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1st PUC English - The School Boy | 1 Mark MCQ Important Questions & Answers
Added:Welcome back to English so easy. The school boy by William Blake. You what to know MCQs not order now.
First question, what is the speaker's primary feeling about rising in a summer morning? Morning and then there morning and then after the correct answer to this is Option C, joy.
What sound of nature accompanies the speaker's morning? The correct answer to this is Option D, the singing of birds.
Third question is what drives away the joy of the school boy? The options are the horn of the huntsman, skylark, song of the birds on every tree, option D school. The correct answer is Option D, that is school.
In your exams, you can not just write D and leave it. You have to write the question number that is three in the margin and then write option D school.
Match the column A with column B related to the gentleman of the jungle. Under column A you have speaker, bird and teacher. Under column B you have cruel eye, autumn, school boy, trapped in a cage.
The correct answer to this is here you have speaker. Speaker here is the school boy.
That is one B. See where you have one B.
Here A and B, okay.
Just omit these two. Now you have to find the correct answer here. Next, you have bird. Bird is trapped in a cage.
That is two C. So the correct answer here is option A. How does the speaker describe the children's feelings at school? Option C, that is sighing and dismayed.
Complete the following analogy about the school boy. Skylark is to dash is a school is to cage. The correct answer to this is sweet company.
Which of the following statements is not true?
Option A, the schoolboy loves to rise on summer morn. This is true.
And then, the boy loves to go to school on summer morn. This is false, but let's read the rest of the options given.
Option C is school is compared to a cage. This is also true. The children in the school are compared to birds in a cage. This is also true. Though so the statement that is not true here is option B.
That is the boy loves to go to school on a summer morn is the answer.
Next one, what does the speaker mean by buds are nipped? The answer to this question is option C, that is children's spirits are being suppressed.
Question nine, what does the speaker mean by blooms are blown away? The correct answer to this is option B, children's hopes and dreams are destroyed. The overall tone of the poem is gloomy. Option C is the correct answer.
What is the main message of the poem? Is it option A, the importance of education? B, the beauty of nature?
C, the value of childhood joy. D, the inevitability of change. The correct answer to this is option C, the value of childhood joy.
Next, moving on to the next question.
The speaker of the poem is a dash. Is he a teacher, parent, schoolboy, poet? Yes.
The correct answer is option C.
It is he's a schoolboy.
What is the speaker's main criticism of the school system?
It is too expensive. It is too demanding. It ignores the needs of children. It is not challenging enough.
So, S, tell me what is the correct answer?
It is option C, it ignores the needs of children.
Next question.
What does the speaker believe is necessary for a joyful summer?
Option A, abundant sunshine. Option B, learning in school. Option C, happy and carefree children. Option D, a peaceful and quiet environment. The correct answer is happy and carefree children.
It is option C.
Next question. Complete the following analogy. Birds is to dash is as school is to cage. The correct answer to this is children.
Birds is to children.
That [snorts] is birds cage, school children.
Match the column A with column B related to the school boy. Under A you have youth, skylark, school. So, youth here is associated with summer. So, 1C is the answer. So, here 1C where you have? Here. And skylark is the sweet company, 2A. Three, school drives away all joy, that is 3B. So, option C would be your answer.
Which of the following statements is or are true about the children mentioned in the poem? Option one, they will grow up to be successful adults. Second one is they will never experience true joy in life. The answer to this is option D. That is both are wrong. That is they will grow up to be successful adults. No.
Here, the poem argues that destroying joy in youth makes them broken adults.
The statement [snorts] that they will never experience true joy in life is not absolute. They will experience true joy in life provided they have a very happy childhood. So, here it focuses on the present sorrow rather than an absolute statement that they will never experience joy or automatically be successful.
Moving on to the next one.
What does the speaker imply will happen if children are denied joy in their youth? Options are they will never experience happiness. B, they will become successful. C, they will struggle to achieve their goals. D, they will not be able to appreciate the beauty of nature.
Here.
The correct answer to this is they will never experience happiness. In the context of the final stanza, they cannot gather fruit in the winter of life if their youth is destroyed.
The little ones spend the day in school. How do they spend? Delightfully, joyfully, sighing and dismay, cheerfully. The correct answer is option C. That is sighing and dismay.
Next one. And and blossoms blown away. Here, blossoms refer to teachers, flowers, children, buds. Here, blossoms refer to children.
A learning's bower refer to cage, home, school, nature. The correct answer to this is it is the school.
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