Read the extract and answer of the questions that
follow:
1. Every time I shifted in my chair or turned my wrist to watch the
time—I wanted to make every one of our thirty minutes count—I
felt a huge relief and exhilaration in the possibilities of my body.
How little it mattered then that I would never walk, or even stand.
QUESTIONS:
(i) Why was the author looking at his watch so often ?
(ii)Why did he feel relief and exhilaration ?
(iii)‘I’ in the passage refers to whom?
2. When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray;
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
QUESTIONS:
(i) Where did the poet plan to go?
(ii) How was the poet feeling while travelling to lyonnesse?
(iii) What is the rhyming scheme in the poem?
Answers
Explanation:
(i) Why was the author looking at his watch so often ?
(ii)Why did he feel relief and exhilaration ?
(iii)‘I’ in the passage refers to whom?
2. When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray;
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
QUESTIONS:
(i) Where did the poet plan to go?
(ii) How was the poet feeling while travelling to lyonnesse?
(iii) What is the rhyming scheme in the poem
Answer:
(i) Because he wanted every one of the thirty minutes of their time count
(ii) The author was a disabled person. However, there was before him a totally invalid person— Hawking. Yet this invalid had reached great heights. So the author was pleased to see that his limbs were much better than that of Hawking. He thought if Hawking could do so much with his body, he (the author) could do much more
(iii) Firdaus Kanga