DAYBREAK by H W Longfellow: Latest Questions

A. Complete the sentences which follow, choosing the correct answers from the alternatives given: (Each question carries 1 mark)

1.        What does ‘Daybreak’ mean?

2.       What type of poem is ‘Daybreak”?

3.       Who announces Daybreak?

4.       Whom does the wind first address in the poem?

5.       Whom does the wind tell to make room for him ?

6.       Whom does the wind hail on the sea?

7.       What does the wind advise the mariners?

8.       “Sail on, Ye mariners, …” – What does the word ‘Ye’ mean?

9.       “And hurried landward far away” – Why is the wind in haste?

10.   What does the wind say to the forest ?

11.   “Hang all your leafy banners out !” – What are ‘leafy banners’?

12.   How does the wind try to awaken the sleeping bird?

13.    “It touched the wood-bird’s folded wing” – What does the expression ‘folded wings’ signify?

14.   What does the wind ask the wood-bird to do?

15.    How can ‘chanticleer’ herald the arrival of the daybreak?

16.   What is the ‘clarion’ of the chanticleer?

17.   What is the meaning of ‘clarion’?

18.   Why does the wind ask the fields of corn to bow down?

19.   What is ‘belfry-tower’?

20.   “Proclaim the hour.” – Who is called to proclaim the hour?

21.   Where does the wind finally reach?

22.   How does the wind express his sorrow for the dead ?

23.   What does the wind tell the dead souls lying in the grave?

24.   Give an example of ‘personification’ from the poem.

B. Answer the following questions in not more than 100 words each: (Each question carries 5 marks)

(i) The poet personifies the wind in “Daybreak”. How does he do this ?

Or, How is the wind personified in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”?

Or, Describe the activities of the wind as you find in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”.

Or, Give an account of the activities of the wind in the sea and on land as described in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”?

Or, Discuss the journey of the wind, carrying the message of daybreak in Longfellow’s poem, “Daybreak”.

(ii) Explain the significance of the title of the poem “Daybreak”.

(iii) Consider Longfellow as a poet of Nature with reference to the poem, “Daybreak”.

Or, What picture of dawn does the poem ‘Daybreak” present?

(iv) “It crossed the churchyard with a sigh …” – Who crossed the churchyard? Why did it sigh ? What did the wind say while crossing the churchyard? Why did it say so?     1+1+1+2

LEELA'S FRIEND by R K Narayan: Latest Questions

MCQ

Complete the sentences which follow, choosing the correct answers from the alternatives given:  1 mark each

Text Book Questions

• Sidda was hired because – i) he came with an introduction from the doctor ii) he had a good record of housekeeping iii) Leela decided he had to stay iv) he pleaded with Mr. Sivasanker to be hired.
• The relationship that Leela and Sidda enjoyed was one of – i) friendship and trust ii) employer and employee iii) suspicion and caution iv) hatred and enmity.
• Sidda was taken to the police station because – i) the police had proof that sidda stole the chain ii) the police found the chain from Sidda iii) Sidda confessed to stealing the chain iv) the police assumed Sidda stole the chain.
• Leela’s mother was unable to tell her a story when requested because – i) she did not know any ii) her mind was preoccupied with thoughts of Sidda iii) she was too sleepy to narrate a story iv) she did not want to indulge Leela just then.

Sample Questions

• Leela’s box was full of – i) catalogues, pens and chalks ii) illustrated books, cards and pins iii) Chocolates, eraser and pencils iv) catalogues, illustrated books and stumps of pencils.

Class XI Annual Examination Questions

• 2014 > Leela keenly examined the ball for traces of – i) dust ii) cloud iii) moon iv) stars.

SAQ

Answer each of the following questions in a single sentence: 1 mark each

Text Book Questions

• Where does Mr. Sivasanker first meet Sidda ?
• What is Mr. Sivasanker’s first impression of Sidda ?
• List Sidda’s chores in the Sivasanker household.
• What do you understand about Sidda from his conversations with Leela ?
• How did Sidda react when Leela’s mother asked him about the chain ?

Sample Questions

• How, according to Sidda, can he touch the sky ?

Class XI Annual Examination Questions

• 2014 > a) What kind of job did Sida do in the Sivasanker household ? ii) Where did Leela’s mother find the chain ?

D/AQ

Answer each of the following questions in not more than 100 words:  5 marks each

Text Book Questions

• List the ways in which Sidda’s company makes Leela “supremely happy”, and also how Leela attempts to ‘educate’ him in turn.  3+2
• What is the relationship between Mr. Sivasanker and Sidda ? Trace the difference in their relationship at the beginning of the story and at the end of the story.  3+2
• How do Mr. and Mrs. Sivasanker react to Leela’s missing chain ? How does Leela herself react ? What does this suggest about each of them ?  3+1+1
• What message is conveyed by Mr. Sivasanker’s final words in the story, “In any case, we could’t have kept a criminal like him in the house.”
• What is your own view of Sidda ? Do you think he is a suitable friend for Leela ? Give at lest three examples from the text to support your argument.  3+2

Sample Questions

• What did Leela’s mother do when she found the gold chain in the tamarind pot ? How did Leela’s father react ?  3+2

Class XI Annual Examination Questions

• 2014 > How did Leela try to make Sidda write ? What was the result ?  3+2

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Questions for Practice on "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth

A. SAQ (Short Answer Questions):
    (1 mark each & to be answered in a complete sentence each)

1. When does the poet observe the beauty of London ?
2. What kind of poem is “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”?
3. How is the air of London in the early morning?
4. Which river is mentioned in “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”?
5. Why did he poet invoke God in the poem?
6. What is called ‘mighty heart’ in the poem?
7. What garment does the city of London wear?
8. What is the city of London compared to by the poet?
9. When was the poem written?
10. What is described in the poem?
11. “Dull would he be of soul ....” – Whom does the poet think ‘dull of soul’?
12. How does the early sun beautify the valley, rock and hill?
13. “And all that mighty heart is lying still.” – To whom does the poet compare the city of London here?
14. “And all that mighty heart is lying still.” –Whose heart does the poet see lying still?
15. “And bright and glittering in the smokeless air.” – Why is the air smokeless?
16. Why does the poet say that ‘the river glideth at his own sweet will’?
17. Why do all objects of the city look bright and shining?

B. DAQ (Descriptive / Analytical Questions):

     (5 marks each & to be answered in about 100 words each)

1. How does the poet present London in the beauty of the morning?
   Or, How does Wordsworth describe the city of London in his poem “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”? 
2. “The city now doth like a garment wear / The beauty of the morning; silent, bare.”—Explain the image contained in the lines. Or, Bring out the simile implied here.
3. Describe how far the title of the sonnet, “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge” is appropriate.
   Or, Write a note on the significance of the title of the poem “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”.
4. How does Wordsworth use personifications in the poem, “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”?