The School Boy mcqs & important questions | class 8th honeydew english poem

The School Boy MCQ Questions Class 8 English with Answers

Question. When did the boy love to rise?
(a) Winter morning
(b) Summer evening
(c) Summer morning
(d) All of these

Answer:  C

Question. “I _____ to rise on a sunday morn”
(a) Hate
(b) Despise
(c) Regret
(d) Love

Answer:  D

Question. ‘Of their joy in the springing day,’- who is ‘their’ referred here?
(a) Birds
(b) Students
(c) Plants
(d) All of these

Answer:  C

Question. How shall the summer arise in joy, Or the summer fruits appear if _____.
(a) Buds are nipped
(b) Blossoms are blown
(c) Plants are stripped
(d) All of the Above

Answer:  D

Question. How is the mood of the child?
(a) Unhappy
(b) Joyous
(c) Happy
(d) Crying

Answer:  C

Question. ‘And forget his youthful —–.’
(a) Wing
(b) Dying
(c) Spring
(d) Flying

Answer:  C

Question. “The little ones spend the day, in _____ and _____”
(a) Sighing, dismay
(b) Happiness, glory
(c) Happiness, joy
(d) Sighing, sorrow

Answer:  A

Question. Name the poet of the poem ‘The School Boy’
(a) P.B Shelley
(b) William Blake
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) John Milton.

Answer:  B

Question. What drives all the joy away?
(a) Caged bird
(b) Nip in the bud
(c) Blown blossoms
(d) School on a summer morning

Answer:  D

Question. The boy ——-to rise in a summer morning.
(a) Love
(b) Hate
(c) Feels annoyed
(d) Nothing

Answer:  A

Question. Where did the boy not find any delight?
(a) Under the tree
(b) Books
(c) Cage
(d) All of these

Answer:  B

Question. Where does the child spend his anxious hour?
(a) In the classroom
(b) In playground
(c) In the garden
(d) In the market

Answer:  A

Question. Who does he compare himself to when he says “How can a child when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring.”?
(a) Book
(b) Flower
(c) Nip in the bud
(d) Caged bird

Answer:  D

Question. Whom does the child complain to?
(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) Both father and mother
(d) God

Answer:  C

Question. Who is ‘I’ here?
(a) A bird
(b) A tree
(c) A small child
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. Who sings with the child in summer morning?
(a) Thrust
(b) Pigeon
(c) Cuckoo
(d) Skylark

Answer:  D 

Question. What did the skylark do with the boy?
(a) Dance
(b) Sing
(c) Entertain
(d) All of these 

Answer:  B 

Question. Who sings along with the school boy?
(a) His parents
(b) Huntsman
(c) Skylark
(d) His friends 

Answer:  C 

Question. The summer morning is full of
(a) birds
(b) hunters
(c) music
(d) skylarks 

Answer:  C 

Question. Whom does the child compares himself to?
(a) Buds
(b) Evils
(c) Joys
(d) Flowers 

Answer:  A

Question. He cannot take delight in his books because
(a) he is attracted towards nature
(b) he is dull
(c) he doesn’t like to study
(d) the books are uninteresting. 

Answer:  A 

Question. Who sings on every tree?
(a) The boy
(b) Monkey
(c) Insects
(d) Birds 

Answer:  D 

Question. Give the rhyming word of ‘bower’ from this poem.
(a) Shower
(b) Sit
(c) Outworn
(d) Dismay 

Answer:  A 

Question. ‘The little ones spend the day,’ – who is ‘the little ones’ mentioned here?
(a) The birds
(b) The hunters
(c) The students
(d) None of these 

Answer:  C 

Question. Where does the child spend his anxious hour?
(a) In the classroom
(b) In playground
(c) In the garden
(d) In the market 

Answer:  A

Important Questions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem 5

Question 1. Why child hates going to school?

Answer: Child hates school because he is under strict control of his teacher. He feels like a caged bird.

Question 2. How child happiness turn into sorrowness?

Answer: The child rise in the fresh and delightful summer morning. He is very happy but his parents force him to go to the school where he spends his time in sorrowfulness.

Question 3. Find three or four words/phrases in stanza 1 that reflect the child’s happiness and joy.

Answer: The phrases that reflect the child’s joy and happiness are ‘love to rise in a summer mom’, birds sing on every tree,’ ‘the skylark sings with me’, and ‘sweet company’.

Question 4. In stanza 2, the mood changes. Which words/ phrases reflect the changed mood?

Answer: ‘It drives all joy away’ under a cruel eye outworm. In sighing and dismay.

Question 5. ‘A cruel eye outworm’ (Stanza 2) refers to
(i) the classroom which is shabby/ noisy.
(ii) the lessons which are difficult / uninteresting.
(iii) the dull /uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.

Answer: (iii) the dull /uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.

Question 6. ‘Nor sit in learning’s bower
worn thro with the dreary shower’
Which of the following is a close paraphrase of the lines above?
(i) Nor can I sit a roofless classroom when it is raining.
(ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and explaining.
(iii) Nor can I sit in the school garden for fear of getting wet in the rain.

Answer: (ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and explaining.

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

But to go to school in a summer morn,
O’ it drives all joy away,
under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day,
In sighing and dismay.

1. What drives away all the joy?
   Ans. Going to school in a summer morning drives away all the joy.
2. What does ‘cruel eye outworn’ refer to?
   Ans. ‘Cruel eye outworn’ refers to the teachers and uninspiring life at school.
3. How do the little ones spend the day?
   Ans. The little ones spend the day sadly sighing.