A Legend of the Northland - Reading Comprehension
AP/ NCERT Board-Based Reading Comprehension Passages Grade 9 Beehive
Poem - A Legend of the Northland
Reading Comprehension 1
Away, away in the Northland,
Where the hours of the day are few,
And the nights are so long in winter
That they cannot sleep them through;
Where they harness the swift reindeer
To the sledges, when it snows;
And the children look like bear’s cubs
In their funny, furry clothes:
They tell them a curious story —
I don’t believe ’tis true;
And yet you may learn a lesson
If I tell the tale to you.
1. Where does the poem take place?
A) Southland
B) Eastland
C) Westland
D) Northland
2. What is notable about the hours of the day in Northland?
A) They are numerous.
B) They are short.
C) They are unpredictable.
D) They are similar to other regions.
3. What is harnessed to the sledges in Northland?
A) Horses
B) Swift reindeer
C) Dogs
D) Bears
4. How do the children in Northland appear in winter?
A) Like birds
B) Like fish
C) Like bear's cubs
D) Like wolves
5. What do they tell the children in Northland?
A) Stories about summer
B) Curious stories
C) Fairy tales
D) Legends about reindeer
Reading Comprehension 2
Once, when the good Saint Peter
Lived in the world below,
And walked about it, preaching,
Just as he did, you know,
He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth;
And being faint with fasting,
For the day was almost done,
He asked her, from her store of cakes,
To give him a single one.
1. Who is the central character in the poem?
A) Saint Paul
B) Saint Andrew
C) Saint Peter
D) Saint John
2. Where did Saint Peter come across the little woman making cakes?
A) At the church
B) In a palace
C) At the door of a cottage
D) In a bakery
3. Why was Saint Peter faint and hungry when he approached the cottage?
A) He had been walking for hours.
B) He was tired of preaching.
C) It was almost evening.
D) He was fasting.
4. What did Saint Peter ask the little woman for?
A) A bed to rest
B) A single cake
C) Water to drink
D) Money
5. Identify the poetic device used in the line: "For the day was almost done."
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Alliteration
Reading Comprehension 3
But as it baking lay,
She looked at it, and thought it seemed
Too large to give away.
Therefore she kneaded another,
And still a smaller one;
But it looked, when she turned it over,
As large as the first had done.
Then she took a tiny scrap of dough,
And rolled and rolled it flat;
And baked it thin as a wafer —
But she couldn’t part with that.
1. What was the little woman's initial reaction when Saint Peter asked for a cake?
A) She refused outright.
B) She made a very large cake.
C) She made a very little cake.
D) She offered him water instead.
2. Why did the little woman hesitate to give away the first cake she made?
A) It looked unappetizing.
B) It seemed too large.
C) It was burnt.
D) She wanted it for herself.
3. What did the little woman do when the second cake also appeared too large?
A) Gave it away reluctantly
B) Ate it herself
C) Made a smaller one
D) Ignored the issue
4. What was the result when the little woman turned over the smaller cake?
A) It disappeared.
B) It looked larger.
C) It looked smaller.
D) It fell apart.
5. Identify the poetic device used in the line: "And baked it thin as a wafer."
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Alliteration
D) Personification
Reading Comprehension 4
When I eat of them myself
Are yet too large to give away.”
So she put them on the shelf.
Then good Saint Peter grew angry,
For he was hungry and faint;
And surely such a woman
Was enough to provoke a saint.
And he said, “You are far too selfish
To dwell in a human form,
To have both food and shelter,
And fire to keep you warm.
Now, you shall build as the birds do,
And shall get your scanty food
By boring, and boring, and boring,
All day in the hard, dry wood.”
1. Why did the little woman hesitate to give away her cakes?
A) She thought they were too delicious.
B) She believed they were too small for others.
C) She wanted to save them for later.
D) She thought others wouldn't appreciate them.
2. What did the little woman do with the cakes instead of giving them away?
A) Ate them herself
B) Sold them in the market
C) Kept them on the shelf
D) Threw them away
3. Why did Saint Peter grow angry with the little woman?
A) She refused to speak to him.
B) She did not have enough cakes.
C) She seemed selfish and unwilling to share.
D) She was not a good cook.
4. What punishment did Saint Peter decide for the little woman?
A) Banishment from the village
B) Endless fasting
C) Boring in the hard, dry wood
D) Filling her house with snakes
5. Identify the poetic device used in the line: "And surely such a woman Was enough to provoke a saint."
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Alliteration
D) Understatement
Reading Comprehension 5
Never speaking a word,
And out of the top flew a woodpecker,
For she was changed to a bird.
She had a scarlet cap on her head,
And that was left the same;
But all the rest of her clothes were burned
Black as a coal in the flame.
And every country schoolboy
Has seen her in the wood,
Where she lives in the trees till this very day,
Boring and boring for food.
1. How did the little woman exit the house?
A) Through the door
B) Through the window
C) Up the chimney
D) Through the cellar
2. What happened when the little woman went up the chimney?
A) She disappeared.
B) She transformed into a woodpecker.
C) She found a secret passage.
D) She got stuck.
3. What color was the cap on the woodpecker's head?
A) Blue
B) Scarlet
C) Green
D) Yellow
4. What happened to the rest of the little woman's clothes?
A) They remained the same.
B) They were lost.
C) They turned scarlet.
D) They burned black in the flame.
5. What is the woodpecker doing in the woods according to the last stanza?
A) Singing
B) Flying
C) Boring for food
D) Resting on branches
6. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
A) AABB
B) ABAB
C) ABCB
D) AABBCC
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