Says the ant to the cricket, “I’m your servant and friend,
But we ants never borrow; we ants never lend.But tell me, dear cricket, did you lay nothing by when the weather was warm?”
Quoth the cricket, “Not I !
What is the rhyming scheme of the given extract?
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The Ant and the Cricket Class 8 MCQ Questions with Answers English Poem 1
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MCQ Questions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem 1 The Ant and the Cricket with Answers
Question 1.
What was the policy of the ants?
(a) Never borrow, never lend
(b) Always give and take
(c) Share and grow
(d) None of the above
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Question 2.
What would he die of, if the ant didn’t help him?
(a) Starvation and famine
(b) Starvation and sorrow
(c) Starvation and poverty
(d) Starvation and weakness
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Question 3.
What did he want from the ant?
(a) Mouthful of grain
(b) Shelter from rain
(c) New clothes
(d) Only a and b
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Question 4.
When did the cricket begin to complain?
(a) Summers and spring
(b) When he was drenched in rain
(c) When he found his cupboard was empty
(d) All of the above
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Question 5.
Whose fables is the poem “The Ant and The Cricket” adapted from?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Paulo Coelho
(c) Dan Brown
(d) Aesop
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Question 6.
What did the ant advise him to do all winter?
(a) Sing
(b) Dance
(c) Sleep
(d) Rest
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Question 7.
Who said “I am your servant and friend”?(a) ant
(b) cricket
(c) both
(d) no one
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Question 8.
Did he wish to repay the ant?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
(d) Not mentioned in the poem
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Question 9.
Which word is closest to the meaning ‘scarcity of food’?
(a) Sarvation
(b) Hunger
(c) Misery
(d) Famine
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Question 10.
The poet has described the cricket as-
(a) Silly
(b) Young
(c) Accustomed to sing
(d) All of the above
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(1)
A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,
Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
Question 1.
The passage is taken from
(a) Geography Lesson
(c) The Ant and the Cricket
(b) On the Grasshopper and Cricket
(d) The Duck and the Kangaroo.
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Question 2.
The two qualities Of the Cricket described here are
(a) foolish and a singer
(b) wise and a singer
(c) foolish and a writer
(d) intelligent and a speaker.
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Question 3.
The weather in the poem is
(a) warm and gay
(b) cold and dry
(c) rainy and stormy
(d) hot and sunny.
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Question 4.
‘Accustomed to’ means
(a) happy
(b) unhappy
(c) used to
(d) irritated.
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(2)
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Explanation:
ant never borrow , we ant never