8th class-cbse english (honey dew) (Poem) Poem -4 (The last Bargain) (Rabindranath Tagore)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) The old man offered the speaker a lot of money. Why did he turn down the offer?

Ans1) The offer of the old man did not seem attractive to the speaker therefore he turned it down. Even he was not happy with it.

Q2) How did the speaker feel after talking to the child on the beach ?

Ans2) After talking to the child on the beach the speaker felt extremely happy.

Q3) Why and how did the king come?

Ans3) The king came to hire the speaker with his power. He came in his chariot having sword in his hand.

Q4) What did the old man want? Was he successful in his bargain?

Ans4) He wanted to hire the speaker with his money. No, he was not successful in his bargain.

Q5) Who did the speaker meet at last?

Ans5) At last, the speaker met a child.

Q6) What was the child doing and where was he?

Ans8) The child was playing with shells on the beach.

Q6) Explain, “I hire you with nothing”?

Ans9) It means that the child has no material thing. He has only goodwill and cheer to hire the speaker.

8th class -cbse english(honey dew) (Poem) Poem -3 (Macavity- The mystery cat) (T. S. Eliot)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) Is Macavity a cat really?

Ans1) It seems that Macavity is not really a cat.

Q2) If not, who can Macavity be?

Ans2) Macavity can be a master criminal.

Q3) Why is the Scotland yard baffled?

Ans3) The Scotland yard is baffled because they are not able to catch the master criminal, Macavity.

Q4) What is the reason of flying Squad’s despair?

Ans4) The reason of flying Squad’s despair is that when the flying Squad reach at the scene of crime, Macavity is not there.

Q5) What is the attitude of Macavity?

Ans5) Macavity behaves like a master criminal. He breaks human law as well as the law of gravity.

Q6) Which powers does Macavity posses?

Ans6)  Macavity possess the powers of levitation.

Q7) Where can Macavity be found ?

Ans7) Macavity can be found in the basement or in the air above.

Q8) Who has Macavity been compared with?

Ans8) Macavity has been compared with a snake.

8th class-cbse english (honey dew) (Poem) Poem -2 (Geography lesson) (Zulfikar Ghose)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) What was the view of the city, as seen from the windows of the aero plane?

Ans1) The city looked haphazard, unplanned and without style from the window of the aero plane.

Q2) What is the logic behind the establishment of cities?

Ans2 The logic behind the establishment of cities is that land and water attracted man.

Q3) What could the poet not understand?

Ans3) The poet could not understand why the men on the earth had found cause to hate each other, to build walls across cities and to kill one another.

Q4) What facts about the earth have been mentioned?

Ans4)Earth is round and It has more sea than land. These facts about the earth are mentioned here.

8th class-cbse english (honey dew) (Poem) Poem -1 (The ant and the cricket) (Adopted from Aesop’s fables)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) The cricket says: “ oh! What will become of me?” When does he say it, and why?

Ans1) When winter comes and the cricket has nothing to eat, he cannot find even crumb. He is worried now for his food and shelter so he says “oh! What will become of me?”

Q2)What is you opinion of the ant’s principles?

Ans2)The ant’s principles are appropriate to some extents. But, we should not be so harsh to overlook ones starvation. Instead, we can make one realize one’s mistake.

Q3)The ant tells the cricket to ‘dance winter away’. Do you think the word ‘dance’ is appropriate here? If so, why?

Ans3) The word ‘dance’ is appropriate here because it clearly make fun of the light and careless attitude of the cricket.

Q4) Why could the cricket not save anything?

Ans4)The cricket was in gay mood. He spent all his summer in singing and dancing.

6th class-cbse english (honeysuckle)Poem8(Whatif)(Shel Silverstein)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) What do you mean by ‘What ifs’?

Ans1) ‘Whatifs’ mean that what would happen if this or that happens.

Q2) Can words crawl into one’s ears?

Ans2)  No, words can’t crawl into ears. It is just a poet’s imagination..

Q3) Give two fears that haunt him?

Ans3) “If his pants are torn ‘and ‘if he never learns to dance’ are the two fears.

Q4) What does the poet want to learn?

Ans4) The poet wants to learn to dance.

Q5) What is he most afraid of?

Ans5) He is most afraid of ‘what ifs‘at night.

