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Ted Hughes – “The Thought-Fox” – Exam Based MCQs
1. “The Thought-Fox” is written by: (UGC NET / SET / PGTRB)
A) Philip Larkin
B) Dylan Thomas
C) Ted Hughes
D) Seamus Heaney
Ans: C) Ted Hughes
2. The poem mainly explores the process of: (SET)
A) Writing/creative inspiration
B) War and politics
C) Colonial history
D) Religious conversion
Ans: A) Writing/creative inspiration
3. In the poem, the fox is primarily a symbol of: (UGC NET)
A) Industrial progress
B) Family tradition
C) National identity
D) The poet’s emerging idea/poem
Ans: D) The poet’s emerging idea/poem
4. The opening setting emphasizes: (PGTRB)
A) A bright summer noon
B) Midnight silence and loneliness
C) A noisy market
D) A festive gathering
Ans: B) Midnight silence and loneliness
5. The poem begins with the speaker: (SET)
A) Sitting at a desk, struggling to write
B) Fighting in a war
C) Leading a political rally
D) Travelling on a train
Ans: A) Sitting at a desk, struggling to write
6. The phrase “I imagine this midnight moment’s forest” shows: (UGC NET)
A) Historical narration
B) Scientific description
C) Imagination creating a mental scene
D) Political propaganda
Ans: C) Imagination creating a mental scene
7. The poem’s mood in the first part is mostly: (PGTRB)
A) Comic
B) Celebratory
C) Romantic
D) Quiet, tense, expectant
Ans: D) Quiet, tense, expectant
8. The fox’s “coming” represents: (SET)
A) Death of nature
B) Gradual arrival of inspiration
C) A political revolution
D) A family reunion
Ans: B) Gradual arrival of inspiration
9. “Something else is alive” suggests: (UGC NET)
A) A new creative presence entering the mind
B) A real animal in the room
C) A crowd gathering outside
D) A storm beginning
Ans: A) A new creative presence entering the mind
10. The poem is often interpreted as a poem about: (PGTRB)
A) Politics and law
B) Travel and memory
C) The act of writing poetry
D) Industrialization
Ans: C) The act of writing poetry
11. The fox is described with qualities like “cold” and “delicate,” emphasizing: (SET)
A) Domestic comfort
B) Precision and sharpness of thought
C) Religious faith
D) Loud celebration
Ans: B) Precision and sharpness of thought
12. The poem’s structure is best described as: (UGC NET)
A) A sonnet
B) A ballad with refrains
C) A dramatic monologue in strict blank verse
D) Free verse with strong imagery and rhythm
Ans: D) Free verse with strong imagery and rhythm
13. The “blank page” is compared to: (PGTRB)
A) Snow in the dark
B) A burning city
C) A sea voyage
D) A crowded theatre
Ans: A) Snow in the dark
14. The metaphor of the fox moving through the forest suggests: (SET)
A) A legal argument developing
B) A war strategy forming
C) An idea taking shape through imagination
D) A religious ritual
Ans: C) An idea taking shape through imagination
15. The repeated attention to “footprints” highlights: (UGC NET)
A) Economic progress
B) The marks of the poem appearing on the page
C) A traveller’s journey abroad
D) A political march
Ans: B) The marks of the poem appearing on the page
16. The poem’s final moment (“page is printed”) suggests: (PGTRB)
A) The poet quits writing
B) The fox disappears forever
C) The poet falls asleep
D) Inspiration becomes a finished poem
Ans: D) Inspiration becomes a finished poem
17. The poem blends: (SET)
A) Outer natural imagery with inner mental activity
B) Mythic prophecy with epic battles
C) Travel narrative with history
D) Romantic love with comedy
Ans: A) Outer natural imagery with inner mental activity
18. The fox is “bold” and “smooth,” suggesting ideas are: (UGC NET)
A) Always loud and obvious
B) Completely mechanical
C) Living and active forces
D) Purely historical facts
Ans: C) Living and active forces
19. The speaker is primarily: (PGTRB)
A) A soldier in war
B) A poet observing creativity
C) A king giving a speech
D) A farmer describing seasons
Ans: B) A poet observing creativity
20. The poem’s main literary device is: (SET)
A) Allegory of a nation
B) Pastoral nostalgia
C) Scientific realism
D) Extended metaphor (fox = thought/poem)
Ans: D) Extended metaphor (fox = thought/poem)
21. “The Thought-Fox” belongs to the tradition of poems about: (UGC NET)
A) Art and imagination
B) Medieval pilgrimage
C) Political revolution
D) Courtly love
Ans: A) Art and imagination
22. The poet’s “window” mainly symbolizes: (PGTRB)
A) A historical museum
B) A prison cell
C) The boundary between mind and outer world
D) A church altar
Ans: C) The boundary between mind and outer world
23. The “darkness” in the poem primarily represents: (SET)
A) A political crisis
B) The unknown space of imagination
C) A sunny meadow
D) A festive hall
Ans: B) The unknown space of imagination
24. The fox’s approach is described as: (UGC NET)
A) Loud and aggressive
B) Mechanical and robotic
C) Comic and silly
D) Quiet, cautious, and gradual
Ans: D) Quiet, cautious, and gradual
25. The poem reflects Hughes’s frequent interest in: (PGTRB)
A) Animals and instinctive energies
B) Medieval theology
C) City bureaucracy
D) Courtly romance
