Q1. Who is the poem "A Concrete Example" written by?
A. William Blake
B. John Keats
C. Reginald Arkell
D. Robert Frost
Q2. Who is the speaker's neighbour in the poem?
A. Mrs. Smith
B. Mrs. Jones
C. Mrs. Brown
D. Mrs. Green
Q3. What does Mrs. Jones have in her garden?
A. A lawn and flower beds
B. A swimming pool
C. A garden full of stones
D. A vegetable patch
Q4. What unusual feature does the garden path have?
A. It is made of marble
B. It is described as a crazy path
C. It is made of bricks
D. It is lined with hedges
Q5. What is in the garden beyond the crazy path and lily pond?
A. A fountain
B. A tall tree
C. A sundial with a strange device
D. A small statue
Q6. What does Mrs. Jones put between the stones?
A. Tall shrubs
B. Little plants that are delicate and small
C. Colourful pots
D. Garden gnomes
Q7. What does the speaker think of the tiny plants between the stones?
A. They are beautiful
B. They don't mean anything at all
C. They are very useful
D. They attract butterflies
Q8. What did Mrs. Jones once ask the speaker to do?
A. Help in the garden
B. Water her plants
C. Come and see her stones
D. Buy new plants
Q9. What was the speaker standing on without realising it?
A. A stone
B. The lovely flower Mrs. Jones was pointing out
C. A piece of glass
D. A buried pot
Q10. What does Mrs. Jones think of the sundial?
A. She finds it rather nice
B. She wants to remove it
C. She thinks it is old-fashioned
D. She is unsure about it
Q11. What does the speaker mean by saying the tiny plants "don't mean anything at all"?
A. They are artificial
B. The plants are so small and insignificant they seem purposeless to the speaker
C. The plants are dead
D. The speaker cannot identify them
Q12. What does the phrase "unless she plants them with a pin" suggest?
A. Mrs. Jones is very skilled
B. The plants are so tiny that only a pin could create space to plant them in the stones
C. Mrs. Jones uses unusual tools
D. The garden has magical powers
Q13. What is the tone of the poem?
A. Sad and melancholic
B. Serious and formal
C. Gently humorous and self-deprecating
D. Angry and critical
Q14. What is the comic moment in the poem?
A. Mrs. Jones trips over a stone
B. The speaker stands on the very flower they were looking for
C. The sundial falls over
D. The lily pond overflows
Q15. What does the speaker's conversation with Mrs. Jones about the flower lasting "a quarter of an hour" suggest?
A. They are both very knowledgeable about flowers
B. The speaker is politely pretending to be interested while looking for the flower
C. The flower was very complex to describe
D. Mrs. Jones was explaining its scientific name
Q16. What kind of garden does Mrs. Jones have?
A. A well-organised formal garden
B. An untidy overgrown garden
C. A rocky garden with stones paths lily pond rockery and sundial
D. A garden with only fruit trees
Q17. What does the title "A Concrete Example" refer to?
A. An example about concrete construction
B. A pun — the poem is about stones and the 'concrete' lesson of missing what is right beneath our feet
C. An example in a textbook
D. A description of a concrete pathway
Q18. What does the phrase "a strange device" suggest about the sundial?
A. It is broken
B. It has an unusual or cryptic design or inscription
C. It was imported from another country
D. It tells the wrong time
Q19. Who initiated the conversation about the flower?
A. The speaker cried out asking where the lovely thing was
B. Mrs. Jones described the flower first
C. They both noticed it together
D. The speaker was shown a photograph
Q20. How does the poem use the garden to create humour?
A. By describing impossible plants
B. Through the contrast between the speaker's bemusement and Mrs. Jones's pride in her unusual garden
C. By exaggerating the size of the stones
D. By making the garden animals speak
Q21. What is the main irony at the heart of the poem?
A. The garden is not actually full of stones
B. The speaker was standing on the very flower they were asking about — the obvious thing was right underfoot
C. Mrs. Jones is secretly a gardening expert
D. The sundial never shows the correct time
Q22. How does the poem comment on human perception?
