Evergreen Publication solutions for इंग्लिश ट्रेशर चेस्ट वर्कबुक कक्षा १० आईएससी chapter 3 - When Great Trees fall [Latest edition]

Select the option that shows the correct relationship between Statements (1) and (2) from Maya Angelou’s poem, ‘When Great Trees Fall’:

Statement 1: When great trees fall, the world is left permanently unstable.

Statement 2: In the poem, the natural world is depicted as reacting with fear and uncertainty when great trees fall.

Select the option that shows the correct relationship between the two given statements:

Statement I: The falling of a great tree shocks both big and small creatures.

Statement II: The death of a great person maddens their loved ones.

The five stages of grief are described as shock, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Which of these stages is expressed in the following lines?

“And when great souls die,”
after a period peace blooms,

The central idea of Angelou’s poem When Great Trees Fall is that ______.

‘When Great Trees Falls’ is about ______.

What kind of emotion is evoked by the phrase ‘hurtful clarity’?

Select the option that shows the correct relationship between these two statements.

Statement I: Great men’s loss is felt intensely by all, significant or insignificant.

Statement II: All are benumbed for a while.

Which of these assertions is NOT true?

The lines ‘lions hunker down/in tall grasses’ reveal that lions ______.

Which of the following lines contains the same literary device as the one in these lines from the poem: ‘Our memory, suddenly sharpened/examines/gnaws on kind words’.

“When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence”

What does the word ‘recoil’ suggest in the lines above?

Which extended metaphor is used in the poem?

The phrase ‘dark cold, caves’ symbolises ______ in the poem.

Which figure of speech is used in the line ‘We can be. Be and be’?

Which of these statements is NOT true?

When do animals seek safety?

Which positive event happens when great men die?

In what state are we thrown suddenly when we hear about the death of a great soul?

What do great men generally care for?

What happens to our souls on hearing the news of a great man who has impacted our lives greatly?

The poem ‘When Great Trees Fall’ is on the whole ______.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. What does “great trees” represent in the poem? (Analysis)
2. What does the shuddering of ‘rocks’ on distant hills symbolise? (Analysis)
3. How do animals behave when great trees fall? Why? (Understanding and Analysis)
4. What happens to small things when great trees fall? (Understanding)
5. Which words used in this extract give us the idea that the fall of great trees impact all? (Analysis)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. What effect does the falling of ‘great trees’ have on distant hills and animals in the jungle? (Recall)
2. Explain in your own words the line, ‘small things ... eroded by fear’. (Understanding)
3. How is one’s memory affected by the death of a great soul? (Recall)
4. What analogy does Angelou use to describe the death of a great soul? Give two reasons to show that this analogy is appropriate. (Analysis and Evaluate)
5. Trace the stages of grief and coming to terms with the loss of a loved one that Maya Angelou describes in her poem When Great Trees Fall. (Analysis)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. What image from the world of nature has been used earlier in the context? (Recall)
2. What happens when great trees fall? (Analysis)
3. ‘We breathe, briefly’. What does the poet mean by this? (Analysis)
4. What kind of ‘clarity’ does the poet refer to? (Analysis)
5. What do we come to remember when great men die? (Understanding)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. What happens when great trees fall, according to the poet? (Understanding and Analysis)
2. Why does it become difficult to breathe when great souls die? (Analysis)
3. What do we come to remember suddenly when great souls die? (Understanding)
4. In what state of mind is the speaker here? Why? (Analysis)
5. Explain the phrase ‘promised walks never taken’ in its context. (Evaluate)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. What does the fall of great trees symbolize in the poem, as suggested earlier in the context? (Understanding and Analysis)
2. What do we remember when great souls die? (Analysis)
3. What happens to our ‘reality’ when great souls die? (Understanding)
4. What does the poet mean by ‘wizened’ souls here? (Analysis)
5. What does the word ‘nurture’ suggest in the context? (Analysis)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. How has the poet compared the world of nature with the human world earlier in the context? (Recall)
2. What happens when someone emotionally attached to us depart for ever? (Understanding)
3. How are our minds affected by great souls? (Analysis)
4. In what state of mind are we thrown when great souls die? (Analysis)
5. Explain the reference to the ‘ignorance of dark, cold caves.’ (Understanding and Analysis)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. What is suggested by the fall of great trees earlier in the context? (Understanding)
2. How do we feel when great men die? (Recalling and Understanding)
3. How does the poet portray time as a healer here? (Analysis)
4. What kind of ‘spaces’ are referred to here? (Analysis)
5. How do we feel during those ‘spaces’? (Understanding and Analysis)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. How do we feel when persons attached to us die? (Understanding)
2. When do we feel at peace when great souls die? (Understanding)
3. Why do our senses never achieve the former state of normalcy after the death of great souls? (Analysis)
4. Which figure of speech is used in Lines 3-4 here? What is its significance? (Analysis)
5. The ending of the poem is quite positive. How? (Evaluate)

Comment on the development of thought in the poem.

The fall of the ‘great trees’ is used as the central metaphor in the poem. How?

Discuss the use of literary devices in the poem.