Unit-6 - Character Building - Reading Comprehension - Speak Gently (Poem) - MCQs and Fill In the Blanks

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Unit-6 - Character Building
Reading Comprehension
Speak Gently (Poem)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Choose the correct answer for each from the given options:
1. The poem "Speak Gently" is written by:
(a) David Bates
(b) Louis I. Newman
(c) Eliza Cook
(d) Anonymous

2. It is good to rule by:
(a) power
(b) love
(c) fear
(d) tactic

3. Harsh word:
(a) pleases
(b) causes enjoyment
(c) mars
(d) makes people happy

4. We should speak:
(a) roughly
(b) speedy
(c) harshly
(d) gently

5. To gain love of a little child we should:
(a) speak gently
(b) speak speedy
(c) give in toys
(d) sing

6. The good we may do while talking is:
(a) exchanging gifts
(b) speaking gently
(c) giving money
(d) singing

7. We should teach or tell something to a child in:
(a) local accent
(b) British accent
(c) soft and mild accent
(d) American accent

8. To the aged people, we should not:
(a) show films
(b) give fat orienting foods
(c) give money
(d) grieve them

9. "Sands of life are nearly run" means:
(a) the big part of life is spent
(b) sands of desert
(c) a big desert
(d) a hot desert

10. He should be let depart in peace.
(a) A sick man
(b) The aged one
(c) A quarrelsome
(d) A nasty man

11. A "little thing" is:
(a) a needle
(b) a particle
(c) speaking gently
(d) a mobile phone

12. This drops in the hearts deep well.
(a) Water
(b) Blood
(c) Medicine
(d) Gently speaking

13. This may bring the good, the joy.
(a) A friend
(b) A relative
(c) Gently speaking
(d) A season

14. 'Eternity' means.
(a) retirement
(b) entire
(c) entrance
(d) the life after death

15. The poem tells about:
(a) moral
(b) fluently speaking
(c) world
(d) discussion

16. The main idea of the poem is to speak gently with:
(a) children
(b) young people
(c) all people
(d) old people

17. By speaking gently, we attract people's:
(a) attention
(b) love
(c) care
(d) help

18. Speaking gently is something:
(a) big
(b) difficult
(c) small
(d) impossible

19. We shall have good results of speaking kindly in the:
(a) shortly
(b) world
(c) deeply
(d) keenly

20. We should speak kindly to the old people because they will leave the world:
(a) after a long time
(b) shortly
(c) deeply
(d) none of these

21. "Speak gently; it is better far,
To rule by love than ____."
(a) fear
(b) dear
(c) hatred
(d) power

22. "Speak gently, let no ____ word mar,
The good we may do here'
(a) severe
(b) stern
(c) harsh
(d) bad

23. "Speak gently to aged one,
Grieve not the careworn ___'
(a) soul
(b) heart
(c) people
(d) guys

24.  "Whose sands of life are nearly run,
Let such in peace ____'
(a) leave
(b) go
(c) depart
(d) die

25. "Speak gently, this a little thing
Dropped in the heart's deep ___'
(a) room
(b) cavity
(c) chamber
(d) well

26. The good, the joy, that it may bring,
____ shall tell'
(a) life hereafter
(b) endless future
(c) eternity
(d) Doom Day

27. "Speak gently to the little child,
Its ____ be sure again'
(a) love
(b) confidence
(c) determination
(d) resolution

28. "Teach it in accents soft and ______
It may not long remain'
(a) kind
(b) mild
(c) pleasant
(d) good

29. The theme of the poem " Speak Gently" is that we should be very careful in our ____. We will be rewarded for speaking gently.
(a) talking
(b) speech
(c) conversation

(d) chatting

Fill In The Blanks

1. This poem has been written by an anonymous poet.
2. An anonymous poem does not bear the name of its poet.
3. "Speak Gently" is a poem about the value of kind words.
4. Speak gently to a child if you want to gain his love.
5. We should speak gently in everybody because it is better to rule by love than by fear.
6. It costs nothing to speak gently.
7. If you speak kind and gentle words, you would be rewarded in the nest world.
8. The word "Eternity" means the world hereafter.
9. We should speak gently to the aged once because their hearts are full of worries.
10. "Whose sands of life are nearly run". This line refers to the old people.