Reading Comprehension-Poetry [CTET (Central Teacher Eligibility Test) Paper-I English]: Questions 76 - 82 of 149

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Passage

The nightingale, that all day long

Had cheered the village with his song

Not yet at eve his note suspended,

Nor yet when eventide was ended,

Began to feel, as well he might,

The keen demands of appetite;

When, looking eagerly around,

He spied far off, upon the ground

A something shining in the dark,

And knew the glow worm by his spark;

So, stooping down from hawthorn top,

He thought to put him in his crop

The worm, aware of his intent,

Harangued him thus, right eloquent

‘Did you admire my lamp,’ quoth he,

′ As much as I your minstrelsy,

You would abhor to do me wrong,

As much as I to spoil your song;

For՚twas the self same power divine,

Taught you to sing, and me to shine;

That you with music, I with light,

Might beautify and cheer the night;

The songster heart his short oration

And warbling out his approbation,

Released him as my story tells,

And found a supper somewhere else.

– William Couper

Question 76 (6 of 6 Based on Passage)

Question MCQ▾

Suggest a suitable topic for the poem.

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Power of Divine

b.

Song Versus Light

c.

The Nightingale՚s Tragedy

d.

The Nightingale and the Glowworm

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Passage

Nostalgically recollecting fond memories, the poet looks at a very old photograph of her mother who has been dead for nearly twelve years. The poet is consumed with grief but is left with no words to express the loss.

The poem begins with the poet looking at a very old photograph of her mother at twelve years of age. The photograph, on a cardboard frame, shows the poet՚s mother, with her two girl cousins each holding one of her hand. She was eldest of the three and had a ‘sweet face’ . In the snapshot, all the three girls stand still, smiling with their hair falling on their faces, to get clicked by the camera of their uncle, on an occasion when they went paddling. The sea, which has apparently undergone no change, washed their ‘transient’ feet. This image of transcience provides a sharp contrast to the eternal sea.

Some twenty or thirty years later, the poet՚s mother laughed at the picture pointing how she was looking. Betty and Dolly (the two cousins) were made to dress for the beach holiday.

That sea holiday was a thing of past for her mother at that time, while her mother՚s laughter is the poet՚s past now. Both signify their respective losses and the pain involved in recollecting the past.

Her mother is dead for nearly twelve years now. And for the present ‘circumstance’ the poet has nothing left to say. She is absorbed in the memories of her dead mother. The painful ‘silence’ of the situation leaves the poet silent, with no words to express her grief. Thus, the ‘silence silences’ her.

– Shirley Toulson

Question 77 (1 of 6 Based on Passage)

Question MCQ▾

This poem has been taken from -

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

A photograph

b.

The Beach Holiday

c.

My Sweet Mother

d.

The Painful Silence

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Question 78 (2 of 6 Based on Passage)

Question MCQ▾

The poetess says that after a gap of almost … . , she sees her mother snapshot.

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

12 years

b.

20 - 30 years

c.

15 - 20 years

d.

20 years

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Question 79 (3 of 6 Based on Passage)

Question MCQ▾

What has the camera captured?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The three girls

b.

Betty and Dolly

c.

Beaches

d.

Crab and Shells

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Question 80 (4 of 6 Based on Passage)

Question MCQ▾

What does, ‘circumstance’ refer to -

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

death of poetess mother

b.

prominent features

c.

speechless situation

d.

cheerful days of childhood

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Question 81 (5 of 6 Based on Passage)

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What does the word ‘cardboard’ denotes in the poem?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

It is a board made of wooden

b.

The lively presence of poetess՚ mother

c.

Photographs is probably stuck on a cardboard

d.

The cardboard is just a non-breathing piece

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Question 82 (6 of 6 Based on Passage)

Question MCQ▾

What has not changed over the years? According to the poem.

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The beach

b.

The photograph of poetess mother

c.

Nature of poetess

d.

The external sea

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