Multiple choice

Who hides in the cooling trees?

Directions: Read the following poem carefully and answer the given question:

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
                                 By John Keats
The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's -- he takes the lead
In summer luxury, he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

  1. The grasshopper

  2. The cricket

  3. The birds

  4. The earth

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The poem states 'When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, / And hide in cooling trees'. This clearly shows that birds hide in cooling trees when exhausted from summer heat. The grasshopper takes the lead in summer singing, while cricket sings in winter from the stove.