Question

ECOLOGY

The day after the first rain,

For years I would come home

In a rage,

for I could see from a mile away

out there Red Champak trees

had done it again.

Had burst into flower and given

Mother her first blinding migraine

of the season

With their sheet- long heavy – hung

Yellow pollen fog of a fragrance

No wind could sift.

No door could shut from our black-

pillared house whose walls had ears and eyes.

Scales, smells, bone - creaks, mighty

visiting voices, and were porous like us.

but Mother, flashing her temper

like her mother’s twisted silver

grand children’s knickers

wet as the cold pack on her head,

would not let us cut down

a flowering tree.

almost as old as her, seeded,

she said, by a passing birdprovidential dropping

to give her gods and daughters

and daughter’s daughters basketfuls

of annual flower.

and for one line of cousins

a dower of migraines in season.

Answer the questions by choosing the correct option: (5×1=5)

1.________ makes the speaker angry the day after the first rain, year after year

(a) dust of the first rain (b) smell created by the first rain

(c) the red champak flowers (d) humidity created by the first rain

2. ‘Red Champak had done it again’ means

(a) it had given his mother migraine (b) it had created so many problems

(c) it had made the life of the people miserable (d) it has caused much pollution

3. The words ‘grandchildren’s knickers’ give the idea that_____________

(a) the narrator’s mother has grandchildren now

(b) the grandchildren wore old clothes

(c) the grandchildren wore modern clothes

(d) the narrator’s mother like the grandchildren’s clothes

4. The champak tree came into being by ____________

(a) sowing the seed of the plant (b) droppings of a bird

(c) droppings by air (d) the narrator’s mother growing it

5. The narrator’s mother opposes the idea of cutting down the champak tree

because ___________

(a) it will be a cruel act (b) it is useless to reduce her ailment

(c) it is against God’s will (d) it will increase her migraine
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Answer 1

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