Question

The Road Not Taken


Read the following extracts and answers the questions that follow.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

(i) What does 'both' refer to?
(a) Choices
(b) Decisions
(c) Roads
(d) Careers

(ii) What is condition of the thing that the poem is talking about?
(a) Both of them are same
(b) Both of them are used
(c) Both of them are clean
(d) Both of them are dirty

(iii) What is the poet talking about in the given lines?
(a) The beauty of the forest
(b) The dilemma of choices
(c) The importance of decision making
(d) All of these

(iv) What does the poet choose?
(a) The first one
(b) The second one
(c) He returned back
(d) He travelled both of them one by one

(v) Why was the poet made to choose?
(a) Because he could only travel one road
(b) Because he has no vehicle
(c) Because he was alone
(d) Because he had responsibilities​​

Answer 1

(i) What does 'both' refer to?

ans) c) Roads

ii) What is condition of the thing that the poem is talking about?

ans) (a) Both of them are same

(iii) What is the poet talking about in the given lines?

ans) (c) The importance of decision making

(iv) What does the poet choose?

ans) (a) The first one

(v) Why was the poet made to choose?

ans) (c) Because he was alone