Tick (✔) the correct alternative: Multiple Choice Questions:
Tick (✔) the correct alternative:
My Own True Family by Ted Hughes
1. The young child met-
(a) a forester
(b) an old man
(c) an old woman (√)
(d) a stag
2. The old woman was-
(a) very smart
(b) looking nervous
(c) richly dressed
(d) unsteady and poorly dressed (√)
(3) The oak trees complained that-
(a) the old woman cackled
(b) they are chopped down, torn up but the humans remained indifferent (√)
(c) they are not watered every day
(d) they are tied to a stake
4. A 'staring tribe' refers to-
(a) local inhabitants
(b) the primitive people
(c) homeless people
(d) the oak trees (√)
5. The poet here is telling about his experience in-
(a) a house
(b) a zoo
(c) a garden
(d) a wood (√)
6. The poet entered into the forest of -
(a) oak (√)
(b) apple
(c) cherry
(d) maple
7. The child entered the wood -
(a) running
(b) walking
(c) sliding
(d) creeping (√)
8. The poet was looking for a -
(a) tiger
(b) oak tree
(c) male deer (√)
(d) female deer
9. The poet met -
(a) an old woman (√)
(b) an old woman
(c) a fairy
(d) a musician
10. The old woman was -
(a) well-dressed
(b) fat
(c) thin (√)
(d) beautiful
11. Inside her bag the old woman claimed to have kept the poet's -
(a) future
(b) present
(c) past
(d) secret (√)
12. The old woman opened her little --
(a) purse
(b) sack
(c) bag (√)
(d) suitcase
13. With the opening of the bag the poet became awake-
(a) once
(b) thrice
(c) twice (√)
(d) four times
14. As the woman began cackling the poet began to -
(a) laugh
(b) cry
(c) dance
(d) tremble (√)
15. The little bag was opened by -
(a) the old woman (√)
(b) oak tribes
(c) the old
(d) the little child
16. The poet found himself surrounded by -
(a) some old women
(b) oak trees (√)
(c) wild animals
(d) his friends
17. The poet was tied to a -
(a) gate
(b) thick pole (√)
(c) tree
(d) wall
18. The true family of the poet is said to be -
(a) his parents
(b) the old woman
(c) oak trees (√)
(d) pine wood
19. The poet is blared not to blink an eye when oak trees -
(a) a grow up
(b) shed leaves
(c) are chopped down (√)
(d) grow up
20. The poet had to swear to plant -
(a) two oak trees (√)
(b) three oak trees
(c) one oak tree
(d) four oak trees
21. The colour of the oak bark is -
(a) white
(b) black (√)
(c) green
(d) brown
22. Unless the poet swears the oak bark will wrinkle over -
(a) the wood
(b) the poet (√)
(c) the tree
(d) the old woman
23. The poet has his dream beneath the -
(a) roof 6
(b) shade
(c) boughs (√)
(d) sky
24. The poet's heart was transformed into that of a -
(a) tree (√)
(b) human
(c) stag
(d) woman
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