Question

16. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing

the most appropriate alternatives from those given below. (1x4=4

marks)

‘Now, you shall build as the birds do,

And shall get your scanty food

By boring and boring, and boring

All day in the hard, dry wood’.

(i) Who composed the above lines?

(a) Phoebe Cary

(b) Coates Kinney

(c) Robert Frost

(d) William Wordsworth

(ii) Who is the speaker in this extract?

(a) fat woman

(b) St. Peter

(c) the people of Northland

(d) none of the above

(iii)The Father cursed the woman saying that she would have to

(a) cook her own food

(b) make a hole in the dry wood

(c) live in the forest

(d) toil hard for her food

(iv) Scanty food means

(a) very little quantity of food

(b) food for spoiling

(c) food for giving someone

(d) food for giving to animals​

Answer 1

(iii) cook her own food
(iv) very little amount of food