Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Poetry / Literary)

Question:

Read the following poem given below and answer the question.

A GIRL'S GARDEN

A NEIGHBOUR of mine in the village
likes to tell how one spring
When she was a girl on the farm, she did
A childlike thing.

One day she asked her father
To give her a garden plot
To plant and tend and reap herself,
And he said, "Why not?"

In casting about for a corner
He thought of an idle bit
Or walled-off ground where a shop had stood,
And he said, "Just it."

And he said, "That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to put some strength
On your slim-jim arm".

It was not enough of a garden,
Her father said, to plough;
So she had to work it all by hand,
But she don't mind now.

She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow
Along a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her not-nice load,

And hid from anyone passing.
And then she begged the seed.
She says she thinks she planted one
Of all things but weed.

A hill each of potatoes,
Radishes, lettuce, peas,
Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn.
And even fruit trees.

And yes, she was long mistrusted
That a cider apple tree
In bearing there today is hers,
Or at least may be.

Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A great deal of none.

On the demand of the girl, father gave her small plot in :

Options:

a village

a corner

the courtyard

a Church

Correct Answer:

a corner

Explanation:


Based on the poem "A Girl's Garden" by Robert Frost, the father gave his daughter a small plot of land in a corner of the farm.

The poem specifically mentions that the father "cast about for a corner" and that the plot of land was "just it," indicating that it was a small, out-of-the-way area.

The other three options are not supported by the text of the poem:

  • a village: The poem does not specify that the plot of land was located in a village.
  • the courtyard:The poem does not mention courtyard at all.
  • a Church: The poem does not mention a church at all.