List of practice Questions

Write the central idea of the poem 'A Thing of Beauty'.
'കാച്ചിക്കുറുക്കിയ കവിത' എന്ന് വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കുന്നത് ആരുടെ കവിതകളെയാണ്?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

a) How is the exotic moment described by the poet?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

b) When would they all be together?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

c) Name the poet and the poem of the above lines, correctly.
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions:
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness, but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing.

a) What does the poet feel about a thing of beauty?
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness, but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing.

b) Why will a thing of beauty never pass into nothingness?
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness, but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing.

c) Name the poet and the poem from which the above extract has been taken.
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow (from 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' by Adrienne Rich):

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

(c) How do the tigers pace?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow (from 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' by Adrienne Rich):

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

(a) How do Jennifer's tigers behave?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow (from 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' by Adrienne Rich):

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

(b) Why do the tigers not fear the men beneath the tree?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the question that follows:
And such is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
And lovely tales that we have heard or read;
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

(a) About whom have we heard or read the lovely tales?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the question that follows:
And such is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
And lovely tales that we have heard or read;
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

(b) From where does the immortal drink pour?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the question that follows:
And such is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
And lovely tales that we have heard or read;
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

(c) Name the poem and the poet of the above lines correctly.
Read the following extract and answer: "Perhaps the Earth can teach us / as when everything seems dead / and later proves to be alive. / Now I'll count up to twelve / and you keep quiet and I will go." — (a) What does the 'earth' teach us?
Read the following extract and answer: "Perhaps the Earth can teach us / as when everything seems dead / and later proves to be alive. / Now I'll count up to twelve / and you keep quiet and I will go." — (b) What remains alive when everything seems dead?
Read the following extract and answer: "Perhaps the Earth can teach us / as when everything seems dead / and later proves to be alive. / Now I'll count up to twelve / and you keep quiet and I will go." — (c) Name the poet and the poem from which this extract has been taken.
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

(a) What lesson can the earth teach us?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

(b) How does the poet interpret the inaction and action on the Earth?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

(c) What remains alive when everything seems to be dead?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow (from 'Keeping Quiet' by Pablo Neruda):
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.

a) What do we lose in our single-minded desire? (2)
b) What is the 'sadness' that the poet talks about? (2)
c) How are we threatening ourselves? (2)
Write the central idea of the poem 'Keeping Quiet'.
Write the central idea of the poem 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers'.
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody Poor;
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
And mutual fear brings peace,
Till the selfish loves increase:
Then Cruelty knits a snare,
And spreads his baits with care.
He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath his foot.
(The Human Abstract)
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
(On Shakespear. 1630)