ENG.Unseen Passage, Assertion, Factual descriptive and narrative Set-5
Read the following poem carefully:
Compression -5
Is there aught you need that my hands withhold.
Rich gifts of raiment or grain of gold?
Lo! I have flung to the East and West
Priceless treasures torn from my breast.
And yielded the sons of my stricken womb
To the drum-beats of duty, the sabres of doom.
Gathered like pearls in their alien graves
Silent they sleep by the Persian waves, Scattered like shells on Egyptian sands.
They lie with pale brows and brave, broken hands
They are strewn like blossoms mown down by chance
On the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and France.
Can ye measure the grief of the tears I weep
Or compass the woe of the watch I keep?
Or the pride that trills thro' my heart's despair
And the hope that comforts the anguish of prayer?
And the far and glorious vision I see
Of the torn red banners of victory?
When the terror and tumult of hate shall cease And life be refashioned on anvils of peace,
And your love shall offer memorial thanks
To the comrades who fought in your dauntless ranks,
And your honour the deeds of the deathless ones,
Remember the blood of my martyred sons! (S.Naidu)
Questions:
1. Based on your reading of the poem, choose the correct options: (1x6=6)
(a) Select the correct meaning of the word 'raiment' from the given options:
(i) clothing (ii) sheet (iii) wall (iv) covering
(b) Select the synonym of the word 'sabres' from the given words:
(i) weapons(ii) arms (iii) swords (iv) pistols
c) Mother India has parted ............her priceless possessions.
(i) for (ii) at (iii) with (iv) down
(d) Select the word which is the 'noun form' of the given word 'triumph':
(i) triumphing. (ii) triumphant
(iii) triumphed (iv) triumph
(e) Mother India sent her sons into
the... of death.
(i) mouth (ii) womb (iii) teeth (iv) jaws
(f) 'dauntless' here refers to:
(i) cowardly (ii) fearless (iii) cruel
(iv) unstoppable
2. Answer the following questions briefly: (1x6=6)
(a) Name the poetic device in the line 'Gathered like pearls in their alien graves'
(b) What makes Mother India proud?
(c) What is Mother India's vision of a new world?
(d) Where did Mother India send her sons? Why?
(e) What does Mother India hope in the last lines of the poem?
(f) Why are these brave soldiers buried in 'alien graves"?
Unseen passage -4
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Passage -3
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Passage -2
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ANSWERS
1. (a) (i) (b) (iii) (c) (iii) (d) (ii) (e) (iv) (f) (ii)
2.(a)Simile
(b) Mother India is proud of her sons' supreme sacrifice that will immortalise them forever.
(c) Mother India envisions a new world based on peace, love and understanding.
(d) Mother India has sent her sons, the Indian soldiers, to the different countries of the world to ensure her international commitments for maintaining harmony in the world.
(e) In the last lines of the poem, Mother India hopes that when the world of terror and hate shall come to an end, a new world will be formed where peace and harmony will rule in people's lives.
(f) These brave soldiers have been fighting for the Royal British army during the World War. They are buried in different countries where they died while fighting. Hence, they are buried in alien graves.
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