A. People always notice obvious things
B. People often overlook what is right in front of them or beneath their feet while searching for it
C. People are naturally observant
D. Perception is only important in science
Q23. What role does the structure of the poem — using rhyming couplets — play?
A. It makes the poem difficult to understand
B. It creates a light bouncy rhythm that suits the humorous gentle tone
C. It emphasises the seriousness of the subject
D. It makes the poem sound like a song
Q24. How does the speaker's description of Mrs. Jones's garden reflect the speaker's personality?
A. The speaker is a gardening expert
B. The speaker is observant of the garden's details but baffled by Mrs. Jones's choices suggesting a mild scepticism
C. The speaker secretly admires Mrs. Jones
D. The speaker wants a similar garden
Q25. What does the poem suggest about the difference between the speaker and Mrs. Jones?
A. Mrs. Jones is wrong about gardening
B. They appreciate nature differently — Mrs. Jones values delicate hidden things while the speaker misses them entirely
C. The speaker is more educated
D. Mrs. Jones is careless about her garden
Q26. What is humorous about the way the speaker wonders how Mrs. Jones plants the tiny plants?
A. It suggests disbelief about the existence of such small plants
B. The suggestion that a pin is needed to plant them is an absurd comic exaggeration
C. The speaker is jealous of the plants
D. The speaker wants to try planting with a pin
Q27. What does the line "You're standing on it" at the end of the poem achieve?
A. It ends the poem abruptly
B. It delivers the punchline of the poem — a sudden comic reversal where the searched-for object was underfoot all along
C. It suggests the speaker destroyed the flower
D. It shows Mrs. Jones is angry
Q28. How does the poem use the idea of a "rockery" and "sundial" to characterise Mrs. Jones?
A. To show she is old-fashioned
B. These features establish her as someone with an unconventional aesthetic — she values unusual and structured natural beauty
C. To show she is very wealthy
D. These features suggest she is a professional gardener
Q29. Which words or phrases in the poem create a humorous effect?
A. Unless she plants them with a pin / You're standing on it / They don't mean anything at all
B. The lily pond
C. The stones
D. The sundial
Q30. What deeper meaning can be drawn from the poem's comic conclusion about the speaker standing on the flower?
A. Flowers are fragile and need protection
B. The poem subtly criticises human tendency to overlook obvious things while searching for them — a metaphor for missing what is right in front of us
C. The speaker should have paid more attention to Mrs. Jones
D. Gardens are not worth visiting
Q31. How does the title function as a pun on two levels?
A. It refers to a concrete garden path
B. On one level it literally refers to the stone and concrete garden / on another it ironically labels the speaker's missed observation as a "concrete example" of not seeing what is obvious
C. It is a scientific term
D. It refers to a specific type of plant
Q32. What does the poem suggest about the nature of appreciation for small or overlooked things?
A. Small things have no value
B. Things that seem trivial — like tiny plants between stones — may carry great meaning for those who tend them even if others cannot see it
C. Only experts can appreciate nature
D. Stones are more important than plants
Q33. How does the poem use the visitor's perspective to create a gentle social commentary?
A. It criticises Mrs. Jones's gardening
B. By presenting the speaker as someone who cannot appreciate the subtle beauty of Mrs. Jones's garden the poem gently pokes fun at those who only see value in grand or obvious things
C. It praises formal gardens
D. It argues stones should not be used in gardens
Q34. What literary techniques does the poem employ to achieve its humorous effect?
A. Metaphor only
B. Rhyming couplets for rhythm / Understatement in describing the plants / Comic reversal in the final line / Gentle irony throughout
C. Only alliteration
D. Only repetition
Q35. In what ways can the final scene — "You're standing on it" — be interpreted on multiple levels?
A. It is only a literal statement
B. Literally the speaker stands on the flower / Metaphorically it suggests we often stand on or overlook the very thing we are searching for / It is the comic punchline
C. It is only symbolic
D. It means the flower was imaginary
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