Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each: (any 3) 2 x 3 = 6mks
a) What were Matilda’s apprehensions when her husband brought her the invitation to the ball?
b) How did lunch become ‘a ceremonial occasion ‘for Mr. Herriot and his partners?
c) Describe briefly the scene that is described by Frost in his poem, ‘Dust of Snow ‘?
Answers
a) When Matilda's husband gave her the invitation to the ball, instead of feeling happy, she became sad and apprehensive. She said she would not go to the party at the Minister’s residence because she felt she did not have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on. Without any expensive jewelry she would look bad.
Then her husband advised her to borrow some jewellery from her friend, Mme. Forestier.
b) Lunch became ‘a ceremonial occasion ‘for Mr. Herriot and his partners' occasion with two glasses of wine before and several during the meal. These wine bottles were sent by Mrs. Pumphrey for Tricki so that his blood would be enriched. Mr. Herriot didn't give wine to Trickie. He and his partners consumed it.
c) In the poem Dust of Snow by Robert Frost, the poet narrates an experience in which his sad mood was transformed into a jocund mood. He was on a walk on a wintry evening. As he was passing under a tree, a crow shook snow from the branch on the poet; and this changed the poet’s mood.