Question

Q6. Read the following extracts and answer the given questions briefly. (4+4=8 marks)

A) He came to the door of a cottage,

In travelling round the earth,

Where a little woman was making cakes,

And baking them on the hearth;

And being faint with fasting,

For the day was almost done , He

asked her , from her store of cakes,

To give him a single one.

1 Who is ‘he’ here ?

2 What does he see when he comes to a cottage?

3 What request does he make ? Why ?

4 Is his request fulfilled? Why / Why not?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The man(the poet).

2. When he comes to a cottage he saw a little woman was making cakes and on which see was baking he compared it like a earth.

3. He make a request that want one single piece of cake from her store of cakes because he was a single and also hungry.