Read the Poem Carefully and answers the following Questions:
It pains her to see
Animals suffering and hurt
She carries a fur purse
To match her leather skirt
She wastes paper
She has the guts
But Oh! How she hates
Trees being cut
Child Labour
She condemns vehemently
Why is then her little domestic maid
Never treated gently?
Cruelty to animals
Makes her go boo- hoo
Her favourite outings are
To the circus and the zoo
Looking at her one make the sigh
Too please others she will lie
I hope someday she will think
And realize she’s just
A hypocrite, a stink!
Type — I (Multiple Choice Questions)
Choose the most appropriate option
1. The tone of the poem is
(A) painful (B) humorous
(C) gentle
(D)sarcastic/taunting
Feeling pained to see animals hurt and is contradictory behaviour.
(A) carrying things (B) using a fur purse and leather skirt
(C) having pets (D) seeing their sufferings
Though she hates cutting of trees, she :
(A) has the guts (B) cuts them down
(C) wastes paper (D)Stops cutting of trees
It is a paradox that she does not treat her little maid gently yet
(A) employs her (B) condemns child labour
(C) scolds the girl (D) pays her well
She enjoys going to circus and zoo in spite of the fact that she is against:
(A) child labour (B) wastage of paper
(C) cutting of trees (D) cruelty to animals
She is a hypocrite because of she:
(A) lies to please others (B) is not what she pretends to be
(C) thinks that she is always right (D) is what she says
The word ‘stink’ here means
(A) bad smell ( B) severe (C) dishonest (D) trouble
Type — II (True-False Statements)
Write whether the following statements are True or False.
1. The woman in the poem feels really painful when she sees animals suffering.
2. The way she uses fur purse and leather skirt show that she is not bothered about the killing of animals.
3. She treats her maid cruelly.
4. She loves to go to the circus and zoo.
5. She wastes paper. This shows that she hates cutting of trees.
Answers
Answer:
Type - I: Multiple Choice Questions
1) D: Sarcastic/taunting
2) B: Using a fur purse and leather skirt
3) C: wastes paper
4) B: condemns child labour
5) D: cruelty to animals
6) B: is not what she pretends to be
7) C: dishonest
Type - I True/False Statements
1: Not sure
2: True
3: True
4: True
5: False
Explanation:
Type--I(MCQ)
1: It shows the hypocritical behaviours of the woman, therefore it's taunting her actions.
2: Using a fur purse and a skirt which were made from hurting animals is a contradictory behaviour to her 'feeling pain' to see animals hurt
3: She wastes paper which consumes it more, therefore needing the cutting down of more trees yet she 'hates' cutting of trees.
4: She 'condemns' child labour when she treats her maid, who is more or less a child as she is still little, roughly.
5: In the circus and the zoo, they sometimes treat animals cruelly, but yet she enjoys seeing them even though she is 'against' cruelty to animals.
6: A hypocrite is someone who doesn't practice what they speak or someone who practices even what they condemn. So she is a hypocrite because she is not what she pretends to be.
7: In the passage, the word 'stink' means dishonest, an hypocrite is generally a dishonest person, though sometimes not purposely.
Type II (True/False)
1. I'm not sure of this as it says she cries when she sees animals suffering ( she goes boo hoo) but she also enjoys going to the zoo and the circus so that's a contradiction.
2. True, I've explained it a bit in the multichoice section
3. True, as it says in the passage that she never treats her little domestic maid gently.
4. True, it states so in the passage
5. False, wasting paper increases the cutting of trees so committing this action does not show you hate the cutting of trees. This is also explained in the MCQ section.
I hope this helps. I'm not sure if I'm fully correct