12th Eng.CBCE Ch-4 The Rattrap Extract Fully Solved

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Ch-4  The Rattrap by Selma Lagerlof 

              

Directions: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. "I am thinking of this stranger here," said Edla. "He walks and walks the whole year long, and there is probably not a single place in the whole country where he is welcome and can feel at home. Wherever he turns he is chased away. Always he is afraid of being arrested and cross-examined. I should like to have him enjoy a day of peace with us here-just one in the whole year."

(a) Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate option:

Edla wished the Peddler to have a peaceful day because……..

(i) the Peddler had worked for Edla.

(ii) the Peddler had not been released from jail.

(iii) the Peddler had been staying at the forge.

(iv) the Peddler had always been looked with suspicion.

(b) Select the suitable word from the extract to complete analogy.

single: multiple :: abroad :..........

(c) In the above extract, Edla comes across as:

(i) conscientious (ii) pretentious

(iii) compassionate (iv) selfless

(d) Based on the above extract, choose the statement which is true.

(i) Relationship are rattraps.

(ii) Money is important in the world.

(iii) Criminal is not born but made.

(iv) Christmas is a time of charity.

(e) In the context of the given extract, which day is referred to in the expression 'just one in the whole year'?

(f) What does the expression 'he is cross-examined' suggest?

Extract 2. 

He made them himself at odd moments, from the material he got by begging in the stores or at the farms. But even so, the business was not especially profitable, so he had to resort to both begging and petty thievery to keep body and soul together.

(a) Whom does 'he' refer to in the above lines?

(b) What did he make at odd moments?

(i) Baskets (ii) Candles

(iii) Rattraps (iv) Hand fans

(c) How was his business not profitable?

(i) It did not help him save for future

(ii) He could not keep body and soul together

(iii) He could not buy a house to live in

(iv) None of the above

(d) Name the author of the lesson from which this extract has been taken.

e) A word similar in meaning to the word 'profitable' is………

(f) Give an antonym of 'petty'.

Extract -3

3. No one can imagine how sad and monotonous life can appear to such a vagabond, who plods along the road left to his own meditations. But one day this man had fallen into a line of thought, which really seemed to him entertaining.

(a) What does the word 'vagabond' mean?

(i) Worker in some factory (II) Wanderer

(iii) Someone with no complaints

(iv) None of the above

(b) Who plods along the road?

(i) The crofter (ii) Blacksmith

(iii) Street cleaner (iv) The peddler

(c) What can no one imagine?

(d) Find a word from the extract which means 'dull'.

(e) The lesson from which this extract has been taken is

(f) What was the line of thought, he had fallen into?

4. The world had, of course, never been very kind to him, so it gave him unwanted joy to think ill of it in this way. It became a cherished pastime of his, during many dreary ploddings, to think of people he knew who had let themselves be caught in the dangerous snare, and of others who were still circling around the bait.

(a) What was the attitude of the people towards him?

(i) Affectionate (ii) Sympathetic

(iii) Indifferent (iv) Unkind

(b) Who is being referred to here?

(i) Selma Lagerlöf (ii) The crofter

(iii) The peddler (iv) The ironmaster

(c) What was his 'cherished pastime'?

(d) A word from the extract which means 'uninteresting' is……..

(e) What does 'snare' mean?

(f) What does 'he' do?

Extract 5.

 One dark evening as he was trudging along the road he caught sight of a little gray cottage by the roadside and he knocked on the door to ask shelter for the night. Nor was he refused. Instead of the sour faces which ordinarily met him, the owner, who was an old man without wife or child was happy to get someone to talk to in his loneliness.

(a) What did the peddler see one dark evening?

(i) Someone selling rattraps

(ii) The iron mill

(iii) A little gray cottage

(iv) An old crofter

(b) Why did he knock on the door?

(c) How was he received by the old man?

(i) Unwelcomed

(ii) Welcomed happily

(iii) With a sour face

(iv) Coldly

(d) An antonym of 'accepted' from the extract is……..

(e) How was he usually treated?

(f) Who was the old man?

Extract 6. 

The stranger must have seemed incredulous, for the old man got up and went to the window, took down a leather pouch which hung on a nail in the very window frame and picked out three wrinkled ten- kronor bills. These he held up before the eyes of his guest, nodding knowingly, and then stuffed them back into the pouch.

