Text Book Solutions All Class

Q1: What type of trees are described in the poem ‘The ‘Frees’?
Ans: Decorative trees are described in this poem.

Q2: Where are the decorative plants kept?
Ans: The decorative plants are kept in the houses.

Q3: Where do the decorative plants grow?
Ans: The decorative plants grow in small pots and pAns:

Q4: What does the poetess compare these decorative plants too?
Ans: The poetess compares these decorative plants to a newly discharged patient.

Q5: Why can’t birds sit and insects hide in them?
Ans: Birds can’t sit and insects can’t hide in them because they are decorative plants.

Q6: What do the roots do all night?
Ans: All night the roots work to free themselves from the cracks in the veranda floor.

Q7: What does the poetess not mention in the letters?
Ans: The poetess does not mention the departure of the forest from the house.

Q8: How does the poetess describe the moon in the end?
Ans: In the end, the poetess describes the moon like a broken mirror.

Q9: What does the poetess compare the tree branches too?
Ans: The poetess compares the tree branches to a newly discharged patient.

Q10: What rushes out to meet the trees?
Ans: The wind rushes out to meet the trees.

Q1: What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Ans: The elders in Goa are nostalgic about the Portuguese and their loaves of bread.

Q2: How do they remember it?
Ans: They remember about it fondly.

Q3: What equipments do the Goan people still own there?
Ans: They still have amongst them the mixtures, the moulders and time-tested furnaces and those who bake the loaves.

Q4: What are those bakers known in Goa?
Ans: Those bakers are known as ‘pader’ in Goa.

Q5: What does the thud and jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo indicate?
Ans: It indicates the announcement of the arrival of the baker in the morning.

Q6: What announces the arrival of the baker in Goa?
Ans: The thud and jingle of the specially made bamboo staff announces the arrival of the traditional baker.

Q7: How would the baker greet the lady of the house?
Ans: The baker would greet the lady of the house with ‘good morning’.

Q8: What did the children long to get from the baker?
Ans: The children longed for to get bread-bangles from the baker.

Q9: What kind of fragrance does the author still recall?
Ans: The author still recalls the typical fragrance of the baker’s loaves.

Q10: What kind of dress the lKabaV was?
Ans: A single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.

Q11: When did the baker collect his bills?
Ans: The baker collected his bills at the end of the month.

Q12: How were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?
Ans: The monthly accounts recorded on some wall in pencil.

Q1: What does the speaker ask Amanda not to do to her nails?
Ans: The speaker asks Amanda not to bite her nails.

Q2: What should Amanda not to do to her soldiers?
Ans: She should not hunch her soldiers.

Q3: How should Amanda sit?
Ans: She should sit straight.

Q4: What does Amanda wish to do in the sea?
Ans: She wishes to drift blissfully with the soft-moving waves of the sea.

Q5: What was Amanda to finish?
Ans: She was to finish her homework.

Q6: Has Amanda cleaned her shoes?
Ans: No, she has not cleaned her shoes.

Q7: If Amanda is an orphan, what will she do?
Ans: She will roam about in the streets.

Q8: How is silence described?
Ans: Silence is described as golden.

Q9: What is Amanda prohibited to eat?
Ans: She is prohibited to eat chocolate.

Q10: Why should Amanda not eat chocolate?
Ans: She should not eat chocolate as it causes acne.

Q11: Who was Rapunzel?
Ans: Rapunzel was fair with very long hair.

Q12: What did Rapunzel do with her long hair?
Ans: She let her hair fall down from the castle for her lover to climb upholding them.

Q1: What name was given by Anne to her friend?
Ans: ‘Kitty’

Q2: Why did Anne want to write a diary?
Ans: Anne wanted to write a diary because she was devoid of a single friend.

Q3: When the little girl started her diary, what was her age?
Ans: Anne was thirteen years old, when she started her diary.

