Reading Comprehension (Unseen Poem) - 4 | English Language & Pedagogy for CTET & TET Exams - CTET & State TET PDF Download

Direction: Read the following poems carefully and answer the questions that follow.
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
A narrow Fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides-
You may have met him-did you not
His notice sudden is-
The Grass divides as with a Comb-
A spotted shaft is seen-
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on-
He likes a Boggy Acre-
A Floor too cool for Corn-
Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot-
I more than once at Noon
Have passed, I thought, a Whip-lash
Unbraiding in the Sun-
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone—
Several of Nature’s People
I know, and they know me—
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality—
But never met this Fellow,
Attended, or alone—
Without a tighter breathing
And zero at the bone—    Emily Dickinson

Q1: Who or what is the fellow in this poem?
(a)  A whip-lash
(b)  A snake
(c)  A gust of wind
(d)  A boy 

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Q2: The phrase ‘Without a tighter breathing/And zero at the bone’ most nearly indicates
(a) fright
(b) cold
(c) grief
(d) awe 

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Q3: The phrase ‘Nature’s People’ means
(a) nature-lovers
(b) children
(c) animals
(d) neighbours

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Q4: The speaker of this poem is most likely
(a) an adult woman
(b) an adult man
(c) Emily Dickinson, the poet
(d) a young boy 

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Q5: The word that is not closest in meaning to the word ‘barefoot’ is
(a) unshoed
(b) discalced
(c) shoeless
(d) shoed

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