The Ant and the Cricket MCQs with answers

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Q. What was the policy of the ants?
  • (A) Never borrow, never lend
  • (B) Always give and take
  • (C) Share and grow
  • (D) None of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Never borrow, never lend
Q. What would he die of, if the ant didn’t help him?
  • (A) Starvation and famine
  • (B) Starvation and sorrow
  • (C) Starvation and poverty
  • (D) Starvation and weakness
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Starvation and sorrow
Q. What did he want from the ant?
  • (A) Mouthful of grain
  • (B) Shelter from rain
  • (C) New clothes
  • (D) Only a and b
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Only a and b
Q. When did the cricket begin to complain?
  • (A) Summers and spring
  • (B) When he was drenched in rain
  • (C) When he found his cupboard was empty
  • (D) All of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) When he found his cupboard was empty
Q. Whose fables is the poem “The Ant and The Cricket” adapted from?
  • (A) Rudyard Kipling
  • (B) Paulo Coelho
  • (C) Dan Brown
  • (D) Aesop
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Aesop
Q. What did the ant advise him to do all winter?
  • (A) Sing
  • (B) Dance
  • (C) Sleep
  • (D) Rest
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Dance
Q. Who said “I am your servant and friend”?
  • (A) cricket
  • (B) ant
  • (C) both
  • (D) no one
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) ant
Q. Did he wish to repay the ant?
  • (A) Yes
  • (B) No
  • (C) Maybe
  • (D) Not mentioned in the poem
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Yes
Q. Which word is closest to the meaning ‘scarcity of food’?
  • (A) Sarvation
  • (B) Hunger
  • (C) Misery
  • (D) Famine
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Famine
Q. The poet has described the cricket as
  • (A) Silly
  • (B) Young
  • (C) Accustomed to sing
  • (D) All of the above
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of the above
Q. The two qualities Of the Cricket described here are
  • (A) foolish and a singer
  • (B) wise and a singer
  • (C) foolish and a writer
  • (D) intelligent and a speaker.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) foolish and a singer
Q. The weather in the poem is
  • (A) warm and gay
  • (B) cold and dry
  • (C) rainy and stormy
  • (D) hot and sunny
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) cold and dry
Q. ‘Accustomed to’ means
  • (A) happy
  • (B) unhappy
  • (C) used to
  • (D) irritated.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) used to
Q. Who was suffering from starvation and famine ?
  • (A) the Ant
  • (B) the Cricket
  • (C) the poet
  • (D) a man
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) the Cricket
Q. Why was he ‘dripping with wet’ ?
  • (A) It was raining hard.
  • (B) He had dived in a pond.
  • (C) He had no shelter.
  • (D) He had taken a bath.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) He had no shelter.
Q. What did he expect to get from the miserly ant ?
  • (A) good advice
  • (B) food
  • (C) shelter
  • (D) food and shelter.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) food and shelter.
Q. What does the word ‘grant’ mean ?
  • (A) kind
  • (B) generous
  • (C) take
  • (D) give
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) give
Q. What do you think that of the ant’s behaviour ? What was it like ?
  • (A) a servant
  • (B) a friend
  • (C) both
  • (D) neither
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) neither
Q. What do the ants not do according to the passage?
  • (A) don’t borrow
  • (B) neither borrow nor lend
  • (C) don’t lend
  • (D) don’t help
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) neither borrow nor lend
Q. The ant scolded the Cricket because
  • (A) he never lent
  • (B) he never borrowed
  • (C) he never saved
  • (D) he was foolish
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) he never saved
Q. The word ‘Quoth’ means
  • (A) wept
  • (B) laughed
  • (C) said
  • (D) asked
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) said
Q. Who lifted the wicket ?
  • (A) the Ant
  • (B) the Cricket
  • (C) the poet
  • (D) a man
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) the Ant
Q. Why did he lift the wicket ?
  • (A) because it was so light.
  • (B) because he was tired.
  • (C) because he wanted his visitor to go.
  • (D) because it was cold.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) because he wanted his visitor to go.
Q. What does the poet mean when he says that ‘some crickets have two legs’ ?
  • (A) These are some strange crickets with two legs.
  • (B) The poet dislikes all crickets.
  • (C) The poet is referring to people who do not save for a rainy day.
  • (D) All men are crickets with two legs.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) The poet is referring to people who do not save for a rainy day.
Q. The word ‘fable’ here means
  • (A) able
  • (B) poem
  • (C) epilogue
  • (D) story with a moral.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) story with a moral.

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Table of contents

  1. What was the policy of the ants?
  2. What would he die of, if the ant didn’t help him?
  3. What did he want from the ant?
  4. When did the cricket begin to complain?
  5. Whose fables is the poem “The Ant and The Cricket” adapted from?
  6. What did the ant advise him to do all winter?
  7. Who said “I am your servant and friend”?
  8. Did he wish to repay the ant?
  9. Which word is closest to the meaning ‘scarcity of food’?
  10. The poet has described the cricket as
  11. The two qualities Of the Cricket described here are
  12. The weather in the poem is
  13. ‘Accustomed to’ means
  14. Who was suffering from starvation and famine ?
  15. Why was he ‘dripping with wet’ ?
  16. What did he expect to get from the miserly ant ?
  17. What does the word ‘grant’ mean ?
  18. What do you think that of the ant’s behaviour ? What was it like ?
  19. What do the ants not do according to the passage?
  20. The ant scolded the Cricket because
  21. The word ‘Quoth’ means
  22. Who lifted the wicket ?
  23. Why did he lift the wicket ?
  24. What does the poet mean when he says that ‘some crickets have two legs’ ?
  25. The word ‘fable’ here means

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