125876 + Interview Questions in General QA

1.	Write the difference between lipase and peptidase.
Answer» Lipase completes the digestion of fats to fatty acids and glycerol. Peptidases completes the digestion of protein by converting peptides and polypeptides to amino acids.

1.

Write the difference between lipase and peptidase.

Answer»

Lipase completes the digestion of fats to fatty acids and glycerol.

Peptidases completes the digestion of protein by converting peptides and polypeptides to amino acids.

2.	What is the function of pancreatic -amylase enzyme.
Answer» Pancreatic a-amylase enzyme converts starch into maltose, isomaltose and α-dextrins.

Discussion

3.	What is regurgitation?
Answer» Backflow of food from oesophagus back into mouth is called regurgitation.

Discussion

4.

Salivary amylase and pancreatic amylase both work on starch but still are different to each other. Write two differences between them?

Answer»

Differentiation between salivary amylase and pancreatic amylase:

S.No.	Salivary amylase	Pancreatic amylase
(i)	Salivary amylase is produced in the Sali-vary glands.	Pancreatic amylase is produced in the pancreas.
(ii)	Salivary amylase strats digestion of carbohydrates of carbohydrates in the mouth.	Pancreatic amylase acts on the remain-ing polysaccharides in the small intestine.

Discussion

5.	What is Kandarp asking about ?
Answer» Kandarp is asking about the meaning of ‘tune up yourself for the board exam’.

Discussion

6.	Define in one sentence:1. Distort2. Impetus
Answer» Distort: Pull or twist out of shape. Impetus: The force or energy with which a body moves.

6.

Define in one sentence:1. Distort2. Impetus

Answer»

Distort: Pull or twist out of shape.

Impetus: The force or energy with which a body moves.

Discussion

7.	Just like the example, use the key to fill in the blanks and break the code
Answer» 1. SECRET 2. GHOST 3. TRICK 4. RIDDLE 5. PUZZLE

7.

Just like the example, use the key to fill in the blanks and break the code

Answer»

1. SECRET

2. GHOST

3. TRICK

4. RIDDLE

5. PUZZLE

Discussion

8.	Describe the kind of clothes you wear to college. Do you feel that your clothes do not match to those worn by your friends?
Answer» I normally wear jeans and T-shirts to college. Everyone else wears the same. All my friends belong to middle-class families, and none of us go in for very fashionable or expensive clothes. I only try to choose colours that I know will look good on me. So, I am quite comfortable with my clothes and know that I look what I am – a young college student

Discussion

9.	List the criteria you use to choose a dress/outfit.
Answer» When I buy a dress, the first thing I look at is the price. If it is beyond my budget, I don’t even think of buying it, however much I like it. I then look at the colour and cut. I do not go in for branded stuff as I feel they are unnecessarily expensive. I am careful while buying clothes as I have limited pocket money. I try to buy things which I can mix and match.

Discussion

10.	Is Neruda criticizing how society crushes childhood dreams and forces people into rigid moulds?OR“Society crushes dreams of individuals and condemns them to live in captivity.” Explain with reference to ‘To the Foot from its Child’.
Answer» Yes, to some extent. In this narrative-descriptive poem, Neruda has attempted to delineate the predicament of man as a prisoner enslaved by society. Using ‘foot’ as a metaphor for ‘life’, he narrates the journey of life from that of an ‘infant foot’ to an ‘adult foot’ until its death and after. In the first two lines itself, the poet declares the wish of childhood. The infant’s foot is not aware that it is a ‘foot’ and hence would like to be a butterfly or an apple. These two objects – ‘butterfly’ and ‘apple’ – together suggest that the infant’s foot thinks of complete freedom to become whatever it wants. Being born a human being it cannot aspire to become a butterfly or an apple. From this, we can infer that there is some restriction imposed on us by birth itself. This is expressed in the line ‘it is not aware that it is afoot’. The infant food, once it starts growing, is exposed to the ways and means of the world. We live in human society and nature, the words ‘stones, bits of glass, streets, ladders and the paths in the rough earth’ refer to man’s ways of living. This exposure to man’s style of living brings awareness in the child that it is a foot. The poet suggests that the infant’s foot is engaged in a battle with the society and ‘adults’ crush the child’s playful spirit and imprison it in a shoe. This stage refers to the way the child gets acclimatised to living in human society. Once it wears the ‘shoe’, which means, it accepts its identity as ‘man’, a member of the human society, he starts exploring the human world alone, groping in the dark like a blind man. There is a difference in the way an adult explores the world. As a child, it thinks of infinite possibilities; but, as an adult, it is aware of its limitations. This means the society has been successful in crushing childhood dreams and forcing the life spirit into rigid moulds of society. Since the whole poem only describes various changes undergone by the human spirit, we cannot say that Neruda is criticizing society for its stranglehold on the human spirit. Secondly, Neruda also says that the child’s foot does not know that it is a foot. This means, even Neruda knows that the child is born a human being and is going to live in human society. Thirdly, nowhere in the poem does Neruda say anything against societal forces. However, Neruda sympathises with ‘Man’ at one point. He says, ‘this foot toils in its shoe scarcely taking time to bare itself in love or sleep’. These lines indicate that Neruda only sympathises with man’s predicament and does not criticize society.

