Question

b. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

He said to her mother, “It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a

little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten-year level.”

(i) Who is speaking to whom in the above lines?

(ii) Who is the ‘little girl’? What was her fault?

(iii) What was the difference between the ‘little girl’s and her mother’s teacher?

(iv) Why did the ‘little girl’ dislike her mechanical teacher?

c. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings.

Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies,

crumbling lives, crumbling hearts – the wind god winnows and crushes them all.

(i) Who is very clever?

(ii) What does the wind god do?

(iii) What is the wind clever at?

(iv) Does the wind touch the strong?

Q4. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each.

(i) How and why does the poet plan to befriend the wind?

(ii) What is the irony of the story ‘The lost child’?

(iii) In the fair the child wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an

answer?

(iv) Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?

(v) What things about the book did she find strange?

(vi) How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?

(vii) Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector?

(viii) Why did the poet choose that road?

(ix) What do the roads represent?

(x) What are the things the wind does...
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Answer 1

Answer:

1)county inspected said to Margie's mother

2)The little girl is Margie. Her geography sector was a little quick