Ans: A) Animals and instinctive energies
26. The poem suggests inspiration often arrives: (SET)
A) By force and violence
B) In full clarity immediately
C) Slowly, from uncertainty to form
D) Only through memorization
Ans: C) Slowly, from uncertainty to form
27. The fox is never literally in the room; it is mainly: (UGC NET)
A) A pet animal
B) A figure of imagination
C) A circus creature
D) A hunted animal
Ans: B) A figure of imagination
28. The poem moves from “empty” to “filled” as: (PGTRB)
A) The war begins
B) The crowd arrives
C) The festival starts
D) The page fills with words
Ans: D) The page fills with words
29. The poem’s central image is an example of: (SET)
A) Symbolism
B) Allegory of history
C) Scientific realism
D) Moral fable
Ans: A) Symbolism
30. “The Thought-Fox” is often used to explain: (UGC NET)
A) Colonialism
B) Victorian morality
C) The creative process and imagination
D) Medieval romance
Ans: C) The creative process and imagination
31. The phrase “a widening deepening greenness” suggests: (PGTRB)
A) A political slogan
B) A courtroom argument
C) A loud city street
D) The imagined forest becoming more vivid
Ans: D) The imagined forest becoming more vivid
32. The fox’s “eye” that appears in the darkness represents: (SET)
A) A police spotlight
B) A sudden focus of the emerging idea
C) A burning fire
D) A religious vision
Ans: B) A sudden focus of the emerging idea
33. The poem suggests that thought becomes visible through: (UGC NET)
A) Writing on the page
B) Buying products
C) Political speeches
D) Travel experiences
Ans: A) Writing on the page
34. The poem uses the fox’s movement to show: (PGTRB)
A) A war march
B) A comic chase scene
C) The gradual shaping of a poem
D) A historical journey
Ans: C) The gradual shaping of a poem
35. The poem’s viewpoint is primarily: (SET)
A) Third-person omniscient narrator
B) Dramatic chorus
C) A newspaper reporter
D) First-person poet-speaker
Ans: D) First-person poet-speaker
36. The fox’s “touch” on the page equals: (UGC NET)
A) Words appearing on the paper
B) Rain falling outside
C) A crowd arriving
D) A bell ringing
Ans: A) Words appearing on the paper
37. The “sudden sharp hot stink of fox” suggests: (PGTRB)
A) A kitchen smell
B) The vivid reality of imagination
C) A market crowd
D) A church incense
Ans: B) The vivid reality of imagination
38. The poem ends with the idea that: (SET)
A) The forest disappears
B) The poet quits writing
C) The poem has been created and written down
D) The fox is hunted and killed
Ans: C) The poem has been created and written down
39. The poem’s central tension is between: (UGC NET)
A) War and peace
B) Love and hate
C) Rich and poor
D) Emptiness (blank page) and creation (written poem)
Ans: D) Emptiness (blank page) and creation (written poem)
40. The poem suggests creativity is: (PGTRB)
A) A mysterious, living process
B) A simple mechanical act
C) Always planned fully in advance
D) Only a social activity
Ans: A) A mysterious, living process
41. Which is TRUE about the fox image? (SET)
A) It is only a real animal outside
B) It has no symbolic meaning
C) It symbolizes thought becoming a poem
D) It represents a political leader
Ans: C) It symbolizes thought becoming a poem
42. The poem is famous for its: (UGC NET)
A) Comic dialogue
B) Powerful animal imagery and metaphor
C) Long narrative plot
D) Strict sonnet rhyme scheme
Ans: B) Powerful animal imagery and metaphor
43. The poem’s “forest” mainly exists: (PGTRB)
A) In a real national park
B) In a city street
C) In a battlefield
D) In the poet’s imagination
Ans: D) In the poet’s imagination
44. The poem suggests the act of writing is like: (SET)
A) Tracking and shaping a living presence
B) Copying a textbook
C) Reading a newspaper
D) Solving a math problem mechanically
Ans: A) Tracking and shaping a living presence
45. Ted Hughes is associated with: (UGC NET)
A) Georgian poetry
B) Metaphysical poetry
C) Post-war British poetry
D) Renaissance drama
Ans: C) Post-war British poetry
46. The fox’s movement from darkness to clarity parallels: (PGTRB)
A) A war strategy
B) An idea moving from vague to definite form
C) A political rally forming
D) A historical journey
Ans: B) An idea moving from vague to definite form
47. The poem’s imagery is mainly: (SET)
A) Urban and mechanical
B) Scientific and factual
C) Mythic and epic
D) Natural and sensory
Ans: D) Natural and sensory
48. The “print” on the page at the end indicates: (UGC NET)
A) Completion of the poem
B) Failure of imagination
C) A legal report
D) A political announcement
Ans: A) Completion of the poem
49. The “sudden sharp hot stink” is an example of: (PGTRB)
A) Euphemism
B) Hyperbole only
C) Sensory imagery
D) Pun
Ans: C) Sensory imagery
50. Which statement is TRUE about “The Thought-Fox”? (UGC NET)
A) It is a political satire on bureaucracy
B) It uses an extended metaphor of a fox to represent poetic inspiration
C) It is a medieval ballad of a knight
D) It is a romantic sonnet about love
Ans: B) It uses an extended metaphor of a fox to represent poetic inspiration
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