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POEM - 8 : Vocation ENGLISH (NCERT) - POEM - 8 : Vocation

Gujarat Board (GSEB) - STD 6 - ENGLISH (NCERT) (GSEB - English Medium). 38 questions in this chapter.

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POEM - 8 : Vocation question types

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POEM - 8 : Vocation questions

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Q 1MCQ [1-M]1 Mark
Identify the Figure of Speech in the line $.........$ the street$-$lamp stands like a giant with one red eye in its head'.
  • A
    Metaphor
  • ✓
    Simile
  • C
    Synecdoche
  • D
    Metonymy

Answer: B.

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Q 2MCQ [1-M]1 Mark
The meaning of the line... he gets baked in the sun' is ...
  • ✓
    .... he suffers in the scorching heat.
  • B
    ... he enjoys working under the sun."
  • C
    .... he hates the terrible heat.
  • D
    .... he works unwillingly under the sun.

Answer: A.

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Q 3MCQ [1-M]1 Mark
How does the poet watch the gardener doing his work?
  • A
    Looking through a window.
  • B
    Looking from a balcony.
  • ✓
    Looking through the gate.
  • D
    Peeping through a hole.

Answer: C.

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Q 11Comprehention Stanza (text) [3-M]3 Marks
Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to bed,
I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and down. The lane is dark and lonely, and the street-lamp stands like a giant with one red eye in its head.
The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side, and never once goes to bed in his life.
I wish I were a watchman walking the street all night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.
Questions:
$(1)$ What does the speaker's mother do as it gets dark ?
$(2)$ What does the speaker see through his open window?
$(3)$ Describe the lane that the speaker can see from his open window.
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Q 12Comprehention Stanza (text) [3-M]3 Marks
When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school,
I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging the ground. He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to task, if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging.
Questions:
$(1)$ When does the speaker return from school?
$(2)$ What is the gardener doing with his spade?
$(3)$ How is the life of the poet different from that of the gardener?
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Q 13Comprehention Stanza (text) [3-M]3 Marks
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and
I walk to school by our lane,
Every day I meet the hawker crying, "Bangles, crystal bangles !"
There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying, "Bangles, crystal bangles !"
Questions:
$(1)$ What is the meaning of the word vocation ?
$(2)$ What time of the day does the poet see the hawker ?
$(3)$ What does the hawker sell?
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