Explanation:
Q.1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
☆A. My grandmother was a genius. You’d like to know why?
Because she could climb trees spreading or high,
She’s up their branches in a trice. And mind you,
When she last climbed a tree, she was sixty two.
▪︎a) Why does the poet call his granny a genius?
▪︎b) Could the grandmother climb the trees easily?
▪︎c) What impression do you form of the grandmother?
☆B. Ever since childhood, she’d had this gift
For being happier in a tree than in a lift;
And though, as years went by, she would be told
That climbing trees should stop when one grows old.
▪︎a) What was the grandmother's gift since childhood?
▪︎b) What was grandmother told from time to time?
▪︎c) What does grandmother’s preference of climbing a tree rather than a lift
show?
☆C. Then she sat up in bed and said, ‘I’ll lie here no longer!’
And she called for my father and told him undaunted,
That a house in a tree top, was what she now wanted
My dad knew his duties. He said, ‘That’s alright’.
▪︎a) Why did Granny say, ‘I’ll lie here no longer!’?
▪︎b) What was Granny’s ambition?
▪︎c) Find a word from the stanza which means the same as ‘fearless’.
☆D. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
▪︎a) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
▪︎b) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
▪︎c) What is ‘it’ contrasted with?
