The Trees Class 10 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Understanding

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

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 listing the image that the poem metaphorically represents.

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.

Based on the extract, choose the option that lists the most likely symbolic meaning of (1) – (4) respectively.

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.

Select the appropriate option to complete the sentence, according to the extract.

The idea of a forest that has been ‘empty all these days’ is _____.

The line "all night the roots work to disengage themselves from the cracks" most closely parallels:

What is the central theme of the poem The Trees?

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

1.

2.

3.

4.

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.

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.

What is the significance of the title The Trees?

"The forest that was empty all these days" suggests:

"The glass has been broken" is significant because:

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

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 uses the indefinite article for ‘sky’ instead of the definite one. This is so because the poet is referring to

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.

How does the use of enjambment impact this extract?