10.

Is Neruda criticizing how society crushes childhood dreams and forces people into rigid moulds?OR“Society crushes dreams of individuals and condemns them to live in captivity.” Explain with reference to ‘To the Foot from its Child’.

Answer»

Yes, to some extent. In this narrative-descriptive poem, Neruda has attempted to delineate the predicament of man as a prisoner enslaved by society. Using ‘foot’ as a metaphor for ‘life’, he narrates the journey of life from that of an ‘infant foot’ to an ‘adult foot’ until its death and after. In the first two lines itself, the poet declares the wish of childhood. The infant’s foot is not aware that it is a ‘foot’ and hence would like to be a butterfly or an apple. These two objects – ‘butterfly’ and ‘apple’ – together suggest that the infant’s foot thinks of complete freedom to become whatever it wants. Being born a human being it cannot aspire to become a butterfly or an apple.

From this, we can infer that there is some restriction imposed on us by birth itself. This is expressed in the line ‘it is not aware that it is afoot’. The infant food, once it starts growing, is exposed to the ways and means of the world. We live in human society and nature, the words ‘stones, bits of glass, streets, ladders and the paths in the rough earth’ refer to man’s ways of living. This exposure to man’s style of living brings awareness in the child that it is a foot. The poet suggests that the infant’s foot is engaged in a battle with the society and ‘adults’ crush the child’s playful spirit and imprison it in a shoe. This stage refers to the way the child gets acclimatised to living in human society.

Once it wears the ‘shoe’, which means, it accepts its identity as ‘man’, a member of the human society, he starts exploring the human world alone, groping in the dark like a blind man. There is a difference in the way an adult explores the world. As a child, it thinks of infinite possibilities; but, as an adult, it is aware of its limitations. This means the society has been successful in crushing childhood dreams and forcing the life spirit into rigid moulds of society.

Since the whole poem only describes various changes undergone by the human spirit, we cannot say that Neruda is criticizing society for its stranglehold on the human spirit. Secondly, Neruda also says that the child’s foot does not know that it is a foot. This means, even Neruda knows that the child is born a human being and is going to live in human society. Thirdly, nowhere in the poem does Neruda say anything against societal forces. However, Neruda sympathises with ‘Man’ at one point. He says, ‘this foot toils in its shoe scarcely taking time to bare itself in love or sleep’. These lines indicate that Neruda only sympathises with man’s predicament and does not criticize society.

Discussion

11.	What is Multi – level planning?
Answer» In multi – level planning, the national territory is divided into small territorial units and planning is done for each unit. These territorial units are complement to one another.

Discussion

12.	In which of the following years, Gandhi ji made an entry in Indian politics ? (a) in 1915 A.D. (b) in 1947 A.D. (c) in 1920 A.D. (d) in 1885 A.D.
Answer» (a) in 1915 A.D.

Discussion

13.	By whom was Vande Mataram written?
Answer» Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

Discussion

14.	Who was Mrs. Barnet? Describe her behaviour.
Answer» Mrs. Barnet was probably the maid or housekeeper. She held the mirror, touched the brushes, and drew Mabel’s attention, rather markedly, to the appliances kept on the dressing table for improving one’s looks. She indirectly indicated to Mabel that something about Mabel’s looks was not quite right.

