Worksheet Solutions: Poem - Wind Notes | Study English Class 9 - Class 9

Q.1. The poem Wind was originally written in which language?
(a) Kannada
(b) Malayalam
(c) Telugu
(d) Tamil

Correct Answer is option (d)
The poem had been originally written in Tamil by poet Subramania Bharati and later translated by A.K.Ramanujan.

Q.2. The wind has been compared to
(a) god
(b) flood
(c) earthquake
(d) fire

Correct Answer is option (a)

Q.3. What does the poet want the wind to do?
(a) All of these
(b) Don’t scatter the papers
(c) Don’t throw down the books
(d) Don’t break the shutters of windows

Correct Answer is option (a)

Q.4. Who breaks the shutters of the window? (Wind)
(a) Wind
(b) Children
(c) A naughty boy
(d) A boy

Correct Answer is option (a)

Q.5. What is the message of the poem Wind?
(a) Make strong windows
(b) Stop the wind
(c) All of these
(d) Be firm and strong

Correct Answer is option (d)

Q.6. Which figure of speech has been used in the following line from the poem Wind?
'Wind comes softly'
(a) Irony
(b) Simile
(c) Oxymoron
(d) Personification

Correct Answer is option (d)
The phenomenon of wind has been given a human attribute.

Q.7. Whom does the poet make a request to and address?
(a) Wind
(b) The people
(c) His children
(d) All of these

Correct Answer is option (a)

Q.8. What does the word winnows in the poem mean?
(a) None of these
(b) Sorts grains
(c) Blows strongly
(d) Cleams grains

Correct Answer is option (c)

Q.9. Name the poet of the poem "Wind".
(a) J.K Krishna Murti
(b) Subramania Bharati
(c) Mahadevi Verma
(d) Ruskin Bond

Correct Answer is option (b)
The poem "Wind" has been composed by Subramania Bharati.

Q.10. Who is negatively affected by the wind?
(a) None of these
(b) Strong people
(c) Both weaklings and strong people
(d) Weaklings

Correct Answer is option (d)