Robert Frost – Mending Wall – Exam Based MCQs
1. “Mending Wall” is written by: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Ezra Pound
B) Wallace Stevens
C) Robert Frost
D) T. S. Eliot
Ans: C) Robert Frost
2. “Mending Wall” was first published in: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) 1914
B) 1916
C) 1923
D) 1930
Ans: A) 1914
3. The poem appears as the opening poem in Frost’s collection: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Mountain Interval
B) New Hampshire
C) A Further Range
D) North of Boston
Ans: D) North of Boston
4. “Mending Wall” is a poem of: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) 30 lines
B) 45 lines
C) 59 lines
D) 14 lines
Ans: B) 45 lines
5. The poem is mainly written in: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Sonnet form
B) Heroic couplets
C) Blank verse
D) Free verse only
Ans: C) Blank verse
6. The setting of “Mending Wall” is mainly: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Urban London
B) New England rural landscape
C) A battlefield
D) A seashore village
Ans: B) New England rural landscape
7. The opening line of the poem is: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) “Good fences make good neighbours.”
B) “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know”
C) “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,”
D) “He is all pine and I am apple orchard.”
Ans: C) “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,”
8. The annual activity described in the poem is: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) Planting trees
B) Hunting rabbits
C) Building a house
D) Repairing the wall in spring
Ans: D) Repairing the wall in spring
9. The wall separates the speaker’s land from: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) A school
B) His neighbor’s farm
C) A churchyard
D) A market road
Ans: B) His neighbor’s farm
10. According to the speaker, what is one thing that causes gaps in the wall? (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Soldiers
B) The frozen-ground-swell
C) Harvest machines
D) Floods from the sea
Ans: B) The frozen-ground-swell
11. Another cause of breaks in the wall mentioned in the poem is: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Hunters
B) Farmers’ oxen
C) Fire
D) Children’s games
Ans: A) Hunters
12. The neighbor repeatedly says: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) “Walls are meant to fall.”
B) “Nature hates fences.”
C) “Good fences make good neighbours.”
D) “Spring is the mischief season.”
Ans: C) “Good fences make good neighbours.”
13. The speaker’s attitude toward the wall is mainly: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) Unquestioning acceptance
B) Skeptical and questioning
C) Violent hatred
D) Complete indifference
Ans: B) Skeptical and questioning
14. The neighbor’s attitude to the wall is mainly: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) Doubtful
B) Traditional and unquestioning
C) Comic and careless
D) Scientific and analytical
Ans: B) Traditional and unquestioning
15. The wall in the poem can be read as a symbol of: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) Social and emotional barriers
B) Pure beauty only
C) Military strength
D) Religious grace
Ans: A) Social and emotional barriers
16. The poem’s central tension is between: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) War and peace
B) Tradition and questioning intelligence
C) City and village economy
D) Science and religion
Ans: B) Tradition and questioning intelligence
17. The speaker says there is no need for a wall because: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) He has cows and his neighbor has sheep
B) He has apple trees and the neighbor has pines
C) The land is empty
D) The wall is too expensive
Ans: B) He has apple trees and the neighbor has pines
18. The line “My apple trees will never get across / And eat the cones under his pines” is an example of: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Irony and playful humor
B) Epic invocation
C) Tragic pathos
D) Pure satire only
Ans: A) Irony and playful humor
19. The phrase “spring mending-time” suggests: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) A time of death
B) A ritual of renewal and repair
C) A season of war
D) A harvest festival
Ans: B) A ritual of renewal and repair
20. The speaker’s phrase “I could say ‘Elves’ to him” shows: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) His serious belief in magic only
B) His playful imagination
C) His fear of folklore
D) His religious devotion
Ans: B) His playful imagination
21. The speaker does not actually insist on “elves” because: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) He thinks they are dangerous
B) He would rather the neighbor think for himself
C) He forgets the word
D) He fears the wall
Ans: B) He would rather the neighbor think for himself
22. The neighbor is compared to “an old-stone savage armed” because he appears: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Violent and primitive in outlook
B) Friendly and modern
C) Educated and refined
D) Comic and weak
Ans: A) Violent and primitive in outlook
23. The poem may be read as criticizing: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Nature’s beauty
B) Blind adherence to inherited sayings
C) Farming itself
D) Rural friendship
Ans: B) Blind adherence to inherited sayings
24. The repeated proverb “Good fences make good neighbours” comes from: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) The speaker’s father
B) The neighbor’s father
C) A town priest
D) A hunter
Ans: B) The neighbor’s father
25. A major theme of the poem is: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Human separation and connection
B) Sea adventure
C) Romantic courtship
D) Political rebellion
Ans: A) Human separation and connection
26. Ironically, the wall also serves to: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) Completely destroy communication
B) Bring the two neighbors together once a year
C) Separate the speaker from nature
D) Keep animals out only
Ans: B) Bring the two neighbors together once a year