Q4: What did Anne say about her family?
Ans: Anne said that she had loving parents, a sixteen year old sister, and about thirty people as her friends.

Q5: Why did Anne stay with her grandmother?
Ans: Anne had to stay with her grandmother since her parents had gone to Holland.

Q6: How many sisters Anne had?
Ans: Anne had a sister named Margot.

Q7: What happened to the grandmother of Anne?
Ans: The grandmother became ill in the summer of 1941.

Q8: Why was the whole class feeling nervous?
Ans: The whole class was feeling nervous about their result.

Q9: What had some of the students done?
Ans: Some of the students had staked their savings in the bet.

Q10: Why was Anne most worried?
Ans: Anne was most worried about her maths result.

Q11: What did Anne think of her father?
Ans: Anne thought that her father was the most adorable person.

Q12: When did Anne’s father marry?
Ans: Anne’s father married when he was thirty six years hid.

Q13: What was the name of Anne’s mother?
Ans: Edith Hollander Frank.

Q14: When did Anne’s father emigrate to Holland?
Ans: 1933.

Q15: Why did the maths teacher punish Anne?
Ans: The maths teacher punished Anne for her talkative nature.

Q16: What idea do you form of Mr Keesing?
Ans: Mr Keesing was a hard and strict person.

Q17: How did Sanne help Anne?
Ans: Sanne wrote a long poem for Anne.

Q18: What did Anne feel about paper?
Ans: Anne thought that paper had more patience than people.

Q19: What were Anne’s views about teachers?
Ans: Anne’s views about teachers were that they were the most unpredictable creatures on the earth.

Q20: What was the punishment for Anne’s talkative nature?
Ans: To write an essay on ‘A Chatterbox’.

Q1: What has the boy lost in the water?
Ans: He has lost his ball in the water of the sea.

Q2: Where did the ball land finally?
Ans: The ball landed finally in the water.

Q3: What was the reaction of the boy at the loss of his ball?
Ans: The boy was sad and troubled at the loss of his ball.

Q4: Where was the boy staring down?
Ans: The boy was starring down the harbour where his ball had gone.

Q5: What does ‘in the world of possessions’ means?
Ans: It means the world of materialistic things.

Q6: Do you think the boy has lost something earlier?
Ans: Yes, he has lost something earlier.

Q7: What lesson does the boy learn?
Ans: He learns the lesson that gains and losses are the part and parcel of life.

Q8: Why is money called external?
Ans: Money is called external because we can replace the lost things with its help.

Q9: Why are the boy’s eyes desperate?
Ans: His eyes are desperate because he has lost his ball.

Q10: Who is the poet of the poem ‘The Ball Poem’?
Ans: John Berryman.

Q1: Where are the Asian Lions found?
Ans: The Asian Lions are found in the eastern countries of the world.

Q2: How does the Asian Lion look?
Ans: The Asian Lion is a large and yellow-coloured animal.

Q3: What is the special feature of the Bengal Tiger?
Ans: He has black strips on his yellow body.

Q4: How is the Bengal Tiger described?
Ans: He is described as a noble wild beast.

Q5: How is the leopard’s skin?
Ans: The leopard has spots on his skin.

Q6: How does a leopard behave when he meets a person?
Ans: When a leopard meets a person he jumps on him at once.

Q7: Which animal can we meet in our yard?
Ans: We can meet the bear in our yard.

Q8: What does the bear do on meeting a person?
Ans: The bear hugs the person very hard when he meets one.

Q9: What is the special feature of the Hyena?
Ans: The Hyena always comes with merry smiles.

Q10: What is the special feature of the crocodile?
Ans: The crocodile weeps while eating its prey.

Q11: What two things does a Chameleon not have?
Ans: A Chameleon does not have ears and wings.

Q12: Where is the Chameleon generally found?
Ans: It is generally found in the trees.

Q1: Why was the young seagull alone?
Ans: The young seagull was alone because his two brothers and sister had already flown.

