A Tiger in the Zoo MCQs | Class 10 Poem

This detailed guide explores Leslie Norris’s powerful poem with board-exam style MCQs. Below, you will find key extracts and a comprehensive list of over 50 A Tiger in the Zoo MCQs for your UP Board Class 10 exam preparation.

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Read the given extracts and choose the correct option to answer the following questions:

“He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.”

1.
Who is ‘He’ in these lines?
प्रश्न: इन पंक्तियों में ‘He’ (वह) कौन है?
- (a) A lion
- (b) A leopard
- (c) A tiger
- (d) A zookeeper
Correct Option: (c) A tiger
2.
What does the phrase “pads of velvet” mean?
प्रश्न: “pads of velvet” (मखमल के गद्दे) वाक्यांश का क्या अर्थ है?
- (a) His colourful skin
- (b) His sharp claws
- (c) His soft paws
- (d) His quiet cage
Correct Option: (c) His soft paws
3.
The tiger is in a rage because:
प्रश्न: बाघ गुस्से में है क्योंकि:
- (a) He is hungry
- (b) He is being ignored
- (c) His freedom has been taken away
- (d) He dislikes the zookeeper
Correct Option: (c) His freedom has been taken away
4.
The literary device in “quiet rage” is:
प्रश्न: “quiet rage” (शांत रोष) में साहित्यिक उपकरण है:
- (a) Metaphor
- (b) Simile
- (c) Oxymoron
- (d) Personification
Correct Option: (c) Oxymoron

“He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole
Where plump deer pass.”

1.
Where should the tiger be “lurking”?
प्रश्न: बाघ को कहाँ “घात लगाना” चाहिए?
- (a) In a cave
- (b) In shadow
- (c) On a tree
- (d) Near the village
Correct Option: (b) In shadow
2.
Why should he be near the water hole?
प्रश्न: उसे पानी के कुंड के पास क्यों होना चाहिए?
- (a) To drink water
- (b) To hunt his prey
- (c) To take a bath
- (d) To rest
Correct Option: (b) To hunt his prey
3.
Who passes by the water hole?
प्रश्न: पानी के कुंड के पास से कौन गुजरता है?
- (a) Thin deer
- (b) Fat rabbits
- (c) Plump deer
- (d) Wild boars
Correct Option: (c) Plump deer
4.
This stanza describes the tiger’s life in:
प्रश्न: यह छंद बाघ के जीवन का वर्णन करता है:
- (a) A circus
- (b) His natural habitat
- (c) A sanctuary
- (d) A city park
Correct Option: (b) His natural habitat

“He should be snarling around houses
At the jungle’s edge,
Baring his white fangs, his claws,
Terrorising the village.”

1.
Where are the houses located?
प्रश्न: घर कहाँ स्थित हैं?
- (a) In the middle of the jungle
- (b) Near the river
- (c) At the jungle’s edge
- (d) In the city
Correct Option: (c) At the jungle’s edge
2.
What would the tiger be doing to terrorise the villagers?
प्रश्न: ग्रामीणों को आतंकित करने के लिए बाघ क्या कर रहा होगा?
- (a) Roaring loudly
- (b) Hiding in the dark
- (c) Stealing their food
- (d) Baring his fangs and claws
Correct Option: (d) Baring his fangs and claws
3.
‘Fangs’ in the poem refers to:
प्रश्न: कविता में ‘फैंग्स’ का अर्थ है:
- (a) Paws
- (b) Skin
- (c) Sharp teeth
- (d) Whiskers
Correct Option: (c) Sharp teeth
4.
The tiger’s natural instinct, as shown here, is to be:
प्रश्न: यहाँ दर्शाई गई बाघ की प्राकृतिक प्रवृत्ति है:
- (a) Fearful and timid
- (b) Friendly and playful
- (c) Fierce and dominant
- (d) Sad and lonely
Correct Option: (c) Fierce and dominant

“But he’s locked in a concrete cell,
His strength behind bars,
Stalking the length of his cage,
Ignoring visitors.”

1.
The word ‘But’ in the first line signifies a:
प्रश्न: पहली पंक्ति में ‘लेकिन’ शब्द एक ____ का प्रतीक है:
- (a) Continuation
- (b) Question
- (c) Contrast
- (d) Similarity
Correct Option: (c) Contrast
2.
Where is the tiger’s strength now?
प्रश्न: अब बाघ की ताकत कहाँ है?
- (a) In his roar
- (b) Behind bars
- (c) In the jungle
- (d) It has faded
Correct Option: (b) Behind bars
3.
Why is the tiger ignoring the visitors?
प्रश्न: बाघ आगंतुकों को क्यों अनदेखा कर रहा है?
- (a) He is sleepy
- (b) He is proud and angry
- (c) He cannot see them
- (d) He is waiting for food
Correct Option: (b) He is proud and angry
4.
What is the tiger doing in his cage?
प्रश्न: बाघ अपने पिंजरे में क्या कर रहा है?
- (a) Sleeping peacefully
- (b) Roaring loudly
- (c) Stalking the length of his cage
- (d) Playing with a ball
Correct Option: (c) Stalking the length of his cage

“He hears the last voice at night,
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.”

