These TS 10th Class English Important Questions Reading Comprehension Poems Question Number 6 to 10 will help the students to improve their time and approach.
TS 10th Class English Reading Comprehension Poems Question Number 6 to 10
(1) Read the following poem.
In the dark that falls before the dawn,
When the dew has settled on the thorn,
When the stars have been obscured by clouds,
A silence covers all things in shrouds.
No wind sighs in the mulberry tree,
No firefly glimmers wild and free,
A shadow has wrapped the night in gloom,
It’s silent as a deserted tomb.
All of a sudden a lapwing’s cry
Cuts the black silence as it flies by,
Again and again it slashes the dark
That haunts the empty, desolate park,
Anguish, sorrow pours from its throat,
It wings in the night, note after note;
I open my window so the light
Will flood the dark of this wretched, night.
Why does it cry so miserably ?
Why is it so solitary ?
All I know is that loss and ache
Are left behind in the lapwing’s wake.
– Meera Uberoi
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The poet opens the window because
(A) he can see the lapwing
(B) he can get some air
(C) he can get some light
(D) he can hear the lapwing
Answer:
(C) he can get some light
Question 7.
When darkness falls there is
(A) a shroud covering all things
(B) the crying of the lapwing to be heard
(C) complete silence everywhere
(D) gloom and destination
Answer:
(C) complete silence everywhere
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
When does the lapwing come out ?
Answer:
At night
Question 9.
Why do you think the lapwing cries so miserably ?
Answer:
Loss and ache are left behind in the lapwing’s wake. It cries miserably as it loses something! someone dear to it. It also suffers some pain.
Question 10.
What is ‘it’ referred to in the expression, ‘It’s silent as a deserted tomb’ ?
Answer:
It is referred to the silent night.
(2) Read the following poem.
“For oh,” say the children, “we are weary
And we cannot run or leap;
If we cared for any meadows, it were merely
To drop down in them and sleep.
Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping,
We fall upon our faces, trying to go;
And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping
The reddest flower would look as pale as snow.
For, all day, we drag our burden tiring
Through the coal – dark, underground;
Or, all day we drive the wheels or iron
In the factories, round and round.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
What do you mean by the phrase ‘reddest flower’ in the expression ‘The red¬dest flower would look as pale as snow’ ?
(A) a flower which is red
(B) a rose flower
(C) the childhood
(D) the red flower in the child’s eye
Answer:
(C) the childhood
Question 7.
The mood of the children in the poem is
(A) joyful
(B) tired
(C) angry
(D) jealous
Answer:
(B) tired
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
“And we cannot run or leap” – Why do you think they cannot run or leap ?
Answer:
I think they are very tired, after working in the mines.
Question 9.
How does the work affect the children ?
Answer:
The children are weary after their day-long hard work. Their knees ache and tremble. They cant jump or run. Their eyelids droop for want of sleep.
Question 10.
What is the central idea of the poem ?
Answer:
The old child labour system should be eradicated. The children should enjoy their childhood.
(3) Read the following poem.
O silent goblet! Red from head to heel,
How did you feel
When you were being twirled
Upon the potter’s wheel
Before the potter gave you to the world ?
‘I felt a conscious impulse in my clay
To break away
From the Great Potter’s hand that
burned so warm,
I felt a vast
Feeling of sorrow to be cast
Into my present form’.
‘Before that fatal hour
That saw me captive on the potter’s wheel
And cast into his crimson goblet-sleep
I used to feel
The fragrant friendship of a little flower
Whose root was in my bosom buried deep.’
The Potter has drawn out the living
breath of me
And given me a form which is the
death of me,
My past unshapely natural stage was best
With just one flower flaming through my breast’.
– Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
Who do you think is T in the expression “I felt a conscious impulse in my clay?
(A) the potter
(B) the goblet
(C) the potter’s hand
(D) the potter’s wheel
Answer:
(B) the goblet
Question 7.
The phrase,’fragrant friendship’is used to suggest that
(A) the pleasant relationship between the goblet and the flower.
(B) the unpleasant relationship between the goblet and the flower.
(C) the pleasant relationship between the goblet and the potter.
(D) the unpleasant relationship between the goblet and the potter.
Answer:
(A) the pleasant relationship between the goblet and the flower.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What was the feeling of the goblet when it was being twirled upon the potter wheel?
Answer:
It felt sorrowful.
Question 9.
Which life does the goblet like, its present life or past life ? Why ?
Answer:
The goblet likes its past life of clay as it has life. It is natural state. It enjoys the fragrant friendship of a flower in its natural state.
Question 10.
When the poet uses the expression, ‘burned so warm’, what are the feelingr of the poet towards the goblet ?
Answer:
The poet has tender feelings towards the goblet. He sympathizes with the goblet’s present form.
(4) Read the following lines (June 2016)
Merry merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green :
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my bosom.
Pretty pretty robin !
Under leaves so green :
A happy blossom
Hears you Sobbing, Sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.
– William Blake
Glossary :
Swift : quick
Pretty : pleasant
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
‘Cradle narrow’ refers to _______
(A) a small room
(B) a huge building
(C) a big garden
(D) a tiny nest.
Answer:
(D) a tiny nest.
Question 7.
