[🚲 Fill in the Blanks from Bicycle
✍️ Questions – Options Shuffled
🖋️ 1. The poem Bicycle was written by __________.
(T. S. Eliot / David Malouf / A. K. Ramanujan)
👤 2. The poem Bicycle is dedicated to __________.
(W. H. Auden / Stephen Leacock / Derek Peat)
🏠 3. The bicycle has occupied the poet’s __________.
(classroom / living room / garden)
🛣️ 4. The poet calls the bicycle a “stranger from the __________.”
(mountains / forest / streets)
🌲 5. The spokes of the bicycle are compared to __________ needles.
(medical / pine / sewing)
🐂 6. The downward curve of the handlebars is compared to polished __________.
(stones / horns / mirrors)
🌳 7. The bicycle is described as a forest __________.
(hunter / animal / deity)
🦗 8. The bicycle is called a tall metallic __________.
(flower / insect / building)
👼 9. The poet describes the bicycle as a “horizontal angel of __________.”
(white / gold / green)
✨ 10. The bicycle’s bright, changing colours are described as savage __________.
(darkness / iridescence / silence)
💧 11. The poet imagines offering the bicycle a saucer of cold __________.
(milk / water / sweat)
🦗 12. The messengers of time appear like huge __________ insects.
(honey / stick / water)
🌆 13. The messengers of time move towards the poet through the __________.
(snow / rain / dusk)
📨 14. The riders carry the future sealed at their lips like urgent __________.
(invitations / telegrams / textbooks)
⚙️ 15. The poem expresses the anxieties and insecurities of the age of __________.
(exploration / agriculture / machines)
✅ Answer Key
1. David Malouf
2. Derek Peat
3. Living room
4. Streets
5. Pine
6. Horns
7. Deity
8. Insect
9. Green
10. Iridescence
11. Sweat
12. Stick
13. Dusk
14. Telegrams
15. Machines]