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Exrtact-1
Driving from my parent’s
Home to Cochin last Friday
Morning, I saw my mother,
Beside me,
Doze, open mouthed, her face
Ashen like that
Of a corpse and realized with pain
That she was as old as she
Looked but soon
Put that thought away
And looked out at young trees sprinting…
Questions:
i. Which of these best applies to the given extract?
a. a conversation b. a piece of advice
c. a recollection d. an argument
ii. Which of these literary devices has been used in the line ‘her face ashen like that of a corpse’?
a. personification b. alliteration
c. simile d. metaphor
iii. Which of these is the tone of the poet in the given extract?
a. happy and romantic b. gloomy and fearful
c. cheerful and humorous d. angry and frustrated
iv. Which of these figures of speech has been used in the line ‘the young trees sprinting’?
a. personification b. metaphor
c. simile d. alliteration
v. Find out the word from the extract that means ‘dead body’.
Exrtact-2
But after the airport’s
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan, pale
as a late winter’s moon.
And felt that old
Familiar ache, my childhood’s fear
But all I said was see you soon, Amma,
All I did was smile and smile and smile…….
Questions:
i. Why did the poet look at her mother again?
a. to see if she was sleeping b. to check if she was well
c. to bid her good bye d. to say something to her
ii. Which of these has the poet compare mother’s face to?
a. full moon brightness b. late winter’s moon
c. young children d. young tree
iii. Which of these was the reason of mother’s pale face?
a. mother’s old age b. mother’s depleting energy
c. mother’s illness d. both (a) and (b)
iv. What was the poet’s childhood fear?
a. mother’s illness b. mother growing old
c. losing her mother forever d. shifting to a new city
v. Why did the poet say, “See you soon, Amma?
a. bidding farewell b. being hopeful to meet mother again
c. to comfort her mother d. none of these
vi. Why did the poet smile again and again?
a. pretending to smile b. trying to hide her fear from mother
c. to distract her mother d. both (a) and (b)
Exrtact-3
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
Questions:
i. The poem from which has the above text been taken is …….
a. My Mother at SixtySix
b. An Elementary School Classroom School in a Slum
c. Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
d. Thing A Beauty
ii. Who is the poet of Keeping Quiet?
a. Kamala Das b. Stephen Spender
c. Pablo Neruda d. John Keats
iii. What does the poet want others to do?
a. To keep quiet and introspect b. To make noise and find fault
c. To spread wars all around d. None of these
iv. Why should we keep quiet according to the poet?
a. For attaining peace b. for maintaining brotherhood
c. for silence d. All of these
Extract 4
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 heaven’s brink
Questions:
i. Name the poem and the poet of the above text.
ii. What is the effect of this ‘immortal drink’ on us?
a. gives immortality b. gives immense joy and pleasure
c. gives wealth d. gives power
iii. Write the words from the extract which mean-
A-stories B-magnificence
Extract 5
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.
Questions:
i. What removes pall from our life?
a. dark spirit (b) b. Trees old, and young
c. all the unhealthy things (d) d. Nature’s beauty
ii. What is the meaning of gloomy?
a. all the unhealthy things b. dark spirits
c. dull and depressive d. none of these
iii. Why are we despondent?
Extract 6
The little old house was out with a little new shed
In front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped,
A roadside stand that too pathetically pled,
It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread,
But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports
The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint.
Questions:
i. Name the poem and the poet of the above text.
ii. What do the flowers of cities in a roadside stand refer to?
a. city people b. city cars
c. urban crowd d. The pleasures of cities
iii. What is a Roadside Stand in the poem?
a. a bus stop b. a waiting point
c. a shed outside a roadside old house d. none of these
Extract 7
It is in the news that all these pitiful kin
Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store,
Where they won’t have to think for themselves
Anymore,
While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey,
Questions:
i. Who are the greedy Doers?
a. the government b. old people
c. The rural people d. The polished city folk
ii. Who are beasts of prey in the poem?
a. the government officials b. Rural folk
c. The city folk d. All the above
iii. What promise was the government making to relocate the villagers?
a. to give them all the luxuries b. to show them movies
c. their all needs will be looked after d. all the above
Extract 8
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, and unafraid.
Questions:
i. The above extract has been taken from—
a. Keeping Quiet b. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers c. A Roadside Stand
ii. Who will go on prancing?
a. aunt b. panel c. tigers
iii. The word ‘terrified’ means—
a. frightened b. excited c. tired
Extract 9
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.
Questions:
i. The poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is written by—
a. Kamala Das b. Robert Frost c. Adrienne Rich
ii. “a world of green” means—
a. farm b. field c. forest
iii. Who do not fear the men?
a. Aunt Jennifer b. tigers c. denies