‘Pretty robin, Pretty robin,
Near my bosom’ – This is associated with _______
(A) affection
(B) attraction
(C) happiness
(D) responsibility
Answer:
(A) affection
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What is the central idea of the poem ?
Answer:
The poet witnesses the happy sparrow and robin in their natural habitat. On seeing them, he too is pleasant.
Question 9.
Do you think the poet, the sparrow and the robin are happy ? Explain.
Answer:
Yes, I think the poet, the sparrow and the robin are happy. The sparrow and the robin are very pleasant in their green surroundings. When the poet sees them, he too feels the same.
Question 10.
How would you feel when you were in the garden ?
Answer:
When I were in the garden I feel very happy.
(5) Read the following poem.
I lay in sorrow, deep distressed ;
My grief a proud man heard ;
His looks were cold, he gave me gold
But not a kindly word.
My sorrow passed I paid him back
The gold he gave to me ;
Then stood erect and spoke my thanks
And blessed his charity.
I lay in want, in grief and pain;
A poor man passed my way
He bound my head, he gave me bread
He watched me night and day.
How shall I pay him back again,
For all he did to me ?
Oh, gold is great, but greater far
Is heavenly sympathy !
– Charles Mackay
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
What did the proud man do for the poet ?
(A) He gave him some gold
(B) He showed sympathy for him
(C) He spoke kindly to him
(D) He took him home
Answer:
(A) He gave him some gold
Question 7.
Why does the poet say that he ‘stood erect’ ?
(A) Because he was deeply distressed
(B) Because he had got gold from a proud man
(C) Because he had paid back the gold given to him
(D) Because he had in him heavenly sympathy
Answer:
(C) Because he had paid back the gold given to him
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What did the poor man do for the poet ?
Answer:
He watched him night and day.
Question 9.
What, according to the poet, can’t be paid back ?
Answer:
Sympathy cant be paid back.
Question 10.
What does the poet say about sympathy ?
Answer:
He calls sympathy heavenly.
(6) Read the following poem.
The country side must be preserved
(Preferably miles away from me.)
Neat hectares of the stuff reserved
For those in need of flower or tree.
I’ll make do with landscape painting
Film documentaries on TV
And when I need to escape, painting,
Then open-mouthed I’ll head for the sea.
Let others stroll and take their leisure,
In grasses wade up to their knees.
For I derive no earthly pleasure
From the green green rush that makes me sneeze.
– Roger Me Gough
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
What does the poet want to be done with the countryside?
(A) He wants it to be cleaned
(B) He wants it to be preserved
(C) He wants it to be used for film documentaries
(D) He wants it to be changed into pleasure parks
Answer:
(B) He wants it to be preserved
Question 7.
What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza ?
(A) abab
(B) abba
(C) aabc
(D) abbe
Answer:
(A) abab
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What would the poet do when he needs an escape from city life ?
Answer:
He would go to the seaside.
Question 9.
Why does the poet not want to wade in tall grasses ?
Answer:
It makes his feet and legs very muddy.
Question 10.
Why does the poet want the countryside to be away from him ?
Answer:
So that he can sit at home and do landscape painting.
(7) Read the following poem.
I had a dove and the sweet dove died
And I thought it died of grieving;
0, What could it grieve for ? Its feet were tied
With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving ;
Sweet little red feet ! Why should you die
Why should you leave me, sweet bird ! Why ?
You lived alone on the forest-tree,
Why, pretty thing ! Would you not live with me ?
I kissed you off and gave you white peas ;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees ?
– John Keats
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
What do you think about the dove grieved for ?
(A) For a silken thread
(B) For its lost freedom
(C) For white peas
(D) For the poets love
Answer:
(B) For its lost freedom
Question 7.
Where did the dove live before the poet got it ?
(A) In a cage
(B) In a forest
(C) In a zoo
(D) In a cave
Answer:
(B) In a forest
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What did the poet wonder about ?
Answer:
He wondered why the bird had died.
Question 9.
What idea does this poem convey ?
Answer:
That birds love freedom more than food.
Question 10.
What is the opposite of the word ‘grieve’?
Answer:
rejoice.
(8) Read the following lines.
I hear a sudden cry of pain !
There is a rabbit in a snare;
Now, I hear the cry again,
But I cannot tell from where.
But I cannot tell from where,
He is calling out for aid !
Crying on the frightened air,
Making everything afraid !
Making everything afraid,
Wrinkling up his little face,
As he cries again for aid;
And I cannot find the place !
And I cannot find the place
Where his paw is in the snare,
Little one! Oh, Little one!
I am searching everywhere!
– James Stephens
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
‘a snare’ means :
(A) a well
(B) a trap
(C) a hill
(D) a pin
Answer:
(B) a trap
Question 7.
Who is the ‘Little one’ referred to here ?
(A) a snare
(B) rabbit
(C) poet
(D) air
Answer:
(B) rabbit
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
Why is the rabbit crying ?
Answer:
The rabbit is crying as it has been trapped in a snare.
Question 9.
What does the poet hear ? What is his reaction ?
Answer:
The poet hears the cry of pain. The poet looks for the place where the rabbit’s paw in the snare is.
Question 10.
How will you help the rabbit if you find its place ?
