1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels 'My Mother at sixty six '?
loosing her mother
heart attack
headache
chlindren screaming at her
2. What does ashen face signify?
to show poet fear
to tell ageing is painful
pale and lifeless face of poet's mother
to show old age
3. What does the poet compare the color of walls with?
rotten fruits
stale chapaties
rotten vegetables
sour cream
4. What do the faces of children in the slums area reflect?
happiness
their aspiration
their happiness
sadness and lack of enthusiasm
5. Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
a girl
an old man
a teacher
an unnoticed young boy
6. Why are young trees described as sprinting?
7. What do parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
8. What does the poet want for the children of the the slums?
9. How does the poem 'An elementary school classroom in a slum' portray the children?
10. How does poet describe the classroom walls?
11. Have you ever visited or seen an elementary school in a slum? What does it look like?
12. Why does Kamal Das compare her mother to a 'pale winters moon?
Section -B
Flamingo (Prose)
13. What were things being taken for granted by the people of Alsace?
Teachers of the school
time and school
people around
money and power
14. What does the The Last Lesson symbolize?
loss
loss of freedom
loss of language
loss of language and freedom
15. According to the author what was garbage for the children?
means of entertainment
means of timepass
means of playing
a wonder
16. What was Saheb looking for
eggs
gold
coins
toys
17. What is the meaning of Saheb e Alam?
owner
rich man
poor man
lord of universe
18. How was M. Hamel dressed differently that day? why?
19. What h
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Explanation:
1. loosing her mother
2. pale and lifeless face of poet's mother
3. sour cream
4. sadness and lack of enthusiasm
5. unnoticed young boy
6. A)Cherrapunji/ Mawsynram lies on the windward side of the Khasi hills and receives rainfall from the 'V.W. Monsoon Bay of Bengal 'branch while Shillong / Dispur / Guwahati lie on the leeward side of the Khasi hills and so they receive less rainfall being in the Rain Shadow area.
7. While driving to the airport, in an effort to distract herself from the thoughts of her ageing mother, the poet looks at the young trees 'sprinting'. The trees seem to be running past the moving car. The sprinting of the trees symbolises the rapidly passing years of human's life from childhood to old age.
8. The poet has a keen desire that these slum children should break the bonds of living in a slum area. They should not remain dejected, depressed and isolated from the rest of the civilized world. So he urges the governors, teachers, inspectors, invigilators and visitors to come forward and educate the slum children.
9. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum is a beautifully penned down poem by Stephen Spender that exposes the glaring gaps and marginalisation that occurs ever so often in our societies. ... The poet aims to portray the conditions of the youngsters residing in the slum.
10. The walls of the classroom are pale and dirty. They are decorated with the donated picture of Shakespeare, a scene depicting buildings with domes, a world map and beautiful valleys, which stand in sharp contrast to the dingy, dismal and gloomy atmosphere in which these slum children live.
11. Yes, I have visited an elementary school in a slum. The school was in a pitiful state. Its dingy and neglected classrooms were devoid of even basic amenities like fan and lights. ... The walls of the classrooms were as shabby, malnourished and disinterested as the students sitting in their enclosures.
12. Kamala Das saw her mother dozing open-mouthed, her face looking pale and colourless like that of a corpse. ... The mother's pale and colourless face that has becomes rather wrinkled due to old age gives her a look that the poet compares with 'the late winter's moon'.
13. time and school
14. loss of language and freedom
15. gold
16. gold
17. lord of universe
18. He was wearing his beautiful green coat, with frilled shirt,and a little black silk cal,all embroidered. He usually wore this dress on inspection and on the days of function or prize distribution. He wore the dress on that day as he was aware that he is going to give his last lesson in their mother tongue French.
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