English Quiz on Poetry:25.05.2018 for CTET & State TET Exams Exams

Question 1

Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

Spindle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean’s waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes. I walk,
That's where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land that holds this beautiful sand.
-Morgan Swain

The poem’s central theme is

Question 2

Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

Spindle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean’s waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes. I walk,
That's where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land that holds this beautiful sand.
-Morgan Swain

Here, “to the end of the land” refers to the

Question 3

Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

Spindle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean’s waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes. I walk,
That's where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land that holds this beautiful sand.
-Morgan Swain

Here, “That’s where my feet leave prints to be” means that the Writer

Question 4

Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

Spindle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean’s waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes. I walk,
That's where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land that holds this beautiful sand.
-Morgan Swain

The phrase in the poem that conveys the same meaning as “along the tip of the sea” is

Question 5

Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

Spindle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean’s waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes. I walk,
That's where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land that holds this beautiful sand.
-Morgan Swain

The poetic device used in the line a “They sparkle like the ocean’s waves” is a/an

Question 6

Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

Spindle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean’s waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes. I walk,
That's where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land at holds this beautiful sand.
-Morgan Swain

A word that can replace ‘squish’ is