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What happened to the people who wanted too much money?

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What happened to the people who wanted too much money?

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People who wanted too much money fell prey to greed. They lost their reputation also.

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अध्याय 5.2: A Father to his Son - Exercise [पृष्ठ १६५]

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अध्याय 5.2 A Father to his Son
Exercise | Q 2. c) | पृष्ठ १६५

संबंधित प्रश्न

What thoughts come to your mind when you think about a castle? Add your ideas to the list

moat, huge buildings, soldiers, weapons ______,______.


Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face?


Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

Our gates were strong, our walls were thick,

So smooth and high, no man could win.

  1. How safe was the castle?
  2. What was the firm belief of the soldiers?

Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

A foothold there, no clever trick

Could take us dead or quick,

Only a bird could have got in.

  1. What was challenging?
  2. Which aspect of the castle’s strength is conveyed by the above line?

Our only enemy was gold


Fill in the blanks choosing the words from the box given and complete the summary of the poem.

The casuarina tree is tall and strong, with a creeper winding around it like a (1) ______. The tree stands like a (2) ______with a colourful scarf of flowers. Birds surround the garden and the sweet song of the birds is heard. The poet is delighted to see the casuarina tree through her (3) ______. She sees a grey monkey sitting like a (4) ______on top of the tree, the cows grazing, and the water lilies (5) ______in the pond. The poet feels that the tree is dear to her not for its (6) ______appearance but for the (7) ______memories of her happy childhood that it brings to her. She strongly believes that (8) ______communicates with human beings. The poet could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land as she could hear the tree (9) ______her absence. The poet (10) ______the tree’s memory to her loved ones, who are not alive. She immortalizes the tree through her poem like the poet Wordsworth who (11) ______the yew tree of Borrowdale in verse. She expresses her wish that the tree should be remembered out of love and not just because it cannot be (12) ______.

python statue nature casement
nostalgic lamenting impressive forgotten
giant consecrates springing sanctified

Describe the garden during the night.


Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear Like the sea breaking on a shingle -beach?


What is the first stage of a human’s life?


Which stage of man’s life is associated with the ‘shrunk shank’?


Why is the last stage called second childhood?


Explain the following line briefly with reference to the context.

“They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,”


Pick out the word in ‘alliteration’ in the following line.

“And one man in his time plays many parts”


Complete the summary of the poem, choosing words from the list given below. Lines 44 to 70

Ulysses beckons his sailors to (1) ______at the port where the ship is ready to sail. His companions who have faced both (2) ______and sunshine with a smile, are united by their undying spirit of adventure. Though death would end everything, Ulysses urges his companions to join him and sail beyond the sunset and seek a newer (3) ______, regardless of consequences. These brave hearts who had once moved (4) ______ and earth, may have grown old and weak physically but their spirit is young and (5) ______. His call is an inspiration for all those who seek true knowledge and strive to lead (6) ______ lives.

world, thunder, meaningful, gather, undaunted, heaven

What could be the possible outcomes of their travel?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

And drunk delight of battle with my peers;


Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

Little remains: but every hour is saved

From that eternal silence, something more,

A bringer of new things; and vile it were

  1. How is every hour important to Ulysses?
  2. What does the term ‘Little remains’ convey?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle Well-loved of me,

  1. Who does Ulysses entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
  2. Bring out the significance of the ‘sceptre’.

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

……for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

  1. What was Ulysses’ purpose in life?
  2. How long would his venture last?

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

He works his work, I mine.


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

....you and I are old;

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs:

the deep Moans round with many voices.


What is Ulysses’ clarion call to his sailors? How does he inspire them?


The poet says

‘Without rich wanting nothing arrives’ but he condemns ‘the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs.’ Analyse the difference and write.


Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.

  1. Can being in solitude help a strong human being? How?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Yet learning something out of every folly

hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies


Who do you think is the narrator of the poem?


Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay’, his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said:

  1. Why did the boy contradict Napoleon’s words?
  2. Why was his pride touched?

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