Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
‘All right!’ you’ll cry. ‘All right!’ you’ll say,
‘But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!’
We’ll answer this by asking you,
‘what use the darling once to do?
‘How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?’
Have you forgotten? Don’t you know?
We’ll say it very loud and slow:
THEY --- USED --- TO --- READ! They’d READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To read some more. Great Scotts! Gadzooks!
a) What does the poet ask the poet at their objection to take the set away? What does the poet remind the parents?
b) What shows that the children in the past were fond of reading the books? What was surprising about them?
c) Which books does the poet mention? What did the books contain?
d) Which monster is the poet referring to in the above extract? How was situation different before its invention?
Why has the poet capitalized the words? What is the purpose of repetition? Give an instance of repetition in the extract.
Answers
Answer:
The headmaster entered the class with a slightly flushed face and a hard
ominous look in his eyes. Swaminathan wished that he had been anywhere but there at
that moment. The headmaster surveyed the class for a few minutes and asked, ‘Are you
not ashamed of coming and sitting there after what you did yesterday?’ Just as a special
honour to them, he read out the names of a dozen students or so that had attended the
class. After that he read out the names of those that had kept away, and asked them to
stand on their benches. He felt that punishment was not enough and asked them to
stand on their desks. Swaminathan was among them and felt humiliated at that
eminence. Then they were lectured. When it was over, they were asked to offer
explanations one by one. One said that he had an attack of a headache and therefore
could not come to school. He was asked to bring a medical certificate.
The second said that while he had been coming to school on the previous day,
someone had told him that there would be no school, and he had gone back home. The
headmaster replied that if he was going to listen to every loafer who said there would
be no school, he deserved to be flogged. Anyway, why did he not come to school and
verify? No answer. The punishment was pronounced: ten days’ attendance cancelled,
two rupees fine, and the whole day to be spent on the desk. The third said that he had
an attack of a headache. The fourth said that he had stomach ache. The fifth said that his
grandmother died suddenly just as he was starting for school. The headmaster asked
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