Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather's grandfather was a little boy. All the kinds from the whole neighbourhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things, so they could help one another with the homework and talk about it.
(a) What was Margie's feelings towards her school ?
(b) Why was she fascinated by the old kind of school ?
(c) Find the word which means the same as 'a long deep breath'.
OR
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden back
Oh, I kept the first for another day ;
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
(a) What does both refer to in the stanza ?
(b) Explain "in leaves no step had trodden back."
(c) Write the rhyming scheme of the extract.
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(a) She hated her school and her medical teacher. (1 × 3 = 3)
(b) She thought it was for good to go to such a school as they got a chance to interact with each other and help each other in doing their homework.
(c) Sigh.
OR
(a) “both” in the stanza refers to two roads which diverged in different directions.
(b) “in leaves no step had trodden back” means that both the roads were covered with yellow leaves and nobody had walked on them.
(c) ab, aa, b
(b) She thought it was for good to go to such a school as they got a chance to interact with each other and help each other in doing their homework.
(c) Sigh.
OR
(a) “both” in the stanza refers to two roads which diverged in different directions.
(b) “in leaves no step had trodden back” means that both the roads were covered with yellow leaves and nobody had walked on them.
(c) ab, aa, b
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