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First Flight Story Based Section
Chapter 1. A Letter to God
All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope : the help of God, whose eyes, as he had been instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience. Lencho was an ox of a man, working like an animal in the fields, but still he knew how to write. The following Sunday, at daybreak, he began to write a letter which he himself would carry to town and place in the mail. It was nothing less than a letter to God.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What kind of a man was Lencho ?
(iii) To whom did Lencho write a letter ?
(iv) What was Lencho’s purpose in writing the letter ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) hard working man
(b) in the early morning
But suddenly a strong wind began to blow and alongwith the rain very large hailstones began to fall. These truly did resemble new silver coins. The boys, exposing themselves to the rain, ran out to collect the frozen pearls. “It’s really getting bad now”, exclaimed the man. “I hope it passes quickly.” It did not pass quickly. For an hour the hail rained on the house, the garden, the hillside, the corn field, on the whole valley. The field was white, as if covered with salt.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) What did the hailstones look like ?
(iii) What happened all at once ?
(iv) What did Lencho hope for ?
(v) Find a word from the passage similar in meaning to ‘frozen pearls’.
The field was white, as if covered with salt. Not a leaf remained on the trees. The corn was totally destroyed. The flowers were gone from the plants. Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. When the storm had passed, he stood in the middle of the field and said to his sons “A plague of locusts would have left more than this. The hail has left nothing. This year we will have no corn.”
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What had made Lencho’s field white ?
(ii) What had happened to the trees & plants ?
(iii) What filled Lencho with sadness ?
(iv) What did Lencho say to his sons after the storm had stopped?
(v) Name the chapter and the author.
It was during the meal that, just as Lencho had predicted, big drops of rain began to fall. In the north-east huge mountains of clouds could be seen approaching. The air was fresh and sweet. The man went out for no other reason than to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What had Lencho predicted ?
(ii) What happened at meal time ?
(iii) What was the change in weather ?
(iv) Why did Lencho go out ?
(v) Name the lesson and its author.
One of the employees, who was a postman and also helped at the post office, went to his boss laughing heartily and showed him the letter to God. Never in his career as a postman had he known that address. The postmaster – a fat, amiable fellow – also broke out laughing, but almost immediately he turned serious and, tapping the letter on his desk, commented, “what faith ! I wish I had the faith of the man who wrote this letter. Starting up a correspondence with God !”
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What had the postman never known ?
(iii) What kind of a fellow was the postmaster ?
(iv) What made the postmaster serious ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) profession,
(b) kind and good nature.
Immediately, Lencho went up to the window to ask for paper and ink. On the public writing-table, he started to write, with much, wrinkling of his brow, caused by the effort he had to make to express his ideas. When he finished,,he went to the window to buy a stamp which he licked and then affixed to the envelope with a blow of his fist. The moment the letter fell into the mail box the postmaster went to open it. It said: “God: Of the money о that I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me. Send me the rest, since I need it very much. But don’t send it to me through the mail because the post office employees are a bunch of crooks. Lencho.”
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) Who went up to the window to ask for paper and ink?
(iv) Where did Lencho start to write, with much wrinkling of his brow?
(v) Where did Lencho go after finishing the letter?
“It’s really getting bad now”, exclaimed the man. “I hope it passes quickly.” It did not pass quickly. For an hour the hail rained on the house, the garden, the hillside, the cornfield, on the whole valley. The field was white, as if covered with salt. Not a leaf remained on the trees. The corn was totally destroyed. The flowers were gone from the plants. Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. When the storm had passed, he stood in the middle of the field and said to his sons, “A plague of locusts would have left more than this. The hail has left nothing. This year we will have no corn.”
Questions: 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author
(iii) Who does ‘I’ stand for in these lines?
(iv) What had made encho’s field white ?
(v) What has left nothing?
Chapter 2. Nelson Mandela : Long Walk to Freedom
On the day of the inauguration, I was overwhelmed with a sense of history. In the first decade of the twentieth century, a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer war and before my own birth, the whiteskinned peoples of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against the dark-skinned peoples of their own land. The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane, societies the world has ever known. Now, in the last decade of the twentieth century, and my own eighth decade as a man, that system had been overturned forever and replaced by one that recognized the rights and freedoms of all peoples, regardless of the colour of their skin.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What was the author overwhelmed with on the day of inauguration ?
(iii) What kind of system did the white-skinned people of South Africa create ?
(iv) What did the new system recognize ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) overflowed
(b) pitiless
On the day of the inauguration, I was overwhelmed with a sense of history. In the first decade of twentieth century, a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer war and before my own birth, the white – skinned people of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against the dark skinned people of their own land. The structure they created & formed the basis of one of the harvest, most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Now, in the last decade of the twentieth century, and my own eighth decade as a man, that system had been overturned forever and replaced by one that recognized the rights and freedoms of all peoples, regardless of the colour of their skin.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) When and what was the author overwhelmed with ?
(ii) What kind of system did the whiteskinned people of South Africa create ?
(iii) What did the system form the basis of ?
(iv) When and what happened to that system ?
(v) What did the new system recognize ?
I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What according to the writer, has to be done to the oppressor as well as the oppressed ?
(ii) How is the oppressor a prisoner according to the author ?
(iii) What robs the oppressor and the oppressed of their humanity?
(iv) Find a word from the passage which means strong dislike without any good reason’.
(v) Name the chapter and the author.
