The Voice of the Rain — Class 11 MCQs with Answers
Class 11 CBSE English · Chapter 6
20 practice questions · 20 Medium · Updated
Practise the most important Class 11 CBSE English questions from Chapter 6, "The Voice of the Rain". You get 2 timed quizzes made from 20 NCERT-based MCQs, with answers and explanations. The questions are split into 20 Medium. Warm up on the basics, then move on to the exam-level questions that top scorers in CBSE Board exams get right.
To score well in "The Voice of the Rain", focus on comprehension, grammar and writing skills. Each MCQ here is timed and uses exam-style marking (+4 correct, −1 wrong, 0 skipped). This helps you stay accurate when time is short, just as real papers need. Every question has a short explanation, so a wrong answer becomes a quick lesson. It is the fastest way to fix gaps before a test.
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The Voice of the Rain — important questions & MCQs with answers (Class 11 English)
1 solved question from this chapter's difficulty levels, each with its answer and explanation. Tap an option to check yourself.
- Q1Medium
How does the poem trace the cycle of rain?
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Answer: It rises impalpable from land and sea, is changed in heaven, then descends to the globe and returns to its origin
Explanation: 'Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, / Upward to heaven... / I descend to lave the droughts... / I give back life to my own origin.'
Key concepts: The Voice of the Rain (Class 11 English)
Walt Whitman's dialogue poem in which the poet asks the falling shower who it is, and the rain answers. Its cycle of rising, changing, descending and returning is set alongside the journey of a song.
- Two voices
- The poet speaks in 'And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower'; the rain answers in 'I am the poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain'.
- The poem of Earth
- The rain's name for itself. It sets up the poem's central analogy between falling water and made music or verse.
- Strange to tell
- Meaning 'surprisingly' or 'oddly enough' — the poet marks it as remarkable that a shower should answer at all.
- The archaic address
- 'Art thou' gives the opening an elevated, older register and treats the rain as a living presence worth questioning.
- Rising
- 'Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea' — evaporation, described as invisible and untouchable.
- Changing
- 'Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same' — condensation into cloud, transformed in appearance but the same in substance.
- Descending
- 'I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe' — precipitation, washing what is parched and dusty.
- Giving life to seeds
- 'And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn' — without rain the hidden life in the soil never begins.
- Returning to its origin
- 'And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, / And make pure and beautify it.' The rain renews the very land and sea it rose from.
- The bracketed close
- The last two lines step outside the rain's speech: they are the poet's own aside, comparing the cycle to 'song, issuing from its birth-place… duly with love returns'.
- Reck'd or unreck'd
- Noticed or unnoticed. A song wanders whether or not anyone attends to it, and still comes home — the point of the comparison.
- Pairs of opposites
- Rise and descend, day and night, reck'd and unreck'd, land and sea — the poem is built on paired contraries that complete a circle.
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What are the key concepts in Class 11 English The Voice of the Rain?+
Walt Whitman's dialogue poem in which the poet asks the falling shower who it is, and the rain answers. Its cycle of rising, changing, descending and returning is set alongside the journey of a song. Key ideas include Two voices, The poem of Earth, Strange to tell, The archaic address, Rising, Changing.
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It has 20 NCERT-based MCQs on "The Voice of the Rain": 20 Medium. Together they make 2 timed quizzes, and you never get the same set twice. Every question has an instant explanation. They help you prepare for CBSE Board exams.
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The questions that matter most test Two voices, The poem of Earth, Strange to tell, The archaic address, Rising, Changing. This page shows 1 solved important MCQs with answers and explanations. Sign in to practise all 20 questions on the chapter as timed quizzes.
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