MCQs For NCERT Class 10 English Chapter 2 A Tiger in the Zoo

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A Tiger in the Zoo Class 10 MCQ Questions with Answers

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Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct option.

He hears the last voice at night,
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.

Question. What sound does the tiger hear at night?
a. The sound of hunting animals
b. The sound of traffic
c. The sound of children playing
d. The sound of the patrolling cars

Question. How do his eyes look?
a. Brilliant
b. Dull
c. Weak
d. Strong

Question. He looks at the _____________ at night.
a. animals
b. visitors
c. shining stars
d. poet

Question. Which word in the stanza means ‘looks intently’?
a. Patrolling
b. Stares
c. Brilliant
d. Hears

Question. Which are the rhyming words in this stanza?
a. stars-eyes
b. night-cars
c. cars-eyes
d. stars-cars

Answer the following questions by choosing the correct option.

Question. How do the eyes of the tiger look?
a. Sad
b. Brilliant
c. Dark
d. Light

Question. Name the poetic device used in the line, “Baring his white fangs, his claws”.
a. Metaphor
b. Assonance
c. Oxymoron
d. Consonance

Question. According to Leslie Norris, the tiger tries to control his anger by:
a. sitting in the cage.
b. closing his eyes.
c. looking at the spectators.
d. quietly walking in the cage.

Question. The tiger in the poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’ is able to take only a few steps because:
a. the forest is too small.
b. the cage is too small.
c. the park is too small.
d. the zoo is too small.

Question. The tiger in Leslie’s poem is just able to:
a. terrorise the visitors.
b. attack the visitors.
c. stalk the visitors.
d. love the visitors.

Question. Name the poetic device used in the line, “He stalks in his vivid stripes”.
a. Metaphor
b. Assonance
c. Oxymoron
d. Consonance

Question. How does the caged tiger react to the visitors?
a. He ignores them.
b. With a happy face
c. With a sad face
d. Proudly

Question. According the poem, one cannot hear the sound of the tiger’s footsteps because:
a. he has very soft feet like velvet.
b. he was unable to move anywhere.
c. he was moving in the cage.
d. no one goes near him.

Question. By “ignoring visitors”, what is the poet trying to say?
a. That the tiger knows his power is restricted.
b. That there is no use of showing rage.
c. That he is less terrorising because of the cage.
d. All of the above 

Question. In the poem, the tiger is angry because:
a. he is not given care.
b. he is hungry.
c. he is not free.
d. None of these.

Reference to Context

1. But he’s locked in a concrete cell, His strength behind bars,
Stalking the length of his cage, Ignoring visitors.
He hears the last voice at night, The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes At the brilliant stars

(a) The fact that the tiger is ‘stalking the length of his cage’ tells us that he is
(i) restless
(ii) reckless
(iii) resilient
(iv) reverent

(b) What is the rhyme scheme of the given stanzas?
(i) abcb; abcb
(ii) abcb; abcd
(iii) abcd; abcd
(iv) abcd; abcb

(c) These stanzas bring out the contrast between
(i) zoos and cities
(ii) strength and weakness
(iii) freedom and captivity
(iv) visitors and patrolling cars

(d) What is the caged tiger NOT likely to say to the visitors?
(i) “Stop staring”
(ii) “Set me free”
(iii) “Join me”
(iv) “Go away”

(e) The tiger’s ‘brilliant eyes’ reveal that he
(i) hopes to be free and in the wild, someday
(ii) is looked after well and is nourished and healthy
(iii) enjoys staring at the bright stars each night
(iv) is well-rested and hence, wide-awake

2. He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass,
Near the water hole,
Where plump deer pass.

(a) Why should he be lurking in shadow?
(i) out of fear
(ii) out of anger
(iii) to catch the deer
(iv) Both (a) and (b)

(b) Name the poet of the poem.
(i) Robert Frost
(ii) Leslie Norris
(iii) William Wordsworth
(iv) John Keats

(c) Give the antonym of the word ‘lurking’.
(i) hide
(ii) sneak
(iii) expose
(iv) loiter

(d) How does a tiger feel in his natural habitat?
(i) Free
(ii) Angry
(iii) Ashamed
(iv) Frustrated

(e) What is the rhyme scheme of the given stanza?
(i) aabc
(ii) abcb
(iii) abbc
(iv) abac

Question. But he’s locked in a concrete cell,
His strength behind bars,
Stalking the length of his cage,
Ignoring visitors.
(a) What do you understand by ‘His strength behind bars’?
(b) Why do you think the tiger was stalking in the cage?
Ans. (a) The tiger is caged. His power is limited, and he feels locked devoid of freedom. He feels unhappy, angry, restless and furious.
(b) The tiger is a huge cat and was definitely not comfortable being confined in a small cage. He was frustrated as well as helpless. He was not happy being treated as a showpiece for human beings. His anger, fury and helplessness was making him stalk in the cage.

Question. He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole
Where plump deer pass
(a) How does a tiger behave in his natural surroundings?
(b) What is the theme of the poem?
Ans. (a) A tiger is a free carnivore in his natural habitat – the jungle. He moves around in the long grass near a water hole. He hides in a shadow to hunt for a deer as his food.
(b) The poet wants to convey that it is wrong to keep the wild animals in small enclosures of the zoo, away from their natural habitat. They feel angry, helpless and yearn for their life and environment in the forest.

Question. He hears the last voice at night, 
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.
(a) What does the tiger want to do at night?
(b) Why are the eyes brilliant? What is common between the eyes and the stars?
Ans. (a) The tiger hears the sound of the patrolling cars at night. Being locked in a cage, the tiger stares at the brilliant stars shining in the vast and open sky through his hopeful and shining eyes.
(b) The tiger’s eyes shine brightly in the darkness of night. The stars are also shining the sky. The common thing between the tiger’s eyes and the stars is that both are brilliant and shiny.