Discussion

15.	Mabel is thinking too much about her dress. Pick out two sentences supporting the above statement
Answer» 1. It seemed to her that the yellow dress was a penance which she had deserved. 2. Then Mrs Holman was off, thinking her the most dried-up, unsympathetic twig she had ever met, absurdly dressed, too, and would tell every one about Mabel’s fantastic appearance.

15.

Mabel is thinking too much about her dress. Pick out two sentences supporting the above statement

Answer»

1. It seemed to her that the yellow dress was a penance which she had deserved.

2. Then Mrs Holman was off, thinking her the most dried-up, unsympathetic twig she had ever met, absurdly dressed, too, and would tell every one about Mabel’s fantastic appearance.

Discussion

16.	What a fright she looks! What a hideous new dress! (Rewrite as assertive sentences.)
Answer» She looks a real fright. The new dress is very hideous.

Discussion

17.	Rewrite as an assertive sentence: “How dull!”
Answer» It was very dull.

Discussion

18.	“Lies! Lies! Lies!” (Rewrite as an assertive sentence.)
Answer» It was all lies.

Discussion

19.	She would not join Charles Burt and Rose Shaw, chattering like magpies and perhaps laughing at her by the fireplace. (Rewrite using ‘who’.)
Answer» She would not join Charles Burt and Rose Shaw, who were chattering like magpies and perhaps laughing at her by the fireplace.

Discussion

20.	She had married Hubert, with his safe, permanent underling’s job in the Law Courts, and they managed tolerably in a smallish house, without proper maids. (Pick out the verbs and state their tense.)
Answer» had married – past perfect tense; managed – simple past tense.

Discussion

21.	There are a few other characters mentioned in this extract. Discuss the way their reactions help us to understand the inferiority complex of Mabel.
Answer» Mabel told Robert Haydon that she felt like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly. She said it to reassure herself and appear detached and witty, and to show that she did not feel in the least out of anything. Robert Haydon probably replied something to praise her, which Mabel felt was just politeness, and that he was being insincere. Though she was constantly looking for approval from others, she always felt suspicious when someone actually praised her, or said something in her favour. This shows that she has no self-esteem and a very big inferiority complex.

21.

There are a few other characters mentioned in this extract. Discuss the way their reactions help us to understand the inferiority complex of Mabel.

Answer»

Mabel told Robert Haydon that she felt like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly. She said it to reassure herself and appear detached and witty, and to show that she did not feel in the least out of anything.

Robert Haydon probably replied something to praise her, which Mabel felt was just politeness, and that he was being insincere. Though she was constantly looking for approval from others, she always felt suspicious when someone actually praised her, or said something in her favour. This shows that she has no self-esteem and a very big inferiority complex.

Discussion

22.	Instead of ‘A Lecture upon Love’ the poet calls the poem ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’. What is the effect that this has on our reading of the poem? कवि ने कविता का शीर्षक ‘A Lecture upon Love’ के बजाय ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’ रखा है। जब हम कविता को पढ़ते हैं तो इसका हमारे ऊपर क्या प्रभाव पड़ता है?
Answer» The effect of this title is surprising because it adds to our curiosity as we read the poem. Love is generally understood as attraction, attachment or a bond. But in fact love is the shadow of devotion. This devotion is the true form of love. Hence, shadow is the best imagery of love that poet has adopted here in the poem. इस शीर्षक का आश्चर्यजनक प्रभाव पड़ता है क्योंकि जब हम कविता को पढ़ते हैं तो यह हमारी उत्सुकता बढ़ा देती है। प्रेम को सामान्यतः आकर्षण, जुड़ाव या एक बन्धन समझ लिया जाता है। लेकिन वास्तव में, प्रेम समर्पण की परछाई है। यह समर्पण ही प्रेम का सच्चा रूप है। इसलिए परछाई प्रेम की सर्वोत्तम कल्पना है जो कवि ने यहाँ इस कविता में प्रयुक्त की है।

22.

