13. Read the following extract and answer the following questions by
choosing the most appropriate option. Write your answers in your
answer sheet against the correct question number:
4x1=4
Teach us to rule ourselves always,
Controlled and cleanly night and day:
That we may bring, if need arise,
No maimed or worthless sacrifice.
(a) Names of the poem and the poet
(i) The Children's Song - Joseph Rudyard Kipling
(ii) My Mother - Ruskin Bond
(in) The Children's Song - Ruskin Bond
(iv) My Mother - APJ Abdul Kalam
(b) The poet does not want to make sacrifice which is
meaningful
(ii) important
(iii) trivial
(iv) worthy
(c) The poetic device used in the second line is
(i) personification
(ii) alliteration
(iii) simile
(iv) metaphor
(d) The poet is invoking
his father to teach him
(ini) God to teach him
(1) his teacher to teach him
(iv) his mother to teach him
Answers
13. Read the following extract and answer the following questions by
choosing the most appropriate option. Write your answers in your
answer sheet against the correct question number:
4x1=4
Teach us to rule ourselves always,
Controlled and cleanly night and day:
That we may bring, if need arise,
No maimed or worthless sacrifice.
(a) Names of the poem and the poet
(i) The Children's Song - Joseph Rudyard Kipling
(ii) My Mother - Ruskin Bond
(in) The Children's Song - Ruskin Bond
(iv) My Mother - APJ Abdul Kalam
(b) The poet does not want to make sacrifice which is
meaningful
(ii) important
(iii) trivial
(iv) worthy
(c) The poetic device used in the second line is
(i) personification
(ii) alliteration
(iii) simile
(iv) metaphor
(d) The poet is invoking
his father to teach him
(ini) God to teach him
(1) his teacher to teach him
(iv) his mother to teach him