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Dust of Snow

  DUST OF SNOW   MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 1. Who shook down the hemlock tree? (A) crow                                              (B) cuckoo (C) mynah                                           (D) parrot Ans . (A) a crow 2.  Which tree did the crow shake? (A) mango                                           (B)  mapple (C) hemlock                                        (D) oak Ans . (C) hemlock 3. What fell on the poet? (A) dust of tree                                    (B) dust of snow (C) dust of rain                                    (D) dust of crow Ans .  (B) dust of snow 4. In what mood was the poet earlier? (A) happy                                            (B) good (C) pleasant                                        (D) sad Ans . (D) sad 5. What was the effect of the fall of the dust of snow on the poet? (A) changed his mood                        (B) changed his luck (C) changed his job                             (D) changed his
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The Trees

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions that follow : STANZA 1 The trees inside are moving out into the forest, the forest that was empty all these days where no bird could sit no insect hide no sun bury its feet in the shadow the forest that was empty all these nights will be full of trees by morning. Questions :  (a) From where are the trees moving out into the forest?   (b) Why can’t birds sit in them or insects hide in them?  (c) How was the forest ‘all these nights’? (d) Are these trees useful for birds and insects? (e) What three things can not happen in a treeless forest? (f) Explain the poetic device in ‘no sun bury its feet’. (g) Why are there no shadows in the forest? (h) Explain ‘enjambment’. (i) Explain ‘anaphora’. Answers : (a) The trees are moving out from inside the house into the forest. (b) Birds can’t sit in them and insects can’t hide in them because these trees have been confined in houses and are not in the f
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