Instead of ‘A Lecture upon Love’ the poet calls the poem ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’. What is the effect that this has on our reading of the poem? कवि ने कविता का शीर्षक ‘A Lecture upon Love’ के बजाय ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’ रखा है। जब हम कविता को पढ़ते हैं तो इसका हमारे ऊपर क्या प्रभाव पड़ता है?

Answer»

The effect of this title is surprising because it adds to our curiosity as we read the poem. Love is generally understood as attraction, attachment or a bond. But in fact love is the shadow of devotion. This devotion is the true form of love. Hence, shadow is the best imagery of love that poet has adopted here in the poem.

इस शीर्षक का आश्चर्यजनक प्रभाव पड़ता है क्योंकि जब हम कविता को पढ़ते हैं तो यह हमारी उत्सुकता बढ़ा देती है। प्रेम को सामान्यतः आकर्षण, जुड़ाव या एक बन्धन समझ लिया जाता है। लेकिन वास्तव में, प्रेम समर्पण की परछाई है। यह समर्पण ही प्रेम का सच्चा रूप है। इसलिए परछाई प्रेम की सर्वोत्तम कल्पना है जो कवि ने यहाँ इस कविता में प्रयुक्त की है।

Discussion

23.	Divide the class into groups. Discuss the role of costumes in enhancing your personality:
Answer» (Points: clothes very important – first impressions important – colours, cut that suit a person – if the clothes are suitable, confidence level increases – however, it is not the cost of clothes but suitability to the wearer and occasion that are important – your clothes also depend on the culture and place.)

Discussion

24.	Choose the correct alternative and fill in the blanks: 1. The children ……. as they paddled. (shouted/cried) 2. The Goddess was …….. but……. (ugly/kind/beautiful/cruel) 3. Mabel was years old. (fifty/forty) 4. All Mabel’s brothers and sisters were …….. people, (strong/weak) 5. Mabel went to the seaside at …… . (Christmas/Easter) 6. Now that Mabel was older, the stories about the fly and the saucer would come more …… (seldom/often)
Answer» 1. The children shouted as they paddled. 2. The Goddess was beautiful but cruel. 3. Mabel was forty years old. 4. All Mabel’s brothers and sisters were weak people. 5. Mabel went to the seaside at Easter. 6. Now that Mabel was older, the stories about the fly and the saucer would come more seldom.

24.

Choose the correct alternative and fill in the blanks: 1. The children ……. as they paddled. (shouted/cried) 2. The Goddess was …….. but……. (ugly/kind/beautiful/cruel) 3. Mabel was years old. (fifty/forty) 4. All Mabel’s brothers and sisters were …….. people, (strong/weak) 5. Mabel went to the seaside at …… . (Christmas/Easter) 6. Now that Mabel was older, the stories about the fly and the saucer would come more …… (seldom/often)

Answer»

1. The children shouted as they paddled.

2. The Goddess was beautiful but cruel.

3. Mabel was forty years old.

4. All Mabel’s brothers and sisters were weak people.

5. Mabel went to the seaside at Easter.

6. Now that Mabel was older, the stories about the fly and the saucer would come more seldom.

Discussion

25.	Does your attention often wander when people are talking to you? Give examples.
Answer» No, in general it does not. I try to pay full attention when someone is talking to me. But if the person is very slow, or is talking on a very boring topic or boasting, then my attention does wander. For example, the other day my neighbour Aditya was telling me in great detail about some great thing that he did. Aditya is a big liar, and exaggerates everything, so my attention wandered and he got upset with me

Discussion

26.	Discuss the criterion of the choice of your clothes with the help of given points:
Answer» (a) Occasion: whether it is a birthday, wedding, picnic, college festival, etc. (b) Society (people you may meet at the venue): friends, relatives, classmates, visitors, students from other colleges, etc. (c) Availability: bought at a store, tailored, borrowed, etc. (d) Fashion: designer clothes, casual, Indian formal, Western formal, etc. (e) Your wish/whim: colour of my choice, style, etc. (f) A suggestion or advice by someone (mother, sister, friend, etc.): Only advice by friends (g) Any other than the above mentioned reasons: I would choose a dress that would suit me and set off my looks in the best possible way, even if it may be out of fashion. I would not go by whether it is expensive or branded.

