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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.

Who does he refer to?

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‘He’ refers to the foolish cricket.

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पाठ 4.2: The Ant and the Cricket - Exercise [पृष्ठ ११७]

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पाठ 4.2 The Ant and the Cricket
Exercise | Q A. 2. a) | पृष्ठ ११७

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The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.
She says, "Spring will come again, my dear
Let me care for the ones who're near.”

What does she mean by “spring will come again”?


Strong is she in her faith and belief.
“Persistence is the key to everything,” says she.

What is she strong about?


Don't ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect.
She knows how to thaw you, saw you – so beware!

What do the words thaw and saw mean here?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

A silly young cricket accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring.

What was the routine of the cricket?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

‘‘ Not I!
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.”

Who does ‘I’ refer to?


Mention a few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, reading, and writing, etc.


And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Whose task is referred to as ‘our task’ here?


Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

  1. What outrages the innocence?
  2. Who are not foreign?
  3. What is not strange?

Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.

I drive past the house almost every day.
The house seems to be a bit brighter.
On this warm summer day in May.
It plays with your mind.

  1. To whom does ‘I’ refer to?
  2. Pick out the alliterated words in the 2nd line.

Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.

It never grows leaves,
Not in the winter, spring, summer, or fall.
It just sits there never getting small or ever-growing tall.

  1. What does ‘it’ refer to?
  2. In what way the tree is a mystery?

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