Extract Questions
Q1. Far far from
gusty waves these children’s faces. [Delhi 2017]
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor;
The tall girl with her weighed-down head.
Answer the following.
(a) The pale faces of the children are in contrast to the
gusty waves. (True/False)
(b) The children looked like rooted weeds. (True/False)
(c) A tall ____________ has a weighed-down head?
(d) What was the condition of the children’s hair?
Ans :
(a) True (b) False (c) girl (d) torn
Q2.The stunted,
unlucky heir
Of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease,
His lesson, from his desk. At back of the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,
Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than this.
Answer the following.
(a) The boy was an unlucky heir to the throne of his father.
(True/False)
(b) The boy had inherited twisted bones from his father.
(True/False)
(c) A sweet and young child sat ____________ at the back.
(d) The child was dreaming of a ____________ game.
Ans :
(a) False (b) True (c) unnoticed (d) squirrel’s
Q3. At back of the
dim class [All India 2017]
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,
Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than this.
Answer the following.
(a) The class is enjoying a squirrel’s game. (True/False)
(b) The classroom not being well lit is ____________ .
(c) The boy was sitting at the back of the class
____________ .
(d) The hole where the squirrel was spotted is called a tree
____________ by the poet.
Ans :
(a) False (b) dim (c) unnoticed (d) room
Q4. On sour cream
walls, donations. Shakespeare’s head, [Foreign 2017]
Cloudless at dawn, civilised dome riding all cities.
Belled, flowery, Tyrolese valley.
Answer the following.
(a) The walls of the classroom were made of sour cream.
(True/False)
(b) On the classroom wall there is a head of ____________ .
(c) There are also pictures of the ____________ valley.
(d) At what time of the day is the shot of the Tyrolese
Valley taken?
Ans :
(a) False (b) Shakespeare (c) Tyrolese (d) cloudless dawn
Q5.Open-handed map
Awarding the world its world. And yet, for these
Children, these windows, not this map, their world,
Where all their future’s painted with a fog,
A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky
Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of words.
Answer the following.
(a) For the children in the classroom the only world that
they know of is outside their classroom windows. (True/False)
(b) The map in the classroom is pinned to the window of the
classroom. (True/False)
(c) The school is located in a ____________ street.
(d) The future of the children is dull and has been compared
to a ____________ .
Ans :
(a) True (b) False (c) narrow (d) fog
Q6. Surely,
Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night? On their slag heap, these
children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
Answer the following.
(a) The map is a bad example for the children as it tempts
hopes in the children. (True/False)
(b) After seeing ships and sunshine, the children’s minds
are slyly turning in their cramped ____________ .
(c) The children’s living quarters are described as
____________ heaps.
(d) What metal is used to make the children’s spectacle
frames?
Ans :
(a) True (b) holes (c) slag (d) steel
Q7. Unless, governor,
inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs.
Answer the following.
(a) The authorities associated with the school are the
governor, the inspector and visitors.
(True/False)
(b) The poet urges the authorities to make the classroom map
the children’s ____________ to the
outer world.
(c) The windows of the classroom have been compared to
____________ .
(d) ________________ in the classroom is an outlet to the
world beyond.
Ans :
(a) True (b) window (c) catacombs (d) map
Q8. How is
‘Shakespeare wicked and the map a bad example’ for the children of the school
in a slum?
Ans : The lives of slum children are far removed from what
is displayed on the walls. Shakespeare represents literature and the map shows
the foreign land with beautiful landscapes. This civilized world is meaningless
for them and will tempt them to take a wrong path.
Q9. What message does
Stephen Spender convey through his poem ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a
Slum’?
Ans : Through this poem Stephen Spender wants to convey the
idea of social injustice and class inequality. Expressing his concern at the plight
of the slum children, he appeals to the governors, visitors and inspectors to
provide equal opportunities for education to these children.
Q10. How does the poet describe
the classroom walls? What do they symbolize?
Or
What do you think is the colour
of ‘sour cream’? Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe
the classroom walls?
Ans : The classroom walls are painted in a dull creamy
colour which symbolizes the bleak future of the slum children who study there.
They are deprived of quality education.
Q11. What is the only
hope for the slum children?
Ans :The only hope for these children lies in the hands of
inspectors, visitors and governors. They should take immediate action to
provide them with equal opportunities for education so that they can move out
of their slums and be part of the real world.
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