1. Who heard the poet’s grief first?
a) A poor man
b) A proud man
c) A friend
d) A king
Answer: b) A proud man
2. What did the proud man give to the poet?
a) Bread
b) Clothes
c) Gold
d) Water
Answer: c) Gold
3. The proud man did not give the poet —
a) food
b) shelter
c) a kindly word
d) medicine
Answer: c) a kindly word
4. What did the poet do after his sorrow passed?
a) Kept the gold
b) Returned the gold
c) Gave the gold to another man
d) Lost the gold
Answer: b) Returned the gold
5. Whom did the poet bless?
a) The poor man
b) The proud man
c) His friend
d) His family
Answer: b) The proud man
6. In the second part of the poem, the poet lay in —
a) joy
b) comfort
c) want, grief, and pain
d) wealth
Answer: c) want, grief, and pain
7. Who passed the poet’s way later?
a) A rich man
b) A doctor
c) A poor man
d) A soldier
Answer: c) A poor man
8. What did the poor man give the poet?
a) Gold
b) Bread
c) Books
d) Clothes
Answer: b) Bread
9. The poor man watched the poet —
a) for one hour
b) during the evening
c) night and day
d) in the morning
Answer: c) night and day
10. According to the poet, what is greater than gold?
a) Power
b) Kindness
c) Heavenly sympathy
d) Fame
Answer: c) Heavenly sympathy
11. Who is the poet of the poem?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Charles Mackay
c) Robert Frost
d) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: b) Charles Mackay
12. The poem teaches us the value of —
a) wealth
b) sympathy and kindness
c) pride
d) power
Answer: b) sympathy and kindness
VSA (Very Short Answer Questions)
1. Who wrote the poem?
Answer: Charles Mackay.
2. Who heard the poet’s grief first?
Answer: A proud man.
3. What did the proud man give the poet?
Answer: Gold.
4. What did the proud man not give?
Answer: A kindly word.
5. What did the poet do with the gold later?
Answer: He paid it back.
6. Who helped the poet in his pain?
Answer: A poor man.
7. What did the poor man bind?
Answer: The poet’s head.
8. What did the poor man give the poet to eat?
Answer: Bread.
9. How long did the poor man watch the poet?
Answer: Night and day.
10. What is greater than gold according to the poem?
Answer: Heavenly sympathy.
11. What feeling is highlighted in the poem?
Answer: Sympathy.
12. What lesson do we learn from the poem?
Answer: Kindness and sympathy are more valuable than money.
Fill in the Blanks
1. The poet lay in sorrow, deep ______.
Answer: distressed
2. A proud man heard the poet’s ______.
Answer: grief
3. The proud man gave the poet ______.
Answer: gold
4. The proud man did not give a kindly ______.
Answer: word
5. The poet paid back the ______.
Answer: gold
6. The poet stood erect and spoke his ______.
Answer: thanks
7. The poet lay in want, grief, and ______.
Answer: pain
8. A ______ man passed the poet’s way.
Answer: poor
9. The poor man bound the poet’s ______.
Answer: head
10. The poor man gave the poet ______.
Answer: bread
11. The poor man watched him night and ______.
Answer: day
12. Gold is great, but greater far is heavenly ______.
Answer: sympathy
True or False
1. A proud man gave the poet kind words.
Answer: False
2. The proud man gave the poet gold.
Answer: True
3. The poet kept the gold forever.
Answer: False
4. A poor man helped the poet in his pain.
Answer: True
5. The poor man gave the poet bread.
Answer: True
6. The poor man ignored the poet.
Answer: False
7. The poor man watched the poet night and day.
Answer: True
8. Gold is greater than sympathy according to the poet.
Answer: False
9. The poem teaches the value of kindness.
Answer: True
10. Charles Mackay is the poet of the poem.
Answer: True
