Class-10th FIRE AND ICE MCQS

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FIRE AND ICE (POEM)

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CBSE Class 10 ENGLISH Chapter 1 (poem) 

FIRE AND ICE mcqs.

Q.1- Name the poetic device used in the line "But if it had to perish twice". 

a) Metaphor

b) Imagery

c) Paradox

d) Alliteration 

Ans-(c) Paradox

Q.2- What would be a better option to end the earth?

a) Fire

b) Ice

c) both are equally competent

d) none of these

Ans-(c) both are equally competent

 

Q.3- What would suffice if the world were to perish twice?
a) ice

b) fire
c) hatred
d) both 1 and 2
Ans-(c) hatred

Q.4-Where has he used personification?
a) earth
b) ice
c) Fire
d) both b and c
Ans-(d) both b and c

Q.5- What is ‘Ice’ a symbol of?

a) Lust
b) Love
c) Desire
d) Hatred

Ans-(d) Hatred

Q.6- What does the poet compare fire with?

a) Hot

b) Desire

c) Hatred

d) None of these 

Ans-(b) Desire

Q.7-In the poem 'Desire' means that

a) It is like fire

b) It is always hot

c) It is always desire

d) It will cause the world's end

Ans-(d) It will cause the world's end 

Q.8-What is the name of the poet?

a) Sylvia Plath

b) W.B Yeats

c) Robert Frost

d) Robert Burns

Ans-(c) Robert Frost

Q.9- Name the poetic device used in the line “To say that for destruction ice is also great”.

a) Metaphor

b) Imagery

c) Alliteration

d) Oxymoron

Ans-(b) Imagery

Q.10-What is the rhyming scheme of the poem "Fire and Ice"?

a) abaa bcbcb

b) aaba bcbcb

c) aaab bcbcb

d) abab bcbcb 

Ans-(a) abaa bcbcb

Q.11- The poet brings about a contrast between 'ice' and

a) cold

b) heat

c) love 

d) hatred

Ans-(d) hatred

Q.12- The 'hatred' has the same adverse impact on us as:

a) jealous 

b) love

c) desire

d) none of the above

Ans-(c) desire

Q.13- Name the poetic device used in the line “Some say the world will end in fire”.

a) Metaphor

b) Imagery

c) Alliteration

d) Oxymoron 

Ans-(b) Imagery 

Q.14-'Ice' is sufficient for destruction. So is

a) love

b) hatred

c) coldness

d) mercy

Ans-(b) hatred

Q.15- What is ‘fire’ a symbol of?

a) love and new desires

b) lust and endless desires

c) love and beginning of a new thing.

d) Revolution

Ans-(a) love and new desires

Q.16- What is the meaning of the word 'suffice' ?

a) be sufficient

b) die

c) destruction

d) constant

Ans-(a) be sufficient

Q.17- What is the meaning of ''perish''?

a) die

b) bloom

c) glow

d) rise

Ans-(a) die

Q.18-Why do some people say that the world will end in ice?

a) because love among people is increasing fast.

b) because hatred among people is increasing fast.

c) because lust among people is increasing fast.

d) None of the Above

Ans-(b) because hatred among people is increasing fast.

Q.19-The essential idea given in the poem is that

a) hatred can destroy the world

b) love can save the world

c) world can be saved by the people

d) people must love one another

Ans-(a) hatred can destroy the world

Q.20- What will Fire do to the world?

a) put the world to a new beginning

b) put the world to an end

c) make the developed

d) none of these

Ans-(b) put the world to an end

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