Answer:
If I find Its place, I shall definitely try to save the rabbit and give it relief.
(9) Read the following lines.
Who would be a turtle who could help it?
A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet,
She can ill afford the chances she must take
In rowing toward the grasses that she eats.
Her track is graceless, like dragging
A packing-case places, and almost any slope
Defeats her modest hopes. Even being practical,
She’s often stuck up to the axle on her way
To something edible. With everything optimal,
She skirts the ditch which would convert
Her shell into a serving dish. She lives
Below luck-level, never imagining some lottery
Will change her load of pottery to wings.
Her only levity is patience,
The sport of truly chastened things.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The usage ‘a four oared helmet’ means
(A) The thick shell and the four leg combination of a turtle
(B) The shell of a turtle, which is usually very hard
(C) The feet of a turtle, which resembles the oars.
(D) The special equipments of a turtle.
Answer:
(A) The thick shell and the four leg combination of a turtle
Question 7.
Below luck level means…
(A) There are good chances for the turtle to get caught.
(B) There are enough chances for the turtle to live.
(C) There are no chances for the turtle to find food
(D) There are supplies of food easily available for the turtle.
Answer:
(A) There are good chances for the turtle to get caught.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
Why do you think the turtle ‘has to ill afford its chances’ to grass?
Answer:
The turtle has to take the chances to find food, as it could not move faster on land.
Question 9.
What is the lottery that the turtle would like to have?
Answer:
The chance to change the heavy weight into lighter wings so that it could escape from the dangers.
Question 10.
How is the movement of the turtle described ?
Answer:
As a pack of box is being dragged on the way.
(10) Read the following lines.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word’antique’land refers to _______
(A) A forbidden land
(B) A forgotten world
(C) A an ancient land
(D) A living world
Answer:
(C) A an ancient land
Question 7.
The statue that the man had seen there was _______
(A) The one being made there
(B) The one in pieces
(C) The one which was completed
(D) The one being fixed.
Answer:
(B) The one in pieces
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What are the indications about the keen observation the sculptor had done?
Answer:
The frown, the wrinkled lips and the sneer of cold command are the indications that show the sculptor had a great observation.
Question 9.
Whose was the statue there?
Answer:
The statue was of Ozymandias, the mythological king of kings. His name was Ramses II.
Question 10.
What do you mean by the word pedestal ?
Answer:
A base part on which the statue is placed.
(11) Read the following poem.
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Aunt Jennifer’s finger fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she has mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The tigers of Aunt Jennifer are
(A) Real
(B) Idols
(C) Pictures
(D) Craft work
Answer:
(D) Craft work
Question 7.
The people under the tree are
(A) Hunters
(B) Trainers
(C) Well wishes
(D) Pictures
Answer:
(D) Pictures
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
How are the tigers described ?
Answer:
The tigers are described as fearless and chivalric.
Question 9.
Why is the weight of the wedding ring mentioned in the poem ?
Answer:
To show the male domination over the creative females.
Question 10.
What ordeal did Aunt master ?
Answer:
Aunt had mastered the ordeals of creative skills.
(12) Read the following poem.
I ask my daughter to name the planets.
“Venus….Mars………. and Plunis !”she says.
When I was six or seven my father
woke me in the middle of the night.
We went down to the playground and
lay on our backs on the concrete looking
up for the meteors the TV said would shower.
I don’t remember any meteors.
I remember my back pressed to the planet Earth,
my father’s bulk like gravity next to me,
the occasional rumble from his throat,
the apartment buildings dark-windowed,
the sky close enough to poke with my finger.
Now, knowledge erodes wonder.
The niggling voce reminds me that the sun
does shine on the dark side of the moon.
My daughter’s ignorance is my bliss.
Through her eyes I spy like a voyeur.
I travel in a rocket ship to the planet Plunis.
On Plunis I no longer long for the past.
On Plunis there are actual surprises.
On Plunis I am happy.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The planet on which they lied down was
(A) Mercury
(B) Venus
(C) Earth
(D) Mars
Answer:
(C) Earth
Question 7.
The father wanted to show him
(A) The other planets in the sky
(B) The meteors falling
(C) The stars glowing in the sky
(D) The night sky
Answer:
(B) The meteors falling
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
Why did the poet go to the ground to see meteors ?
Answer:
Because the TV show had said that it will shower meteors.
Question 9.
Why do you think the poet will be happy in Plunis ?
Answer:
In Plunis, the poet will not seek his past, long for surprises. So he will be happy there.
Question 10.
What did the poet ask his daughter ?
Answer:
The poet asked his daughter, the names of the planets.
(13) Read the following lines.
O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: 0, thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow
Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, O, hear!
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word ‘thou’ means
(A) You
(B) Your
(C) Yours
(D) Yourself
Answer:
(A) You
Question 7.
The azure sister of west wind comes before
(A) Autumn
(B) Winter
(C) Summer
(D) Spring
Answer:
(D) Spring
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
How is the west wind described?
Answer:
The unseen presence of West Wind makes the dead leaves driven away from the trees, placing the whole world with the expectation of the season ahead.
Question 9.
How does the sister of West Wind behave?
Answer:
The sister of West Wind emerges before the spring season, and does give the happiness of the expecting spring to all.
