The Last Bargain mcqs & important questions | class 8th honeydew english poem

The Last Bargain MCQ Questions Class 8 English with Answers

Question. What was the time then?
(a) Sunset
(b) Noon
(c) Sunrise
(d) Late night

Answer:  A

Question. What did the young maiden offer to hire him with?
(a) power
(b) money
(c) smile
(d) None of the above

Answer:  C

Question. Who said “ I will hire you with my money,”?
(a) Old man
(b) The speaker
(c) Child
(d) King

Answer:  A

Question. Who said “I will hire you with a smile.”?
(a) Old man
(b) King
(c) Speaker
(d) Fair maid

Answer:  D

Question.  A——is a agreement in which both parties promise to do something for each other.

(a) Arguing
(b) Conversation
(c) Bargain
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. What did the child offer to hire him with
(a) Power
(b) smile
(c) Money
(d) Nothing

Answer:  D

Question. Who offered a flower?
(a) King
(b) Child
(c) Old man
(d) Fair maid

Answer:  D

Question. What did the child hire the speaker with?
(a) Flower
(b) Gold
(c) Nothing
(d) Power

Answer:  C

Question. Name the poet of the poem ‘The Last Bargain’
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) John Keats
(c) Zulfikar Ghose
(d) None of them

Answer:  A

Question. “_____ in hand the King came in his chariot”
(a) Power
(b) Sword
(c) Gold
(d) Wealth

Answer:  B

Question. What is in the kings hand?
(a) A bag of gold
(b) Money
(c) Sword
(d) Nothing

Answer:  C

Question. What do you mean by the word “naught”?
(a) Nothing
(b) Knot
(c) Naughty
(d) None of the above

Answer:  A

Question. Whose offer did the speaker take?
(a) King
(b) Old man
(c) Fair lady
(d) Child

Answer:  D

Question. Who said “ I will hire you with my money,”?
(a) Old man
(b) The speaker
(c) Child
(d) King

Answer:  A

Question. Why does the man accept the child’s offer?
(a) It made him a free man
(b) It made him a noble man
(c) It made him selfless
(d) All of the Above

Answer:  A

Question. ‘Her smile—-and melted into tears, and she went back alone into the dark.’
(a) Glowed
(b) Paled
(c) Rosed
(d) None of these

Answer:  B

Question. ‘In the heat of the mid-day the houses stood with—–‘
(a) Open doors
(b) Shut windows
(c) Open windows
(d) Shut doors

Answer:  D

Question. With what emotion did he accept the child’s offer?
(a) Happiness
(b) Sacrifice
(c) Sadness
(d) Boredom

Answer:  A

Question. What did the old man offer the speaker?
(a) Power
(b) A bag of gold
(c) Flowers
(d) Money

Answer:  B

Question. Who came there to have a bargain?
(a) An old man
(b) A maid
(x) A king
(d) A small child

Answer:  A

Question. Give the meaning of ‘ponder’.
(a) to walk
(b) to think
(c) to help
(d) to say

Answer:  B

Question. According to the speaker, what was the child doing?
(a) Playing with shells
(b) Playing with toys
(c) Studying
(d) Doing nothing

Answer:  A

Question. What was the result of the offer?
(a) The poet accepted it
(b) The poet rejected it
(c) The poet shouted at the old man
(d) The poet became mute

Answer:  B

Question. What was the child doing?
(a) Playing with flowers
(b) Playing with sand
(c) Playing with sea
(d) Playing with sea shells

Answer:  D

Question. “An old man came out with his bag of _____”
(a) Sword
(b) Gold
(c) Notes
(d) None of the above

Answer:  B

Question. Where was the speaker walking?
(a) On the streets
(b) On the stone paved road
(c) On the highways
(d) All of these

Answer:  B

Important Questions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem 4

Question 1. Why speaker deny the king proposal?

Answer: The speaker stated the king power as nothing so he denied the proposal of king.

Question 2. What did the old man want? Was he successful in his bargain?

Answer: The old man wanted to hire the speaker with his money. No, he was not successful in his bargain.

Question 3. Explain, “I hire you with nothing”?

Answer: The child has no material thing so he used the word nothing here. He has only goodwill and cheer to hire to speaker.

Question 4. Who is the speaker in the poem?

Answer: The Poet “Rabindranath Tagore” is the speaker of this poem.

Question 5. “The king, sword in hand” suggests
(i) wealth
(ii) power
(iii) more power than wealth
Mark the appropriate item in the context of stanza 1.

Answer: (ii) power

Question 6. The old man offered the speaker a lot of money. Why did he turn down the offer?

Answer: The old man offered the speaker a lot of money. But the speaker refused to take. Because the poet realised that money cannot give him happiness. When the old man was counting the gold coins, the speaker realised that once the money would be finished. He would again be out of work. Hence he turned away the bargain.

Question 7. Find the poem, lines that match the following. Read both one after another.
(i) I have nothing to give you except goodwill and cheer.
(ii) Her happiness was no more than sorrow in disguise.
(iii) the king’s might was not worth much.

Answer:
(i) ‘I hire you with nothing.
(ii) ‘Her smile paled and melted into tears
(iii) ‘But his power counted for naught’.

Question 8. How did the speaker feel after talking to the child on the beach?

Answer: After talking to the child on the beach, the speaker felt extremely happy.

9. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:

“Come and hire me”, I cried, while in the morning
I was walking on the stone-paved road.
Sword in hand the king came in his chariot
He held my hand and said, “I will hire you with my power”
But his power counted for naught and he went away in his chariot.

1. Who is the speaker of the above lines?
   Ans. An unemployed but freedom loving person is the speaker of these lines.
2. What does ’sword in hand’ suggest?
   Ans. ‘Sword in hand’ suggests the power of the king.
3. Why could the king not conquer the narrator?
   Ans. The king could not conquer the narrator because the narrator did not give any importance to his power.

10. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

In the heat of the mid-day the houses stood with shut doors
I wandered along the crooked lane
An old man came out with his bag of gold.
He pondered and said, “I will hire you with my money.”
He weighed his coins one by one, but I turned away.

1. Why were the houses with the doors shut?
   Ans. The houses had the doors shut because of the heat of the mid-day.
2. What did the old man bring out?
   Ans. The old man brought out a bag of gold to hire the man.
3. How did the speaker react to the old man’s offer?
   Ans. Speaker turned down the old man’s offer.