CLASS- IX TOPIC :LITERATURE
Q1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. I tell you what I’ll do. I’ll be philanthropic and let you have it for two thousand.
a. Who is the speaker and what is being offered for two thousand?
b. What does ‘philanthropic’ mean and do you the speaker is being philanthropic in giving this offer? c. Does the listener accept the offer? Why/ Why not?
2. Come back! Come back!” he cried in grief
Across the stormy water
a. Who is asking whom to come back?
b. What was the earlier mood of the speaker?
c. How did he change and what did he promise to do?
3.Whate’er the theme the maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending
I saw her singing at her work
And o’er her sickle bending
a. Did the poet know the theme of the girl’s song? Why/ Why not?
b. What was the girl doing while she sang the song?
c. How did the poet listen to her song?
4.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and sorry I could not travel both
and be one traveler, long I stood and looked
down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth;
a. Why does the poet feel sorry?
b. What is the poet talking about in this stanza?
c. “...., long I stood’ what does this line mean?
d.Why is the wood yellow?
Q.2. Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words:
1.“Duke was an intelligent dog.” Give two instances to prove the statement.
2.Why did people in the new locality consider Hooper ‘a mechanical giant’ ‘owned’ by the dog?
3. What is the dilemma faced by the poet-traveler in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’?
4.What does the poet say about the solitary reaper’s song?
5.What did Lord Ullin see when he reached the shore?
6.Why did the lovers enter into the stormy waters?
7.Gaston is against buying the villa. Why does he praise it later and buy it?
8.How is everyone delighted in the business of the sale of villa?
Q3Answer the following questions in 100-120 words.( Value based)
i. Hooper met with an accident but recovered quickly due to Duke’s help. How are the values of fellow feeling, gratitude and self-support reflected in the character of Charles Hooper?
ii. Gaston lacked honesty and fairness in his deal. Do you agree? What values are reflected from his character? As a businessman, what would be your priority-profit or honesty?
Q1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. I tell you what I’ll do. I’ll be philanthropic and let you have it for two thousand.
a. Who is the speaker and what is being offered for two thousand?
b. What does ‘philanthropic’ mean and do you the speaker is being philanthropic in giving this offer? c. Does the listener accept the offer? Why/ Why not?
2. Come back! Come back!” he cried in grief
Across the stormy water
a. Who is asking whom to come back?
b. What was the earlier mood of the speaker?
c. How did he change and what did he promise to do?
3.Whate’er the theme the maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending
I saw her singing at her work
And o’er her sickle bending
a. Did the poet know the theme of the girl’s song? Why/ Why not?
b. What was the girl doing while she sang the song?
c. How did the poet listen to her song?
4.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and sorry I could not travel both
and be one traveler, long I stood and looked
down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth;
a. Why does the poet feel sorry?
b. What is the poet talking about in this stanza?
c. “...., long I stood’ what does this line mean?
d.Why is the wood yellow?
Q.2. Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words:
1.“Duke was an intelligent dog.” Give two instances to prove the statement.
2.Why did people in the new locality consider Hooper ‘a mechanical giant’ ‘owned’ by the dog?
3. What is the dilemma faced by the poet-traveler in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’?
4.What does the poet say about the solitary reaper’s song?
5.What did Lord Ullin see when he reached the shore?
6.Why did the lovers enter into the stormy waters?
7.Gaston is against buying the villa. Why does he praise it later and buy it?
8.How is everyone delighted in the business of the sale of villa?
Q3Answer the following questions in 100-120 words.( Value based)
i. Hooper met with an accident but recovered quickly due to Duke’s help. How are the values of fellow feeling, gratitude and self-support reflected in the character of Charles Hooper?
ii. Gaston lacked honesty and fairness in his deal. Do you agree? What values are reflected from his character? As a businessman, what would be your priority-profit or honesty?
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