Question

(A)
I wonder where they get those tokens,
Did I pass that way huge times ago and
negligently drop them.
1. Who is I here?
The poet (ii) A little child
(iii) An animal (iv) A bird
2. What does the poet wonder?
(i) Animals are ferocious
(ii) Animals have human virtues
(iii) Animals are childlike
(iv) Animals and humans are not very friendly to each other
3. What makes the poet lament?
(i) The unsympathetic attitude of humans
(ii) Lack of innocence in humans
(iii) The vindictiveness and heartlessness in humans
(iv) All of these
4. Find from the passage a word which means enormous.
(i) Huge (ii) Wonder
(iii) Tokens (iv) Negligence
5. The word token refers to
(i) Coins (ii) Gift hampers
(iii) Virtues (iv) Symbols​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) The poet wants to turn into an animal.

(b) The poet is attracted to the calmness and poise of the animals.

(c) The word is ‘Placid’.

(d) The successive use of the word ‘long’ makes the line significant; the first ‘long’, denotes ‘period/Time’ whereas the other, ‘a desire’.

Answer 2

Answer:

(a) The poet wants to turn into an animal.

(b) The poet is attracted to the calmness and poise of the animals.

(c) The word is ‘Placid’.

(d) The successive use of the word ‘long’ makes the line significant; the first ‘long’, denotes ‘period/Time’ whereas the other, ‘a desire’.