The policy of apartheid created a deep and lasting wound in my country and my people. All of us will spend many years, if not generations, recovering from that profound hurt. But the decades of oppression and brutality had another, unintended, effect, and that was that it produced the Oliver Tambos, the Walter Sisulus, the chief Luthulis, the Yusuf Dadoos, the Bram Fischers, the Robert Sobukwes of our time –– men of such extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity that their like may never be known again. Perhaps it requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of character. My country is rich in the minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil, but I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) What is the greatest wealth of the narrator’s country ?
(iii) What does the author say about the great men mentioned in this passage ?
(iv) What did the policy of apartheid create ?
(v) Find out a word similar in meaning to ‘deep’.
Chapter 3. Two Stories About Flying (a) His First Flight (b) Black Aeroplane (b) Black Aeroplane
The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers and his sister had already flown away the day before. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow when he had taken a little run forward to the brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings he became afraid. The great expanse of sea stretched down beneath, and it was such a long way down-miles down. He felt certain that his wings would never support him; so he bent his head and ran away back to the little hole under the ledge where he slept at night.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the writer :
(A) Liam O’Flaherty
(B) Frederick Forsyth
(C) G. L. Fuentes
(D) Anne Frank
(ii) Name the chapter :
(A) A Letter to God
(B) His First Flight
(C) Black Aeroplane
(D) From the Diary of Anne Frank
(iii) How many brothers and sisters did the young seagull have ?
(A) Two brothers
(B) One sister
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
(iv) Why had he not gone with them ?
(A) He was afraid to fly
(B) He was not afraid to fly
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
(v) What was he certain about ?
(A) His wings would never support him
(B) His wings would support him
(C) His legs would never support him
(D) All of the above
The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers and his sister had already flown away the day before. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow when he had taken a little run forward to the brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings, he became afraid. The great expanse of sea stretched down beneath, and it was such a long way down – miles down. He felt certain that his wings would never support him, so he bent his head and ran away back to the little hole under the ledge where he slept at night.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) How many brothers & sisters did the young seagull have ?
(ii) Why had he not gone with them ?
(iii) What happened when he ran to the brink of the ledge ?
(iv) What was he certain about ?
(v) Find in the passage a word which means ‘edge’.
He stepped slowly out to the brink of the ledge, and standing on one leg with the other leg hidden under his wing, he closed one eye, then the other, and pretended to be falling asleep. Still they took no notice of him. He saw his two brothers and his sister lying on the plateau dozing with their heads sunk into their necks His father was preening the feathers on his white back. Only his mother was looking at him. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau, her white breast thrust forward.
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) Where did the seagull step out ?
(iv) What were his two brothers and sister doing?
(v) What was his father doing?
His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green flooring ahead of him. They were beckoning to him calling shrilly. He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea. His legs sank into it. He screamed with fright and attempted to rise again flapping his wings.
Questions: 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the writer of these lines.
(ii) Name the chapter of these lines.
(iii) What does the phrase, ‘green flooring’ refer to?
(iv)How did the whole family praise and reward the success of the seagull’s flight?
(v) Find out a word from the passage which means the same as ‘Pieces’.
He turned his aeroplane slowly to the north, in front of my Dakota, so that it would be easier for me to follow him. I was very happy to go behind the strange aeroplane like an obedient child. After half an hour the strange black aeroplane was still there in front of me in the clouds. Now there was only enough fuel in the old Dakota’s last tank to fly for five or ten minutes more. I was starting to feel frightened again. But then he started to go down and I followed through the storm.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) In which direction did the other aeroplane take a turn ?
(ii) What was easier for the Dakota aeroplane’s pilot ?
(iii) How much fuel was left with him ?
(iv) Name the chapter.
(v) Find from the passage the opposite of ‘insufficient’.
He turned his aeroplane slowly to the north, in front of my Dakota, so that it would be easier for me to follow him, I was very happy to go behind the strange aeroplane like an obedient child. After half an hour, the strange black aeroplane was still there in front of me in the clouds. Now there was only enough fuel in the old Dakota’s last tank to fly for five or ten minutes more. I was starting to feel frightened again, but then he started go down and I followed through the storm.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What did the other pilot do and why ?
(iii) How did the narrator follow the strange aeroplane ?
(iv) Why did the narrator feel terrified again ?
(v) What is the noun form of “obedient” ?
“Paris Control ? Paris Control ? Can you hear me ?” There was no answer. The radio was dead too. I had no radio, no compass, and I could not see where I was. I was lost in the storm. Then, in the black clouds quite near me, I saw another aeroplane. It had no lights on its wings, but I could see it flying next to me through the storm. I could see the pilot’s face – turned towards me. I was very glad to see another person. He lifted one hand and waved. “Follow me,” he was saying. “Follow me.” “He knows that I am lost,” I thought. “He’s trying to help me.” He turned his aeroplane slowly to the north, in front of my Dakota, so that it would be easier for me to follow him. I was very happy to go behind the strange aeroplane like an obedient child.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) How do you know the pilot was completely lost in the storm ?
(iii) Where did the writer see another plane ?
(iv) What did the pilot of Dakota do when the other pilot gave him a signal ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) instrument for telling direction
(b) to come after
As I looked down past the nose of the aeroplane, I saw the lights of a big city in front of me. I switched on the radio and said : ‘Paris, Control, Dakota DS088 here. Can you hear me ? I’m on my way to England. Over.’ The voice from the radio answered me immediately : ‘DS088, I can hear you. You ought to turn twelve degrees west now, DS088, over.’
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What did the writer see when he looked down past the nose of the aeroplane ?
(ii) What did he do to talk to Paris Control ?
