Lesson 4: My Own True Family
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
(A) Who is the poet of “My Own True Family”?
(i) William Wordsworth
(ii) John Keats
(iii) Ted Hughes
(iv) T.S. Eliot
Ans: (iii) Ted Hughes
(B) What was the poet searching for in the oakwood?
(i) A tree
(ii) A stag
(iii) A cave
(iv) A bird
Ans: (ii) B) A stag
(C) Creeping in an oakwood, the poet was looking for a
(i) goat
(ii) rhinoceros
(iii) stag
(iv) buffalo
Ans: (iii) stag
(D) Whenever an oak tree is felled, the number of trees the poet must plant is
(i) two
(ii) three
(iii) four
(iv) five
Ans: (i) two
(D) When the poet came out of the oakwood, his heart was that of a
(i) stag
(ii) tree
(iii) human child
(iv) old woman
Ans: (ii) tree
Short Answer Questions (SAQ)
(a) When did the poet come twice awake?
Ans: When the old woman opened her bag, the poet awoke twice.
(b) What would happen to the poet if he failed to make the promise?
Ans: The poet would die if he failed to make the promise.
(c) What was it that altered the poet?
Ans: The dream of a true family altered the poet.
Long Answer Questions (LAQ)
State whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/ phrases/words in support of your answer:
(a) The old woman held the poet’s secrets in her little bag.
Supporting statement: _______________________
Ans: True
Supporting statement: She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag!
(b) The tree tribe said that the poet is bothered to see the chopping down of oak trees.
Supporting statement: _______________________
Ans: False
Supporting statement: We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
(c) The poet never came out of the oakwood.
Supporting statement: _______________________
Ans: False
Supporting statement: When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company.