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12 questions
  1. "The Solitary Reaper" was written by —
    1. S. T. Coleridge
    2. William Wordsworth
    3. John Keats
    4. Robert Burns
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    Answer: (B) William Wordsworth

    It is Wordsworth’s, published in 1807.

  2. The reaper in the poem is —
    1. an English shepherdess
    2. a Highland girl
    3. an Arabian traveller
    4. a village schoolmistress
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    Answer: (B) a Highland girl

    She is a solitary Highland Lass reaping alone in a field.

  3. Why can the poet not understand her song?
    1. She sings too softly
    2. She sings in Gaelic
    3. He is deaf in one ear
    4. She sings without words
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    Answer: (B) She sings in Gaelic

    She sings in Erse, Scottish Gaelic, which the poet does not know.

  4. The poet compares her song with those of —
    1. the lark and the swan
    2. the nightingale and the cuckoo
    3. the thrush and the robin
    4. the owl and the dove
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    Answer: (B) the nightingale and the cuckoo

    The nightingale in Arabian sands and the cuckoo in the Hebrides.

  5. "Breaking the silence of the seas / Among the farthest Hebrides" refers to the —
    1. reaper
    2. nightingale
    3. cuckoo-bird
    4. poet himself
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    Answer: (C) cuckoo-bird

    These lines describe the cuckoo’s call in the far northern islands.

  6. The Hebrides are islands near —
    1. Arabia
    2. Scotland
    3. Greece
    4. Ireland
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    Answer: (B) Scotland

    They lie off the west coast of Scotland.

  7. "O listen! for the Vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound" chiefly uses —
    1. irony
    2. imagery of sound
    3. personification of death
    4. antithesis
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    Answer: (B) imagery of sound

    The valley is imagined as a vessel filled to the brim — strong auditory imagery.

  8. The poet guesses that the song may be about —
    1. her coming marriage
    2. old battles long ago, or everyday sorrow
    3. the beauty of the Highlands
    4. a prayer to God
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    Answer: (B) old battles long ago, or everyday sorrow

    Stanza 3 offers both possibilities and settles on neither.

  9. What does the poet finally carry away with him?
    1. A sheaf of grain
    2. The girl’s name
    3. The music in his heart
    4. A written copy of the song
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    Answer: (C) The music in his heart

    The closing couplet says he bore the music long after it was heard no more.

  10. How many stanzas does the poem have?
    1. Three
    2. Four
    3. Five
    4. Six
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    Answer: (B) Four

    Four stanzas of eight lines each.

  11. The repetition of "single", "solitary", "by herself" and "alone" emphasises the reaper’s —
    1. poverty
    2. aloneness
    3. beauty
    4. sadness
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    Answer: (B) aloneness

    Wordsworth presses the idea of her solitude, which is what makes the scene striking.

  12. The poem best illustrates Wordsworth’s belief that poetry comes from —
    1. strict classical rules
    2. emotion recollected in tranquillity
    3. the study of ancient languages
    4. the imitation of Greek models
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    Answer: (B) emotion recollected in tranquillity

    The song is remembered and felt again long afterwards — emotion recollected in tranquillity.

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