For Anne Gregory Poem Extract Based Questions & MCQs

For Anne Gregory Poem extract-based questions and MCQs from Previous Years’ Exams, SQPs and CBSE Question Bank.

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EXTRACT BASED QUESTIONS – PYQs & CBSE QB

(Modified for 2024-25 Exam)

Read the following extract and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:

[Delhi 2017]

But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.

1. Which poetic device used in line 3.
2. What causes the young men to ‘despair’, according to the extract?
3. Identify the reason for the speaker’s need to color her hair, according to the extract.
   (A) Her control over what makes her look beautiful.
   (B) Her desire to be loved for inner beauty.
   (C) Her need to change people’s perception about beauty.
   (D) Her conviction that she is beautiful inside.
4. Complete the analogy about the speaker’s hair.
   yellow : blonde :: ________ : carrot
   
   

Answers:

1. Alliteration – brown-black
2. Being hopelessly in love / the uncertainty in love / unsureness of the return of their affections.
3. Option (D) is correct.
4. yellow : blonde :: orange/red : carrot

Read the following extract and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:

[SQP 2020-21]

“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

1. A compound word from the extract is ___________.
2. How is God’s love different from the love of young lovers?
3. Select the option that depicts the probable image of the man referred to in the passage.
   
4. Choose the phrase that best represents ‘love you for yourself alone.’ [1]
   (A) Unconditional love
   (B) Unseemly love
   (C) Unrequited love
   (D) Understated love
   Ans. Option (A) is correct.
   [Marking Scheme SQP, 2020-21]

Answers:

1. Yesternight
2. God’s love is unconditional and superior to all other love, while young people often love based on physical appearance rather than inner beauty.
3. Option (C) is correct.
4. Option (A) is correct.

Read the following extract and answer the questions/ complete the sentences that follow:

(CBSE QB)

“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

i. ‘yesternight’ is a word made of combination of two words to form a new word.
Hence, it is a compound word.
Choose the words that DO NOT fit the description.

• a. 3, 4
• b. 2, 6
• c. 3, 5
• d. 1, 4

ii. Choose the option that lists the person who correctly wrote a quote best representing the central idea of the given stanza. Choose the correct option out of the ones given below.

• a. Harpreet
• b. Manav
• c. Joel
• d. Nawaz

iii. The above stanza strongly defies the idea of ____________ .

• a. internal qualities
• b. external beauty
• c. spiritual self
• d. divinity

iv. Choose the option that displays the likely image of the man mentioned in the extract.

• a. option 1
• b. option 2
• c. option 3
• d. option 4

v. Choose the phrase that best represents, ‘love you for yourself alone”.

• a. Unconditional love
• b. Unseemly love
• c. Unrequited love
• d. Understated love

Answers:
i. b
ii. c
iii. b
iv. c
v. a

Read the following extract and answer the questions/ complete the sentences that follow:

(CBSE QB)

But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.

i. Given below are the taglines of four hypothetical brands. Choose the correct option that fits the best with the first three lines of the given stanza.

a) Option (1)
b) Option (2)
c) Option (3)
d) Option (4)

ii. The form of the given stanza is a part of

a. an agreement.
b. a disapproval.
c. an engagement.
d. an argument

iii. Choose the option that describes a situation of ‘despair’ as mentioned in the extract.

a. Option (1)
b. Option (2)
c. Option (3)
d. Option (4)

iv. Read the statements 1 and 2 given below and choose the option that correctly assesses these statements.
1 – The speaker wants to change her hair colour so that it may appeal to young men.
2 – The speaker’s appearance due to her gorgeous yellow hair is largely the reason young men hope to get her attention.

a. 1 is false, 2 is true and clearly inferred from the poem.
b. 1 is true, 2 cannot be clearly inferred from the poem.
c. 1 cannot be clearly inferred from the poem, 2 is false.
d. 1 is true and can be inferred from the poem, 2 is false.

v. Choose the product that best shows what Anne would invest in, to ensure that young men love her for herself and not her hair.

a. Option (1)
b. Option (2)
c. Option (3)
d. Option (4)

Answers:

i. c
ii. d
iii. b
iv. a
v. d