26.

Discuss the criterion of the choice of your clothes with the help of given points:

Answer»

(a) Occasion: whether it is a birthday, wedding, picnic, college festival, etc.

(b) Society (people you may meet at the venue): friends, relatives, classmates, visitors, students from other colleges, etc.

(c) Availability: bought at a store, tailored, borrowed, etc.

(d) Fashion: designer clothes, casual, Indian formal, Western formal, etc.

(e) Your wish/whim: colour of my choice, style, etc.

(f) A suggestion or advice by someone (mother, sister, friend, etc.): Only advice by friends

(g) Any other than the above mentioned reasons: I would choose a dress that would suit me and set off my looks in the best possible way, even if it may be out of fashion. I would not go by whether it is expensive or branded.

Discussion

27.	Frame three rules for the students of your college. (Non-textual grammar)
Answer» 1. Students must wear identity cards in the college premises. 2. Students must not loiter near the college gate. 3. Every student must have at least 75% attendance in every subject.

27.

Frame three rules for the students of your college. (Non-textual grammar)

Answer»

1. Students must wear identity cards in the college premises.

2. Students must not loiter near the college gate.

3. Every student must have at least 75% attendance in every subject.

Discussion

28.	Do you look for approval from others when you do something/wear something?
Answer» Yes, to a certain extent I do. After all, we are not solitary human beings, we live in society. When I wear a dress that I think is good, I like others to approve of it too. But I do not get upset if they don’t, because I know that everybody’s tastes are different. In the same way, if I do something outstanding and no one notices it, I do get a bit upset but then I console myself that I am happy, and that is what matters.

Discussion

29.	Name some simple things that make you feel really happy. Explain why it is so.
Answer» I feel really happy at the beginning of spring. Just outside my bedroom window there are a few trees which lose their leaves in winter, but get fresh, tender green leaves in March. I watch the increase of leaves daily, and feel very happy. It sort of makes me feel that there is hope and life everywhere, even after a dreary winter.

Discussion

30.

Write in Column ‘B’ the description of the clothes you would choose to wear for the occasions given in Column ‘A’:

Answer»

A	B
A birthday party	Casual jeans and a Tshirt
A prize distribution ceremony at school	Formal shirt and trousers
A picnic	Colourful casuals, or Shorts and T-shirt
An entertainment show	Good jeans and a good T-shirt

Discussion

31.	Where did Mabel dream of living?
Answer» Answer is in India

Discussion

32.	Use the correct tense form of the verbs given in the brackets and rewrite the sentences.(a) She …….. (take/takes/took/had taken) that old fashion book of her mother a few months back.(b) She …… (pecking/pecks/pecked) at her left shoulder for quite some time.(c) One human should (done /doing/be doing) this for another always.(d) All this (will be/is/have been) destroyed in a few years.(e) She (feels/felt/will be feeling) like a dressmaker’s dummy standing there.
Answer» (a) She had taken that book of her mother a few months back. (b) She pecked at her left shoulder for quite some time. (c) One human should be doing this for another always. (d) All this will be destroyed in a few years. (e) She felt like a dressmaker’s dummy standing there.

32.

Use the correct tense form of the verbs given in the brackets and rewrite the sentences.(a) She …….. (take/takes/took/had taken) that old fashion book of her mother a few months back.(b) She …… (pecking/pecks/pecked) at her left shoulder for quite some time.(c) One human should (done /doing/be doing) this for another always.(d) All this (will be/is/have been) destroyed in a few years.(e) She (feels/felt/will be feeling) like a dressmaker’s dummy standing there.

Answer»

(a) She had taken that book of her mother a few months back.

(b) She pecked at her left shoulder for quite some time.

(c) One human should be doing this for another always.

(d) All this will be destroyed in a few years.

(e) She felt like a dressmaker’s dummy standing there.

Discussion

33.	(a) Lata will sing tonight. (Make it less certain.)(b) You should wear your uniform. (Show ability.)(c) Sandeep may study to clear the examination. (Make it obligatory/compulsory.)(d) I can do it. (Make a sentence seeking permission.)
Answer» (a) Lata may sing tonight. (b) You can wear your uniform. (c) Sandeep must study to clear the examination. (d) May I do it?

