what kind of city look does poet talk in the poem geography lesson from the sky
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Multiple Choice Questions
1. The “jet’ in the passage refers to :
(a) jet black
(b) jet engine
(c) jet liner
(d) jet stream.
2. The poet realised why
(a) he was in the sky
(b) the city had developed
(c) there were new ways in the city
(d) the city had taken the shape it had.
3. The city appeared from the sky
(a) very big
(b) very small
(c) very wide
(d) very beautiful.
4. The word ‘scaled’ in the passage means :
(a) measured
(b) spotted
(c) climbed
(d) like a scale.
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1. (c) jet liner
2. (d) the city had taken the shape it had
3. (b) very small
4. (a) measured
II. There seemed an inevitability
about what on ground had looked haphazard,
unplanned and without style
When the jet sprang into the sky.
Questions
1. What did the poet see from the jet ?
2. What seemed inevitable ?
3. Why is logic not seen on the earth ?
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1. From the jet the poet saw how his city had developed.
2. The way the city had developed seemed inevitable.
3. On the earth one cannot have the whole view. One can see only a part at a time. So the logic of geography is not seen on the earth.
III. When the jet reached ten thousand feet,
it was clear why the country
had cities where the rivers ran
and why the valleys were populated.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. From the height of ten thousand feet the poet was observing
(a) his city
(b) his country
(c) the earth
(d) the sky
2. The cities are developed
(a) in the open space
(b) on the hill-side
(c) by the river-side
(d) in the deserts.
3. The valleys are populated because
(a) the climate is good
(b) people love the hills
(c) the life is safe there
(d) the water is easily available.
4. The word ‘valley’ means the same as
(a) vale
(b) valet
(c) valour
(d) value.
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1. (b) his country
2. (c) by the river-side
3. (d) the water is easily available
4. (a) vale
IV. The logic of geography,
that land and water attracted man
was clearly delineated
When the jet reached ten thousand feet.
Questions
1. What did the poet see from the height of ten thousand feet?
2. Where did man settle ?
3. Name the poet.
4. What does the word ‘delineated’ mean?
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1. From the height of ten thousand feet man saw the logic of geography.
2. Man settled on the land which was close to the water.
3. The poet is “Zulfikar Ghose’.
4. The word ‘delineated’ means ‘drawn’.
V. When the jet rose six miles high,
it was clear the earth was round
and that it had more sea than land.
But it was difficult to understand (Pages 34–35)
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The passage has been taken from :
(a) Geography Lesson
(b) The Ant and the Cricket
(c) The Last Bargains
(d) Macavity : The Mystery Cat.
2. From that height the poet saw that
(a) the earth is full of people
(b) the earth has hills and deserts
(c) the earth has much water
(d) the earth has much land.
3. From the height of the jet, the earth looked
(a) flat
(b) round
(c) rectangular
(d) triangular.
4. The noun form of ‘difficult is
(a) difference
(b) diffident
(c) diffract
(d) difficulty.
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1. (a) Geography Lesson
2. (c) the earth has much water
3. (b) round
4. (d) difficulty
VI. that the men on the earth found
causes to hate each other, to build
walls across cities and to kill.
From that height, it was not clear why. (Page 35)
Questions
1. What did the poet understand from ‘that height?
2. What did he not understand ?
3. What does the phrase ‘building walls’ mean?
4. Give the adjective form of ‘heighť.
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1. From that height, the poet could understand how the cities developed.
2. The poet could not understand why people on the earth quarrelled. He could also not understand why they separate themselves from their fellow beings.
3. The phrase ‘building walls’ indicates man’s desire to segregate.
4. high.
Question. 1.
Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.
Answer:
The following phrases are likely to occur in a geography lesson :
(a) scaled six inches to the mile (stanza 1)
(b) why valleys were populated (stanza 2)
(c) land and water attracted man (stanza 2)
(d) clearly delineated (stanza 2)
Question. 2.
Seen from the window of an aeroplane, the city appears
(i) as haphazard as on ground.
(ii) as neat as a map.
(iii) as developed as necessary.
Mark the right answer.
Answer:
(iii) as developed as necessary
Question. 3.