MCQ Questions for Class 9 English Beehive Rain on the Roof with Solutions


Chapter Name

Multiple Choice Questions for Rain on the Roof

Author Name

Coates Kinney

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Book Name

NCERT First Flight Textbook for Class 9

MCQ Questions for Rain on the Roof Class 9 English

1. What makes an echo in the poet’s mind?

(i) his poverty

(ii) his successes

(iii) the music of pattering rain

(iv) all these things

Answer

(iii) the music of pattering rain


2. Where is the rain making a noise?

(i) in the room

(ii) on the roof

(iii) in the garden

(iv) in the lanes

Answer

(ii) on the roof


3. Who comes in the poet’s memory?

(i) the rain

(ii) his father

(iii) his mother

(iv) his friends

Answer

(iii) his mother


4. Where does the poet’s mother live?

(i) in another town

(ii) in a village

(iii) with the poet

(iv) she has died

Answer

(iv) she has died


5. Who are the darling dreamers?

(i) the poet and his brothers

(ii) the street children

(iii) the school children

(iv) none of these

Answer

(i) the poet and his brothers


6. What does the poet listen?

(i) the sweet music of insects

(ii) sweet music of piano

(iii) the sweet music of raindrops

(iv) all the options are incorrect

Answer

(iii) the sweet music of raindrops


7. Select the correct meaning of ‘refrain’.

(i) stop making noise

(ii) sound of piano music

(iii) making refined efforts

(iv) the noise of the rain

Answer

(iv) the noise of the rai


8. What is the name of the poet of the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’.

(i) Robert Frost

(ii) Subramanian

(iii) Coates Kinney

(iv) W.B. Yeats

Answer

(iii) Coates Kinney


9. What does this poem talk about?

(i) about rain

(ii) rain falling

(iii) rainfall and disturbance

(iv) healing powers of the rain

Answer

(iv) healing powers of the rain


10. What revives the sweet memories in the poet’s mind?

(i) busy schedule

(ii) daily routine

(iii) raindrops falling on the roof

(iv) none

Answer

(iii) raindrops falling on the roof


11. Which literary device has been used in this poem?

(i) alliteration & personification

(ii) metaphorical

(iii) anaphora

(iv) none

Answer

(i) alliteration & personification


12. Which memories of the poet are revived with the pitter patter sound of rainfall?

(i) college days

(ii) young age

(iii) office days

(iv) chidhood memories

Answer

(iv) chidhood memories


13. What does starry spheres mean?

(i) places where stars are born

(ii) sky filled with stars

(iii) star groups in the sky

(iv) all

Answer

(iii) star groups in the sky


14. What is the favourite activity of the poet during the rainy season?

(i) listening to the music

(ii) eating snacks

(iii) roaming on the roof

(iv) lie on the bed and listen to the pitter-patter sound of the rain

Answer

(iv) lie on the bed and listen to the pitter-patter sound of the rain


15. Who are darling dreamers in the poem?

(i) children who miss their mothers

(ii) mothers

(iii) hard working mothers

(iv) poet’s memories

Answer

(i) children who miss their mothers


16. What is the memory that comes to the poet’s mind repeatedly?

(i) his mother

(ii) his friends

(iii) his siblings

(iv) none

Answer

(i) his mother


17. What poetic device has been used in ‘Starry Spheres’ and ‘darling dreamers’?

(i) Metaphor

(ii) Alliteration

(iii) Personification

(iv) All of these

Answer

(ii) Alliteration


18. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

(i) abcbdefe

(ii) aabbccdd

(iii) abbccdde

(iv) aaabbbab

Answer

(i) abcbdefe


19. Which of these words is the use of the literary device of onomatopoeia?

(i) Bliss

(ii) Shadows

(iii) Shingles

(iv) Patter

Answer

(iv) Patter


20. What is bliss in the poem for the poet?

(i) His memories

(ii) His mother

(iii) Listening to the sound of rainfall

(iv) All of these

Answer

(ii) His mother


21. What haunts the poet?

(i) His friends

(ii) Sounds of rainfall

(iii) His mother’s memory

(iv) None

Answer

(iii) His mother’s memory


22. What weeps in rainy tears?

(i) Poet

(ii) Darkness

(iii) Poet’s mother

(iv) None of these

Answer

(i) Poet


23. What does ‘woof’ mean?

(i) Dreams

(ii) Memories

(iii) Woven cloth

(iv) None of these

Answer

(iv) None of these


24. What are shingles?

(i) Tiles on the roof

(ii) Window pane

(iii) Wall

(iv) None of these

Answer

(ii) Window pane


25. How does the mother look at the children?

(i) With hatred

(ii) With sadness

(iii) With pity

(iv) With fondness

Answer

(iii) With pity


26. What does ‘cottage-chamber’ mean?

(i) Type of bed

(ii) A room in the cottage

(iii) A separate building next to the cottage

(iv) All of these

Answer

(i) Type of bed


27. Which of these is NOT a sound word?

(i) Tinkle

(ii) Patter

(iii) None of these

(iv) Both A and B

Answer

(ii) Patter


28. Recollections mean ______?

(i) Memories

(ii) Dreams

(iii) Nightmares

(iv) None of these

Answer

(ii) Dreams


29. What does the tinkle cause an echo?

(i) Mind

(ii) Heart

(iii) Stomach

(iv) None of these

Answer

(iii) Stomach


30. What does ‘list’ mean?

(i) Listen

(ii) A list

(iii) Write down

(iv) None of these

Answer

(i) Listen

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