33.

(a) Lata will sing tonight. (Make it less certain.)(b) You should wear your uniform. (Show ability.)(c) Sandeep may study to clear the examination. (Make it obligatory/compulsory.)(d) I can do it. (Make a sentence seeking permission.)

Answer»

(a) Lata may sing tonight.

(b) You can wear your uniform.

(c) Sandeep must study to clear the examination.

(d) May I do it?

Discussion

34.	Who was Mabel’s hero?
Answer» Sir Henry Lawrence

Discussion

35.	Name the book written by Dadabhai Naoroji in which the British economic conspiracy was revealed ?
Answer» Poverty and UN British Rule in India.

Discussion

36.	Name any two European scholars who glorified the Indian culture and civilization.
Answer» Max Muller and William Jones.

Discussion

37.	Crushed under poverty, disease and miseries do the little school children of slums have any dreams or hopes? What are they?
Answer» The children living in slums have to live in most miserable and sub-human conditions. The burden of poverty and disease crushes their bodies. They still have dreams. Their future is foggy and uncertain. They have kept their hopes alive. They dream of open seas and green fields. They dream of the games that a squirrel plays on the trees.

Discussion

38.	The poet says,’ and yet for these children, these windows, not this map, their world.’ Which world do these children belong to? Which world is accessible to them?
Answer» These children belong to a world of foggy slums, dark and narrow lanes leading a poor and miserable life. The world inaccessible to them is the civilized world with all its riches and beautiful things.

Discussion

39.	What changes does the poet hope for in the lives of the slum children?
Answer» The poet wishes education for the slum children which will broaden their horizons, liberate them truly and empower them to create their own history. He wants them to get rid of their dismal lives.

Discussion

40.	Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.…………………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.(a) Which is their world?(b) How is their life different from that of other children
Answer» (a) Their world is dark and gloomy environment of the classroom confined within the four walls and the narrow foggy lanes of their slums. (b) Their life and future are bleak and hold little promise, whereas the other children have a more enlightened life and have been exposed to education.

40.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.…………………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.(a) Which is their world?(b) How is their life different from that of other children

Answer»

(a) Their world is dark and gloomy environment of the classroom confined within the four walls and the narrow foggy lanes of their slums.

(b) Their life and future are bleak and hold little promise, whereas the other children have a more enlightened life and have been exposed to education.

Discussion

41.	What should governors, teachers, inspectors and other important and powerful persons do to improve the lot of children living in slums?
Answer» Two world exists simultaneously. They are quite opposite and incompatible to each other. The gap between them must be abridged. Governors, teachers and powerful persons can play an important role in it. They can help in removing social injustice and class inequalities. All good things of life, the sea, the sun, and the fields should be within the reach of slum- children.

Discussion

42.	Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.With ships and sun and love temping them to stealFor lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes From fog to endless night?(a) Who are ‘them’ referred to in the first line?(b) What tempts them?(c) What does the poet say about ‘their’ lives?
Answer» (a) ‘Them’ referred to the slum children. (b) The maps on the classroom walls that show the foreign lands with shops and beautiful landscapes. (c) Their lives are far removed from what is displayed on the classroom walls. Their future is foggy, bleak and holds little promise for them.

42.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.With ships and sun and love temping them to stealFor lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes From fog to endless night?(a) Who are ‘them’ referred to in the first line?(b) What tempts them?(c) What does the poet say about ‘their’ lives?

Answer»

(a) ‘Them’ referred to the slum children.

(b) The maps on the classroom walls that show the foreign lands with shops and beautiful landscapes.

(c) Their lives are far removed from what is displayed on the classroom walls. Their future is foggy, bleak and holds little promise for them.

Discussion

43.	What is the message that Stephen Spender wants to give through the poem 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum'?
Answer» In 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum', Stephen deals with the theme of social injustice and inequalities. There are two different worlds. Art, culture and literature have no relevance to slum children. They live in dark, narrow, cramped holes and lanes. Unless the gap between the two world is abridged, there can't be any real progress or development.

