NCERT MCQ Questions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poems with Answers PDF Free Download based on the major ideas and themes presented in the textbook as per the CBSE new test pattern are available here. This will help you learn and test your understanding of the chapters. Students can also take a free test of Class 8 English Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four possibilities, each of which is followed by the correct response. These MCQ Questions were chosen in accordance with the most recent CBSE exam format.
Q1.Name the poem.
(1) Geography Lesson
(2) The School Boy
(3) The Last Bargain
(4) When I set out for Lyonnesse
Answer
Answer: When I set out for Lyonnesse
Q2.What happened at Lyonnesse?
(1) Something different
(2) Something strange
(3) Something attractive
(4) Something increasing
Answer
Answer: Something strange
Q3.For whom I is used?
(1) Thomas Hardy — the poet
(2) T.S. Eliot — the poet
(3) John Keats — the poet
(4) William Blake — the poet
Answer
Answer: Thomas Hardy — the poet
Q4.Who is I here?
(1) Thomas Hardy—the poet
(2) Poet’s friend
(3) Poet’s sister
(4) Poet’s mother
Answer
Answer: Thomas Hardy—the poet
Q5.Where did he go?
(1) Myonnesse
(2) London
(3) Lyonnesse
(4) Los Angles
Answer
Answer: Lyonnesse
Q6.Which word shows that it was late evening.
(1) rime
(2) lonesomeness
(3) spray
(4) starlight
Answer
Answer: lonesomeness
Q7.Who is the poet of the poem When I set out for Lyonnesse?
(1) William Blake
(2) Thomas Hardy
(3) John Keats
(4) T.S. Eliot
Answer
Answer: Thomas Hardy
Q8.What had happened to the poet on his return?
(1) The poet returned overtired
(2) The poet found a purse on his return
(3) The poet returned with magic in his eyes
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: The poet returned with magic in his eyes
Q9.Why did people remain silent then and there?
(1) Because they were surprised
(2) Because they were shocked
(3) Because they were surprised and shocked
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Because they were surprised and shocked
Q10.Give the meaning of rare.
(1) uncommon
(2) general
(3) common
(4) special
Answer
Answer: uncommon
Q11.The leaves were covered by
(1) ice
(2) frost
(3) dust
(4) dirt.
Answer
Answer: frost
Q12.Which word in the stanza means stay or stop.
(1) durst
(2) wizard
(3) sojourn
(4) bechance
Answer
Answer: sojourn
Q13.The poet was going to
(1) meet a wise man
(2) a wizard’s house
(3) stay at Lyonnesse
(4) declare like a prophet.
Answer
Answer: stay at Lyonnesse
Q14.Name the poet of the poem When I set out for Lyonnesse
(1) W.B Yeats
(2) Thomas Hardy
(3) Charles Dickens
(4) John Milton
Answer
Answer: Thomas Hardy.
Q15.The word sojourn means the same as
(1) silence
(2) shake
(3) solar
(4) stay.
Answer
Answer: stay.
Q16.What did he return with?
(1) Magic in his eyes
(2) Radiance
(3) Both (i) and (ii)
(4) None of the above
Answer
Answer: Both and
Q17.Who is the poet of the poem When I set out for Lyonnesse?
(1) T.S. Eliot
(2) Thomas Hardy
(3) Rabindranath Tagore
(4) Firdaus Kanga
Answer
Answer: Thomas Hardy
Q18.How far was Lyonnesse when the poet set out for?
(1) two hundred miles
(2) Hundred miles
(3) Fifty miles
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Hundred miles.
Q19.Why did the poet visit there?
(1) To attend a meeting
(2) To supervise the restoration of school
(3) To visit his birth place
(4) To supervise the restoration of church
Answer
Answer: To supervise the restoration of church.
Q20.Why did he go to Lyonnesse?
(1) To supervise Church restoration
(2)To supervise hotel restoration
(3) To celebrate New Year
(4) On a vacation
Answer
Answer: To supervise Church restoration
Q21.When i —– out for Lyonnesse
(1) Set
(2) Go
(3) Reached
(4) Went
Answer
Answer: Set.
Q22.What is the meaning of Lonesomeness?
(1) Lonely
(2) Isolated
(3) Loneliness
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Loneliness.
Q23.The rime was on the spray What do you mean by the word rime?
(1) Rhyme
(2) Frost
(3) Leaves
(4) Trees
Answer
Answer: Frost
Q24.Who could not dare to declare the poet in Lyonnesse?
(1) Prophet
(2) The poet, himself
(3) Wisest wizard
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Prophet.
Q25.Who could have not guessed what happened in Lyonnesse?
(1) The poet
(2) Prophet
(3) Wisest wizard
(4) Both (b) and (c)
Answer
Answer: Both and
Q26.What would —— at Lyonnesse
(1) Become
(2) Returned
(3) Bechance
(4) All of these
Answer
Answer: Bechance.
Q27.The lines When I set out for Lyonnesse A hundred miles away are repeated in which stanza?
(1) I
(2) II
(3) III
(4) None of the above
Answer
Answer: I
Q28.What did the second stanza tell about the poet?
(1) Poets boredom
(2) Poets curiosity
(3) Poets foolishness
(4) Poets loneliness
Answer
Answer: Poets curiosity.
Q29.What enlightened his loneliness?
(1) Starlight
(2) Magic in his eyes
(3) Radiance
(4) All of the Above
Answer
Answer: Starlight
Q30.Who returned from Lyonnesse with magic in his eyes?
(1) All the people
(2) The prophet
(3) The poet
(4) No one
Answer
Answer: The poet.
Q31.The lines What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there are being repeated in which stanza?
(1) I
(2) II
(3) III
(4) None of the above
Answer
Answer: II
Q32.What did the poet return from Lyonnesse with?
(1) Magic in his face
(2) Disappointment
(3) Memorable moments
(4) Magic in his eyes
Answer
Answer: Magic in his eyes.
Q33.How far was Lyonnesse?
(1) A hundred miles away
(2) Two hundred miles away
(3) Four hundred miles away
(4) Very near
Answer
Answer: A hundred miles away
Q34.My —– rare and fathomless.
(1) Radiance
(2) Smile
(3) Excitement
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Radiance.