumn they reach their maturity and are filled with flesh and juice.
3. How are autumn and summer related to spring?
Ans -Autumn and summer are related to spring as old age and youth are related to adolescence.
4. What to autumn and spring symbolise in the poem? Explain.
Ans. In the poem spring is the symbol of youth, and autumn is the symbol of maturity. Spring is the time of flowering, autumn is the time of fruition. Spring is the symbol of desire, autumn is the symbol of fulfilment.
5. How does Keats personify Autumn in the poem?
Ans – John Keats was a great lover of Nature. In the poem ‘Ode To Autumn’ he describes the beauty and characteristic spirit of Autumn in a series of memorable pictures. There he reveals the principle of beauty in nature in the autumn.
6. What happens in autumn?
Ans. All fruits get ripeness and flowers bloom in autumn. All the birds start to sing to see sweetness of the season.