Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow: Great, wide,…
2024
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow:
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,
With the wonderful water round you curled.
And the wonderful grass upon your breast
World, you are beautifully drest.
The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,
It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,
And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.
You friendly Earth! How far do you go,
With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow.
With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles,
And people upon you for thousands of miles ?
Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers today,
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
‘You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot,
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!'
List the 3 different things (in stanza 3) found on Earth that make it great.
- A.
rivers, gardens, cliffs
- B.
isles, oceans, people
- C.
wheatfields, trees, whisper
- D.
cities, grass, mills
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
This is a "find items from one specific stanza" comprehension question: an answer choice is correct only when every single item it lists genuinely appears within that exact stanza of the poem — a word that sounds familiar from elsewhere in the text does not count, even when it is a real word used somewhere else in the poem.
Stanza 3 of the poem reads:
You friendly Earth! How far do you go, with the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow. With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles, and people upon you for thousands of miles?
So the things found on Earth that this stanza names are: wheat-fields, rivers, cities, gardens, cliffs, isles, and people — seven items in total. Checking each option's three words against this stanza-3 list, and against where else in the poem a word actually belongs, gives:
Words offered | Where each word actually appears |
|---|---|
rivers, gardens, cliffs | stanza 3, stanza 3, stanza 3 |
isles, oceans, people | stanza 3, nowhere in the poem, stanza 3 |
wheat-fields, trees, whisper | stanza 3, stanza 2 ("the wind is shaking the tree"), stanza 4 ("a whisper inside me") |
cities, grass, mills | stanza 3, stanza 1 ("the wonderful grass upon your breast"), stanza 2 ("whirls the mills") |
Cross-checking the full set: only one of the four combinations draws all three words from stanza 3 with nothing borrowed from elsewhere — every other combination either mixes in a word that belongs to a different stanza, or (for "oceans") a word that is not in the poem at all.
So the three things found on Earth in stanza 3 are rivers, gardens, and cliffs.