Question 10.
What is the mythological connection that is said about ‘west wind’ ?
Answer:
The west wind drives the charriot of winter.
(14) Read the following lines.
Once I am sure there’s nothing going on
I step inside, letting the door thud shut.
Another church: matting, seats, and stone,
And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut
For Sunday, brownish now; some brass and stuff
Up at the holy end; the small neat organ;
And a tense, musty, unignorable silence,
Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off
My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.
Move forward, run my hand around the font.
From where I stand, the roof looks almost new –
Cleaned, or restored? Someone would know: I don’t.
Mounting the lectern, I peruse a few
Hectoring large-scale verses, and pronounce
‘Here endeth’ much more loudly than I’d meant.
The echoes snigger briefly. Back at the door
I sign the book, donate an Irish sixpence,
Reflect the place was not worth stopping for.
Yet stop I did: in fact I often do,
And always end much at a loss like this,
Wondering what to look for; wondering, too,
When churches will fall completely out of use
What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep
A few cathedrals chronically on show,
Their parchment, plate and pyx in locked cases,
And let the rest rent-free to rain and sheep.
Shall we avoid them as unlucky places?
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The poet was _______
(A) Alone
(B) In a group
(C) With priest
(D) Without friends
Answer:
(A) Alone
Question 7.
‘Here Endeth’Means _______
(A) Here ends the journey into the church
(B) Here Ends the Services in the Church
(C) Here ends the church visit
(D) Here ends the poem.
Answer:
(B) Here Ends the Services in the Church
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What does the poet mean by ‘When churches will fall completely out of use’?
Answer:
It means when the people has lost the faith they have in religion and churches.
Question 9.
What do you think the attitude of the poet towards the church is?
Answer:
The poet believes in the religious practices and has an opinion that the people should have the habit of going to churches.
Question 10.
Why do you think the pact had gone to the church ?
Answer:
The poet was just visiting the church, without any money.
(15) Read the following passage.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o’er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall .
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word pall in line 12 stands for
(A) Friend
(B) Enemy
(C) Sadness
(D) Happiness
Answer:
(C) Sadness
Question 7.
The musk rose adds to the beauty of _______
(A) Removed darkness
(B) The dark forests
(C) Treeless lands
(D) The Heaven
Answer:
(B) The dark forests
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
Name some things which could remove the sadness of the people?
Answer:
The sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon for simple sheep; and daffodils with the green world in; and clear rills etc are some such examples.
Question 9.
How are the beautiful things useful for us?
Answer:
The beautiful things add to our happiness, they remove the sadness and add to the loveliness of the things. They always perform as a shade under which the people could find the consolation.
Question 10.
How can the beautiful things influence other people?
Answer:
By increasing the joy of people and removing their sadness.
(16) Read the following poem.
I cannot remember my mother,
only sometime in the midst of my play
a tune seems to hover over my play-things,
the tune of some song that she used
to hum while rocking my cradle.
I cannot remember my mother,
but when in the early autumn morning
the smell of the shiuli flowers floats in the air,
the scent of the morning service in the temple
comes to me as the scent of my mother.
I cannot remember my mother,
only when from my bedroom window
I send my eyes into the blue of the distant sky,
I feel that the stillness of my mother’s gaze
on my face has spread all over the sky.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
What do you understand by the expression, “I cannot remember my mother”?
(A) The poet has forgot his mother.
(B) The poet’s mother has run away from home.
(C) The poet’s mother died when he was very young.
(D) The poet’s mother deserted him when he was a little boy.
Answer:
(C) The poet’s mother died when he was very young.
Question 7.
The tone of poem is
(A) agony
(B) sadness
(C) piety
(D) joy
Answer:
(B) sadness
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What does the scent of the morning service in the temple make him remember ?
Answer:
His mother’s going to the temple.
Question 9.
How does the poet feel the presence of his mother ?
Answer:
The poet feels the presence of his mother in the tunes that hovers over him, in the scent of the flowers offered to God and In the blue sky.
Question 10.
Do you love your mother ? Why (not) ?
Answer:
Yes, I love my mother very much because she takes care of me always. I love her for her qualities such as affection, kindness, forgiveness, etc.
(17) Read the following lines.
The pudgy, playful cat said to the rather weary rat,
“I have to keep chasing you so that I don’t get too fat.”
The rather weary rat said he didn’t understand.
“Don’t you chase me for the next meal you’ve planned? ”
The cat laughed and asked, “Why would I want that ?
Without you, who would I chase, you silly, weary rat ? ”
“I’m tired and sure don’t care if you do get fat. ”
Said the more than rather angry weary rat.
At that the rather weary rat decided to ask,
“Can we be friends or is that too tough a task ?”
The pudgy, playful cat frowned and wanted to know,
“Weary rat, just how fat do you want me to grow ?
If I stop chasing you, that won’t be too wise,
Since you’re the only way that I can exercise.’
The rather weary rat started to sob and wail.
All this running had made him quite weak and frail.
Then he had an idea that might stop the cat from getting fat.
So he simply asked the pudgy, “Why don’t you chase you
Then you can chase it in every place you want to be.”
The pudgy, playful cat had never, ever thought of that.
Now for sure he knew he would never become fat.