(iii) What plane was the writer flying ?
(iv) Where was he going ?
(v) What advice did he get from Paris Control ?
Suddenly I came out of the clouds and saw two long straight lines of lights in front of me. It was a runway! An airport! I was safe! I turned to look for myfriend in the black aeroplane, but the sky was empty. There was nothing there. The black aeroplane was gone. I could not see it anywhere. I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota near the control tower. I went and asked a woman in the control center where I was and who the other pilot was. I wanted to say ‘Thank you’. She looked at me very strangely, and then laughed. “Another aeroplane? Up there in this storm? No other aeroplanes were flying tonight. Yours was the only one I could see on the radar.” So who helped me to arrive there safely without a compass or a radio, and without any more fuel in my tanks? Who was the pilot on the strange black aeroplane, flying in the storm, without lights?
Questions: 1×5=5
(i) What did the narrator see when he came out of the clouds?
(ii) Why did the narrator turn back?
(iii) What did the narrator ask the woman in the control center?
(iv) What made the woman in the control room look at the narrator strangely?
(v) Find a word from the passage which means ‘queer’.
The moon was coming up in the east, behind me, and stars were shining in о the clear sky above me. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was happy to be alone high up above the sleeping countryside. I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane over France back to England. I was dreaming of my holiday and looking forward to being with my family. I looked at my watch: one thirty in the morning. I should call Paris control soon,’ I thought. As I looked down past the nose of the aeroplane, I saw the lights of a big city in front of me. I switched on the radio and said, “Paris control, Dakota DS 088 here. Can you hear me? I’m on my way to England. Over”.
Questions: 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) Where was the writer going?
(iv) What plane was he writer flying?
(v) What did the writer see when he looked down?
Suddenly I came out of the clouds and saw two long straight lines of lights in front of me. It was a runway! An airport! I was safe! I turned to look for my friend in the black aeroplane, but the sky was empty. There was nothing there. The black aeroplane was gone. I could not see it anywhere. I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota near the control tower. I went and asked a woman in the control centre where I was and who the other pilot was. I wanted to say “Thank you”.
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) What did the pilot see when he came out of the clouds ?
(iv) Whom did the pilot meet after landing at the airport?
(v) What did the pilot want to say to the other pilot ?
Chapter 4. From the Diary of Anne Frank
‘Paper has more patience than people’. I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding : Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I’m not planning to let anyone else read this stiffbacked notebook grandly referred to as a ‘diary’, unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won’t make a bit of difference. Now I’m back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place : I don’t have a friend. Let me put it more clearly, since no one will believe that a thirteen-year-old girl is completely alone in the world. And I’m not. I have loving parents and a sixteen – year – old sister, and there are about thirty people I can call friends. I have a family, loving aunts and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything, except my one true friend.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) What saying did she think about ?
(iii) How does she refer to the diary ?
(iv) Why did Anne feel herself alone even after having thirty people around her ?
(v) Find out a word from the passage similar in meaning to ‘Calm’.
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater need to get all kinds of things off my chest. ‘Paper has more patience than people,’ I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding. Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I’m not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a ‘diary’, unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won’t make a bit of difference.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the writer of these lines ?
(ii) What is the age of the writer ?
(iii) What does she say about writing in a diary ?
(iv) How does she refer to the diary ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) thoughts
(b) forbearance
‘Paper has more patience than people’. I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding : Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I’m not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a ‘diary’, unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won’t make a bit of difference. Now I’m back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place : I don’t have a friend. Let me put it more clearly, since no one will believe that a thirteen-yearold girl is completely alone in the world. And I’m not. I have loving parents and a sixteen -year-old sister, and there are about thirty people I can call friends. I have a family, loving aunts and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything, except my one true friend.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(A) His First Flight
(B) Black Aeroplane
(C) A Letter to God
(D) From the Diary of Anne Frank
(ii) Name the writer.
(A) Liam O’Flaherty
(B) Frederick Forsyth
(C) G. L. Fuentes
(D) Anne Frank
(iii) What saying did she think about ?
(A) Paper has more patience than people.
(B) Paper has a little patience than people.
(C) Paper has no patience than people.
(D) All of the above
(iv) Why did Anne feel herself alone even after having thirty people around her ?
(A) No true friend
(B) No true villager
(C) No true neighbour
(D) No true guide
(v) Find out a word from the passage similar in meaning to ‘Calm’.
(A) loving
(B) patience
(C) depressed
(D) brooding
All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem. May be it’s my fault that we don’t confide in each other. In any case, that’s just how things are, and unfortunately they’re not liable to change. This is why I’ve started the diary. Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is ‘I’ in these lines ?
(ii) What does she talk about when she is with friends ?
(iii) What problem does she have with regard to her friends ?
(iv) What does she call to be her fault ?
(v) Why has she started writing a diary ?
I got along pretty well with all my teachers. There are nine of them, seven men and two women. Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches Maths, was annoyed with me for ages because I talked so much. After several warnings, he assigned me extra homework. An essay on the subject “A Chatterbox’. A chatterbox – what can you write about that, I would worry about that later, I decided I jotted down the title in my notebook, tucked it in my bag and tried to keep quiet.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the writer of these lines ?
(ii) How many teachers were there in her school ?
(iii) Who was Mr. Keesing ?
(iv) Why was he annoyed with her ?
(v) What punishment did he give her for talking in the class ?
