Unless, governor, inspector, visitor, This map becomes their wind…

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Unless, governor, inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs.
Break O break open till they break the town

Answer the following.

(1) The ‘governor, visitor, inspector’ are?

(i) corporate officials

(ii) powerful and influential people

(iii) politicians

(iv) ordinary peopl

(2) What have the windows done in the lives of these children?

(i) blocked the light

(ii) blocked their growth

(iii) shut these children from exposure to the outside world

(iv) both (ii) and (iii)

(3) ‘Catacombs’ means the same as

(i) traps

(ii) hangings on the wall

(iii) underground cemeteries

(iv) none of the above

(4) What is the poet asking them to break o break open?

(5) The windows of the classroom have been compared to ____________ .

(6) ________________ in the classroom is an outlet to the world beyond.

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Answer

(1) (ii) powerful and influential people
(2) (iv) both (ii) and (iii)
(3) (iii) underground cemeteries
(4) the barriers that are blocking their way to progress
(5) catacombs
(6) map

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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
Now we will count upto 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

1. An example of anaphora in thee above lines is _______________

2. Two activities the poet wants us to stop are____________
a. Speak and Move
b. Move and Eat
c. Speak and Dance
d. Move and Sleep

3 What does the poet mean by ‘let’s not speak in any language’?
a. To be silent
b. To be dumb
c. To be unconscious
d. To forget your language

4. Choose the pun in the word ‘arms’ from the given options.
a. Human organ/limbs
b. Weapons of destruction
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of these

5. Assertion: The poet wants everyone to remain quiet for some time.
Reason: Silence will allow to listen to the voices of quiet and serene nature
a) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
b) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
c) Assertion is true and reason is false.
d) Assertion is false and reason is true.

6 .Why is the poet suggesting to count twelve?

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It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Answer the following.

(1) What does ‘it’ signify in the first line?
(i) the surroundings
(ii) total stillness
(iii) being in the nature’s lap
(iv) all of the above

(2) The exotic moment according to the poet is

(i) exciting activity

(ii) total inactivity

(iii) beautiful moment of thoughtful silence

(iv) when language barriers are removed

(3) How will everyone feel at the exotic moment?

(4) The poet envisages an exotic moment of stillness which would be without ____________ .

(5) There would descend a sudden ____________ when we all get together.

(6) When there will be no engines or rush, what kind of moment would that make?

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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 realised with

pain

that she was as old as she

looked but soon

put that thought away, and

looked out at Young

Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling

out of their homes, ...

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... .

Answer the following.

(1) When the poet looked at her mother she looked wan and pale. (True/False)

(2) What kind of ache rose in the poet’s mind due to a childish fear?

(3) The poet’s mother’s face looked pale as the ____________ moon.

(4) What did the poet do, when she parted from her mother?

(5) Choose an example of alliteration from the following.

(i) like winter’s moon

(ii) trees sprinting

(iii) smile and smile and smile

(iv) none

(6) The expression ‘smile and smile and smile’ signifies something about the poet. What is it?

(i) Be optimistic about life.

(ii) The poet is trying to hide her fears behind her smile.

(iii) Smile and win the hearts.

(iv) Embrace difficulties with a smile.

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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.

Answer the following.

(1) What should not be confused with total inactivity? By this, does the poet mean that

(i) one should just be like a statue.

(ii) stillness and silence should be observed once in a while.

(iii) one can be lazy at times.

(iv) people should stop talking to each other.

(2) What are we so single-minded about

(i) making more and more money

(ii) spoiling the environment

(iii) earning our livelihood

(iv) creating wars and losing lives and propert

(3) The expression ‘have no truck with death’ means

(i) truck carrying arms

(ii) trucks can cause accidents and deaths

(iii) everyone has to die one day

(iv) have no association with death

(4) What follows due to not understanding one another?

(5) If we did nothing, a huge silence would ____________ the sadness of our current world.

(6) By our constant activity what destruction are human beings bringing upon themselves?

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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.
Answer the following.

(a) Whose ‘grandeur’ is the poet talking about in the first two lines?

(b) The lovely tales have been read or heard about_______.

(c) What is the endless fountain of immortal drink

(i) the elixir of life

(ii) clear rills

(iii) rainy water

(iv) all things of beauty

(d) John Keats is a worshipper of beauty. What message is he trying to give through this poem?

(i) That beauty is a joy forever.

(ii) Beauty never passes into nothingness.

(iii) That beauty never fades.

(iv) all of the above

(e) In what form do the deeds of grandeur live on?

(f) The tales of great deeds are like a ____________ .

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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.
Answer the following.

(1) What is the significance of the number ‘twelve’ in the poem?

(i) emphasizing the importance of time

(ii) a reminder of the clock

(iii) giving time frame in seconds to make us realize the importance of being silent

(iv) no significance, just a number

(2) Why is the poet asking people not to speak?

(3) “Not move our arms” refers to

(i) keep your arms folded

(ii) remain inactive

(iii) stand silently

(iv) sitting still and not using any weapons too

(4) The poet wants us not to ____________ in any language.

(5) We should not move our ____________ for one second.

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"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."

(i)Where was the new shed put up?
a. Behind the house
b. In front of the house
c. Besides the house
d. At the door of the house

(ii) Who are referred to as the power of cities?
a. The poor people
b. The elite class
c. Village people
d. People living in cities

(iii) Find a synonym of the word Decay from the extract.

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(v) On the basis of the extract, choose the correct option with reference to (1) and (2) given below.

(1) The condition of the shed aroused one's pity.
(2) The owner of the shed sought favours from the city people.

a. (1) is true but (2) is false.
b. (2) is true but (1) is false.
c. (2) is the reason for (1).
d. Both (1) and (2) cannot be inferred from the extract.
(vi) Identify the phrase, from the extract, that suggests a similar meaning to that of the underlined: The villagers were striving to earn a square meal.

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Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts,
Or crook-necked golden squash with silver warts,
Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene,
You have the money, but if you want to be mean.

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(1) The shed sold wild berries in wooden quarts. (True/False)

(2) The shed sold silver squashes. (True/False)

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(4) The shed owner concluded that the rich passers-by had the ____________ .

(5) The shed owner is hurt at what is left .....?

(6) The shed owner feels city folk are mean by ____________ their money instead of sharing it.

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It would be an exotic momentwithout
rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

1. The ‘exotic moment‘ that the poet refers to is, when
a) the whole world is destroyed
b) all the people are divided
c) all the people are together with oneness
d) all the people speak only in one language

2. State whether the given statement is TRUE or FALSE The other word for exotic is non-native 3. “Sudden strangeness‘ is an example of
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Oxymoron
d) Alliteration

4. Who is the poet speaking to?

5. How can we all be together according to Pablo Neruda?

6. The poet means ____________________ by “without Engines”

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On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All of their time and space are foggy slum.

Answer the following.

(1) The children’s spectacle glasses are ____________ .

(2) The children wear ____________ of steel.

(3) In the children’s spectacles what is broken: steel or glass?

(4) What is being referred to as cramped holes?

(i) the cages

(ii) the streets

(iii) slum hutments

(iv) holes in the ground

(5) What is the poet trying to convey about the state of these slum children?

(i) Their future spells doom for them.

(ii) They are the slag heap of the society.

(iii) They are useless and unwanted weeds.