He smiled and said, “My chasing you must end Because, rather weary rat, you are now my best friend !
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
Why did the cat chase the rat ?
(A) he wanted to become strong
(B) so that he wouldn’t get fat
(C) he likes the rat
(D) he wants to eat the rat
Answer:
(A) he wanted to become strong
Question 7.
What was the mood of the rat ?
(A) anxious
(B) weary and angry
(C) enjoying
(D) sorrowful
Answer:
(B) weary and angry
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What, according to the rat, was a tough task for the cat ?
Answer:
To be friendly with the rat,
Question 9.
What was the daily activity of the cat ?
Answer:
Every day the cat chases the rat.
Question 10.
What is the destiny of the cat ?
Answer:
The destiny of the cat was to catch the rat.
(18) Read the following lines.
Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire.
If you did, what would therebe to look forward to ?
Be thankful when you don’t know something
for it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations,
because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge,
because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes.
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you’re tired and weary,
because it means you’ve made a difference.
It’s easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those
who are also thankful for the setbacks,
Gratitude can turn a negative into positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles,
and they can become your blessings.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
According to the poet we need new challenges because
(A) they give us opportunities for improvement.
(B) they strengthen our character.
(C) they help us grow.
(D) they give us opportunity to learn
Answer:
(B) they strengthen our character.
Question 7.
According to the poet, we look forward in life when
(A) we have nothing.
(B) we have everything.
(C) we have expectations.
(D) we have no desires.
Answer:
(C) we have expectations.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What is the message of this poem ?
Answer:
This poem asks us to be optimistic.
Question 9.
What, according to the poet, gives us opportunity to learn ?
Answer:
According to the poet, ‘not knowing something’ gives us opportunity to learn new things. If one is ignorant, it gives one a chance to learn.
Question 10.
According to you, whose life will be better ? The life of a person who has everything or that of a person who doesn’t have anything ?
Answer:
In my view, the life of a person who doesn’t have anything is better.
(19) Read the following lines.
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
0 listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?—
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word lass means _______
(A) Baby
(B) Boy
(C) Man
(D) Girl
Answer:
(D) Girl
Question 7.
While she is singing,
(A) There are a lot of people in the farm
(B) There are lot many people on the road
(C) There is nobody else in the farm
(D) There won’t be anybody on the road
Answer:
(C) There is nobody else in the farm
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What does the poet ask the travellers to do?
Answer:
The poet asks the travellers to stop for a while and listen to what the girl is singing from the field.
Question 9.
What does the poet doubt as the topic on which the girl was singing?
Answer:
The poet doubts that the girl is singing about some old battles, or some old and unhappy things in life, or that could be even about the natural loss or the pain caused by that.
Question 10.
How is the maiden’s song described by the poet ?
Answer:
The maiden is singing a meloncholy song.
(20) Read the following poem.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
‘I’wandered as a cloud over
(A) Hills
(B) Oceans & Seas
(C) Hills & Valleys
(D) Oceans
Answer:
(C) Hills & Valleys
Question 7.
‘Ten thousand saw I at a glance….’ what did he see ?
(A) Rivers
(B) Stars
(C) Brooks
(D) Flowers
Answer:
(D) Flowers
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What was the sight that attracted the poet all of a sudden?
Answer:
The sight of a lot many thousands of small golden yellow daffodils swinging on the side of the pond.
Question 9.
How did the sight of the flowers help the poet?
Answer:
Later in his moments of loneliness, the sight of the dancing golden yellow flowers had filled his mind with immense pleasure.
Question 10.
What is the real ’wealth’ mentioned in the poem ?
Answer:
The sight of the beautiful brook side with the a lot of beautiful flowers.
(21) Read the following poem.
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy’d,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word ‘sensual ears’ represents
(A) The sensory organ ears
(B) The one we need to hear divine sounds
(C) The one which we have lost
(D) The one the fairies have
Answer:
(A) The sensory organ ears
Question 7.
The branches depicted in the urn has
(A) Seasons changing as it is with the other trees.
(B) Been enjoyed by the people engraved in the urn
(C) Leaves which will shed seasonally as usual
(D) Leaves which will never be shed.
Answer:
(D) Leaves which will never be shed.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
How did the poet describe the pictures engraved on the urn?
Answer:
The poet feels that the historians may struggle to find out the real stories, as they have depicted the deities and the humans with great perfections and clarity.
Question 9.
How does the poet console the lover?
Answer:
The poet says that he could never enjoy the kiss of his love, but need not worry, as she too will be there itself, always trying to compete her love.
Question 10.
Which is the sweetest song ?
Answer:
The song still unheard is the sweetest song.
(22) Read the following poem.
My country! In thy day of glory past
A beauteous halo circled round thy brow,
And worshipped as a deity thou wast.
Where is that glory, where that reverence now?
Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last,
And groveling in the lowly dust art thou:
Thy minstrel hath no wreath to weave for thee
Save the sad story of thy misery!
Well let me dive into the depths of time,
And bring from out the ages that have rolled
A few small fragments of those wrecks sublime,
Which human eyes may never more behold;
And let the guerdon of my labour be
My fallen country! One kind wish from thee!