I’m not so worried about my girl friends and myself. We’ll make it. The only subject I’m sure about is Maths Anyway, all we can do is wait. Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart. I get along pretty well with all my teachers. There are nine of them, seven men and two women. Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches Maths, was annoyed with me for ages because I talked so much. After several warnings, he assigned me extra homework. An essay on the subject, ‘A Chatterbox’.
Questions: 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) For which subject is she not sure?
(iv) How many teachers were there in her school?
(v) Who was Mr. Keesing?
Chapter 5. Glimpses of India (a) A Baker From Goa (b) Coorg (c) Tea From Assam
The baker made his musical entry on the scene with the ‘jhang, jhang’ sound of his specially made bamboo staff. One hand supported the basket on his head and the other banged the bamboo on the ground. He would greet the lady of the house with “Good morning” and then place his basket on the vertical bamboo. We kids would be pushed aside with a mild rebuke and the loaves would be delivered to the servant. But we would not give up. We would climb a bench or the parapet and peep into the basket, somehow. I can still recall the typical fragrance of those loaves. Loaves for the elders and the bangles for the children. Then we did not even care to brush our teeth or wash our mouths properly. And why should we ? Who would take the trouble of plucking the mango-leaf for the toothbrush ? And why was it necessary at all ? The tiger never brushed his teeth. Hot tea could wash and clean up everything so nicely, after all !
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) How did the baker make his musical entry ?
(iii) What can the author still recall ?
(iv) What did the author and other kids do to look into the baker’s basket ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) helped (b) welcome
We kids would be pushed aside with a mild rebuke and the loaves would be delivered to the servant. But we would not give up. We would climb a bench, or the parapet and peep into the basket, somehow. I can still recall the typical fragrance of loaves. Loaves for the elders and the bangles for the children. Then we did not even care to brush our teeth or wash our mouths properly. And why should we ? Who would take the trouble of plucking the mango leaf for the toothbrush ? And why was it necessary at all ? The tiger never brushed his teeth. Hot tea can wash and clean up everything so nicely, after all !
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who would push aside the kids and why ?
(ii) Why did the kids climb the bench or the parapet ?
(iii) What did the baker have for the kids and the elders ?
(iv) How did the narrator brush his teeth ?
(v) What did the writer (as a child) think about brushing his teeth ?
Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village. The lady of the house must prepare sandwiches on the occasion of her daughter’s engagement. Cakes and bolinhas are a must for Christmas as well as other festivals. Thus, the presence of the baker’s furnace in the village is absolutely essential. The baker or bread-seller of those days had a peculiar dress known as the Kabai. It was a single – piece long frock reaching down to the knees. In our childhood we saw bakers wearing a shirt and trousers which were shorter than full-length ones and longer than half pants. Even today, anyone who wears a half pant which reaches just below the knees invites the comment that he is dressed like a pader !
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) On which occasion must the lady of the house prepare sandwiches ?
(iii) What is a must for Christmas ?
(iv) When is one said to be dressed like a pader ?
(v) Find a word opposite in meaning to ‘partially’.
It was green, green everywhere. Rajvir had never seen so much greenery before. Then the soft green paddy fields gave way to tea bushes. It was a magnificent view. Against the backdrop of densely wooded preted as far a hills a sea of tea bushes stretched as 6 as the eye could see. Dwarfing the tiny tea plants were tall sturdy shade-trees and amidst the orderly rows of bushes busily moved doll-like gures. In the distance was an ugly building with smoke billowing out of tall chimneys. “Hey, a tea garden !” Rajvir cried excitedly.
Questions: 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) What was there as far as the eye could see?
(iv) What was there in the distance?
(v) What had Rajvir never seen before?
Coorg, or Kodagu, the smallest district of Karnataka, is home to evergreen rainforests, spices and coffee plantations. Evergreen rainforests cover thirty percent of this district. During the monsoons, it pours enough to keep many visitors away. The season of joy commences from September and continues till March. The weather is perfect, with some showers thrown in for good measure. The air breathes of invigorating coffee. Coffee estates and colonial bungalows stand tucked under tree canopies in prime corners.
Questions: 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) Which crops are grown in Coorg ?
(iv) What is the best time to visit Coorg ?
(v) Which district of Karnataka is the smallest ?
Marriage gifts are meaningless without the sweet bread known as the bol, just as a party or a feast loses its charm without bread. Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village. The lady of the house must prepare sandwiches on the occasion of her daughter’s engagement. Cakes and bolinhas are a must for Christmas as well as other о festivals. Thus, the presence of the baker’s furnace in the village is absolutely essential. The baker or bread-seller of those days had a peculiar dress known as the Kabai. It was a single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) What makes marriage gifts meaningless?
(iv) What is a must for Christmas?
(v) What is absolutely essential in the village?
“I have been reading as much as I could about tea,” Rajvir said. ”No one really knows who discovered tea but there are many legends.” “What legends ?” “Well, there’s the one about the Chinese emperor who always boiled water before drinking it. One day a few leaves of the twigs burning under the pot fell into the water giving it a delicious flavour. It is said they were tea-leaves.” “Tell me another !” scoffed Pranjol. ”We have an Indian legend too. Bodhidharma, an ancient “Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk banished sleep.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What kind of water did the Chinese emperor drink ?
(iii) What happened when a few leaves of the twigs fell into the water kept for boiling ?
(iv) How could the sleep be banished ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) myths
(b) branches
We have an Indian legend too. Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk banished sleep. “Tea was first drunk in China” Rajvir added, “as far as 2700 B. C. ! In fact words such as tea, Chai, Chini are from Chinese. Tea came to Europe only in the sixteenth century and was drunk more as medicine than as beverage”.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who cut off his eyelids and why ?
