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POEM - 3 : The Last Bargain English - POEM - 3 : The Last Bargain

CBSE - STD 8 - English (CBSE - English Medium). 20 questions in this chapter.

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Q 1MCQ [1M]1 Mark
The garden hedge was...
  • ✓
    full of flowers.
  • B
    full of thorny plants.
  • C
    too narrow to pass through.
  • D
    None of these three

Answer: A.

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Q 2MCQ [1M]1 Mark
The speaker did not want to be hired by the rich old man because ...
  • A
    he wanted to hire him with power.
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    he wanted to hire him with money.
  • C
    he wanted to hire him by force.
  • D
    he seemed to be a cunning man.

Answer: B.

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Q 3MCQ [1M]1 Mark
Here the crooked lane' means...
  • A
    the lane with dishonest people.
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    the lane with diverging ways.
  • C
    the lane with deformed inhabitants.
  • D
    a mysterious lane.

Answer: B.

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Q 5MCQ [1M]1 Mark
The houses were all closed...
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    because of terrible heat outside.
  • B
    to show respect to the king.
  • C
    due to some unknown fear.
  • D
    None of these three

Answer: A.

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Q 6POEM QUE UNIT [3M]3 Marks
It was evening. The garden hedge was all aflower.
The fair maid came out and said, "I
will hire you with a smile."
Her smile paled and melted into tears.
and she went back alone into the dark.
Questions:
(1) How was the garden hedge?
(2) What offer did the fair maid put? How?
(3) What happened afterwards ?
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Q 7POEM QUE UNIT [3M]3 Marks
In the heat of the mid-day the houses stood with shut doors.
I wandered along the crooked lane.
An old man came out with his bag of gold.
He pondered and said, "I will hire you with my money."
He weighed his coins one by one, but I turned away.
Questions :
(1) Houses are thought of as persons. How?
(2) What was the old man carrying?
(3) What kind of person, do you think, must be the old man?
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Q 8POEM QUE UNIT [3M]3 Marks
The sun glistened on the sand, and the sea waves broke waywardly.
A child sat playing with shells.
He raised his head and seemed to know me and said,
"I hire you with nothing."
From henceforward that bargain struck in child's play made me a free man.
Questions:
(1) Describe the scene of the seashore.
(2) What did the child do on seeing the man?
(3) What made the man do the last bargain with the child?
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Q 9POEM QUE UNIT [3M]3 Marks
"Come and hire me." I cried, while in the morning
I was walking on the stone-paved road. Sword in hand the King came in his chariot.
He held my hand and said, "I will hire you with my power,"
But his power counted for naught, and he went away in his chariot.
Questions:
(1) Who is 'T' in the first line?
(2) What honour did the man receive from the king ?
(3) Why did the man not accept the offer of the king?
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