Snake MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book Chapter 11
Snake MCQs of Class 10 English Chapter 11, by David Herbert Richards Lawrence have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 10 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 11 Snake from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book. Each question has four options.
For Correct Answers, see the answer key given at the end of the post.
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Q1. Who has written the poem ‘Snake’?
A. D.H. Lawrence
B. W.B. Yeats
C. Shakespeare
D. None of these
Q2. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
A. AABBC DDEEF
B. ABABA CDCDC
C. Free verse
D. ABCBD BCDCE
Q3. What was the poet carrying to take water?
A. mug
B. pitcher
C. glass
D. bucket
Q4. Find a synonym for ‘pitcher’-
A. mug
B. jug
C. bottle
D. tub
Q5. Who was there at the trough when the poet reached?
A. His cousin
B. a snake
C. a cow
D. God
Q6. What was the snake doing at the trough?
A. catching a prey
B. passing by
C. drinking water
D. admiring the beautiful garden
Q7. What was the weather on that day?
A. snowy
B. cold
C. rainy
D. hot
Q8. What was the poet wearing?
A. trousers
B. legging
C. pyjamas
D. shorts
Q9. Why did the poet go to the trough in the garden?
A. to water plants
B. to meet the snake
C. to hit the snake
D. to fetch water
Q10. What did the poet do when he saw the snake at the trough?
A. He tried to shoo it away
B. He waited silently for his turn
C. He screamed for help
D. He called the police helpline
Q11. How did the snake try to harm the poet?
A. it attacked him
B. it flew towards him
C. it hissed and scared him
D. it didn’t do anything to harm him
Q12. What figure of speech is used-
‘In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-tree’
A. Allusion
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Antithesis
D. simile
Q13. What figure of speech is used-
“ And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge of the stone trough And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,
And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,”
A. Anaphora
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Allusion
D. simile
Q14. Who has been personified in the poem?
A. carob tree
B. Mount Etna
C. Snake
D. All of these
Q15. What figure of speech is used-
:And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken”
A. Anaphora
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Allusion
D. simile
Q16. What figure of speech is used-
“And I thought of the albatross
And I wished he would come back, my snake.”
A. Anaphora
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Allusion
D. simile
Q17. ‘Expiate’ means-
A. to agree
B. to amend
C. to judge
D. to change
Q18. In Sicily, what colour snakes are considered venomous?
A. All of them
B. black
C. golden
D. whilte
Q19. What does the poet confess?
A. he was scared of it
B. he liked it
C. he detested it
D. all of these
Q20. Who said –
“ If you were a man
You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.”
A. the neighbour
B. poet’s inner voice
C. poet’s mother from inside the house
D. none of these
Q21. What figure of speech is used-
“ Being earth-brown, earth-golden
from the burning bowels of the earth “
A. Alliteration
B. Anaphora
C. Allusion
D. simile
Q22. What figure of speech is used-
“ On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,”
A. Anaphora
B. Repetition
C. Antithesis
D. metaphor
Q23. The poet was waiting like __________
A. a cow
B. a second comer
C. people in a que
D. a beggar
Q24. The trough was made of ____
A. mud
B. metal
C. stone
D. not known
Q25. The snake has NOT been compared to-
A. God
B. Cattle
C. Guest
D. teacher
Q26. What figure of speech is used-
“And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black,”
A. Alliteration
B. Anaphora
C. Allusion
D. simile
Q27. What does the dark door refer to?
A. a door
B. the entrance of a cave
C. the earth fissure
D. none of these
Q28. What did the poet use to hit the snake?
A. a log
B. the pitcher
C. both A and B
D. None of these
Q29. What figure of speech is used-
“ And threw it at the water-trough with a clatter”
A. Transferred Epithet
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Assonance
D. metaphor
Q30. Why does the poet feel himself to be petty in comparison to the snake?
A. because he tried to hit the harmless snake
B. because he was at the mercy of the snake
C. because in their religion snakes were considered God-like
D. none of these
Q31. Which tree has been mentioned in the poem?
A. banana
B. mango
C. tamarind
D. carob
Q32. The earth-wall was ____
A. gloomy
B. nice
C. heavenly
D. none of these
Q33. The snake rested its ___ on the stone bottom.
A. throat
B. belly
C. tongue
D. all of these
Q34. The snake appeared from a _____
A. cave
B. door
C. well
D. fissure
Q35. The water had formed a ______
A. pond
B. clearness
C. lake
D. river
Q36. The reference to Mount Etna is the device called-
A. hyperbole
B. allusion
C. alliteration
D. metonym
Q37. Whose water trough was it?
A. snake’s
B. poet’s
C. public trough
D. none of these
Q38. What did the snake do after lifting his head from drinking like cattle do?
A. looked at the poet vaguely
B. flickered its tongue
C. mused a moment
D. all of these
Q39. What is a bowel?
A. inner core
B. hill
C.volcano
D. none of these
Q40. Burning bowel suggests-
A. the inner core was on fire
B. the inner core was very hot
C. the inner core was jealous
D. none of these
Q41. What does ‘Etna smoking’ mean?
A. It emits volcanic smoke
B. it emits industrial smoke
C. it emits vehicular smoke
D. all of these
Q42. The poem is set in the month of ___
A. September
B. April
C. July
D. June
Q43. The poet lives in ___
A. Verona
B. Milan
C. Sicily
D. Rome
Q44. Mused means-
A. thanked
B. thought
C. confused
D. prayed
Q45. What had the poet’s education taught him?
A. the snake must be killed
B. Black snakes are innocent
C. gold snakes are venomous
D. all of these
Q46. What kind of scent was felt in the garden?
A. pleasant
B. strange
C. aweful
D. none of these
Q47. The poet’s garden was –
A. Full of sunlight
B. Full of shade
C. Full of water
D. none of these
Q48. What kind of mouth did the snake have?
A. straight
B. twisted
C. god-like
D. none of these
Q49. Which of the following words mean ‘small’?
A. convulsed
B. writhed
C. paltry
D. expiate
Q50. The snake was like a king in ____
A. kingdom
B. war
C. exile
D. none of these
Answer key
| 1 | A | 26 | D |
| 2 | C | 27 | C |
| 3 | B | 28 | A |
| 4 | B | 29 | B |
| 5 | B | 30 | A |
| 6 | C | 31 | D |
| 7 | D | 32 | A |
| 8 | C | 33 | A |
| 9 | D | 34 | D |
| 10 | B | 35 | B |
| 11 | D | 36 | B |
| 12 | B | 37 | B |
| 13 | A | 38 | D |
| 14 | C | 39 | A |
| 15 | D | 40 | B |
| 16 | C | 41 | A |
| 17 | B | 42 | C |
| 18 | C | 43 | C |
| 19 | B | 44 | B |
| 20 | B | 45 | D |
| 21 | A | 46 | B |
| 22 | B | 47 | B |
| 23 | B | 48 | A |
| 24 | C | 49 | C |
| 25 | D | 50 | C |
Also See:
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- CBSE Class 10 English Communicative Study Guide
- Character Sketch of Class 10 English Communicative
- Descriptive Writing Class 10 Format, Examples
- Class 10 Communicative English Syllabus
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