(ii) What kind of plants grew out of the eyelids ?
(iii) When was tea first drunk in China ? When did it come to Europe ?
(iv) What purpose was tea drunk in Europe for ?
(v) Find from the passage words that means :
(a) a story from the past that may or may not be true.
(b) any type of drink except water.
The climb to the Brahmagiri hills brings you into a panoramic view of the entire misty landscape of Coorg. A walk across the rope bridge leads to the sixty-four acre island of Nisargadhama. Running into Buddhist monks from India’s largest Tibetan settlement, at nearby Bylakuppe, is a bonus. The monks, in red, ochre and yellow robes, are amongst the many surprises that wait to be discovered by visitors searching for the heart and soul of India, right here in Coorg.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What view is seen from the Brahmagiri hills ?
(iii) How can we reach Nisargadhama island ?
(iv) Why do visitors visit Coorg ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) beautiful
(b) full of mist
The climb to the Brahmagiri hills brings you into a panoramic view of the entire misty landscape of Coorg. A walk across the rope bridge leads to the sixty four acre island of Nisargadhama. Running into Buddhist monks from India’s largest Tibetan settlement, at nearby Bylakuppe, is a bonus. The monks, in red, ochre and yellow robes, are amongst the many surprises that wait to be discovered by visitors searching for the heart and soul of India, right here in Coorg.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What view is seen from the Brahmagiri hills ?
(iii) How can one reach Nisargadhama island ?
(iv) What is bonus for the visitors who visit Coorg ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) view of wide area of land,
(b) full of mist.
Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village. The lady of the house must prepare sandwiches on the occasion of her daughter’s engagement. Cakes and bolinhas are a must for Christmas as well as other festivals. Thus, the presence of the baker’s furnace in the village is absolutely essential. The baker or bread-seller of those days had a peculiar dress known as the kabai. It was a single-piece long frock reaching down to the knees. In our childhood we saw bakers wearing a shirt and trousers which were shorter than full-length ones and longer than half pants. Even today, anyone who wears a half pant which reaches just below the knees invites the comment that he is dressed like a pader !
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(A) A Baker from Goa
(B) Coorg
(C) Tea from Assam
(D) Madam Rides the Bus
(ii) Name the author.
(A) Lucio Rodrigues
(B) Lokesh Abrol
(C) Arup kumar Datta
(D) Vallikkannan
(iii) On which occasion must the lady of the house prepare sandwiches ?
(A) Her daughter’s farewell.
(B) Her son’s farewell.
(C) Her daughter’s engagement.
(D) All of the above
(iv) What is a must for Christmas ?
(A) Cakes
(B) bolinhas
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
(v) Find a word opposite in meaning to ‘partially’ :
(A) Peculiar
(B) Comment
(C) Absolutely
(D) None of the above
Midway between Mysore and the coastal town of Mangalore sits a piece of heaven that must have drifted from the kingdom of god. This land of rolling hills is inhabited by a proud reace of martial men,beautiful women and wild creatures. Coorg or Kodagu, the smallest district of Karnataka, is home to evergreen rainforests, spices and coffee plantations. Evergreen rainforests cover thirty per cent of this district. During the monsoons. It pours enough to keep many visitors away. The season of joy commences from September and continues till March. The weather is perfect, with some showers thrown in for good measure. The air breathes of invigorating coffee. Coffee estates and colonial bungalows stand tucked under tree canopies in prime corners.
Questions: 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the writer of these lines?
(ii) Name the chapter of these lines.
(iii) What is referred to as a piece of heaven?
(iv) Why do many tourists not visit it during monsoons?
(v) Find out a word from the passage similar in meaning to ‘beginning’.
Chapter 6. Mijbil the Otter
The days passed peacefully at Basra, but I dreaded the prospect of transporting Mij to England, and to Camusfearna. The British airline to London would not fly animals, so I booked a flight to Paris on another airline, and from there to London. The airline insisted that Mij should be packed into a box not more than eighteen inches square, to be carried on the floor at my feet. I had a box made, and an hour before we started, I put Mij into the box so that he would become accustomed to it and left for a hurried meal.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who was Mij ? Where did the author want to take him ?
(ii) What flight did he book & why ?
(iii) What did the airline insist on ?
(iv) What did the author do an hour before he started and why ?
(v) Find words in the passage that mean :
(a) was in great fear of the possibility
(b) get used to something
There were squawks and shrieks, and a woman stood up on her seat screaming out, “A rat! A rat!” I caught sight of Mij’s tail disappearing beneath the legs of a portly white-turbaned Indian. Diving for it, I missed, but found my face covered in curry. “Perhaps”, said the air hostess with the most charming smile, “It would be better if you resumed your seat, and I will find the animal and bring it to you.” I returned to my seat. I was craning my neck trying to follow the hunt when suddenly I heard from my feet a distressed chitter of recognition and welcome, and Mij bounded on to my knee and began to nuzzle my face and my neck.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) What did Mij begin to do on his face and neck ?
(iii) How did the woman in the aircraft react on seeing the otter ?
(iv) What happened when the author dived for the otter ?
(v) Find out a word from the passage similar in meaning to ‘fat’.
The days passed peacefully at Basra, but I dreaded the prospect oftransporting Mij to England, and to Camusfearna. The Britishairline to London would not fly animals, so I booked a flight toParis on another airline, and from there to London. The airlineinsisted that Mij should be packed into a box not more thaneighteen inches square, to be carried on the floor at my feet. I hada box made, and an hour before we started, I put Mij into the boxso that he would become accustomed to it and left for a hurriedmeal.
