11th class English (Poem 2) unit 20 MCQs
chapter 20 MCQs 11th Class English
Night Mail:
Q1. Choose the correct answer.
1. The Night Mail is:
a. A train that carries mail
b. An express train
c. None of these
d. A passenger train
2. The Night Mail reaches:
a. Before time
b. In time
c. After time
d. On time
3. On the arrival of Night Mail the birds:
a. Turn their beaks
b. Are frightened
c. Pleasure
d. Are pleased
4. Why do the sheepdogs continue to sleep on the arrival of the train? Because they can’t:
a. Change her course
b. Attack her
c. Bite her
d. None of these
Q4. Choose the correct meaning of underlined word.
1. This is the Night Mail crossing the border:
a. Limits
b. Boundary
c. March
d. Bound
2. Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches:
a. Ugly
b. Attractive
c. Broken
d. Passionless
3. Shoveling white steam over her:
a. Showing
b. Lifting
c. Throwing
d. Shifting
4. The train pulls up Beattock.
a. Draws out
b. Descends
c. Comes in
d. Ascends
5. The gradient is against the train.
a. Colleagues
b. Slope
c. Neighbours
d. Enemy
6. The train is passes by the moorland boulder.
a. Stream
b. City
c. Heath
d. Brook
7. The train is passes by the moorland boulder.
a. Bush
b. Tree
c. Stone
d. Brook
8. The strain shovels white steam over her shoulders.
a. Eats up
b. Emits
c. Devours
d. Swallows
9. The train snorts noisily.
a. Runs
b. Sleeps
c. Stops
d. Whistles
10. The train passes the silent miles of wind-bent grass.
a. River
b. Pasture
c. Rocks
d. Pond
11. The birds see the train, when it approaches.
a. Goes
b. Commends
c. Departs
d. Arrives
12. The birds stare at the blank faced coaches of the train.
a. Praise
b. Gaze
c. Bend
d. Disgust
13. The birds stare at the blank faced coaches of the train.
a. Run
b. Carriages
c. Passengers
d. Steams
14. The sheep dogs slumber on with paws across when the train passes.
a. Sleep
b. Awake
c. Bark
d. Wake
15. The sheep dogs slumber on with paws across when the train passes.
a. Legs
b. Feet
c. Teeth
d. Hands
16. No one wakes as the train passes.
a. Wails
b. Sleeps
c. Groans
d. Get up
17. The jug gently shakes as the train passes.
a. Glitters
b. Trembles
c. Dims
d. Falls
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