Important suggestion :
MILD THE MIST UPON THE HILL
– Emily Jane Bronte
Tick (✓) the correct answer from the given alternatives:
1) The mist was upon the –
A) grass
B) root
C) hill ✓
D) leaf
2) The sorrow of the day is described as –
A) silent ✓
B) terrible
C) overshadowing
D) little
3) The hall door mentioned in the poem is –
A) new
B) large
C) broken
D) old✓
4) The poet watches the cloudy –
A) morning
B) evening ✓
C) afternoon
D) night
5) The cloud of the mist is –
A) grey
B) white
C) yellow
D) blue✓
6) The dump stands on the –
A) wall
B) floor
C) bush
D) grass ✓
7) The mist upon the hill was –
A) dense
B) heavy
C) mild✓
D) toned
8) The mist does not tell anything of –
A) today
B) the previous day
C) the next day ✓
D) the day after tomorrow
9) From the nature of the mist upon the hill, the poet learned –
A) the day had wept
B) the sky was overcast
C) summer had come
D) there would be no storm the next day✓
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10) According to the poem , the day has –
A) slept
B) dreamt
C) wept✓
D) cried
11) The poet compares the incessant rains throughout the day with –
A) talking
B) weeping✓
C) smiling
D) dancing
12) The poet goes back to the days of-
A) infancy
B) young days
C) old days
D) childhood✓
13) The poet wants to feel –
A) free
B) secure✓
C) lonely
D) none of these
14) The ‘sheltering roof ‘ mentioned in the poem is of the poet’s –
A) mother
B) father ✓
C) parents
D) guardian
15) In the second stanza of the poem, the poet recollects her –
A) Juvenile activity ✓
B) serious activity
C) frivolous activity
D) whimsical activity
16) Emily Jane Bronte’s childhood memories were obsessed –
A) with her father ✓
B) with her mother
C) with her sisters
D) with her friends
17) According to the poet, this evening is –
A) clear
B) dark
C) cloudy✓
D) Misty
18) The ‘horizon’ is an imaginary meeting place of the sky and –
A) the forest
B) the hill
C) the earth surface ✓
D) the meadow
19) The horizon is surrounded by a chain of-
A) cloud
B) mists✓
C) mountains
D) valley
20) Summer hides the mountain- chain –
A) with rain
B) with mists✓
C) with darkness
D) with cloud
21) The ‘ dump’ refers to –
A) the muddy water
B) the insects
C) the water flooding the ground
D) the water droplets ✓
22) Moisture in the grass is compared to –
A) morning’s tears✓
B) summer’s pall
C) the old hall door
D) the sheltering roof
23) The ‘fragrance’ in the poem described as –
A) dreamy✓
B) sweet
C) foul
D) ordinary
24) Through the passage of dreamy scents of fragrance, Emily Jane Bronte feels –
A) the breathing of bygone years✓
B) the existence of her father
C) the sorrow of the morning
D) the dump in the grass
25) The above poem is about –
A) the description of nature
B) the description of nature in the evening
C) the sweet mists of summer
D) remembrance and nostalgia ✓