Discussion

44.	Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.At back of the dim class One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream, Of squirrel games, in tree room, other than this.(a) Why is the class dim?(b) Why is the child called ‘sweet and young’?(c) What does the child want to enjoy?(d) What is the significance of the phrase, ‘other than this’?
Answer» (a) The class dim and pathetic because it is in a slum area (b) The child is called ‘sweet and young’ because he is looking out of the window at squirrel games (c) The child wants to have his freedom and enjoy the outside world. (d) ‘Other than this’ signifies his current miserable surroundings.

44.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.At back of the dim class One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream, Of squirrel games, in tree room, other than this.(a) Why is the class dim?(b) Why is the child called ‘sweet and young’?(c) What does the child want to enjoy?(d) What is the significance of the phrase, ‘other than this’?

Answer»

(a) The class dim and pathetic because it is in a slum area

(b) The child is called ‘sweet and young’ because he is looking out of the window at squirrel games

(c) The child wants to have his freedom and enjoy the outside world.

(d) ‘Other than this’ signifies his current miserable surroundings.

Discussion

45.	Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :]On their slag heap, these childrenWear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.Extract Based Questions(a) What is their slag heap?(b) Why are their bones peeping through their skins?(c) What does ‘with mended glass’ mean?
Answer» (a) Slag heap is a large of waste material which is the world of these children. (b) ‘Bones peeping through their skins ‘is indicative of their weak, skinny and malnourished bodies. (c) ‘Mended glass’ here refers to the slum children wearing spectacles with repaired or probably broken glasses which have been discarded by the rich. Sadly, this remains their lot.

45.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :]On their slag heap, these childrenWear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.Extract Based Questions(a) What is their slag heap?(b) Why are their bones peeping through their skins?(c) What does ‘with mended glass’ mean?

Answer»

(a) Slag heap is a large of waste material which is the world of these children.

(b) ‘Bones peeping through their skins ‘is indicative of their weak, skinny and malnourished bodies.

(c) ‘Mended glass’ here refers to the slum children wearing spectacles with repaired or probably broken glasses which have been discarded by the rich. Sadly, this remains their lot.

Discussion

46.	Why does Spender call Shakespeare ‘wicked’ and the map a ‘bad example’?
Answer» Spender calls Shakespeare 'wicked' because Shakespeare holds no interest and serves no purpose to the slum children. The map of the world drawn and bartered by the mighty and the rich has no relevance to them. They are not part of it.

Discussion

47.	Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :“On their slag heap, these children Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones All of their time and space are foggy slum. So blot their maps with slums as big as doom”.(a) Which two images are used to describe these slums?(b) What sort of life do these children lead?(c) Which figure of speech is used in the last line ?(d) What blot ‘their’ maps?(e) Explain : from fog to endless night’.
Answer» (a) The images used to describe these slums are: 'slag heap', 'bottle bits on stones' and 'slums as big as doom'. (b) These children lead a life worse than death. The dirt and garbage of the slum is their world so their lives are pathetic, full of misery and poverty. (c) A simile has been used in the last line where slums are compared to a living hell.' (d) These living hells are the dirty slums. They are blots on the map of the civilised world. It is the world of the rich and great. (e) It means that the life of children is not only full of sadness but their future is gloom and confused.

47.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :“On their slag heap, these children Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones All of their time and space are foggy slum. So blot their maps with slums as big as doom”.(a) Which two images are used to describe these slums?(b) What sort of life do these children lead?(c) Which figure of speech is used in the last line ?(d) What blot ‘their’ maps?(e) Explain : from fog to endless night’.

Answer»

(a) The images used to describe these slums are: 'slag heap', 'bottle bits on stones' and 'slums as big as doom'.

(b) These children lead a life worse than death. The dirt and garbage of the slum is their world so their lives are pathetic, full of misery and poverty.

(c) A simile has been used in the last line where slums are compared to a living hell.'

(d) These living hells are the dirty slums. They are blots on the map of the civilised world. It is the world of the rich and great.

(e) It means that the life of children is not only full of sadness but their future is gloom and confused.

