The Trees Class 10 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Understanding

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Are you prepared for your Class 10 English exam? This MCQ quiz on "The Trees" by Adrienne Rich will help you revise important themes, literary devices, and exam-oriented questions.

About the Quiz

  • Poem Name: The Trees
  • Poet: Adrienne Rich
  • Book: First Flight (Poetry)
  • Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
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Why Take This Quiz?

✔ Covers themes, symbolism, and poetic devices
✔ Includes competency-based and high-level MCQs
✔ Ideal for quick revision before exams

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The Trees

1 / 15

I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open…

The extract uses ‘open’ twice, suggesting different meanings. Pick the option that lists the correct meanings, respectively.

2 / 15

If you were to interpret the poem as a metaphor for human life, what would the trees represent?

3 / 15

I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open…

Choose the option that correctly depicts the imagery in the last two lines of the extract.

the trees class 10 english questions answers

4 / 15

All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

Choose the image that represents the main object of the extract literally.

the trees class 10 question answers

5 / 15

I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open…

The poet talks about the house as

6 / 15

All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

long-cramped and half-dazed are combinations of two words joined together to form compound words.

Choose the option that DOES NOT correctly fit the definition of the same.

  1. discharged
  2. backstage
  3. comeback
  4. toward
  5. knighthood

7 / 15

"The glass has been broken" is significant because:

8 / 15

Choose the correct option that mentions the correct poetic device against the correct example.

1.

similelong cramped boughs
metaphorlike newly discharged patients

2.

personificationsmall twigs stiff with exertion
similelike newly discharged patients

3.

refrainunder the roof
simileleaves strain toward the glass

4.

personificationlike newly discharged patients
refrainhalf-dazed, moving

9 / 15

The trees inside are moving out into the forest,
the forest that was empty all these days
where no bird could sit no insect hide
no sun bury its feet in shadow
the forest that was empty all these nights
will be full of trees by morning.

State whether the following statement is TRUE or FALSE:

The extract uses trees as a symbol for conservative people.

10 / 15

All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

The phrase, “newly discharged patients” suggests that the trees were

11 / 15

All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

The extract talks about trees breaking out of confined spaces. This is a reference to women

12 / 15

All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

Choose the option that lists the examples of exertion.

  1. Neha had been up all night keeping accounts and now she’s resting.
  2. Swati was running for five miles non-stop last evening.
  3. Hemant is watching his favorite show and having snacks.
  4. Sachin helped a senior citizen board a flight in the morning.

13 / 15

I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open…

Choose the option that DOES NOT state the meaning of the underlined word. ‘I scarcely mention…’

14 / 15

What is the significance of the title The Trees?

15 / 15

The poem's shift from indoor to outdoor imagery represents:

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Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

Symbolism of the trees and their movement
Poetic devices used in the poem
Message and deeper meaning of the poem
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