Hi Everyone!! This article will share This Morning is Our History Test Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Does He Remember, The World in a Wall and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening so, you can check these posts as well.
This Morning is Our History Test Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Mayonnaise – a thick, creamy dressing for food made from egg yolks, oil and vinegar
- Tennessee – a state in the United States of America
- Timbuktu – a city in Mali
Question 1: Which items of clothing did the child write notes on?
Answer: The items of clothing the child wrote notes on are – inside his/her coat and, possibly, in his/her socks and (shirt and jacket) sleeves.
Question 2: Find two phrases to show that the child has written the way that others will not be able to read them.
Answer: Two phrases to show that the child has written the notes in such a way that others will not be able to read them are: ‘that only I can understand’ and ‘in secret code.’
Question 3: What emotions does the child usually feel before a test?
Answer: The child says she/he ‘wasn’t nervous, wasn’t scared’ so we can presume that these are the emotions she/he usually feels before a test.
Question 4: Why can’t the child read the notes?
Answer: The child could not read the notes because he/she left his/her glasses at home.
Question 5: Is it a good idea to cheat in exams? What should one do instead of cheating?
Answer: It is a never a good idea to cheat in exams. One should study instead of cheating.
Question 6: Is there a moral to this poem?
Answer: Yes, cheats never prosper.
Question 7: Look at the rhyme scheme of the poem. Which lines rhyme?
Answer: The rhyming scheme is: aa bb cc dd. All the stanzas follow this pattern.
Question 8: Write a few rhyming pairs from the poem.
Answer: Test/vest, notes/quotes, hand/understand, stowed/code, names/games, too/Timbuktu, piece/Greece, plays/mayonnaise, prepared/scared.
Question 9: A syllable is a single sound. The word ‘test’ has one syllable; the word ‘history’ has three syllables. Can you count the syllables in each line of the poem?
Answer:
This/ morn/ing/ is/ our/ hist/or/y/ test – 9
I’ve/ pinned/ my/ notes/ in/side/ my/ vest – 8
In/side/ my/ coat/ I/ wrote/ my/ notes – 8
In/clu/ding/ dates/ and/ fam/ous/ quotes – 8
I’ve/ writ/ten/ more/ up/on/ my/ hand – 8
That/ on/ly/ I/ can/ un/der/stand – 8
And/ in/ my/ socks/ and/ sleeves/ I/ stowed – 8
My/ scrib/bled/ notes/ in/ se/cret/ code – 8
Question 10: Read the lines and answer the questions:
Inside my coat I wrote my notes,
Including dates and famous quotes.
(a) List five topics that the notes were about.
Answer: Dates, famous quotes, names of Olympic winners, buildings, people, places (from Tennessee to Timbuktu), ancient Rome, ancient Greece, everything from Shakespeare’s plays, and the inventor of mayonnaise.
(b) Which phrase from these lines is repeated elsewhere? Where?
Answer: The phrase ‘dates and famous quotes’ is repeated in the final stanza.
So, these were This Morning is Our History Test Questions & Answers.