I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud English Paper

English Paper- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Read the poem carefully and use it to answer the questions that follow. Remember that poems often use
figurative language to paint a picture in the reader’s head, rather than describing exactly what is happening.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way
They stretched in never-ending line

10 Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

15 A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund* company:
I gazed – and gazed – but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
20 They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth
 Jocund - cheerful
1) What was the author doing in the first verse?
a) Floating like a cloud
b) Going for a walk on his own
c) Flying in an aeroplane
d) Climbing trees
2) What did the author see in the first verse?
a) A sky full of clouds
b) A crowd of people
C) A group of flowers
d) People dancing under the trees
3) Which of these is an example of a simile?
a) Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
b) Ten thousand I saw at a glance
c) Continuous as the stars that shine
d) Beside the lake, beneath the trees
4) According to the poem, where are daffodils not located?
a) Under the trees
b) On the hills
c) Next to the lake
d) Beside the bay
5) “Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,”
Which sentence best fits the meaning of these lines?
a) The daffodils are twinkling and shining
b) There are so many daffodils that they seem to go on for ever like the stars in the milky way
c) The daffodils come out at night like stars
d) The daffodils look as white as a Milky Way chocolate bar

6) Which of these statements is false?
a) The waves are more joyful than the daffodils
b) The daffodils are swaying in the wind
c) The daffodils make the poet feel content
d) There are many daffodils
7) Which of these words is closest in meaning to “pensive”? (line 19)
a) carefree
b) contemplative
c) regularly
d) excited
8) In the third verse, how does the poet react to the daffodils?
a) He doesn’t notice them
b) He looks at them for a long time and appreciates their beauty
c) He takes a photograph of them to look at later
d) He looks at them but doesn’t appreciate how beautiful they are until later
9) When does the poet think about the daffodils?
a) When he is asleep
b) When he is daydreaming and relaxed
c) When he is dancing
d) He doesn’t think about them at all
10) Which word has the most similar meaning to “sprightly” ? (line 12)
a) ballet
b) lethargic
c) lively
d) quickly
Read the following passage from “Dreams from my Father” by Barack Obama carefully and use it to answer the
questions that follow.
The road to the embassy was ________11________ with traffic: cars, motorcycles, tricycle rickshaws, buses and
jitneys filled to twice their capacity, a procession of wheels and limbs all __________12_________ for space in the
mid-afternoon heat. We nudged _______13________ a few feet, stopped, found an _________14__________,
stopped again. Our taxi driver shooed away a group of boys who were hawking gum and loose cigarettes, then
______15___________ avoided a motor scooter carrying an __________16___________ family on its back – father,
mother, son and __________17___________ all leaning as one into a _________18__________, their mouths
wrapped with handkerchiefs to blunt the exhaust, a family of bandits. Along the side of the road, wizened brown
women in faded brown sarongs stacked straw baskets high with ripening ______19_______, and a pair of mechanics
squatted before their open-air garage, lazily brushing away flies as they took an ________20_________ apart.
Taken from “Dreams from my Father” by Barack Obama
Some words have been missed out of the following passage. Choose the word from the box below which best fits
the meaning of the passage in each of the first 5 places.
foolishly fighting gap forward narrowly

thrilled opening upward choked calling
11
12
13
14
15
This time, the missing words have been given to you – but the letters in each word have been scrambled out of
order. Put the letters back into the correct order to form the original words.
16 in tree Original word:

17 the guard Original word:
18 runt Original word:
19 fur it Original word:
20 nee gin Original word:
Underline the word in the brackets which will make the most sense in the sentence.
21) The ballerina’s body was very (livid, lithe, lucid, lamentable).
22) The guard (roused, revered, revolved, resolved) the prisoners in the morning.
23) The kind old man nodded his head (viciously, slovenly, benignly, ferociously).
24) Jack wanted to (procure, promote, provoke, propel) the book as a birthday gift for his friend.
25) The council wanted to (painstaking, perceive, proclaim, preserve) the monument for future generations.

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English Paper- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way

They stretched in never-ending line

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

I gazed – and gazed – but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

20 They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

a) Floating like a cloud

b) Going for a walk on his own

2) What did the author see in the first verse?

a) A sky full of clouds

d) People dancing under the trees

3) Which of these is an example of a simile?

a) Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

b) Ten thousand I saw at a glance

c) Continuous as the stars that shine

d) Beside the lake, beneath the trees

4) According to the poem, where are daffodils not located?

a) Under the trees

c) Next to the lake

d) Beside the bay

5) “Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,”

Which sentence best fits the meaning of these lines?

a) The daffodils are twinkling and shining

c) The daffodils come out at night like stars

d) The daffodils look as white as a Milky Way chocolate bar

a) The waves are more joyful than the daffodils

b) The daffodils are swaying in the wind

c) The daffodils make the poet feel content

d) There are many daffodils

7) Which of these words is closest in meaning to “pensive”? (line 19)

a) He doesn’t notice them

b) He looks at them for a long time and appreciates their beauty

c) He takes a photograph of them to look at later

9) When does the poet think about the daffodils?

b) When he is daydreaming and relaxed

d) He doesn’t think about them at all

Taken from “Dreams from my Father” by Barack Obama

foolishly fighting gap forward narrowly

16 in tree Original word:

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