Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable option:

The leaves have withered because ________________.

• A. the frost has withered them
• B. they have lost their beauty
• C. the storm has withered them
• D. the man has withered them

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

the frost has withered them

Option A: As mentioned in the lines,

"If you had seen the leaves just a few days ago ...
A frost came upon them and withered them all",

the frost has withered the leaves.

Hence option A is correct.

Options B and D: It's not mentioned anywhere in the poem that the leaves lost their beauty and hence they withered, or that man has withered the leaves.

Option C: The storm causes the leaves to fall, and not wither.

Hence options B, C and D are incorrect.