27. The poem’s style is best described as: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) Conversational and reflective
B) Highly ornate and mythological only
C) Comic farce
D) Epic invocation
Ans: A) Conversational and reflective
28. “Mending Wall” is often read as a poem about: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Pure nature worship
B) Boundaries and human relationships
C) War in Europe
D) Religious salvation only
Ans: B) Boundaries and human relationships
29. The phrase “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” may refer to: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Nature itself resisting barriers
B) The government
C) The church
D) Industrial machines
Ans: A) Nature itself resisting barriers
30. The poem’s speaker can best be described as: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Entirely rebellious
B) Questioning, playful, and thoughtful
C) Silent and passive
D) Bitterly angry
Ans: B) Questioning, playful, and thoughtful
31. The poem’s dramatic situation consists of: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Two neighbors walking and repairing a wall together
B) A father teaching his son
C) A man hunting in the woods
D) A farmer selling apples
Ans: A) Two neighbors walking and repairing a wall together
32. The wall is made of: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) Iron sheets
B) Wood planks
C) Stone/boulders
D) Brick and mortar
Ans: C) Stone/boulders
33. Which statement is TRUE about the speaker’s orchard? (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) It is a pine forest
B) It contains apple trees
C) It is filled with cattle
D) It is abandoned
Ans: B) It contains apple trees
34. The neighbor’s land mainly contains: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Wheat fields
B) Pine trees
C) Apple orchards
D) Vineyards
Ans: B) Pine trees
35. The poem suggests that proverbs may sometimes: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Replace original thinking
B) Solve all conflicts perfectly
C) Eliminate imagination
D) Destroy nature
Ans: A) Replace original thinking
36. Frost’s poem is most suitable for discussion of: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) National borders, social barriers, and neighborly relations
B) Sea voyages
C) Medieval romance
D) City traffic
Ans: A) National borders, social barriers, and neighborly relations
37. The poem’s title “Mending Wall” is slightly ambiguous because “mending” can suggest: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Only the wall being repaired
B) The act of repairing and the wall itself
C) Breaking the wall only
D) Painting the wall
Ans: B) The act of repairing and the wall itself
38. The poem belongs mainly to: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) American modern poetry with rural themes
B) Elizabethan drama
C) Victorian novel
D) Puritan sermon
Ans: A) American modern poetry with rural themes
39. The annual wall-mending can be seen as a metaphor for: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) The continual maintenance of social boundaries
B) A love affair
C) Religious conversion
D) Military training
Ans: A) The continual maintenance of social boundaries
40. The strongest irony in the poem is that the wall: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Is beautiful
B) Both divides and unites the neighbors
C) Protects fruit perfectly
D) Cannot be repaired
Ans: B) Both divides and unites the neighbors
41. The speaker’s argument against the wall is partly based on: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Practical uselessness in their case
B) Religious law
C) Political reform
D) Economic profit
Ans: A) Practical uselessness in their case
42. The poem’s language is notable for being: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Conversational yet symbolic
B) Purely ornate
C) Highly mythological only
D) Strictly academic
Ans: A) Conversational yet symbolic
43. Which best captures Frost’s likely attitude to the proverb? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Total agreement
B) Total rejection without irony
C) Ambivalent, questioning irony
D) Religious reverence
Ans: C) Ambivalent, questioning irony
44. The poem “Mending Wall” is NOT mainly about: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Human relationships
B) Tradition
C) Nature’s resistance
D) Sea exploration
Ans: D) Sea exploration
45. The poem’s best short critical label is: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Reflective rural narrative poem
B) Epic tragedy
C) Ballad of war
D) Sonnet of love
Ans: A) Reflective rural narrative poem
46. Frost uses the wall mainly to explore: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) The meaning of boundaries and communication
B) Machine technology
C) Colonial law
D) Courtship rituals
Ans: A) The meaning of boundaries and communication
47. The neighbor in the poem mainly symbolizes: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) Habit and inherited tradition
B) Revolutionary politics
C) Artistic imagination
D) Scientific modernity
Ans: A) Habit and inherited tradition
48. The speaker in the poem mainly symbolizes: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Critical intelligence and playful doubt
B) Blind superstition
C) Violent rebellion
D) Social indifference
Ans: A) Critical intelligence and playful doubt
49. Which statement is TRUE about “Mending Wall”? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) It is a 1914 Frost poem in blank verse about neighbors repairing a wall
B) It is a dramatic play
C) It is a sonnet sequence
D) It is a sea poem
Ans: A) It is a 1914 Frost poem in blank verse about neighbors repairing a wall
50. The overall message of “Mending Wall” is that: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) All walls are good
B) All walls must be destroyed
C) Nature always wins
D) Boundaries should be questioned because they both divide and define human relations
Ans: D) Boundaries should be questioned because they both divide and define human relations
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