Questions: 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who was Mij? Where did the author want to take him?
(ii) What flight did he book and why?
(iii) What did the airline insist on?
(iv) What did the author do an hour before he started and why?
(v) Find words in the passage that mean ‘queer’.
With the opening of that sack began a phase of my life that has not yet ended, and may, for all I know, not end before I do. It is, in effect, a thraldom to otters, an otter fixation, that I have since found to be shared by most other people, who have ever owned one. The creature that emerged from this sack on to the spacious tiled floor of the Consulate bedroom resembled most of all a very small, medievally-conceived, dragon. From the head to the tip of the tail he was coated with symmetrical pointed scales of mud armour, between whose tips was visible a soft velvet fur like that of a chocolate-brown mole. He shook himself, and I half expected a cloud of dust, but in fact it was not for another month that I managed to remove the last of the mud and see the otter, as it were, in his true colours.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) Which creature emerged from the sack ?
(iii) What started for the author with the opening of the sack ?
(iv) How did the otter look like ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) a large bag (b) came
Very soon Mij would follow me without a lead and come to me when I called his name. He spent most of his time in play. He spent hours shuffling a rubber ball round the room like a four-footed soccer player using all four feet to dribble the ball, and he could also throw it, with a powerful flick of the neck, to a surprising height and distance. But the real play of an otter is when he lies on his back and juggle with small objects between his paws. Marbles were Mij’s favourite toys for this pastime: he would lie on his back rolling two or more of them up and down his wide, flat belly without ever dropping one to the floor.
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name its author.
(iii) How did Mij spend most of his time?
(iv) What did the otter do to a rubber ball?
(v) What is the real play of an otter?
Chapter 7. The Serman at Benaras
Of those who, overcome by death, depart from life, a father cannot save his son, nor kinsmen their relations. Mark! While relatives are looking on and lamenting deeply, one by one mortals are carried off, like an ox that is led to the slaughter. So the world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world. ”Not from weeping nor from grieving will anyone obtain peace of mind; on the contrary, his pain will be the greater and his body will suffer. He will make himself sick and pale, yet the dead are not saved by his lamentation. He who seeks peace should draw out the arrow of lamentation and complaint, and grief. He who has drawn out the arrow and has become composed will obtain peace of mind; he who has overcome all sorrow will become free from sorrow and be blessed.”
Questions: 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the writer of these lines?
(ii) Name the chapter of these lines.
(iii) Why did the Buddha give this sermon to Kisa Gotami?
(iv) What is the fate of mortals in the world?
(v) Find out a word from the passage which means the same as “the killing of animals for their meat.”
He wandered for seven years and finally sat down under a fig tree, where he vowed to stay until enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree the Bo tree (Tree of Wisdom) and began to teach and to share his new understandings. At that point he became known as the Buddha (The Awakened or the Enlightened). The Buddha preached his first sermon at the city of Benares, most holy of the dipping places on the river Ganges.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) How long did the Buddha wander in search of wisdom ?
(ii) After how many days of meditation did he get enlightenment ?
(iii) Why did he name the tree as the “Tree of Wisdom” ?
(iv) Where did he give his first sermon ?
(v) Find words from the passage which means, “took a pledge”.
Gautama Buddha (563 B. C. – 483 B. C.) began life as a prince named Siddhartha Gautama, in northern India. At twelve, he was sent away for schooling in the Hindu sacred scriptures and four years later he returned home to marry a princess. They had a son and lived for ten years as befitted royalty. At about the age of twenty-five, the Prince, heretofore shielded from the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms. These sights so moved him that he at once became a beggar and went out into the world to seek enlightenment concerning the sorrows he had witnessed.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) Who studied the holy books in the passage ?
(iii) At what age was he married ?
(iv) When did he see a sick and old man ?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) pious
(b) religious books
Poor Kisa Gotami now went from house to house, and the people pitied her and said, “Here is mustard – seed; take it !” But when she asked, “Did a son or daughter, a father or mother, die in your family ?” They answered her, “Alas ! the living are few, but the dead are many. Do not remind us of our deepest grief.” And there was no house but some beloved one had died in it. Kisa Gotami became weary and hopeless, and sat down at the wayside watching the lights of the city, as they flickered up and were extinguished again. At last the darkness of the night reigned everywhere. And she considered the fate of men, that their lives flicker up and are extinguished again. And she thought to herself, “How selfish am I in my grief ! Death is common to all; yet in this valley of desolation there is a path that leads him to immortality who has surrendered all selfishness.”
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What did Kisa Gotami ask the villagers ?
(ii) What reply did Kisa Gotami get ?
(iii) What happened to Kisa Gotami in the end ?
(iv) What did Kisa Gotami realize in the end ?
(v) Name the chapter.
Chapter 8. The Proposal
I shall try to be brief. You must know, honoured Natalya Stepanovna, that I have long, since my childhood in fact, had the privilege of knowing your family. My late aunt and her husband from whom, as you know, I inherited my land, always had the greatest respect for your father and your late mother. The Lomovs and the Chubukovs have always had the most friendly, I might almost say the most affectionate, regard for each other. And, as you know, my land is a near neighbour of yours. You will remember that my Oxen Meadows touch your Birchwoods.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the speaker here and to whom he speaks these lines ?
(ii) What does the speaker think to be a privilege ?
(iii) How did the speaker come to have his land ?
(iv) What type of relations the Lomovs and the Chubukovs had ?
