Worksheet: Poem - On the Grasshopper and Cricket | English Class 8 PDF Download

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Q1: What is the grasshopper symbolic of in the poem?
(a) Winter
(b) Summer
(c) Autumn
(d) Spring

Q2: According to Keats, what does the earth do in all seasons?
(a) Sleeps
(b) Sings
(c) Cries
(d) Hides

Q3: Where does the grasshopper rest when tired?
(a) On a tree branch
(b) Under some weed
(c) In a nest
(d) On a stone

Q4: What does the cricket sing its beautiful songs from, according to the poem?
(a) Trees
(b) Stones
(c) Grass
(d) Hills

Q5: What feeling does a half-asleep human being associate with the cricket's song?
(a) Warmth from the sun
(b) Melancholy
(c) The chirping of birds
(d) Grasshopper's song from the hills

Fill in the Blanks

Q1: In hot summer, when the birds stop singing, the grasshopper is found flying from hedge to ________________.

Q2: The earth expresses its pleasure through different beings like the ________________ in very cold weather.

Q3: The grasshopper rests beneath some ________________ when tired.

Q4: The cricket sings its beautiful songs from the ________________.

Q5: According to the poem, a half-asleep human being feels the cricket's song to be coming from ________________.

Answer the following Questions

Q1: Whose voice do you hear on summer afternoons? Where does he go when he is tired?

Q2: What happens to birds during summer?

Q3: Where do the birds hide to avoid the heat of the sun?

Q4: Which insect takes over from the Grasshopper in winter?

Q5: What happens during winter?

Q6: Who are half lost in drowsiness and why?

Q7: Why does the Cricket’s song sound like the Grasshopper?

Q8: Which words or phrases suggest a sense of relief from the heat of summer in stanza 1?

Q9: Explain what the speaker means when he says, ‘The poetry of earth is ceasing never’.

Q10: Discuss the common features between the grasshopper and the cricket?

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