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Multiple choice theme, main idea and purpose of a passage reading comprehension english
Poet: "Who art thou?"
Rain: "I am the poem of the earth."
Poet: "Why have you come here?"
Rain: "To beautify my origin. I also want to give life to unborn seeds."
A poet asked the rain _____(1)_____. The rain answered that ____(2)____. The poet again asked it _____(3)_____. The rain replied that ____(4)____. It further told that ____(5)_____.

Read the following dialogue between the poet and the rain, and fill in the blank (4) with the most appropriate option.

  1. Why has it come here

  2. Why had it come here

  3. Why it had come there

  4. Why have you come there
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A poet asked the rain who he was (1). The rain answered that he was the "poem of the earth"(2). The poet again asked the rain why has the rain come to earth (here)(3). The rain replied that it has come to beautify "its origins" (the earth)(4). It further told that it (rain) had come to give life to "unborn seeds" (5).

Multiple choice theme, main idea and purpose of a passage reading comprehension english

Directions for questions 96 to 100: The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
in 776 BC the First Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honour the Greeks chief God Zeus. The Greeks emphasized, physical fitness and strength in their education of youth. Therefore contests in running, jumping, discus and javelin throwing, boxing and horse and chariot racing were held in individual cities, and the winners competed every four years at Mount Olympus.Winners were greatly honoured by having poems sung about their deeds.Originally these were held as games of friendship. and any wars in progress were halted to allow the games to take place. The Greeks attached so much importance to these games that they calculated time in four-year cycles called Olympiads dating from 776 BC.
Which of the following contests was not held? 

  1. Discus throwing

  2. Skating

  3. Boxing

  4. Running
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The passage lists running, jumping, discus, javelin, boxing, and horse/chariot racing. Skating is not mentioned as a Greek Olympic contest.

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Which of the words in the poem rhyme:

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, 
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. 

(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)

  1. remember, ember

  2. bleak, each

  3. remember, December

  4. Ah, And
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,C Correct answer
Explanation

Here, we can notice that "remember" and "ember" sound similar and are rhyming words. Similarly, "remember" and "December" too rhyme with each other. So, options A and C are the answers.

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Which of the words in the following lines rhyme:

I walked through life,
And all I'd done.
Wandering aimlessly,
Towards what I've become.

  1. life - done

  2. life - aimlessly

  3. done - become

  4. life - become
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Rhyming words are those words that have the same last sound: some examples are pan - fan, watch - catch and so on. According to this, option C is the correct answer as 'done' and 'become' have the same last sound.

Options A, B and D are incorrect because they do not adhere to the above-mentioned rule.

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Which of the words in the poem rhyme:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, 
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)

  1. dreary, weary

  2. weak, weary

  3. pondered, lore

  4. Once, Over
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Rhyming words are those words that have the same last sound: some examples are cry - fry, able - table and so on. According to this, option A is the correct answer as 'deary' and 'weary' have the same last sound.

Options B, C and D are incorrect because they do not adhere to the above-mentioned rule.

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Which of the words in the poem rhyme:

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, 
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)

  1. nodded, rapping

  2. nearly, napping

  3. napping, tapping, rapping

  4. nearly, gently
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C,D Correct answer
Explanation

In the given lines, we can notice that "napping", "tapping", and "rapping" rhyme with each other and "nearly" and "gently" rhyme with each other. These words are similar sounding and rhyme with each other.  So, C and D are the correct answers here

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
choose, blue, hoof, cheese, cruise

  1. choose, cruise

  2. choose, cheese

  3. blue, hoof

  4. blue, cruise
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Though there might be some confusion with choose/ cheese, they do not sound exactly similar and therefore do not rhyme. Choose/ Cruise, however, rhyme perfectly. Option A is the answer.

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Which of the words in the poem rhyme:

Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow 
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -

(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)

  1. sought, morrow

  2. morrow, borrow

  3. sorrow, Lenore

  4. sought, lost
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B,D Correct answer
Explanation

A careful reading of the given lines reveal the rhyming words. Here, "morrow" and "borrow" rhyme and "sought" and "lost" rhyme. So, B and D are correct answers.

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
door, pour, more, four, snore 

  1. door, pour

  2. pour, more

  3. snore, door

  4. All the words rhyme
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

All the words from the given list sound similar (and have similar phonetic transcriptions). Therefore, all the words rhyme with each other. Option D is the correct answer.

Multiple choice poetry reading comprehension english

Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
seen, rain, been, scene, mean 

  1. rain, been

  2. rain, scene

  3. mean, scene

  4. seen, mean
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C,D Correct answer
Explanation

In the given list, "mean" best rhymes with "scene" and "seen' best rhymes with "mean" (as they sound similar and their phonetic transcription is identical). So, options C and D are correct answers.