Q2: Why did he not fly with his brothers and sister?
Ans: He did not fly because he was afraid.

Q3: Where did he sleep that night?
Ans: He slept in a little hole under the ledge.

Q4: Where did young seagull live?
Ans: The young seagull lived alone on his ledge.

Q5: Why was be afraid to fly?
Ans: He was afraid to fly because his wings would never support him.

Q6: What did he see throughout the day?
Ans: He saw his parents perfecting his brothers and sister in the art of flying.

Q7: How’ did they taunt him?
Ans: They taunted him with his cowardice.

Q8: Who took pity on the young seagull?
Ans: His mother pitied on the young seagull.

Q9: Who had already landed on the green flooring?
Ans: His parents, brothers and sister had already landed on the green flooring.

Q10: How did the family show their happiness for the young seagull?
Ans: They offered him scraps of dog fish through their beaks.

Q1: What do you understand by `His strength behind bars’? What kind of a cage is he locked in?
Ans: The tiger is wretched in its cage. His power is confined behind the bars. He was locked in a small cage where he is devoid of freedom. He feels unhappy, frustrated, restless, and angry.

Q2: What message does the poet want to convey through the poem—Tiger in the Zoo’?
Ans: The poet wants to convey that it is cruel to keep wild animals in small enclosures of the zoo, away from their natural habitat. They feel angry, helpless, and unhappy and remember their life and environment in the forest.

Q3: How does the poet contrast the tiger in the cage with a tiger in the forest?
Ans: The poet says that the caged tiger is imprisoned. He is not free. He is angry. On the other hand, the tiger in the jungle is free. He walks in the tall grass and hunts the deer that pass near the water hole.

Q4:  How does the tiger terrify the villagers?
Ans: The tiger prowls around the houses of the villagers. He terrifies them by snarling at them. Their houses are situated near the jungle. He terrifies the villagers by baring his fangs and showing his long claws.

Q5: How does the tiger walk in the cage?
Ans: The tiger walks in the cage in a proud manner. He walks quietly. But his eyes show that he is very angry at having been imprisoned in a cage. But he can’t do anything for his freedom.

Q6: He hears the last voice at night, The patrolling cars, Who hears the last voice and of what?
Ans: The tiger hears the last voice Le, the sound of the patrolling cars at night. He is imprisoned in a cage at the zoo. The patrolling cars are making a round of the zoo to see that everything is alright.

Q7: What message do you get from this poem?
Ans: From this poem, we come to know that animals like to live freely in the forest. The animals do not want to live in the zoo. Their life is pitiable in it.

Q8: Is it safe to allow tigers to live in their natural habitat these days?
Ans: Although it is ideal for tigers to live in the wild, today, it will mean certain death for them. Fast-diminishing jungles and the danger posed by poachers have pushed tigers to the brink of extinction, making their natural home unsafe.

Q9: How does the tiger feel in the zoo?
Ans: The poet describes the feelings of the tiger in the zoo. He keeps on moving from one comer to another. “He stalks in his vivid stripes moving the few steps of his cage”. He is not happy. He expresses his silent anger.

Q10: Why do you think the tiger looks at the stars? 
Ans: The tiger feels very helpless in the cage. He stares with hope at the brilliant stars shining in the sky. He hopes for the day when he will be able to run free in the wild. The brilliant stars, thus, provide him with some comfort.

Q1: What was the occasion?
Ans: It was the occasion of the installation of South Africa’s first democratic government.

Q2: Where did the ceremony take place?
Ans: The ceremony took place in the Union Buildings of Pretoria.

Q3: Who was Zenani?
Ans: Zenani was the daughter of Nelson Mandela.

Q4: Who accompanied Mandela?
Ans: Mandela’s daughter Zenani accompanied him.

Q5: Who was sworn in as the first Deputy President of South Africa?
Ans: Thabo Mbeki was sworn in as the first Deputy President of South Africa.

