Here is detailed MCQ from Asleep in the Valley by Arthur Rimbaud for you to have complete preparation for your upcoming examination. Questions are divided into sets and after each set, answers of the questions are given for your study and practice.
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MCQ from Asleep in the Valley by Arthur Rimbaud
MCQ SET A (MCQ from Asleep in the Valley)
1.The full name of Arthur Rimbaud is –
(a) Jean Arthur Rimbaud
(b) Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
(c) Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
(d) James Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
2.The country to which Rimbaud belongs to is-
(a) France
(b) Italy
(c) England
(d) Russia
3. Arthur Rimbaud is famously known as the-
(a) child poet
(b) infant poet
(c) boy poet
(d) war poet
4. The artists who were influenced by Rimbaud were-
(a) Pablo Picasso and Bob Dylan
(b) Pablo Picasso, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Dylan Thomas and Allen Ginsberg
(c) Pablo Neruda, Bob Dylan, Tom Morrison and Tom Stoppard
(d) Bob Dylan Alone
5. Rimbaud’s poem “Asleep in the Valley” is about-
(a) war
(b) sleep
(c) the Beauty of Nature
(d) prayer to God
6. The poem “Asleep in the Valley” was written in the year-
(a) 1876
(b) 1878
(c) 1877
(d) 1880
7. The type of the poem of which Rimbaud’s “Asleep in the Valley” is an example is
(a) Ode
(b) Sonnet
(c) Elegy
(d) Rhyme
8. The war which constitutes the background of Rimbaud’s “Asleep in the Valley” is –
(a) France-Russia war
(b) France-Prussia war
(c) France-Spain war
(d) France-Italy war
9. The green valley which Rimbaud in the first stanza describes of “Asleep in the Valley'” is –
(a) little in size
(b) small in size
(c) large in size
(d) medium in size
10. The small valley which Rimbaud describes in the first stanza of “Asleep in the Valley” is-
(a) brown in colour
(b) grey in colour
(c) green in colour
(d) silver in colour
MCQ SET A ANSWERS
| 1.(c) Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud | 6.(c) 1877 |
| 2. (a) France | 7.(b) Sonnet |
| 3.(b) infant poet | 8.(b) France-Prussia war |
| 4.(c) Pablo Neruda, Bob Dylan, Tom Morrison and Tom Stoppard | 9. (b) small in size |
| 5.(a) war | 10. (c) green in colour |
MCQ SET B (MCQ from Asleep in the Valley)
11. A Valley is
(a) a low area between the hills
(b) a low area between the valleys
(c) a low area between lagoons
(d) a low area on a river
12. The small valley which Rimbaud describes in the first stanza of “Asleep in the Valley'” is called ‘green’ because
(a) it is covered with g grass and plants
(b) it is covered with grass
(c) it is covered with plants
(d) it is covered with trees
13. In “Asleep in the Valley” a stream is said to flow on
(a) a small valley
(b) a small green valley
(c) a green valley
(d) a hilly area
14. According to Rimbaud the stream flows
(a) rapidly
(b) slowly
(c) horizontally
(d) vertically
15. On the grass the stream leaves-
(a) short strands of sliver
(b) long strands of silver
(c) bright strands of silver
(d) none of the above
16. The stream leaves “long strands of silver'”
(a) on the bright grass
(b) on the green grass
(c) on the dazzling grass
(d) on the long grass.
17. “… leaves long strands of silver on the bright / Grass; ..” the word ‘leaves’ means
(a) prepares
(b) creates
(c) gets rid of
(d) left
18. The ‘long strands’ are made of-
(a) soil
(b) sand
(c) grass
(d) plants
19. “And leaves long strands of silver on the bright Grass”- ‘silver’ refers to –
(a) the rays of the sun
(b) the rays of the moon
(c) sand
(d) ground
20. “And leaves long strands of silver on the bright/ Grass ; … ” the ‘grass’ is called ‘bright’ because –
(a) it is young and fresh the word
(b) the rays of the sun have fallen on it
(c) the rays of the moon have fallen on it
(d) it is lightened at night