(a) The stranger in the above lines is……

(b) What did the old man do after going to the window?

(i) He peeped out

(ii) Took down a leather pouch

(iii) Closed the window

(iv) Called the stranger

(c) What did the old man show to the stranger?

(i) Gold coins

(ii) Ten-kronor notes

(iii) Almonds and other nuts

(iv) Porridge

(d) Find a word from the extract which means unbelieving.

(e) Where is the stranger?

(f) Did the stranger respect the confidence reposed in him by the old man?

Extract 7

As he walked along with the money in his pocket he felt quite pleased with his smartness. He realised, of course, that at first he dared not continue on the public highway, but must turn off the road into the woods.

(a) Why was his decision to walk through the woods not a wise one?

(i) He was robbed

(ii) He lost his way

(iii) He was attacked by a tiger

(iv) None of the above

(b) Who is 'he' here?

(i) The author

(ii) The narrator

(iii) The peddler

(iv) The crofter

(c) The author of the extract is….

(d) Which money is being referred to in the first line?

(e) How did he feel?

(f) Why did he choose to walk through the woods instead of the public highway?

Extract 8.

 All at once, he recalled his thoughts about the world and the rattrap. Now his own turn had come. He had let himself be fooled by a bait and had been caught. The whole forest, with its trunks and branches, its thickets and fallen logs, closed in upon him like an impenetrable prison from which he could never escape.

(a) The word, from the passage, which means 'tha can't be entered through' is……

(b) He thought he could never escape from:

(i) prison (ii) forest (iii) the crofter

(iv) the iron mill

(c) The name of the lesson is:

(i) Lost Spring

(ii) Deep Water

(iii) The Rattrap

(iv) The Last Lesson

(d) Who is being talked about here?

(e) What did 'he' recall?

(f) Why does he say to himself that 'his own had come'?

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EXTRACT -1

ANSWERS 

(a) (iv) the Peddler had always been looked with suspicion.

(b) at home

(c) (iii) compassionate

(d) (iii) Criminal is not born but made.

(e) Christmas Eve

(f) The expression 'he is cross-examined' suggests that the peddler and his identity have always been questioned because of suspicion.

EXTRACT -2

ANSWERS 

(a) 'He' refers to the peddler.

(b) (iii) Rattraps

(c) (ii) He could not keep body and soul together

(d) Selma Lagerlöf is the author of the lesson from where this extract has been taken.

(e) beneficial or productive

(f) An antonym of 'petty' is enormous or significant.

Extract -3

Answers

(a) (ii) Wanderer

(b) (iv) The peddler

(c) No one can imagine how sad and monotonous the peddler's life was.

(d) In the extract the word 'monotonous' means dull

(e) The Rattrap

(f) He had fallen into a line of thought that the whole world was nothing but a big rattrap.

Extract -4

Answers

(a) (iv) Unkind

(b) (iii) The peddler

(c) His 'cherished pastime' was to think of people being trapped in the worldly joys.

(d) dreary

(e) 'Snare' means a trap for catching birds or mammals.

(f) He sells small rattraps. He has to resort to both begging and petty thievery.

Answers

Extract -5

(a) (iii) A little gray cottage

(b) He knocked on the door because he wanted shelter for the night.

(c) (ii) Welcomed happily

(d) refused

(e) He was usually treated unkindly. People usually met him with sour faces.

(f) The old man had been a crofter. He lived there without wife or children

Extract 6

Answers

(a) the peddler

(b) (ii) Took down a leather pouch

(c) (ii) Ten-kronor notes

(d) A word from the extract which means 'unbelieving' is incredulous.

(e) The stranger is at the little gray cottage of the old man.

(f) No, the stranger didn't respect the confidence reposed in him by the old man. He robbed the old man.

Extract 7

(a) (ii) He lost his way

(b) (iii) The peddler

(c) Selma Lagerlöf

(d) The money which he stole from the old crofter's house is being referred to in the first line.

(e) Having robbed his generous host, the peddler felt quite pleased with his smartness.

(f) He choose to walk through the woods instead of the public highway because he was scared of being caught.

Answers

EXTRACT -8

a) impenetrable

(b) (ii) forest

(c) (iii) The Rattrap

(d) The peddler is being talked about here.

(e) He recalled his thoughts that the world was a big rattrap.

(f) He says to himself, that 'his own turn had come' because he lost his way in the forest.