12th Eng.A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost ,, Fully Solved Extracts

Poem-5 

A Roadside Stand 

Robert Frost 

Extract -1

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

It is in the news that all these pitiful kin Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store, Where they won't have to think for themselves anymore,

(a) Whom does 'these pitiful kin' refer to?

(i) The rich people of the city

(ii) The politicians

(iii) The poor village folk

(iv) None of the above

(b) What promise is made to these villagers?

(i) Their children will be given admission to government schools

(ii) Their living conditions will be improved

(iii) The rich people will donate money to them

(iv) None of the above

(c) State whether the given statement is True or False.

The poet's name is Robert Frost.

(d) A synonym of 'gathered' is—---

(e) What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?

(f) Which part of speech does 'mercifully' belong to? 

Extract -2

Here far from the city we make our roadside stand And ask for some city money to feel in hand To try if it will not make our being expand, And give us the life of the moving-pictures' promise That the party in power is said to be keeping from us.

(a) Where do they make their roadside stand?

(b) What do you understand by 'city money'?

 (i) Money in the form of coins

(ii) Money which the poor people make by selling their business in the city

(iii) Money which the rich people earn through business in the city

(iv) None of the above

(c) What does the poet want to convey through 'life of the moving-pictures'?

(i) The luxurious life style which is projected as a dream world in the movies

(ii) Life of the travellers

(iii) Life of the pictures which are not still but moving

(iv) None of the above

(d) The attitude of the ruling party towards the roadside standers is that….,...

(e) What does 'expand' mean here?

(f) State whether the given statement is True or False. 

The party in power has raised the standard of the country folk.

Extract -3

 In front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped, A roadside stand too pathetically pled, It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread, But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint. The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead, Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts At having the landscape marred with the artless paint Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong

(a) What is the tone of the poet in the extract?

(i) optimistic (ii) resigned

(iii) sympathetic (iv) indifferent,

(b) With reference to the given extract, what harm has been caused by the 'artless paint'?

(c) The city folk are compared to—------

(i) a landscape (ii) signs of N and S

(iii) a flower (iv) a dole of bread

(d) The roadside stand is:---------

(i) at the edge of the road.

(ii) marred with artless paint.

(iii) like the flower of cities.

(iv) well maintained.

(e) What type of expectations do the stand owners have from the city dwellers who come there?

(f) Complete the analogy with a word from the given extract:

donate: contribute:: dying:---------

Extract -4

Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene, You have the money, but if you want to be mean, Why keep your money (this crossly) and go along. The hurt to the scenery wouldn't be my complaint So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid:

(a) Whom does the poet call as 'mean'?

(i) The owner of the shed

(ii) The rich people of the city

(iii) Those who buy things from the roadside standers

(iv) None of the above

b) Whom do the roadside standers complain? 

(i) The people who live around

(ii) The rich passengers who go away without buying anything from them

(iii) The people in power who keep bullying them

(iv) None of the above

c) The name of the poem is—-----+

(d) Whom does 'you' refer to?

(e) What does 'mean' mean here?

(f) State whether the given statement is True or False.

The country folk are happy and satisfied.

Extract 5

Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear The thought of so much childish longing in vain, The sadness that lurks near the open window there, That waits all day in almost open prayer. For the squeal of brakes, the sound of a stopping car, Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass, Just one to inquire what a farmer's prices are,

a) What is the sentiment expressed in the above extract?

(i) remorse (II) regret

(III) empathy (IV) disappointment

(V) guilt

Choose the correct appropriate option:

(i) (III) and (IV) (ii) (II) and (III)

(iii) (IV) and (V) (iv) (1) and (V)

(b) Identify the phrase in the extract that suggests 'innocent desires'.

(c) The roadside stand owners pray for……..

(i) a relief from the heat (ii) free housing

(iii) cars stopping (iv) benefits from pollution

(d) Complete the following analogy correctly:

He fought like a lion: Simile:: selfish cars :........

(e) On the basis of the extract, choose the correct option with reference to (I) and (II) given below:

(I) The people who have put up the roadside stand keep waiting for customers.

( II) They become sad when someone turns up.

(i) (I) is true, but (II) is false.

(ii) (I) is false, but (II) is true.

(iii) Both (1) and (II) are true. 

(iv) Both (1) and (II) are false.

(f) Fill the blank appropriately with reference to the extract:

'Squeal of brakes' implies..

Answers

Extract -1

(a) (iii) The poor village folk

(b) (ii) Their living conditions will be improved

(c) True

(d) collected.

(e) The rhyme scheme of the stanza is aabb.

(f) 'Mercifully' is an adverb.

 Extract 2

(a) They make their roadside stand away from the city.

(b) (iii) Money which the rich people earn through business in the city

(c) (i) The luxurious life style which is projected as a dream world in the movies

(d) they promise them but do not fulfil their promises.

(e) Expand' here means 'develop'

(f) False

Extract -3

(a) (iii) sympathetic

(b) The artless paint of signs made at the stand has spoiled the beauty of the landscape. On seeing it, the city people feel out of sorts.

(c) (iii) a flower

(d) (i) at the edge of the road.

(e) The stand owners expect from the city dwellers who come there that they should stop there and buy some goods from them so as to enable them to earn some extra money for a decent living.

(f) withering

Extract -4

(a) (ii) The rich people of the city

(b) (ii) The rich passengers who go away without buying anything from them

(c) A Roadside Stand

(d) 'You' refers to the rich people in their cars, coming from cities.

(e) 'Mean' here means 'miser'.

(f) False

Extract -5

(a) (i) (III) and (IV)

(b) Childish longing

(c) (iii) cars stopping

(d) transferred epithet

(e) (i) (I) is true, but (II) is false.

(f) stopping of cars