9th Eng. P-3 Rain On The Roof - Class Test -25M Strictly based on CBSE pattern

Class Test - 

Poem-2  Rain On The Roof by Coates Kinney 

MM- 25           Time Zero Period 

Class 9th     

Sub- English  Class Test (Beehive)

   

Q1.Read the extract and answer the following questions 1x4=4

Every tinkle on the shingles

Has an echo in the heart; And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start, And a thousand recollections Weave their air-threads into woof, As I listen to the patter Of the rain upon the roof.

(a)................has an echo in the poet's heart.

(b) 'Busy being' is an example of:

(i) Alliteration (ii) Personification

(iii) Onomatopoeia (iv) Transferred Epithet

(c) Dreamy fancies is an example of:

(i) Alliteration (ii) Personification

(iii) Onomatopoeia

(iv) Transferred Epithet

(d) 'And a thousand recollections' means…………….

B.Now in memory comes my mother, As she used in years agone,

 To regard the darling dreamers 

Ere she left them till the dawn: 

O! I feel her fond look on me 

As I list to this refrain 

Which is played upon the shingles 

By the patter of the rain 1x4=4

a) The rhyming scheme of the stanza is……………

(i) ababdefe (ii) abcbdefg

(iii) abcbdefe (iv) abaddefe

(b) 'Darling dreamers' refers to………..

(c) The poet's thoughts take him to the memory of his…………..

(d) Find the word from the stanza which means 'to look lovingly.

Q2. Answer any Three Of the following questions 3x4=12

A.What does the poet like to do when it rains?

B.What is the single major memory that comes to the poet? Who are the "darling dreamers" he refers to?

C.Is the poet now a child? Is his mother still alive?

D.Do you like rain? What do you do when it rains steadily or heavily as described in the poem?

E.How does the memory of his mother haunt the poet?

F.How does the poet enjoy the patter of the soft rain lying in his bed in his cotta chamber?

Q3.Answer any One of the following questions A.Or B. 1x4=4

A. What is the effect of the sound of the rain on the poet?

Or

B. Discuss the relevance of the title 'The Rain on the Roof'.

Q4. Fill in the blanks with the correct form ofverbs given in the brackets:4M

When I (1)..... (arrive) at the station, my aunt (2) …..(wait) for me. She (3)..... (wear) a red sari and (4)......(look) very pretty. As soon as she (5)......(see) me she (6). …(say) something, but I could not (7)...,. (hear) what she (8) ….(say).

Q5. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs given in the brackets: 4M

Five members of a family (1)......

 (kill) and six (2)..... (injure) on saturday when a large quantity of explosives (3)......(catch) fire in a resident's house. The authorities (4)..... (say) that the explosion (5)......(take) place late at midnight when five members of the family (6)..... (sleep) in a room where the material (7)...,. (keep) The blast (8)_____(be) very powerful.

 Q6.You paid a visit to an ‘Old Home’ with other N.S.S. Volunteers. Using the hints given below together with your own ideas, make a diary entry of what you saw and experienced there. 4M

Or

Q7.Mohan wrote just a few lines but couldn’t develop the story he wanted to write. Taking help from the input given below and the introductory lines written by Mohan, complete the story.

The celebrated archer Guru Dronacharya taught the royal princes the finer points of archery. One day he wanted to test…

Outline: Selected a tree in forest……. placed a wooden bird on a bare branch……. were to hit the bird in the eye…… Yudhisthir stepped forward…….. “Can you see me?” asked Dronacharya. ‘Yes’ replied Yudhisthir…… asked him to put down the bow……….. each prince replied the same……. asked to retire from the competition…… finally came Aijuna ……. “Aijuna, do you see me?” asked Dronacharya. “I see only my target,” said Aijuna Aijuna hit the bird’s eye.

Answer 

a. The tinkling sound of the rain drops

b.(1) Alliteration

c. (iv) Transferred Epithet

d. the memories of the past events

B.a. (iii) abcbdefe

b. the poet and his siblings

c. mother

d. Fond

4.Ans. (1) arrived(2) was waiting

(3) was wearing (4) looked/was looking (5) saw (6) said (7) hear

(8) said

Q5.Ans. (1) were killed (2) injured

3-caught 4-said 5-took 6-were sleeping 7-was kept 8-was.

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