ASSEB CLASS IX ENGLISH Chapter 5 Poem: A Legend of the Northland MCQ

{ "questions": [ { "question": "Who is the author of the poem \"A Legend of the Northland\"?", "options": [ "Phoebe Cary", "William Wordsworth", "Robert Frost", "W.B. Yeats" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "What type of poem is \"A Legend of the Northland\"?", "options": [ "Epic", "Ballad", "Sonnet", "Haiku" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Where is the poem set?", "options": [ "In the Southland", "In the Westland", "In the Northland", "In the Eastland" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Why can't the people in the Northland sleep through the nights in winter?", "options": [ "The nights are too cold", "They are busy working", "They have to travel", "The nights are too long" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "What are harnessed to the sledges when it snows in the Northland?", "options": [ "Reindeer", "Dogs", "Horses", "Oxen" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "What do the children look like in their funny, furry clothes?", "options": [ "Wolf's pups", "Bear's cubs", "Fox's kits", "Snowmen" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Who came to the door of the little woman's cottage?", "options": [ "Saint John", "A traveler", "Saint Peter", "A country schoolboy" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "What was the little woman doing when Saint Peter arrived?", "options": [ "Knitting clothes", "Sleeping", "Chopping dry wood", "Baking cakes on the hearth" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Why did Saint Peter ask for a cake?", "options": [ "He was faint with fasting", "He wanted to test her", "He wanted to buy it", "He liked her cooking" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "How many cakes did Saint Peter ask for?", "options": [ "Two", "A single one", "A dozen", "None" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Why didn't the woman give Saint Peter the first cake she baked?", "options": [ "It was burnt", "It was too small", "She thought it seemed too large to give away", "She wanted to eat it herself immediately" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "How thin did she bake the final piece of dough?", "options": [ "Thin as paper", "Thin as a leaf", "Thin as a needle", "Thin as a wafer" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "What did the woman do with all the cakes she baked for the saint?", "options": [ "She put them on the shelf", "She threw them away", "She gave them to her children", "She fed them to the birds" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "What was Saint Peter's reaction to the woman's greed?", "options": [ "He smiled and left", "He grew angry", "He cried", "He begged for a crumb" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "What did Saint Peter say the woman was too selfish to possess?", "options": [ "Gold and silver", "A cottage and a hearth", "Human form, food, shelter, and fire", "The love of her family" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "What bird was the woman turned into?", "options": [ "A sparrow", "A crow", "A linnet", "A woodpecker" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "How does the transformed woman get her scanty food?", "options": [ "By boring in the hard, dry wood", "By catching insects in the air", "By begging from other birds", "By eating leftover cakes" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "How did the woman leave the cottage after being cursed?", "options": [ "She walked out the door", "She went up through the chimney", "She flew out of the window", "She dug a hole in the ground" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "What happened to the woman's clothes after her transformation?", "options": [ "They turned into feathers", "They were left on the hearth", "They were burned black as a coal", "They remained exactly the same" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "What part of her attire remained unchanged when she turned into a bird?", "options": [ "Her furry coat", "Her apron", "Her shoes", "Her scarlet cap" ], "answer": 3 } ] }