Discussion

48.	Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :"Far far from gusty waves these children's faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor: The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paperseeming boy, with rat's eyes. 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."(a) What do 'gusty waves' mean?(b) What are the children like in the slum ?(c) Explain 'reciting a father's gnarled disease'.(d) How do a child's eyes live in a dream ?(e) Who are these children?(f) What has possible weight-down the tall girl’s head?(g) What are the children compared to?(h) Give two phrases which tell us that children are under-nourished?(i) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
Answer» (a) Gusty waves signify the vibrance and the bounties of nature which are far removed from the reach of the children of the slum. (b) The children hail from poor families. They are malnourished and look sickly. (c) The lessons recited by the child are but mute tragic story of the abnormalities of the body. They continue to play havoc in their lives too (inherited disease). (d) The child has a living dream in his eyes. It seems to be alive in his eyes despite the dismal life of the slum. (e) These children belong to slums and are studying in class of slum area. (f) The object poverty, the burden of her day-to-day worries and anxieties have possible weight down the tall girl’s head. (g) The children compared to ‘rootless weeds’ as they are unwanted like the weeds. (h) The paper-seeming boy and rat’s eyes are the two phrase that tell us that the children are undernourished. (i) Simile; like rootless weeds.

48.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :"Far far from gusty waves these children's faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor: The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paperseeming boy, with rat's eyes. 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."(a) What do 'gusty waves' mean?(b) What are the children like in the slum ?(c) Explain 'reciting a father's gnarled disease'.(d) How do a child's eyes live in a dream ?(e) Who are these children?(f) What has possible weight-down the tall girl’s head?(g) What are the children compared to?(h) Give two phrases which tell us that children are under-nourished?(i) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.

Answer»

(a) Gusty waves signify the vibrance and the bounties of nature which are far removed from the reach of the children of the slum.

(b) The children hail from poor families. They are malnourished and look sickly.

(c) The lessons recited by the child are but mute tragic story of the abnormalities of the body. They continue to play havoc in their lives too (inherited disease).

(d) The child has a living dream in his eyes. It seems to be alive in his eyes despite the dismal life of the slum.

(e) These children belong to slums and are studying in class of slum area.

(f) The object poverty, the burden of her day-to-day worries and anxieties have possible weight down the tall girl’s head.

(g) The children compared to ‘rootless weeds’ as they are unwanted like the weeds.

(h) The paper-seeming boy and rat’s eyes are the two phrase that tell us that the children are undernourished.

(i) Simile; like rootless weeds.

Discussion

49.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :“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. narrow street sealed in with a lead sky Far from rivers, capes, and stars of words”.(a) What does the poet mean by 'a lead sky'?(b) What does the poet say about the children's future?(c) What kind of world do we see on the map?(d) Who are these children? What is their world like?

Answer»

(a) 'A lead sky' suggests a grey and dull sky which means that there is no hope for the slum children. They have a bleak future

(b) The children's future is bleak and dark. They nurture hopes for a better future but achieving these hopes is merely a dream for them.

(c) The map of the world is symbolic of hopes and aspirations and a mere look at this world motivates the children to explore this world, which is full of the bounties bestowed by God.

(d) These are school children living in dingy and dirty slums. Their world is foggy, narrow and polluted. It is far from the open sky, clean rivers and capes.

Discussion

50.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : " Unless, governor, inspector, visitor This map becomes their window and these windows That shut upon their lives like catacombs, Break O break open till they break the town And show the children to green fields, and make their world Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues Run naked into books the white and green leaves upon History their whose language is the sun. "(a) How can 'this map' become 'their window'?(b) What have shut upon their lives like catacomb ?(c) Explain : '... till they break the town'.(d) What will happen if the children come out of the bonds that bind them?(e) “So blot their maps with slums as big as doom”, says Stephen Spender. What does the poet want to convey?

Answer»

(a) This map of the world is shaped and owned by the rich. It must also be thrown open to the poor and unfortunate children of slums. Only then will it become 'their window'. They will be able to peep inside it.

(b) Their dirty surroundings have blocked their progress and growth. They have been shut inside them like the underground graves

(c) Till they come out of the dirty surroundings and slums of the town into the open.

(d) Then their world will be extended to the golden sands and azure waves and to the green fields.

(e) The poet wants to convey that the future of these children is bleak. It is blotted by fog and spells doom for them. He hopes that one day these maps would become their windows.

Discussion

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