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
In the olden days, the nation was considered as
(A) Mother
(B) Deity
(C) Sister
(D) All
Answer:
(B) Deity
Question 7.
The word ‘art’ in the 12th line of the poem means
(A) A piece of art
(B) Are
(C) An art effect
(D) Artistic
Answer:
(B) Are
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What does the poet want to convey through the poem?
Answer:
The poet wants to say that the care, respect and concern that the people had towards the nation had reduced over the time.
Question 9.
What does the poet want to do?
Answer:
He would like to go into the history and bring some glorious moments from there to keep them safe.
Question 10.
How is the present day condition of the nation described ?
Answer:
The eagle pinion of the country got chained.
(23) Read the following poem.
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!
O Duty! if that name thou love
Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove;
Thou, who art victory and law
When empty terrors overawe;
From vain temptations dost set free;
And calm’st the weary strife of frail humanity!
There are who ask not if thine eye
Be on them; who, in love and truth,
Where no misgiving is, rely
Upon the genial sense of youth:
Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot;
Who do thy work, and know it not:
Oh! if through confidence misplaced
They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast.
Serene will be our days and bright,
And happy will our nature be,
When love is an unerring light,
And joy its own security.
And they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold,
Live in the spirit of this creed;
Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The ‘Voice of God’ is …
(A) Consciousness
(B) Duty
(C) Character
(D) Discipline
Answer:
(A) Consciousness
Question 7.
Who are described as the ‘genial Hearts’?
(A) The people who follow duty regularly
(B) The people who need duty to guide them through
(C) The people who are never duty conscious
(D) The people who are duty conscious, but not regularly.
Answer:
(A) The people who follow duty regularly
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
How does the poet describe Duty?
Answer:
According to the poet, Duty is the daughter of Consciousness, His voice, who is a light that shows the right path and the stick that punishes when people do mistakes.
Question 9.
Why do some people seek the help of Duty as per their need?
Answer:
They are duty conscious and do their duties regularly. But still, they do depend on the reminders of duty, If they require duty to remind them of the same.
Question 10.
According to the poet, who is happy ?
Answer:
The one who follows duty as per his requirement is happy.
(24) Read the following poem.
O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms!
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
“I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever-dew.
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.”
“I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful – a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
“I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look’d at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
“I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long;
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.
“She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild and manna-dew;
And sure in language strange she said,
‘I love thee true.’
“And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream’d – ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dream’d
On the cold hill’s side.
“I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all:
They cried, ‘La belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!’
“I saw their starved lips in the gloam
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here
On the cold hill’s side.
“And this is why I sojourn here
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.”
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word’knight’stands for
(A) An honour
(B) A soldier
(C) A brave Soldier
(D) An Officer
Answer:
(C) A brave Soldier
Question 7.
The knight made … for her
(A) Garland
(B) The steed
(C) The roots
(D) The fruits
Answer:
(A) Garland
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What did the lady do for the knight?
Answer:
The lady sang beautiful songs, found roots and fruits for him. In the sweetest language he had ever heard, she had expressed her love to him too.
Question 9.
What did the knight find in the cave?
Answer:
In the cave the knight found many people trapped by the lady. They were all pale and weak, lost all their charm, and were awaiting death.
Question 10.
What did the poet realise about the lady ?
Answer:
She was a strange creature who was trapping people using her beauty.
(25) Read the following pern.
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill
Beside it, and there may be one or two
Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much Of apple-picking:
I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
All the day, the man was busy ………..
(A) Plucking apples
(B) Clearing the place for harvesting
(C) Clearing the apples plucked
(D) Getting the ladders kept for harvest
Answer:
(A) Plucking apples
Question 7.
The apples harvested were divided into ………
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four
Answer:
(C) Three
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What was the strange sight the poet had in the morning?
Answer:
The vision of the earth, through the sheet of ice he got from the water container.
Question 9.
How are the apples sorted?
Answer:
The good ones are to be sent for the bigger market, whereas the fallen ones are to be sorted out based on the damages caused. The ones with cuts and damages are to be sent to the Cidar factory and the other ones to the local market.
Question 10.
Pickout the line which shows that he was really tired.
Answer:
My Instep arch not only keeps the ache,
(26) Read the following poem.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The season mentioned in the poem is
(A) Autumn
(B) Spring
(C) Summer
(D) Winter
Answer:
(A) Autumn
Question 7.
The poet knows that…
(A) He cannot come back immediately
(B) He may take some time to come back
(C) He could never come back and change the path
(D) He could change the path as his wish
Answer:
(C) He could never come back and change the path
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What was the reason the poet chose the second path?
Answer:
It was not worn out, with full of grass and was not used by many people to travel.
Question 9.
How is the poem related with our lives?
Answer:
We too will have situations where we have to take unusual decisions and follow them.
Question 10.
Why is the poet unable to take a decision ?
Answer:
The poet is a single traveller and there are two roads to go.
(27) Read the following poem.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word ‘woods’ in the first line stand for
(A) Cut down trees
(B) Trees
(C) Forests
(D) Planks
Answer:
(C) Forests
Question 7.
The man could not see the poet stopping there because
(A) The man is a blind man
(B) The man is not there at present
(C) The man lives in the village and is not there
(D) The man has problem with his vision.