1.
What is the last sound the tiger hears at night?
प्रश्न: रात में बाघ को आखिरी आवाज कौन सी सुनाई देती है?
- (a) The voices of visitors
- (b) The sound of other animals
- (c) The sound of patrolling cars
- (d) The sound of the zookeeper
Correct Option: (c) The sound of patrolling cars
2.
What does the tiger stare at?
प्रश्न: बाघ क्या घूरता है?
- (a) The moon
- (b) The city lights
- (c) The zookeeper’s house
- (d) The stars
Correct Option: (d) The stars
3.
What do the tiger’s “brilliant eyes” reveal?
प्रश्न: बाघ की “चमकती आँखें” क्या प्रकट करती हैं?
- (a) His poor health
- (b) His happiness
- (c) His longing for freedom
- (d) His hunger
Correct Option: (c) His longing for freedom
4.
The literary device in “brilliant eyes” and “brilliant stars” involves:
प्रश्न: “ब्रिलियंट आइज” और “ब्रिलियंट स्टार्स” में साहित्यिक उपकरण शामिल है:
- (a) Metaphor
- (b) Simile
- (c) Repetition
- (d) Oxymoron
Correct Option: (c) Repetition

“He stalks in his vivid stripes…”

1.
Who is the poet of ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’?
प्रश्न: ‘ए टाइगर इन द जू’ के कवि कौन हैं?
- (a) Robert Frost
- (b) Leslie Norris
- (c) Walt Whitman
- (d) Ogden Nash
Correct Option: (b) Leslie Norris
2.
The word “stalks” here means to walk with:
प्रश्न: यहाँ “स्टॉक्स” शब्द का अर्थ है ____ के साथ चलना:
- (a) Joy
- (b) Pride and anger
- (c) Fear
- (d) Speed
Correct Option: (b) Pride and anger
3.
“Vivid stripes” refers to the tiger’s:
प्रश्न: “विविड स्ट्राइप्स” बाघ के ____ को संदर्भित करता है:
- (a) Bright and clear markings
- (b) Faded stripes
- (c) Dark color
- (d) Energetic movement
Correct Option: (a) Bright and clear markings
4.
Personification is used in the poem by referring to the tiger as:
प्रश्न: कविता में बाघ को ____ कहकर मानवीकरण का उपयोग किया गया है:
- (a) It
- (b) He
- (c) An animal
- (d) A creature
Correct Option: (b) He

“…the water hole / Where plump deer pass.”

1.
The tiger should hunt the deer for:
प्रश्न: बाघ को हिरण का शिकार ____ के लिए करना चाहिए:
- (a) Sport
- (b) Fun
- (c) Food
- (d) Practice
Correct Option: (c) Food
2.
The rhyme scheme of this stanza is:
प्रश्न: इस छंद की तुकबंदी योजना है:
- (a) abab
- (b) abcd
- (c) aabb
- (d) abca
Correct Option: (b) abcd
3.
The word “plump” suggests the deer are:
प्रश्न: “प्लम्प” शब्द बताता है कि हिरण हैं:
- (a) Fast and agile
- (b) Weak and sick
- (c) Healthy and well-fed
- (d) Small and young
Correct Option: (c) Healthy and well-fed
4.
The phrase “sliding through long grass” implies:
प्रश्न: “स्लाइडिंग थ्रू लॉन्ग ग्रास” वाक्यांश का तात्पर्य है:
- (a) Noisy movement
- (b) Clumsy movement
- (c) Playful movement
- (d) Stealthy movement
Correct Option: (d) Stealthy movement

“His strength behind bars”

1.
This line signifies that the tiger is:
प्रश्न: यह पंक्ति दर्शाती है कि बाघ है:
- (a) Resting
- (b) Stronger than ever
- (c) Powerful but helpless
- (d) Sick and weak
Correct Option: (c) Powerful but helpless
2.
The “bars” mentioned here refer to:
प्रश्न: यहाँ उल्लिखित “बार्स” संदर्भित करता है:
- (a) The cage bars
- (b) Pubs and restaurants
- (c) Chocolate bars
- (d) Stripes on his body
Correct Option: (a) The cage bars
3.
The main theme highlighted in this line is:
प्रश्न: इस पंक्ति में उजागर किया गया मुख्य विषय है:
- (a) Freedom vs Captivity
- (b) Strength vs Weakness
- (c) Man vs Nature
- (d) Anger vs Calmness
Correct Option: (a) Freedom vs Captivity
4.
The poet feels ____ for the tiger in this situation.
प्रश्न: इस स्थिति में कवि बाघ के लिए ____ महसूस करता है।
- (a) Fear
- (b) Joy
- (c) Pride
- (d) Sympathy
Correct Option: (d) Sympathy

“He hears the last voice at night, / The patrolling cars”

