WEST BENGAL H.S. 2020 SAQ

THE POETRY OF EARTH

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (SAQ)

1.What do you mean by ‘The poetry of Earth’? 2. Where does the Grasshopper carry on the voice? 3. When does the Grasshopper carry the poetry of earth? 4. What rhyme scheme has the poet used in the octave? 5. What rhyme scheme has the poet used in the sestet? 6. What form of sonnet has Keats used? 7. How does the Cricket warm the winter? 8. How does the Grasshopper carry the music? 9. What does Keats celebrate in the poem ‘The poetry of Earth’? 10. Why does the poet, Keats make the voices of the Grasshopper and Cricket follow each other? 11. Why is the poetry of earth never dead? 12. Where does the Grasshopper take rest? 13. What do you mean by ‘stove? 14. Why do birds hide in the cooling trees? 15. Which music is mentioned in the sestet?  16. What does the man  in drowsiness mistake?  17.In which form is the Poem ‘The Poetry of Earth’ written? 18. Why does the poet, Keats choose the Grasshopper and the Cricket as the poets of nature? 19. “That is the grasshopper.” What does ‘That’ refer to here? 20. How is the silence of winter broken? 

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (SAQ)

1. What form of sonnet is this? 2. Who is the sonnet addressed to? 3. What is the controlling simile in the poem? 4. How can eternal summer be maintained? 5. What does the poet, Shakespeare compare this young person to? 6. What do the rough winds shake? 7. What shall never fade? 8. How many quatrains and couplets are there in Shakespeare’s sonnet? 9. Is the poem a love or war poem? 10. Who is ‘I’ in the poem referred to? 11. Did William Shakespeare compose this sonnet?  12. What is the theme of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 18’ ? 13. What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet? 14. Whom does Shakespeare dedicate this sonnet? 15. What do ‘rough winds’ do? 16. How does the complexion of summer become gold? 17. What does ‘the eye of heaven’ stand for? 18. What does Shakespeare present in the first quatrain of his sonnet?

ASLEEP IN THE VALLEY

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (SAQ)

1. What is the pillow made of? 2. What is the theme of the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley? 3. What type of poem is ‘Asleep in the Valley? 4. What did the poet request nature? 5. What did the soldier die of? 6. How is the young soldier lying? 7. What does the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley convey? 8. How is the soldier’s innocence described? 9. What does ‘two red holes’ signify? 10. Where was the soldier lying?  11. What figure of speech is used in “His smile / Is like an infant’s”? 12. Whom did the poet , Rimbaud compare the soldier’s smile to? 13. What are the sun rays compared to? 14. What is the verse form of the poem? 15.How many pictures does the poet present in the poem?16. What, according to the poet are the insects doing? 17. Where does the stream flow? 18. What does the poet ask nature to do? 19. What title is conferred on the poet Arthur Rimbaud? 20. Is ‘Asleep in the Valley’ a war poem?

STRONG ROOTS

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (SAQ)

1. Where was APJ Kalam born? 2. Who were Jainulebdeen and Ashiamma? 3. What type of food did Kalam’s mother serve him? 4. How was their house? 5. Who was the priest of Rameswaram? 6. What did Kalam’s father say about prayer? 7. What has Kalam throughout his life tried to emulate? 8. Why was Kalam’s father well-known in their locality? 9. How has Kalam described his neighbourhood? 10. What did Kalam’s father do after prayer? 11. Did Kalam have the faintest idea of the meaning of the Arabic prayer? 12. Who had been bestowed the title of ‘Bahadur’ and by whom? 13. Where has the essay ‘ Strong Roots’ been taken from? 14. How did Kalam spend his childhood? 15. How far was the Shiva temple from Kalam’s house? 16. What did Kalam’s father about the relevance of prayer? 17. Who can lift man from misery and confusion? 18. Where was Kalam’s ancestral house? 19. How did Kalam’s father start his day? 20. What did Kalam’s father teach his son?

THE EYES HAVE IT

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (SAQ)

1. Were the narrator and the girl travelling in the same compartment? 2. Where did the girl get off? 3. Who are they who called their goodbyes? 4.Why did the narrator wonder? 5. Who was waiting to meet the girl and where? 6. What did the narrator ask the girl first? 7. What, according to the narrator, are aunts? 8. “That always happens,” What always happens? 9.  When did the girl get up and begin to collect her things? 10.  What were there outside? 11. How did the train draw into the station? 12. Which month is best time for the tourists? 13. What was the next question that removed the narrator’s doubts? 14. What was the girl startled at the voice of the narrator for? 15. What was the narrator’s first clue about his fellow traveller, the girl in the train? 16. What was the girl’s destination? 17. What did the narrator want to do when he was tantalized by her perfume? 18. Why did the third passenger stammer?  19. Did the narrator get off when the girl got off? 20. Where did the narrator once plan to go?

THANK YOU MA’M

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (SAQ)

1. What did the woman carry and how? 2. Why did the boy fall and how? 3. What was the name of the woman? 4. Why did the woman take the boy into her house? 5. Who was the boy? 6. Why did the boy dry his face again? 7. What did the boy want? 8. What was the name of the boy? 9. Did Roger meet the woman again? 10. How much dollars did Bates give to Roger? 11.What did Mrs. Washington Jones carry on her shoulder 12. What did the icebox contain? 13. What did Mrs. Washington Jones go behind the screen for? 14. Why did Roger fail to run? 15. What did Mrs. W. Jones do when the boy fell? 16. What did Mrs. Washington advise the boy repeatedly? 17. What did the boy say at the end? 18. Describe the interior of Mrs. Jones’ house. 19. Why did the boy fail to snatch the purse? 20. How was Mrs. Jones?

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