Practice Test

Q1) The extract suggests that the poet is: Show Answer

Q2) The poet seems to have indicated the merry bouncing of the ball to Show Answer

Q3) The poem begins with the question. Based on your reading of the poem, the speaker: Show Answer

Q4) Alliteration is a literary device that occurs with the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Pick the option that showcases an example of alliteration from the extract. Show Answer

Q5) The poet uses the word 'ultimate' to describe the boy's reaction.
Pick the meaning that DOES NOT display what, 'ultimate' means in the context given. Show Answer

Q6) The boy is very young in this poem. As a mature, balanced grown up, he might look back and think that his reaction of 'ultimate shaking grief was:
(1) disproportionate to the loss.
(2) pretension to procure a new toy.
(3) according to his exposure and experience then.
(4) a reaction to the failure of retrieving the toy.
(5) justified and similar to what it would be currently. Show Answer

Q7) Why does the speaker choose not to intrude?
This is so because the poet: Show Answer

Q8) Choose the option that lists the meaning of 'harbour' are used in the extract.
Noun:
(1) a place on the coast where ships may moor in shelter.
(2) a place of refuge.
Verb:
(3) keep (a thought or feeling, typically a negative one) in one's mind, especially secretly.
(4) shelter or hide ( a criminal or wanted person). Show Answer

Q9) The poet uses the ball as a symbol of the boy's: Show Answer

Q10) The poet feels that there is no point consoling the boy as: Show Answer

Q11) The word 'harbour' DOES NOT have a meaning similar to: Show Answer

Q12) 'Merrily over - there it is in the water!' The dash here is meant to convey: Show Answer

Q13) The word that DOES NOT indicate a physical manifestation of sorrow in the boy, is: Show Answer

Q14) The expression 'what, what is he to do' denotes'... Show Answer

Q15) Where did the ball go? Show Answer

Q16) Which word is synonym of 'happily'? Show Answer

Q17) What does the expression - "no use to say - 'O there are other balls' mean"? Show Answer

Q18) Which adjective in these lines express the effect of this loss on the boy? Show Answer

Q19) Explain the expression 'shaping grief'. Show Answer

Q20) Which word in these lines is synonym of 'Interfere'? Show Answer

Q21) Why is money or another ball worthless for the boy? Show Answer

Q22) How much does a ball cost? Show Answer

Q23) Does the poet console the boy? Show Answer

Q24) Name the literary device used in "And no one buys a ball back." Show Answer

Q25) According to the poet, what is the child learning? Show Answer

Q26) Give antonym for the word 'intrude'. Show Answer

Q27) Who is the poet of the poem, 'The Ball Poem'?
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Q28) Where does the ball go? Show Answer

Q29) What has the boy lost in the water? Show Answer

Q30) Where was the boy staring? Show Answer

Q31) Why are the boy's eyes desperate?
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Q32) What was the reaction of the boy at the loss of his ball? Show Answer

Q33) How does the child react at the loss? Show Answer

Q34) The poet seems to have indicated the merry bouncing of the ball to:
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Q35) Name the literary device used in 'Merrily bouncing down the street, and then Merrily over _____ there it is in the water!" Show Answer

Q36) Pick the option that showcases an example of alliteration from the poem. Show Answer

Q37) The poem suggests that the poet is:
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Q38) The poem begins with a question. Based on your reading of the poem, the speaker:
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Q39) What does 'in the world of possessions' means?

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Q40) Who would not intrude the boy?
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Q41) Why is money called external? Show Answer

Q42) The boy lost his ball at the _____.
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Q43) The ball symbolises _____ in the poem. Show Answer

Q44) The boy remembers his _____ days. Show Answer

Q45) The poet uses the word 'ultimate' to describe the _____. Show Answer

Q46) The poet did not help the boy because he wanted the boy to be _____. Show Answer

Q47) Find the correct statement in the following: Show Answer

Q48) Rearrange the sentences in the correct sequence and choose the correct option.
(a) He senses first responsibility in a world of possessions.
(b) How to stand up knowing what every man must one day know and most know many days, how to stand up.
(c) A dime, another ball, is worthless.
(d) Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over - there it is in the water! Show Answer

Q49) Assertion: The poet didn't want to intrude the boy.
Reason: He wanted the boy to experience loss. Show Answer

Q50) Assertion: The poet offered the boy money to buy another ball.
Reason: He wanted the boy to learn that losing is a part of life.
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Q51) Assertion: The world of possessions is the world of materialistic things.
Reason: The boy senses his responsibility. Show Answer

Q52) Assertion: The boy is learning the knowledge of loss.
Reason: The boy has lost many things earlier also. Show Answer

Q53) Assertion: The boy stands rigid and trembling.
Reason: He had lost his ball.
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