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SECTION-C (LITERATURE)
1x4=4
8. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow-
No use to say 'o there are other balls': An ultimate shaking grièf fixkes the boy, As he stands
rigid, trembling, staring down All his young days into the harbor where His ball went, I would
not intrude on him. A dime, another ball, is worthless.
(i) Explain the line, 'other one other balls'?
(a) How does the child react to the lost ball?
(b) Why does the poet not give a clime to the boy.
(c) Why does the boy stare into the harbor?
OR
(ii) "As they gazed, a remarkable sight met their eyes. A fresh foot mark appeared from
now where.
(a) Who saw the foot print and where?
(b) Why were the boys startled to see the foot prints?
(c) What remarkable sight set their eyes?
Answers
Answer:Read the following extracts and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
Question 1.
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, (1×4=4)
What, what is he to do ? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water !
(a) The boy has lost ………. .
(b) It fell down …….. .
(c) At the loss of his ball the boy felt ………. .
(d) The boy saw the ball go.
Answer:
(1) to learn good habits.
(b) Amanda’s mother.
(c) straight.
(d) Robin Klen.
Question 2.
An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy (1×4=4)
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down.
All his young days in to the harbour where His ball bent I would not intrude on him,
A dime another ball, is worthless. Now He senses first responsibility
In a words of possessions.
(a) The boy is in grief because his ball has been …… .
(b) The boy feels trouble and stands rigid because he is thinking about his ……. .
(c) The poet does not offer to give him the new ball because he wants to teach him the value of …….. .
(d) The boy senses first responsibility in …….. .
Answer:
(a) lost
(b) days when he was young.
(c) responsibility
(d) Words of possession
Question 3.
His ball went. I would not intrude on him; (1×4=4)
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now He senses first responsibility In a world of possessions.
(a) Where did the ball go ?
(b) The poet does not want to interfere as he wants the child …….. .
(c) This will help the child in understanding his ……. .
(d) Giving another ball to the child is ……. .
Answer:
(a) The ball went into the water.
(b) to learn to bear the loss.
(c) responsibility.
(d) Worthless.
Question 4.
I would not intrude on him,
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now He sense first responsibility In a world of possessions.
(a) Why is another ball worthless for him ?
(b) The loss of the ball teaches the boy …….. .
(c) ‘A world of possessions’ means ……… .
(d) The poet does not want to ……. . (1×4=4)
Answer:
(a) Another ball is worthless for him because he wanted the one which has been lost.
(b) the sense of responsibility.
(c) The world of materialism.
(d) interfere on the child.
OR
(a) Who would not intrude ?
(b) Whose eyes are desperate ?
(c) The word “intrude” in the above given extract means ………. .
(d) The poet senses.
(a) The poet would not intrude.
(b) The boys eyes are desperate.
(c) To go/interfere into something/matter forcefully.
(d) a world of possession.
Explanation: