A Tiger in the Zoo
1. T what does the tiger look at in night ?
(a) Stars
(b) Patrolling cars
(c) His House
(d) All of the Above
Ans: (a) Stars
2. Who wrote the poem 'A Tiger in the Zoo'?
(a) John Berryman
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Leslie Norris
(d) Robert Klein
Ans: (c) Leslie Norris
3. By "ignoring visitors", what is the poet trying to say?
(a) There is no use of showing rage
(b) The tiger is less terrorising because
(c) The tiger knows his power is restricted
(d) All of the above
Ans: (d) All of the above
4. What described "tiger in a jungle"?
(a) ignoring visitors
(b) Locked in concrete cell
(c) baring his white fangs
(d) his strength behind bars
Ans: (c) baring his white fangs
5. Name the poetic device used in the line "Baring his white fangs, his claws".
(a) Assonance
(b) Consonance
(c) Metaphor
(d) Oxymoron
Ans: (b) Consonance
6. How does the caged tiger react to the visitors?
(a) With a happy face
(b) Proudly
(c) He ignores them
(d) With a sad face
Ans: (c) He ignores them
7. Who passes near the water hole?
(a) Plump Buffalo
(b) Plump Deer
(c) Zebra
(d) All of the Above
Ans: (b) Plump Deer
8. How do the eyes of the tiger look?
(a) dark
(b) Sad
(c) Light
(d) brilliant
Ans: (d) brilliant
9. The tiger has velvet like
(a) skin
(b) Hair
(c) nose
(d) paws
Ans: (d) paws
10. How does the tiger react in the cage?
(a) He is in a happy mood
(b) He is in an angry mood
(c) He is in sad mood
(d) None of thee
Ans: (b) He is in an angry mood
11. Name the poetic device used in the line "He stalks in his vivid stripes",
(a) Consonance
(b) assonance
(c) metaphor
(d) Oxymoron
Ans: (a) Consonance
12. He should be lurking in shadow, Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole
Where plump deer pass. (a) Help the predator pounce on the prey comfortably without getting tired.
(b) Assist in keeping the prey unsuspecting of the predator's sound.
(c) Support the predator's vision as it eyes its prey.
(d) Aid in camouflaging the presence of the predator before it rushes in.
Ans: (b) Assist in keeping the prey unsuspecting of the predator's sound.
13. What has been personified in the poem?
(a) Deer
(b) Zoo
(c) Forest
(d) Tiger
Ans: (d) Tiger
14. "Baring his white fangs, his claws ......."
What is the meaning of ' fangs' ?
(a) Paws of tiger
(b) White hair of the animal body
(c) Sharp tooth of animal
(d) One kind of animal
Ans: (c) Sharp tooth of animal
15. The free tiger would terrorise the village people by showing his -
(a) Forest
(b) City
(c) Zoo
(d) Houses near the forest
Ans: (d) Houses near the forest
16. The tiger was moving in the
(a) Cage
(b) Forest
(c) Locality
(d) Bushes
Ans: (a) Cage
17. At night the tiger imprisoned could only do of -
(a) Eating his stored food
(b) Staring the stars
(c) Moving inside the cage
(d) Steeping
Ans: (b) Staring the stars
18. Where is the tiger's strength locked ?
(a) In the jungle
(b) In the nature
(c) Behind the caged bars
(d) None of these
Ans: (c) Behind the caged bars
19. The patrolling cars come to ------- at night .
(a) Vigilate the Zoo
(b) Take the animals
(c) Visit the place
(d) To see the tiger
Ans: (a) Vigilate the Zoo
20. The tiger is angry because he ----
(a) is hungry
(b) is ill
(c) Is bitten
(d) Is imprisoned
Ans: (d) Is imprisoned
21. The poem draws a contrast between _and_
(a) tiger in a zoo. humans
(b) humans, tiger in forest
(c) tiger in a zoo, tiger in a forest
(d) animals, human beings
Ans: (c) tiger in a zoo, tiger in a forest
22. The free tiger could hide itself behind the ---
(a) Long grass
(b) Big stone
(c) Bushes
(d) Cage
Ans: (a) Long grass
23. Snarling means ---
(a) Sound to make afraid the animals
(b) Sound made by animal
(c) Buzzing sound in the jungle
(d) Sound in the water bodies
Ans: (b) Sound made by animal
24. The free tiger would terrorise the village people by showing his -
(a) Tooth and claws
(b) Huge body
(c) Eyes
(d) Black stripes
Ans: (a) Tooth and claws