1.
The ‘last voice’ at night signifies:
प्रश्न: रात में ‘आखिरी आवाज’ का अर्थ है:
- (a) The end of the day’s entertainment
- (b) The call of another tiger
- (c) The sound of the zookeeper leaving
- (d) The final reminder of his captivity
Correct Option: (d) The final reminder of his captivity
2.
‘Patrolling cars’ are cars that:
प्रश्न: ‘गश्ती कारें’ वे कारें हैं जो:
- (a) Bring food
- (b) Take visitors away
- (c) Keep watch over the area
- (d) Race at night
Correct Option: (c) Keep watch over the area
3.
The patrolling cars make the tiger feel:
प्रश्न: गश्ती कारें बाघ को कैसा महसूस कराती हैं:
- (a) Safe
- (b) Happy
- (c) Imprisoned
- (d) Hungry
Correct Option: (c) Imprisoned
4.
Where is this scene taking place?
प्रश्न: यह दृश्य कहाँ हो रहा है?
- (a) In a jungle
- (b) On a street
- (c) In a zoo
- (d) In a circus
Correct Option: (c) In a zoo

“…his white fangs, his claws, / Terrorising the village.”

1.
The villagers would feel ___ seeing the tiger.
प्रश्न: बाघ को देखकर ग्रामीण ___ महसूस करते।
- (a) Happy
- (b) Safe
- (c) Terrified
- (d) Curious
Correct Option: (c) Terrified
2.
The poet uses the word “terrorising” to show the tiger’s:
प्रश्न: कवि “आतंकित करना” शब्द का उपयोग बाघ के ___ को दिखाने के लिए करता है।
- (a) Playfulness
- (b) Hunger
- (c) Natural power and dominance
- (d) Sadness
Correct Option: (c) Natural power and dominance
3.
This behaviour is part of the tiger’s:
प्रश्न: यह व्यवहार बाघ के ____ का हिस्सा है:
- (a) Unnatural training
- (b) Illness
- (c) Natural instinct
- (d) Playful mood
Correct Option: (c) Natural instinct
4.
What would the tiger NOT be doing at the jungle’s edge?
प्रश्न: जंगल के किनारे बाघ क्या नहीं कर रहा होगा?
- (a) Snarling
- (b) Ignoring visitors
- (c) Baring his fangs
- (d) Showing his claws
Correct Option: (b) Ignoring visitors

“And stares with his brilliant eyes / At the brilliant stars.”

1.
The tiger’s eyes are described as ‘brilliant’ because:
प्रश्न: बाघ की आँखों को ‘चमकदार’ के रूप में वर्णित किया गया है क्योंकि:
- (a) They reflect the light of the stars
- (b) He is a special breed of tiger
- (c) They hold the bright hope of freedom
- (d) Both (a) and (c)
Correct Option: (d) Both (a) and (c)
2.
What is the central contrast in the last stanza?
प्रश्न: अंतिम छंद में केंद्रीय विरोधाभास क्या है?
- (a) Noise of cars vs. silence of stars
- (b) Dark cage vs. brilliant stars
- (c) The caged tiger vs. the free stars
- (d) All of the above
Correct Option: (d) All of the above
3.
Staring at the stars suggests the tiger is feeling:
प्रश्न: सितारों को घूरना बताता है कि बाघ महसूस कर रहा है:
- (a) Sleepy
- (b) Hopeful and longing
- (c) Angry and violent
- (d) Playful
Correct Option: (b) Hopeful and longing
4.
The mood at the end of the poem is:
प्रश्न: कविता के अंत में मिजाज है:
- (a) Joyful
- (b) Angry
- (c) Hopeful
- (d) Sad and thoughtful
Correct Option: (d) Sad and thoughtful

“…locked in a concrete cell… Stalking the length of his cage”

1.
A “concrete cell” signifies a:
प्रश्न: एक “कंक्रीट सेल” का अर्थ है एक:
- (a) Natural den
- (b) Comfortable home
- (c) Harsh, man-made prison
- (d) Safe shelter
Correct Option: (c) Harsh, man-made prison
2.
“Stalking the length of his cage” shows the tiger’s:
प्रश्न: “अपने पिंजरे की लंबाई तक चलना” बाघ के ___ को दर्शाता है:
- (a) Joyful play
- (b) Lazy behavior
- (c) Restless frustration
- (d) Calm acceptance
Correct Option: (c) Restless frustration

“…sliding through long grass…”

1.
This action is characteristic of a tiger when it is:
प्रश्न: यह क्रिया बाघ की विशेषता है जब वह:
- (a) Sleeping
- (b) Playing
- (c) Hunting
- (d) Fleeing
Correct Option: (c) Hunting
2.
The poet imagines this scene to contrast it with the tiger’s:
प्रश्न: कवि इस दृश्य की कल्पना बाघ के ____ के साथ विपरीत करने के लिए करता है:
- (a) Past life
- (b) Future life
- (c) Present reality
- (d) Dreams
Correct Option: (c) Present reality

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