On Killing a Tree MCQs with Answers

Question-1. What can alone kill a tree?

1. none of the above
2. hacking
3. chopping
4. hacking and chopping

Question-2. What does the poet equate killing trees with?

1. None
2. killing animals
3. killing insects
4. killing human beings

Question-3. What does the poet symbolize a tree too?

1. all of the above
2. a good tradition
3. a deep-rooted evil
4. a noble thing

Question-4. What does the strength of a tree lie in?

1. fruit
2. leaves
3. root
4. flowers

Question-5. What does the tree symbolise in this poem?

1. none
2. prosperity
3. greenery
4. deep rooted evil

Question-6. What is related to the death of roots?

1. all of the above
2. pulling out
3. scorching
4. choking

Question-7. What is the message of this poem?

1. None
2. cut trees
3. spoil trees
4. don't cut trees and save them

Question-8. What killed the tree?

1. All
2. scorching and chopping
3. floods
4. irresponsible behaviors

Question-9. What will again expand to a tree's full size?

1. flowers
2. roots
3. green twigs
4. fruit

Question-10. Who is the poet of the poem, On Killing a Tree?

1. William Wordsworth
2. Edward Lear
3. Gieve Patel
4. W.W.E. Ross

Question-11. According to the poet a tree absorbs sunlight, air, and water ?-

1. for a few days
2. for months
3. for decades
4. for years

Question-12. According to the poet hacking and chopping ?-

1. none of the above
2. will kill a tree
3. will not kill a tree
4. will enliven a tree

Question-13. According to the poet in the process of its growth a tree consumes ?-

1. fire
2. air
3. water
4. soil

Question-14. According to the poet, the thing which is said to be hacked and chopped is ?-

1. any part of the tree
2. the branch
3. the leaves
4. the stem

Question-15. Gieve Patel's 'On Killing a Tree' is ?-

1. a ballad
2. an ironical poem
3. a meditative poem
4. a dramatic poem

Question-16. In Gieve Patel's 'On Killing a Tree' one finds the images of a bleeding tree and a healing tree in ?-

1. the last stanza
2. the last two stanzas
3. the first two stanzas
4. the first stanza

Question-17. In terms of parts of speech the word 'roped' is ?-

1. pronoun
2. noun
3. verb
4. adjective

Question-18. In the phrase 'bleeding bark' the word 'bleeding' means ?-

1. none of the above
2. oozing
3. snoozing
4. sneezing

Question-19. In the poem , 'On Killing a Tree' according to the poet the root was hidden inside the soil for ?-

1. none of the above
2. centuries
3. ages
4. years

Question-20. In the poem , 'On Killing a Tree' the word 'twigs' means ?-

1. none of the above
2. small branches
3. long branches
4. tall branches

Question-21. In the poem, 'On Killing a Tree', the process of killing a tree takes

1. An entire day
2. Minimum time
3. Much longer time
4. Hardly any time

Question-22. The root is 'the source' of the ?-

1. the vitality of the tree
2. colour of the tree
3. the shape of the tree
4. size of the tree

Question-23. The 'strength of the tree' lies in ?-

1. the root
2. the bough
3. the stem
4. the leaf

Question-24. The verb 'pulled out' means ?-

1. taken out smoothly
2. taken out softly
3. taken out forcibly
4. taken out partly

Question-25. The word 'leprous' refers to the disease called ?-

1. none of the above
2. canker
3. cancer
4. leprosy

Question-26. What helps the tree to grow?

1. none
2. earthcorrect
3. air
4. gardener

Question-27. What is needed to kill a tree?

1. pulling out the roots entirely
2. a simple jab
3. hacking
4. choking

Question-28. What is scorching done by?

1. the rain
2. the water
3. the earth
4. the heat of the sun

Question-29. Where does the strength of the tree lie?

1. All
2. in leaves
3. in fruits
4. in its roots

Question-30. 'Will do it. It has grown'.Which has grown?

1. Both (b) and (c)
2. Tree
3. Man
4. Bark

Question-31. Chocking is done in the absence of :

1. sunlight
2. earth
3. air
4. water

Question-32. How do the trees die?

1. when we cut it with knife or jab
2. when they don't get water
3. when they don't get manure
4. when their roots are uprooted

Question-33. the strength of the tree is exposed? What do these words convey?

1. All
2. roots of the tree taken out of the earth
3. roots are withered
4. tree is withered