(v) What does the speaker say about Oxen Meadows ?
But you can see from the documents, honoured Natalya Stepanovna. Oxen Meadows, it’s true, were once the subject of dispute, but now everybody knows that they are mine. There’s nothing to argue about. You see my aunt’s grandmother gave the free use of these Meadows in perpetuity to the peasants of your father’s grandfather, in return for which they were to make bricks for her. The peasants belonging to your father’s grandfather had the free use of the Meadows for forty years, and had got into the habit of regarding them as their own, when it happened that ……
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What documents does Lomov offer to show Natalya ?
(ii) For how many years did the peasants have the free use of the Meadows ?
(iii) What for did Lomov’s aunt’s grandmother give the Oxen Meadows to Natalya’s father’s grandfather ?
(iv) Name the chapter.
(v) Which word in the passage means ‘in continuation’ ?
Then smoke. Here are the matches. The weather is splendid now, but yesterday it was so wet that the workmen did not do anything all day. How much hay have you stacked ? Just think, I felt greedy and had a whole field cut, and now I’m not at all pleased about it because I’m afraid my hay may rot. I ought to have waited a bit. But what is this ? Why, you’re in evening dress ! Well, I never ! Are you going to a ball or what ? Though I must say you look better ….. tell me, why are you got up like that.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who says these words and to whom ?
(ii) Why did the workmen not do anything all day ?
(iii) Why was the speaker not pleased ?
(iv) What did the speaker think about the other person and why ?
(v) Name the chapter and its author.
HBSE Class 10 English Poetry Important Passage Questions
Poem 1. Dust of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Where was the crow sitting ?
(ii) What did the crow do ?
(iii) What is dust of snow ?
(iv) What does “dust of snow” stand for ?
(v) Name the poem & the poet.
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued. Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) What had the poet thought of that day ?
(iii) What changed the mood of the poet ?
(iv) How was some part of the day saved for the poet ?
(v) Use the word ‘rued’ in a sentence of your own.
Poem 2. Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(44) Name the poem :
(A) Dust of Snow
(B) Fire and Ice
(C) A Tiger in the Zoo
(D) Amanda !
(45) Name the poet :
(A) John Berryman
(B) Robert Frost
(C) Leslie Norris
(D) Robin klein
(46) What is ‘fire’ a symbol of ?
(A) endless desires
(B) cold
(C) hatred
(D) hot
(47) What is ice a symbol of ?
(A) endless desires
(B) hatred
(C) cold
(D) hot
(48) What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza ?
(A) ‘abaa’
(B) ‘aaaa’
(C) ‘bbbb’
(D) All of these
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire. Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) What do people think about the ending of the world ?
(iii) What does the poet think about the ending of the world ?
(iv) What does “desire” mean here ?
(v) Find words from the stanza which mean the same as :
(a) agree (b) take the side of
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. Most important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poet.
(ii) What does ‘it’ indicate here ?
(iii) Why does the poet compare hate to ice ?
(iv) What is ice a symbol of ?
(v) What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza ?
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) What is ‘fire’ a symbol of ?
(iii) What is ‘ice’ a symbol of ?
(iv) Why does the poet hold with those who favour fire ?
(v) What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza ?
Poem 3. A Tiger in the Zoo
He hears the last voice at night,
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) What sound does the tiger hear at night ?
(iii) How do tiger’s eyes look ?
(iv) Explain : “Stares with brilliant eyes”.
(v) Which two words rhyme in the stanza ?
He hears the last voice at night.
The patrolling cars.
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars. Most Important
Questions:
a) Name the poem and the poet.
b) Who does ‘he’ refer to?
c) How do his eyes look?
d) At what does he look at night?
e) What sound does the tiger hear at night?
He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is ‘he’ here ? How does he walk ?
(ii) How do you know about his identity ?
(iii) What does ‘pads of velvet’ mean ?
(iv) What emotion does ‘he’ show ?
(v) Name the poem & the poet.
Poem 4. How to tell Wild Animals
The true Chameleon is small,
A lizard sort of thing,
He hasn’t any ears at all,
And not a single wing.
If there is nothing on the tree,
‘Tis the chameleon you see. Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Which creature has the chameleon been compared to ?
(ii) Mention any two physical characteristics of a chameleon.
(iii) What is the point of comparison ?
(iv) When can one see the chameleon ?
(v) Name the poem & the poet.
The true chameleon is small,
A lizard sort of thing;
He hasn’t any ears at all,
And not a single wing
If there is nothing on the tree,
‘Tis the chameleon you see.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and its poet.
(ii) What do you know about the size of true chameleon from the poem ?
(iii) How does a chameleon look-like ?
(iv) Can it fly ?
(v) Where can you see a chameleon ?
If when you’re walking round your yard,
You meet a creature there
Who hugs you very very hard,
Be sure it is a bear.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem & the poet.
(ii) Where can you meet the bear ?
(iii) What does the bear do on meeting a person ?
(iv) What does the creature do to you ?
(v) Find from the passage words which mean :
(a) embraces (b) courtyard
If strolling forth, a beast you view,
Whose hide with spots is peppered,
As soon as he has lept on you,
You’ll know it is the Leopard.
‘Twill do no good to roar with pain,
He’ll only lep and lep again.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) How can you recognize the leopard ?
(iii) What will the leopard do if we cry with pain ?
(iv) What is the rhyme – scheme in the stanza ?
(v) What is the meaning of the word ‘Walking’ in the stanza ?
