Dust of Snow | Poem English Class 10th

Dust of Snow MCQ Questions Class 10 English with Answers

Question : The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

(a) Where was the crow sitting ?
(i) on a Banyan tree
(ii) on a Hemlock tree
(iii) on a Pine tree
(iv) on a Gulmohar tree

Answer :  B

(b) What did it shake on the poet ?
(i) rubber ball
(ii) fruit of a tree
(iii) a small pebble
(iv) dust of snow

Answer :  D

(c) Give a rhyming word of ‘crow’ from the passage.
(i) heart
(ii) mood
(iii) snow
(iv) rued

Answer :  C

(d) What was the poet’s state of mind at that time ?
(i) good mood
(ii) best mood
(iii) not very good mood
(iv) depressive mood

Answer :  D

Question : Who is the poet of the poem “Dust of Snow”?
(a) Leslie Norris
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Carolyn Wells
(d) Robin Klein

Answer :  B

Question : The poem “Dust of Snow” is written by –
(a) Robert Frost
(b) John Keats
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) P.B Shelley

Answer :  A

Question : What did the poet think of the day before the dust of snow fell on him?
(a) He was energetic
(b) He was rude
(c) He was lucky
(d) His day was ruined.

Answer : D

Question : What was the mood of the poet in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Sad mood
(b) Happy mood
(c) Confuse mood
(d) None of the Above

Answer :  A

Question : What uplifted his mood?
(a) falling of snow on his shoulder
(b) the crow
(c) hemlock tree
(d) all of the above

Answer :  A

Question :  Who is the poet of Dust of Snow?
(a) El Bsor Ester
(b) Eleanor Estes
(c) Robert Frost
(d) G.L. Fuentes

Answer :  C

Question : What makes the fine particles of snow fall from the tree?
(a) Frog
(b) Crow
(c) Snake
(d) Goldfinch

Answer :  B

Question Which literary device has been used in Shook Down on Me?
(a) Assonance
(b) Personification
(c) Alliteration
(d) Enjambment

Answer :  A

Question : Where was the crow?
(a) Peepal Tree
(b) Hemlock Tree
(c) Deodar Cedar
(d) Banyan Tree

Answer :  B

Question : Name the poetic device used in the line “Has given my heart”
(a) alliteration
(b) metaphor
(c) oxymoron
(d) similie

Answer :  A

Question: Here the rest of the day of the poet was saved by –
(a) Winself
(b) Snow
(c) Weather
(d) Crow and Hemlock tree

Answer :  D

Question : The poet says, “Of a day I had rued”. What is the meaning of “rued”?
(a) ruined
(b) held in regret
(c) ruled
(d) conquered

Answer :  B

Has given my heart 
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

(a) Of what change does the poet mention here ?
(i) change of weather
(ii) change of climate
(iii) change of season
(iv) change of mood

Answer :  D

(b) Whose part of the day has been saved ?
(i) People’s
(ii) The poet’s
(iii) The poetess
(iv) The travellers

Answer :  B

(c) What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza ?
(i) aabb
(ii) baba
(iii) abba
(iv) abab

Answer :  D

(d) Who is the poet of this poem ?
(i) R.L. Stevenson
(ii) Robert Frost
(iii) William Wordsworth
(iv) Ruskin Bond

Answer :  B

Question : What are the two negative creatures that Frost used as carriers of positivity?
(a) snow, dust
(b) hemlock tree, snow
(c) snow, crow
(d) hemlock tree, crow

Answer :  B

Question : Synecdoche is a poetic device that uses a part to represent the whole. E.g. That’s a great set of wheels! (Set of wheels has been used for car.) Pick an example of synecdoche from the poem.
(a) Has given my heart / A change of mood
(b) The way a crow/ Shook down on me
(c) The dust of snow / From a hemlock tree
(d) And saved some part / Of a day I had rued

Answer :  A

Question : From where was snow dropped?
(a) from a pipai tree
(b) from a neem tree
(c) from a hemlock tree
(d) from a rose plant

Answer :  C

Question : What is the name of the poet?
(a) Sylvia Plath
(b) W.B Yeats
(c) Robert Frost
(d) Robert Burns

Answer :  C

Question : Of the many symbols the hemlock tree represents, choose the one that Frost drew upon in all likelihood, for this poem.
Symbol of
(a) longevity.
(b) togetherness.
(c) healing.
(d) protection.

Answer :  A

Question : What has the poet saved ?
(a) some part of the day
(b) some money
(c) some poetry
(d) some part of a book

Answer :  A