6th class-cbse english (honeysuckle)Poem7(Vocation)(Rabinderanath Tagore)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) What wishes does the child in the poem make? Why does the child want to be hawker, a gardener, or a watchman?

Ans1) The child wishes to become a hawker so that he may go about freely. He wants to be a gardener so that nobody would scold him for spoiling his clothes. He finally wants to be watchman so as to walk freely in the street. The child wishes to enjoy a restriction free life.

Q2) Who does the child meet everyday in the lane?

Ans2) The child meets a hawker everyday in the lane.

Q3) When does the child go to bed?

Ans3) The child goes to bed as soon as it is dark in the evening.

Q4) What does he see through the open window?

Ans4) He sees the night watchman through the open window.

Q4) How does the street lamp stand?

Ans4) The streets lamp stands like a one –eyed giant.

Q5) Who gives company to the watchman?

Ans5) The watchman’s Shadow alone gives him company.

6th class-cbse english (honeysuckle)Poem6(The wonderful Words)(Mary O’Neill)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) Why is the poem named “The Wonderful Words”?

Ans1) Words are the food and dress of thoughts. Our thoughts can be expressed only through words. In the absence of proper words, we can’t say what we want. The poem tells us the secret of word power. So it is properly named.

Q2) Why do bright ideas often die?

Ans2) Bright ideas often die due to lack of vocabulary.

Q3) What do people want to listen and welcome?

Ans3) People want to listen new ideas and new thoughts. They welcome something new.

Q4) What are imprisoned in the brains, why?

Ans4) Thoughts are imprisoned in the brain

Q5) How can you free you thoughts from your brain?

Ans5) We can free our thoughts from our mind by expressing them. We need words for that.

Q6) How can we express our thoughts?

Ans6)  We can express our thoughts through words.

Q7) What is Prison here?

Ans7 Brain is the Prison in which thoughts are imprisoned.

6th class-cbse english (honeysuckle)Poem5(Where do all the teacher go)(Peter Dixon)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go after the school closes?

Ans1) A teacher is special for a child. So he wants to know where he goes after the school closes.

Q2) What are the things normal people do that the poet talks about?

Ans2) Normal people on reaching home take off trousers and get into pyjamas. They see T.V and pick their noses.

Q3) Why does the poet wonder if teachers also do things that other people do?

Ans3) Children consider teacher special. So the poet wonders if teachers also do things as other people do.

Q4) How does the poet plan to find out? What will he do once he find out?

Ans4) The poet plans to follow a teacher after school hours. He will secretly find out his activities.

Q5) Give a central idea or sum and substance of the poem.’ Where Do All the Teachers Go?”

           

Ans5) A student considers his teacher special. But there is no interaction between them. So the teacher becomes a mystery. The child wonders if his teacher also do things as other people do. He wants to know about him. He follows a teacher to his home and notes his activities. Then he will write a poem about it.

6th class-cbse english (honeysuckle)Poem4(Beauty)(E. Yeh-Shure)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) What do we see in sunlight?

Ans1) We see beauty.

Q2) How does the poet define beauty?

Ans2) Beauty lies in the objects of nature. All good things, good actions and all that pleases are beautiful.

Q3)Why do people dance for their harvest?

Ans3) They dance because they are pleased to harvest their crops.

Q4) Can you name some beautiful things seen or heard?

Ans4)Yes, I have been the beautiful things like chirping birds, whistling trees , laughing children and vast sea shore.

Q5) “Beauty is in yourself.” How is it?

Ans5) We can feel beauty in ourselves. Noble deeds make us beautiful.

Q6) When is the beauty heard?

Ans6) Beauty is heard in the night; whistling of wind, rain falling and playing music.

Q7) Which objects of nature are beautiful?

Ans7) The singing wind and the rainfall are beautiful.

Q8) Where does beauty lie?

Ans8) Beauty lies in happy thoughts, goods deeds.

Q9) Which things repeat in one’s mind?

Ans9)Happy thoughts and goods deeds repeat in our dream.

6th class-cbse english (honeysuckle)Poem3(The Quarrel)(Eleanor Fajeaon)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) How did the Quarrel start?

Ans1) The quarrel started on a pretty thing.

Q2) How did the quarrel end?

Ans2) The quarrel ended in a friendly way.

Q3) How did they differ?

Ans3)  They differed as each one said to be right.