Answer:
(C) The man lives in the village and is not there
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
How does the poet come to know that the horse was confused?
Answer:
The horse had shaken the bell in its neck, to remind the poet of his onward journey.
Question 9.
What does the poet say as the reason that he has to move on?
Answer:
The poet was overwhelmed by the beauty of the valley, but he has so many things to do before he goes to bed that day. So, he has to move on.
Question 10.
What made the horse confused ?
Answer:
The poet has stopped him without a farmhouse there.
(28) Read the following poem.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
Another quality one requires to be great is
(A) To treat success greater than that of failure
(B) To treat success almost equal with that of failure.
(C) To accept failure as equal as success.
(D) To accept failure as equal as success and start again for success.
Answer:
(D) To accept failure as equal as success and start again for success.
Question 7.
Which among the following is not correct?
(A) To think of great achievements and aims
(B) To have the thoughts as the aim.
(C) To establish a sense of equality in success and failure
(D) To not to get carried away in the criticisms of others.
Answer:
(B) To have the thoughts as the aim.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What are described as ‘imposters’? Why?
Answer:
The triumph and disaster are the impostors. They are said so, because the excess and lack of them could cause the same effects.
Question 9.
Why do you think the poet gives these pieces of advice to his son?
Answer:
The poet would like to have his son be a good man and human being. For that he should know what he should do and should not. So these pieces of advice were given to his son, to make him a stoic.
Question 10.
According to the poet, even when should one hold his head high ?
Answer:
even though all others are standing against him.
(29) Read the following poem.
A shape less recognisable each week,
A purpose more obscure.
I wonder who Will be the last, the very last, to seek
This place for what it was; one of the crew
That tap and jot and know what rood-lofts were?
Some ruin-bibber, randy for antique,
Or Christmas-addict, counting on a whiff
Of gown-and-bands and organ-pipes and myrrh?
Or will he be my representative,
Bored, uninformed, knowing the ghostly silt
Dispersed, yet tending to this cross of ground
Through suburb scrub because it held unspilt
So long and equably what since is found
Only in separation – marriage, and birth,
And death, and thoughts of these – for which was built
This special shell? For, though I’ve no idea
What this accoutred frowsty barn is worth,
It pleases me to stand in silence here;
A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognized, and robed as destinies.
And that much never can be obsolete,
Since someone will forever be surprising
A hunger in himself to be more serious,
And gravitating with it to this ground,
Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in,
If only that so many dead lie round.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The place mentioned in the poem as…..
(A) A place of Worship
(B) A place of Production
(C) A place of Merchandise
(D) A place of Consumption
Answer:
(A) A place of Worship
Question 7.
The purposes for which one may visit the church is…
(A) Birth
(B) Death
(C) Marriage
(D) All the three
Answer:
(D) All the three
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
How does the poet explain the church, in the conclusion?
Answer:
A serious place on the serious earth.
Question 9.
Who are the people whom the poet expects to come back to the church?
Answer:
One of the crew, some ruin-bibber, randy for antique, or a Christmas-addict are expected by the poet to visit the church.
Question 10.
What does the poet like to do there?
Answer:
The poet would like to stay there in silence for a while.
(30) Read the following poem.
I do not understand this child
Though we have lived together now
In the same house for years. I know
Nothing of him, so try to build
Up a relationship from how
He was when small. Yet have I killed
The seed I spent or sown it where
The land is his and none of mine?
We speak like strangers, there’s no sign
Of understanding in the air.
This child is built to my design
Yet what he loves I cannot share.
Silence surrounds us. I would have
Him prodigal, returning to
His father’s house, the home he knew,
Rather than see him make and move
His world. I would forgive him too,
Shaping from sorrow a new love.
Father and son, we both must live
On the same globe and the same land.
He speaks: I cannot understand
Myself, why anger grows from grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
Longing for something to forgive.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The way they behave and speak are compared to that of
(A) Strangers
(B) Official
(C) Acquaintance
(D) Friends
Answer:
(A) Strangers
Question 7.
The poet could not understand…
(A) Why there is such a silence around them.
(B) Why they could not converse mutually and understandingly
(C) Why he gets anger from the sorrow and pain he has about his son
(D) All the above.
Answer:
(D) All the above.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What does the poet like, regarding his son?
Answer:
He would like his son to be prodigal and return to his home, rather than wandering.
Question 9.
Why does the poet struggle to establish a relationship with his son?
Answer:
Because he doesn’t know anything behaviour of the perplexed his son, to make him a story.
Question 10.
What is the poet speak about, in the poem ?
Answer:
The poet is talking about the perplexed behaviour of his teenaged son.
(31) Read the following poem.
The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,
And she the big girl – some twelve years or so.
All three stood still to smile through their hair
At the uncle with the camera, A sweet face
My mother’s, that was before I was born
And the sea, which appears to have changed less
Washed their terribly transient feet.
Some twenty- thirty- years later
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach.” The sea holiday
was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss
Now she’s been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all,
Its silence silences.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
Whose cousins are pictured in the photograph?
(A) Poet’s
(B) His Mother’s
(C) His cousins’
(D) Someone’s
Answer:
(B) His Mother’s
Question 7.
The thing that has not èhanged still is..
