(a) Who is He here? 1
Answer: A tiger.
(b) What does he snarl around? 1
Answer: He snarls around the houses.
(c) Pick out the word from the stanza that is similar in meaning to move. 1
Answer: Snarling.
(d) What terrorises the village? 1
Answer: The presence of the tiger terrorises the village.
(a) What are the two qualities of the animal under
reference? 1
3.
Read the stanza given below and answer
the questions that follow:
He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole.
Where plump
deer pass.
(a) Who is the poet? 1
Answer: Leslie Norris.
(b) Pick out the word from the stanza that means the same as healthy. 1
Answer: Plump.
(c) Why does he want to be near the water hole? 1
Answer: He wants to have a nice meal of plump deer.
(d) Where do we find the deer? 1
Answer: The deer pass near the water hole.
(d) What is the state of mind of the animal? 1
Answer: He is in anger.
(a) Why is he locked in a concrete cell? 1
Answer: The animal is inside a cell and moves
inside the cell.
(a) Who is speaking here? 1
Answer: They always find her moody.
(a) Pick out the word from the stanza that stands
for pimples. 1
Answer: Acne.
(b) Why should Amanda not eat chocolate? 1
Answer: Chocolates are harmful to her acne.
(c) Why is Amanda being reminded of acne? 1
Answer: She was not ready to leave the habit of
eating chocolates.
(d) What shows that Amanda does not give importance
to her parent's advice?
Answer: She does not look at them when they speak.
(a) Who is the speaker here? 1
Answer: It shows that she is nervous all the time.
(a) Why does the child dream to be an orphan? 1
Answer: She would then be able to roam the streets.
(b) Why does she say, The silence is golden
here? 1
Answer: She wants peace for some time.
(c) Which words depict peace? 1
Answer: Silence and freedom.
(d) What does the speaker want? 1
Answer: The speaker wants freedom.
(a) Whom does one refer to? 1
Answer: The poem is ‘Animals’ and the poet is Walt
Whitman.
(a) Who are ‘they’ here? 1
Answer: Human beings always sweat and whine about
their condition. They always discuss their duty to God. It makes the poet sick.
11.
Read the stanza given below and answer
the questions that follow.
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
(a) Who does ‘they’ refer to here? 1
Answer: ‘They’ here stands for the animals.
(b) Why does the author keep looking at them for long? 1
Answer: The author keeps on looking at them for long because they are always happy and content. They never weep for their sins.
(c) Which word in the stanza stands for ‘complain’? 1
Answer: Whine.
(d) Why does the poet find animals better than humans? 1
Answer: Animals are content and never whine
about their condition.
12.
Read the stanza given below and answer
the questions that follow.
It sits looking
over harbour
and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
(a) Whom does ‘it’ refer to? 1
Answer: ‘It’ refers to ‘fog’.
(b) What does the poet think it is like? 1
Answer: It is like a cat.
(c) Which word in the stanza is the same in the meaning as ‘port’? 1
Answer: Harbour.
(d) Name the poem and the poet. 1
Answer: This stanza has been taken from the poem
‘Fog’ written by Carl Sandburg.
13.
Read the stanza given below and answer
the questions that follow.
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
(a) Name the poet.
1
Answer: Carl Sandburg.
(b) What has the fog been compared to?
1
Answer: Fog has been compared to cat’s feet.
(c) What is the significance of ‘cat’s feet’ here? 1
Answer: Cat’s feet here refers to the softness of movement.
(d) Which figure of speech is used here?
1
Answer: Personification.
14.
Read the stanzas given below and answer
the questions that follow.
Now the name of the little black kitten was
Ink,
And the little grey
mouse, she called him Blink,
And the little yellow dog was sharp
as Mustard,
But the dragon
was a coward, and she called him Custard.
(a) Who are the characters in the stanza? 1
Answer: A young dog, a black kitten, a grey mouse and a dragon are the characters in the stanza.
(b) Why was the little dog called Mustard?
1
Answer: The little dog was called Mustard because it was sharp.
(c) Who was a coward? 1
Answer: Custard, the dragon.
(d) Who was Blink? 1
Answer: Blink was a little grey mouse.
15.
Read the stanzas given below and answer
the questions that follow.
Belinda paled, and she cried Help! Help!
But Mustard fled with a terrified yelp,
Ink trickled down to the bottom of the household,
And little mouse Blink strategically mouseholed.
(a) Why did Belinda cry for help? 1
Answer: Belinda cried for help because she was attacked by a pirate with a pistol.
(b) Pick out a word from the stanza which means the same as ‘whiter than
usual’. 1
Answer: Pale.
(c) How did Mustard react to Belinda’s call?
1
Answer: Mustard fled with a terrified yelp.
(d) How did Ink respond to Belinda’s call?
1
Answer: Ink trickled down to the bottom of the
household.
16.
Read the stanzas given below and answer
the questions that follow.
Pistol in his left hand, pistol in his right,
And he held in his teeth a cutlass bright, ...
(a) Pick out a word from the stanza which means the
same as ‘a weapon’. 1
Answer: Pistol.
(b) What was the intention of the pirate? 1
Answer: The pirate intended to kill Belinda and
others.
(c) Who had a pistol with him? 1
Answer: The pirate, who attacked Belinda had a
pistol in his hands.
(d) Who attacked Belinda? 1
Answer: A pirate attacked Belinda.
(a) What has the Mustard been compared to? 1
Answer: Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of
bears.
(a) With whom was Belinda unkind? 1
Answer: Custard, the dragon lived in the red wagon.
(a) Why did the pirate gape at the dragon? 1
Answer: No, the shot did not hit anyone.
(a) Pick out a word from the stanza which means the
same as ‘to put arms around somebody’.
1
Answer: He faced the pirate and eliminated him.
(a) What do the above lines tell us? 1
Answer: Belinda thought that he was a coward.
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