Question

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
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 it if I should ever come back
(i) Which road does the poet choose ?
(ii) Why was the poet doubtful about the first road ?
(iii) Find a word from the extract that means 'crushed'
OR
He was a bachelor. His needs were simple and he was able to adjust himself to all kinds of odd conditions, whether it was an ill-equipped circuit house or a makeshift canvas tent in the middle of a stone quarry. But one asset he had, was his cook, Iswaran. The cook was quite attached to Mahendra and followed him uncomplainingly wherever he was posted.
(a) Who is 'he' as referred in the above extract ?
(b) What favour did Iswaran have to him besides cooking ?
(c) What was other special feature of Iswaran, which made Mahendra fond of him ?

Answer 1

1.i)trodden one
ii)coz less people took that way
iii)trodden

Answer 2

(a) The poet took the second road.

(b) The poet chose the second road over the first thinking that he would come to it some other day.

Yet, he was very doubtful whether he would ever be able to come back to it someday or not.

(c) Trodden.

OR

(a) ’He’ is Mahendra, a junior supevisor who had to keep moving from place to place as ordered by head office.

(b) Besides cooking, Iswaran washed his clothes and chatted with him at night.

(c) Mahandra became fond of him as he was a very resourceful person and took great care of him.