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EXTRACT BASED QUESTIONS
1. I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self contain’d ,
I stand and look at them long and long.
(a) What does the poet want to turn into?
(b) Which qualities of animals attract the poet?
(c) Which word is similar to the word “calm”?
(d) Explain the successive use of the word ‘long’ twice and bring out its significance.
2. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
(a) Why do humans lie awake in the dark?
(b) What do humans do about their condition?
(c) Which word is opposite to “good deeds’’?
(d) Find a word from the passage that is an antonym of ‘Thanking’.
3. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
(a) What does the poet call a mania here?
(b) How are the animals not dissatisfied?
(c) What does ‘demented’ mean?
(d) Which word in the passage means ‘species’?
4. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
(a) Who does ‘another’ refer to here?
(b) Who is the poet referring to that lived thousands of years ago?
(c) What does ‘kneel’ symbolize here?
(d) Which word in the passage is an antonym of ‘a part’?
5. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, they bring me tokens of myself, they
evince them plainly in their possession I wonder where they get tokens those tokens. Did I pass
that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
(a) Who does ‘they’ refer to here?
(b) Explain the line: “They bring me tokens of myself”.
(c) Which word in the stanza means “show”?
(d) What similarities does the poet find between the human beings and the animals?
6. I wonder where they get tokens those tokens. Did I pass that way huge times ago and
negligently drop them?
(a) What does the poet wonder?
(b) Why does the poet say that he negligently dropped them?
(c) Which word in the stanza means ‘carelessness’?
(d) Find from the passage a word which means ‘enormous’ english chapter animals for class 10

Answer 1

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