Q6: Who was sworn in as the second Deputy President?
Ans: Mr. de Klerk was sworn in as the second Deputy President of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela

Q7: How was the new system different?
Ans: The new system recognized the rights and freedom of all people.

Q8: What was specific about the previous system?
Ans: The system was based on one of the harshest and most inhumane societies the world has ever known.

Q9: When was that system eradicated?
Ans: The system was overturned in the last decade of the twentieth century.

Q10: What promises did Mandela make in his oath-taking speech?
Ans: Mandela promised that the country would not again experience the oppression of one by another.

Q11: What did Mandela want as a student?
Ans: Mandela wanted freedom for himself as a student.

Q12: What did Mandela realize?
Ans: Mandela realized that there was no freedom in South Africa for anyone who looked like him.

Q13: Why did Mandela join the African National Congress?
Ans: He joined the African National Congress to achieve freedom for all his people.

African National Congress

Q14: What did Mandela think about freedom?
Ans: He thought that freedom is indivisible.

Q15: What does courage mean to Mandela?
Ans: To Mandela, courage means the triumph over fear.

Q16: What must people learn?
Ans: People must learn to hate. If they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

Q17: What was Mandela not unmindful of?
Ans: Mandela was not unmindful of apartheid.

Q18: Why was Mandela pained?
Ans: Mandela was pained because the people who laid down their lives for this day could not be present to see it.

Q19: What roared in perfect formation over the Union Buildings?
Ans: South African jets, helicopters, and troop carriers roared in perfect formation over the Union Buildings.

Q20: What did the smoke trail of Impala jets symbolize?
Ans: The smoke trail of Impala jets symbolized the South African flag.

Q21: What did Mandela thank international leaders for?
Ans: Mandela thanked international leaders for their support for the people of South Africa.

Q22: What did Mandela think was natural, to love or to hate?
Ans: Nelson Mandela thought that to love is natural because it comes naturally in our hearts.

Q23: What did Mandela consider “true freedom”?
Ans: True freedom means the freedom to live a lawful life without obstruction.

Q24: Who wrote the autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom”?
Ans: Nelson Mandela wrote his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom.”

Q25: How many years did Nelson Mandela spend in prison?
Ans: Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison.

Q1:What are two different views about the end of the world in the poem ‘Fire and Ice’?
Ans:The two different views of people regarding the end of the world are—Fire and Ice i.e., by desire and hatred.

Q2: Why does the poet hold with those who favour fire?
Ans: The poet holds with those who favour fire because the lust for material things is increasing fastly.

Q3:What is the central idea of the poem ‘Fire and ‘Ice’?
Ans: The poet presents two possibilities about the end of the world. It will be either due to ‘Fire and ‘Ice’ he prefers the first as he believes the world will end in fire but the ice will not go away.

Q4:What is the contradictory opinion of the public?
Ans: The contradictory opinion of the public is the debate whether the world will end in fire or ice.

Q5:How are ice and fire similar to each other though they have contradictory traits?
Ans: Both ice and fire are similar in the sense that both of them would destroy everything in the world.

Q6: Why does the poet hold with those who favour fire?
Ans: The poet holds with those who favour fire because the lust for material things is increasing quickly. 

Q7: Why do some people say that the world will end in ice?
Ans: They say so because hatred among people is increasing fast. 

Q8: What message does the poet wish to convey through the poem ‘Fire and ‘Ice’?
Ans:The poet presents two possibilities about the end of the world. It will be either due to ‘Fire and ‘Ice’ he prefers the first as he believes the world will end in fire but the ice will not go away.

Q9:Create a tagline/slogan/catchphrase for the poem.
Ans:“Two paths to destruction: which will win in the end?”
           “Love and hate, fire and ice: a timeless struggle for the fate of humanity.”

Q10: Do you think the poet’s opinions are reasonable in the poem?
Ans: Yes, I agree with the poet’s opinions in the poem.