Poem - Rain on the Roof Class 9 Worksheet English Chapter 1

Multiple Choice Questions

Q.1. Find the word from the poem Rain on the Roof which means a repeated part of a song or a poem.
(a) Refrain
(b) Fancies
(c) Shingles
(d) Patter

Q.2. What is the favourite activity of the poet during the rainy season?
(a) Eating snacks
(b) Lie on the bed and listen to the pitter-patter sound of the rain
(c) Roaming on the roof
(d) Listening to the music

Q.3. What does the poet attach the darkness with?
(a) Pleasant
(b) Sadness
(c) Soothing
(d) Joyful mood

Q.4. Which figure of speech has been used in the phrase darling dreamers?
(a) Anaphora
(b) Antithesis
(c) Anticlimax
(d) Alliteration

Q.5. Where is the rain making a noise?
(a) In the lanes
(b) On the roof
(c) In the garden
(d) In the room

Q.6. Which figure of speech has been used in the phrase starry spheres?
(a) Antithesis
(b) Apostrophe
(c) Alliteration
(d) Anaphora

Q.7. Whose memory comes to the poet when he listens to the rain?
(a) The memory of his dear friend
(b) The memory of his mother
(c) The memory of his beloved
(d) The memory of his father

Q.8. What does cottage-chamber mean?
(a) A separate building next to the cottage
(b) All of these
(c) Type of bed
(d) A room in the cottage

Q.9. What tinkles on the shingles?
(a) Raindrops
(b) Silver bangles
(c) Brass-bells
(d) Hailstones

Q.10. Select the correct meaning of refrain.
(a) The noise of the rain
(b) Stop making noise
(c) Sound of piano music
(d) Making refined efforts

Very Short Answer Questions

Q1: What do the humid shadows refer to?
Q2: What does the poet like to do when it rains?
Q3: What makes an echo in the poet’s heart?
Q4: Where do the raindrop patter?
Q5: Is the poet, Coates Kinney, a child now?

Short Answer Questions

Q1: How old do you think the poet is? Justify your answer.
Q2: 'And the melancholy darkness gently weeps in rainy tears.’ Explain the phrase ‘melancholy darkness’. What does it do?
Q3: What does the poet like to do when it rains?
Q4: What are the poet’s feelings as the rain falls on the shingles?
Q5: “And a thousand dreamy fancies into busy heart.” When do the ‘thousand dreamy fancies’ begin in the poet’s heart?

Long Answer Questions

Q1: How does the rain affect the poet? Describe.
Q2: In what way are the poems The Road Not Taken and Rain on the Roof evocative of the past?
Q3: How does the poet describe the falling rain in the poem ‘Rain on the Roof?
Q4: What happens when the poet listens to the patter of the rain? Do you think that rain is a narrative tool in the poet’s life?

Reference to Context Questions

Q1: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottage-chamber bed
And lie listening to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead!
(a) What does the phrase “humid shadows” refer to?
(b) What are “starry spheres”?
(c) Why does the poet call the darkness melancholy?

Q2: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
The poet is in his bed in his cottage.
When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottage-chamber bed
And lie listening to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead!
(a) Who weeps in the form of rainy tears?
(b) Which line shows that the poet is happy when it rains?
(c) What memories does the rain bring to the poet’s mind?

Q3: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Alliteration: Over all the starry spheres
What a bliss to press the pillow
And lie listening to the patter
Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start,
And a thousand recollections
Weave their air-threads into woof,
As I listen to the patter
Of the rain upon the roof
(a) What echoes in the poet’s heart?
(b) Explain: a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start.
(c) What starts ‘a thousand dreamy fancies’?
(d) What is a refrain? Find lines from the poem that form its refrain.

Q4: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start,
And a thousand recollections
Weave their air-threads into woof
As I listen to the patter
Of the rain upon the roof
(a) Explain ‘shingles’. What is tinkling on the shingles?
(b) What finds an echo in the poet’s heart?
(c) Who is a busy being? What happens to his mind?
(d) Explain: “A thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof’.

Q5: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Now in memory comes my mother,
As she used in years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn:
O! Ifeel her fond look on me
As I list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain.
(a) Whom does the poet remember?
(b) Who are the darling dreamers?
(c) How did the poet’s mother gaze at the dreamers?
(d) What does he feel? Is his mother alive?

Q6: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Now in memory comes my mother,
As she used in years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn:
O! Ifeel her fond look on me
As I list to this refrain
Which is played upon the
shingles By the patter of the rain.
(a) What is the poet doing at the moment?
(b) What is the memory that comes to the poet?
(c) What are the poet’s feelings for his family?
(d) Name a poetic device used in the last line.
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