(A) The Mother
(B) The poet
(C) The Cousins
(D) The Ocean
Answer:
(D) The Ocean
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What does the photograph do?
Answer:
Evokes great memories of the poet’s mother.
Question 9.
How do we come to know that the photograph is very old?
Answer:
The photograph is described as a cardboard, and there are indications that the poet’s mother is no more.
Question 10.
How is the photograph important for the poet?
Answer:
The photograph brings him the sweet memories of her mother and the happiness she had while looking at the photograph.
(32) Read the following lines.
And who art thou? said
I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and
yet the same,
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
and make pure and beautify it;
(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.)
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The word ‘impalpable’ means
(A) Unable to be touched
(B) Unable to be modified
(C) Unable to be changed
(D) Unable to be made
Answer:
(A) Unable to be touched
Question 7.
The atomies and dust layer stand for _______
(A) The rise of water vapour
(B) The climatic conditions
(C) The hot summers
(D) The component of cloud.
Answer:
(C) The hot summers
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
Why are the clouds described as ‘vaguely formed’ ?
Answer:
Because the clouds are in intermediate stage.
Question 9.
Why does the poet says that ‘strange to tell’?
Answer:
Because it is strange to believe that the rain has said something to him, thdt he could understand.
Question 10.
What is the scientific principle explained in the poem?
Answer:
The Water Cycle.
(33) Read the following poem.
And now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would not look at his hurt hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about,
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I’ll count up to twelve,
and you keep quiet and I will go.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The poet insists the people
(A) Not to speak for a moment
(B) Not to do any work
(C) Not to make any sound
(D) All the above
Answer:
(D) All the above
Question 7.
According to the poet,
(A) Even in inactivity, there is still life.
(B) Even in wars and other activities, there is loss of life
(C) The earth has the power to contain life in it
(D) Could not contain any life in it.
Answer:
(C) The earth has the power to contain life in it
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
What is the thing that the poet is trying to explain in the poem?
Answer:
The importance of stopping all kinds of violence, and the need for the humanity to think about the need of leading a life with peace.
Question 9.
What does the poet expects the people to understand from the silence thus created?
Answer:
The poet expects the people to realise that there is life in stillness also, and the Earth also may get a chance to teach the people regarding the importance of emerging from the ashes.
Question 10.
What should the people who are preparing for wars think about ?
Answer:
A new world without any survivors.
(34) Read the following poem. (March 2018)
WHAT’S THE LIFE OF A MAN
As I was walking one morning with ease
Viewing the leaves that had fell from the trees.
All in full motion appearing to be
Those that had withered, they fell from the tree.
If you had seen the leaves just a few days ago
How beautiful and bright they did all seem to grow,
A frost came upon them and withered theym all
A storm came upon them and down they did fall.
What’s the life of a man any more than a leaf
A man has his seasons so why should he grieve.
For although through this life we appear fine and gay
Like a leaf we must wither and soon fade away.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
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:
(A) the frost has withered them
Question 7.
Like the bright and beautiful leaf, man is
(A) pale and dull in his old age
(B) pale and happy in his youth
(C) fine and gay in his youth
(D) gay and ill in his old age
Answer:
(C) fine and gay in his youth
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
How were the leaves a few days ago ?
Answer:
A few days ago, the leaves were fully grown, beautiful and bright.
Question 9.
What is the comparison put forward in the poem ?
Answer:
The comparison put forward in the poem is between the life of a man and a leaf. It is made clear that the life of a man is not more than of a leaf’ A leaf as well as a man is mortal.
Question 10.
We can relate the four seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter to man’s life. How?
Answer:
We can relate the four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter to man’s life since man has four stages, viz, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Man can perish Just like a leaf which also withers and fades away.
(35) Read the following poem. (June 2018)
I’m an angel disguise with dimpled cheeks and laughing eyes.
Don’t you want me ? I am your baby.
I have come as a gift from heaven’s hall in your heart.
Oh, hear my call Mother keep me I am your baby,
Oh Mother, let me live, don’t take away my life. Mother let me live
You know it isn’t right to stop me being born, I want to be yours
Oh Mother, let me live, don’t take away my life. Mother let me live.
I want to live my life.
Mother, you will see when you look at me and hold me in your arms.
You’ll fall in love with me,
Like a flower in your care, I am a gift to pure and fair.
Don’t you want me ? I am your baby.
My little life please don’t abort, let me live, don’t cut me short.
Mother, keep me I am your baby.
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
Question 6.
The poem is a cry of
(A) a girl child
(B) an angel
(C) an unborn baby girl
(D) a daughter
Answer:
(C) an unborn baby girl
Question 7.
The word ‘abort’ in the poem means
(A) to kill a baby
(B) to stop the development of an unborn baby
(C) to operate on the baby
(D) to operate on the mother
Answer:
(B) to stop the development of an unborn baby
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
Question 8.
Why is the speaker in danger ?
Answer:.
The speaker is in danger because the people are not letting her to live.
Question 9.
When will the mother fall in love ?
Answer:
The mother will fall in love when she looks at her child and holds the baby in her arms.
Question 10.
Do you like the poem ? Give reasons.
Answer:
Yes. Because it depicts the burning problem gender discrimination.