If ever you should go by chance
To jungles in the east;
And if there should to you advance
A large and tawny beast
If he roars at you as you’re dyin’
You’ll know it is the Asian Lion’…..
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Where should you go by chance ?
(ii) How does the animal look (appear) ?
(iii) How will the animal react seeing you ?
(iv) What do you mean by ‘The East’ ?
(v) Name the poet and the poem.
Poem 5. The Ball Poem
He senses first responsibility
In a world of possessions. People will take
Balls, balls will be lost always, little boy,
And no one buys a ball back. Money is
external. Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem & the poet.
(ii) Who senses first responsibility ?
(iii) What does the poet mean when he says, “World of Possessions” ?
(iv) What does the poet mean by “Money is external” ?
(v) What does the poet mean by saying “Balls will be lost always” ?
No use to say ‘O there are other balls’ :
An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down
All his young days into the harbour where
His ball went.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poet and the poem.
(ii) How do people generally comfort a boy who has lost his ball ?
(iii) What does the boy stare at ?
(iv) What comes to his mind when he looks at the ball ?
(v) Find words from the stanza which mean the same as :
(a) final
(b) sorrow
Poem 6. Amanda!
Stop that sulking at once, Amanda !
You’re always so moody, Amanda !
Anyone would think that I nagged at you,
Amanda ! Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) What does the speaker ask Amanda to stop ?
(iii) What kind of a girl was Amanda ?
(iv) Why does the speaker fear people ?
(v) Find words from the Stanza which mean the same as :
(a) getting bad tempered
(b) quarrelled
(I am an orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) What does the speaker say about silence and freedom ?
(iii) What does Amanda imagine herself to be ?
(iv) How does the speaker make designs ?
(v) Find out a word from the stanza, similar in meaning to ‘wandering’.
Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!
Don’t hunch your shoulder, Amanda!
Stop that slouching and sit up straight, Amanda.
Questions:
a) Name the poem and the poet.
b) What is Amanda doing to her nails?
c) What does she do to her shoulders?
d) In which posture is she sitting?
e) Find a word from the passage which means same as ‘crouching”.
Poem 7. The Trees
All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) What do the roots do all night ?
(iii) How are small twigs ?
(iv) What are the boughs compared to ?
(v) Find words from the stanza which mean the same as :
(a) get free (b) small openings
I sit inside, doors open to the Veranda
Writing long letters
In which I scarcely mention departure
Of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open
The smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Where is the poet sitting ?
(ii) What is the poet doing ?
(iii) What does she not mention in her letters ?
(iv) How does the poet describe the night & the moon ?
(v) Name the poem & its poet.
The smell of leaves and lichen
Still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
My head is full of whispers.
Which tomorrow will be silent.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the speaker here ?
(ii) Which smell is reaching her and where ?
(iii) What is her head full of ?
(iv) What will be silent tomorrow ?
(v) Name the poem and the poet.
Winds rush to meet them.
The moon is broken like a mirror,
Its pieces flash now in the crown
Of the tallest oak.
Questions: 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the poet of these lines?
(ii) Name the poem of these lines.
(iii) Who does ‘them’ in the first line refer to?
(iv)What does the moon look like?
(v) Where do the rays of the moon fall?
My head is full of whispers.
which tomorrow will be silent.
Listen. The glass is breaking.
The trees are stumbling forward
into the night. Winds rush to meet them.
The moon is broken like a mirror
its pieces flash now in the crown
of the tallest oak.
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) Name the poet.
(iii) What is happening to the glass?
(iv) What rushes out to meet the trees?
(v) How does the poetess describe the moon?
Poem 8. Fog
The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
On silent haunches
and then moves on.
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) Name the poet.
(iii) How does the fog come?
(iv) For what does ‘it’ stand in the third line?”
(v) What does the fog do in the end?
Poem 9. The Tale of Custard the Dragon
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.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Why did Belinda cry for help ?
(ii) What did Mustard do when it heard the cry of Belinda ?
(iii) How did Ink behave ?
(iv) Where did the mouse slip away ?
(v) Name the poem & its poet.
Belinda embraced him, Mustard licked him
No one mourned for his pirate victim.
Ink and Blink in glee did gyrate
Around the dragon that ate the pirate.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who did Belinda embrace and why ?
(ii) What did Ink, Blink and Mustard do ?
(iii) What was the reason of their glee ?
(iv) Name the poem & its poet.
(v) What does ‘mourned’ and ‘gyrate’ means ?
Belinda is as brave as a barrel full of bears,
And Ink and Blink chase lions down the stairs,
Mustard is as brave as a tiger in a rage,
But Custard keeps crying for a nice safe cage.
Questions: 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Who is the poet of these lines?
(ii) Name the poem of these lines.
(iii) Who is as brave as a barrel full of bears?
(iv)Who chases lions down the stairs?
(v) Does a tiger become braver in a rage?
The pirate gaped at Belinda’s dragon,
And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,
He fired two bullets, but they didn’t hit,
And custard gobbled him, every bit
Questions : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) Name the poet.
(iii) Whose dragon was it?
(iv) What did the dragon do to the pirate?
(v) What did the pirate gulp ?
Poem 10. For Anne Gregory
“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) What did the religious man find ?
(iii) Who can love us for ourselves ?
(iv) Find a word in the stanza rhyming with ‘declare’.
(v) Find a word in the stanza which means the same as ‘book’.
“Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey – coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.” Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) What is the colour of the woman’s hair ?
(iii) What will the man love her for ?
(iv) What feature of the woman has put the young man into despair ?
(v) Find a word from the stanza which means ‘defensive wall of a fort’.