English IX - Chapter No.11 - Questions / Answers and Text Book Exercise & MCQs

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Rain

Questions and Answers

Q.1: Why does the poet call the rain beautiful?
Ans: In summer the extreme heat makes every living thing uneasy, the rain washes away the dust as it gushes down the streets and lanes.and brings comfort for them. So the poet calls the rain "beautiful "

Q.2: When it rains?
Ans: It rains after a wind blows and heat increases, as it is a geographical effect which is generally witnessed.

Q.3: Where it rains?
Ans: It rains everywhere, it rains in the broad and fiery streets, narrow lane,  the fields and on the houses it pours water everywhere and makes everything wet.

Q.4: Why the poet says," it clatters along the roof."?
Ans: When it rains the drops of water fall on the roofs and make a peculiar sound made by the hoofs of horse which the poet says'" clattering along the roofs."

Q.5: What does the poet means by saying, "how it gushes and struggles out."?
Ans: When it rains the rainy water begins to flow to the slope rapidly. The poet means the same by saying," How is gushes and struggles out.

Q.6: What the does the poet see across the window - pane?
Ans: The poet sees rain across the window - pane.  He sees the rainy water pouring the streets, lanes, fields and everything.

Q.7: what is there with the rainy water?
Ans: When if rains, the rainy water makes the soil wet and soft, it mixes with the water and flows with it, which the poet calls," muddy tide."

Q.8: Why the gutter roars?
Ans: As it rains heavily, the rainy water flow towards the slope. When it comes from all sides together, it makes force and sound and it seems that a river is flowing and roaring.

Q.9: Why is the rain compared to a river?
Ans: The rain water is compared to a river because rainwater forms a broad and muddy
stream as it flows down the gutter.

Q.10: What is the theme of the poem?
Ans: The theme of the poem is RAIN.

Q.11: Why does the poet say that rain is welcome?
Ans: As the land had been too dry and the weather is too hot due to summer season. When the rain comes and falls  on the window pane, this rain water filled with mud it looks like a river roaring down. He feels overjoyed  and welcomes it with open arms.

Q.12: which two words or phrases does the poet use to describe the rain ?
Ans: The two phrases are:
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs!

Exercise

Questions:

1.Compare the summer rain in this poem to the summer rain in your native town.
Ans: As poet said in poem Summer season  is very hot and lands and street are fiery. When rain comes it bring happiness  with fresh breeze and reduce dust and decrease heat. But In our town summer rain is small because processes capable of lifting the air are weak and infrequent .
Secondly drainage system in our town is not good so it create  problems rain water stand on streets and dirt and mud make the environment much messy. Although rain is really give beautiful view and comfort in summer.

2. The sound of some of the lines fits the meaning very well. Which lines are they?  Or 
    What is the sound of the rain compared to?
Ans: The sound of the rain is compared to the tramp of hoofs. In the following lines poet compare the sounds of the rain on the roof to the noise made by the horse's hoofs.

How is the clatters along the roof
Like the tramp of hoofs!

3. Why is the street called "fiery"?
Ans:  The street describe as "fiery" because in summer season its surface is very hot and give feelings of burning. So This burning street needs the rain to cool its surface.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Choose The Correct Answer For Each Of The Following:

1. The poem "Rain in summer" is written by:
(a)  H.W. longfellow ✔
(b) G.A. Allana
(c) Elsa Kazi
(d) Shakespeare

2. To the poet, the rain is:
(a) troublesome
(b) beautiful ✔
(c) heavy
(d) ugly

3. The beautiful rain comes after the:
(a) marriage
(b) winter
(c) dust and heat ✔
(d) Gala day

4. the streets are:
(a) narrow  ✔
(b) dirty
(c) deserted
(d) broad and fiery

5. Along the roof clatters:
(a)  the rain ✔
(b)  a cat
(c)  a ghost
(d)  none

6. The rain clatters along the roofs like: 
(a) a rat
(b) tramp of hoofs ✔
(c) a cat
(d) a ghost

7. Across the window - pane, the poet enjoys the scene of a:
(a) garden
(b) railway carriage
(c) a rainy day ✔
(d) hilly tract

8. The rain pours the streets, the lanes, the fields with:
(a) good smell
(b) flowers
(c) greenery
(d) mud✔

9. The rainy water flows like:
(a) a river  ✔
(b) an ocean
(c) lake
(d) stream

10. the rain is:
(a) neglected
(b) welcomed ✔
(c) disdained
(d) disliked