THE INCHCAPE ROCK

THE INCHCAPE ROCK

1.What does the poet want to convey in the first two stanzas?

In these stanzas the poet is describing the calmness of the sea. There is no stir in the air

and the sea also appears to be calm. The ship stood very still in the ocean, this we know

because the ‘keel’ of the ship is steady. On the other hand the Inchcape rock ahead

of the ship was also standing firm and the waves flowed steadily not affecting the

Inchcape rock.

2.What is the figure of speech used in these lines?

a      “no stir in the air, no stir in the sea.”

b      “So little they rose, so little they fell.”

Here at two places poet has used ‘repetition’, “no stir in the air, no stir in

the sea.” “So little they rose, so little they fell.” Also there is ‘alliteration’

in the lines, “The ship was still as till could be.”

3.Who anchored the bell and why it has been called as warning bell?

The bell was anchored by the kind Abbot(monk) of Aberbrothok  on the Inchcape rock.

 This bell worked as a warning bell for the mariners, whenever there happened

 to be a storm, the bell swayed and floated along with buoys producing

sound and mariners became aware about the presence of a dangerous rock,

 which would have otherwise been hidden by the swell of sea waves. All the

 mariners were thankful towards Abbot of Aberbrothok and blessed him for

his kind deed.

4.What is the figure of speech used in these lines?

a) The ship was as still as she could be ,her keel was steady

Her sails from heaven received no motion.

b) A sound as if with the inchcape bell

The devil below was ringing the bell

a)Personification

b)Metaphor

VERY SHORT QUESTIONS

1.Do you think this poem is ballad? Why?

Yes,it is ballad because it is narrating a story of two characters .

2.What do you make out of the Abbot of Aberbrothok’s character?

He was a kind- hearted, humane person who wished well for everyone.

That is why he had placed the bell at the Inchcape Rock’s buoy.

3.Why did Sir Ralph want to create trouble for Abbot of Aberbrothok?

 …...because he was jealous of the popularity of Abbot of Aberbrothok and

 simply wanted to make life difficult for him.

4.What is the mood of the poem in the first few stanzas of the poem?

The mood is of happiness, stillness. It is peaceful and calm. The day is bright and sun is shining.

Everything looks just perfect.

5.Which rhyme scheme is followed in this poem?

……aabb.

6.What is the difference between a ‘surge’ and a ‘wave’?

 A surge is a very strong forward movement of sea

waves whereas wave is the regular movement of sea water.

7.What is the structure?

Poem has seventeen stanzas.

8.What is the form?

It is a lyrical ballad.

9.What is the style?

 It is narrative poem by the poet.

10.Are opening and closing lines of poem significant?

Yes, Opening lines tells that everything is peaceful and calm and closing lines

 talk about death and destruction.

11.Is there a clear passage of time mentioned in the poem?

No, the poem just describes the life of pirates and sailors at sea.

12.What is the mood of the poem?

 it is very serious and adventurous.

13.What is the tone of the poem?

Is it a satiric, serious ,adventurous and somber poem .

14.What is the theme?

One pays for ones misdeeds.

OZYMANDIAS

OZYMANDIAS

1.Whom does the poet meet?

A traveller from an antique land.

2.What kind of a place is the land visited by the traveller?

It’s a desert.

3.What does the poet mean by ‘Two vast and trunk less legs of stone’?

Just two huge legs of stone without a body.

4.What else did the traveler find in the sand?

He found a visage half sunk.

5.How was the visage?

It had a frown and a wrinkle on the lip. There was a sneer of cold command.

6.Explain:....that its sculptor well those passions read

The sculptor read those passions well and sculpted it on the visage or the face of the statue.

7.What is the only thing remaining in the vast desert?

The trunkless legs, the visage and the words on the pedestal.

8.What do the words tell us about the King?

He was a proud person

9.What lesson did you learn from the poetry?

Nothing lasts forever.

10.What features on the King’s face tell that he was proud?

He had a frown and a wrinkled lip on his face. His face also had a sneer of cold command.

11.What else tells that he was proud?

The inscription on the pedestal: ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on

my works, ye mighty, and despair!”

12.Identify the Figures of speech in the poem

 The entire poem is Metaphorical where there is implied comparisons between the King and

human attitude.

King of Kings is a Hyperbole . An exaggerated statement meant for emphasis.

‘Look on my works, ye Mighty , and despair!” Here it is an irony, where the King is boastful

of his achievements but what remains is stretches of sand.

13.What happens to people who are proud?

Nothing remains of them except evidences that they were proud.

14.What should be the qualities that achievers should imbibe?

They should be humble about their achievements and not boastful.

15.What will happen then?

Achievements and our name will not be forgotten by the sands of time. It will always be remembered.

16.Discuss the value of the poem.

The poem reminds powerful people that their power is only temporary. However much powerful people may wish to think that their power is immortal, they are only deceiving themselves. Earthly power is mutable/changeable, and indeed all human beings need to remember this lesson.

THE LOST WORLD ch 6 & 7 --- EXTRA questions

THE LOST WORLD ch 6 & 7

EXTRA questions

1.What was the mood of the crowd at the lecture hall?

The audience was good humored and mischievous at the same time.

 2.Who received the loudest cheer from the audience?

Professor Challenger.

3.How did Mr Waldron conclude his lecture?

He said that the dinosaurs were extinct long before long before the first

appearance of mankind on this planet.

4.Who objected to this and why?

Professor Challenger objected because he

thought that such an idea was just an assumption on the part of Mr Waldron .

5.Who was Professor Summerlee, what did he say?

He was a professor of comparative anatomy , he agreed to be a part of the

committee that ProfessorChallenger suggested .

6.What kind of a person was Malone?

As we all know that he was driven by his lady love Gladys , who wanted him to be

someone who was adventurous and and took risks. Since he wanted to please her he

was trying to be the same person and was determined to achieve what he wanted in

life. In this lesson we also come to know that he was an opportunist. He did not want

to let go of the opportunity, that had come his way.

name the characters that are important in this part of the story ?

Lord John Raxton ,Professor Challenger, Mr Summerlee, Tarp Henry and The narrator -Mr

Melone.

7.What did Mr Melone do at the conference hall?

He volunteered to go on an expedition.

8.Who is Lord John Raxton?

He is another volunteer to go on the expedition. He claimed that he had already

 been to Amazon Forests and is familiar with the jungle.

9.Name the three people who were selected to go on an expedition.

Professor Summerlee, Lord Raxton and Duncan Melone.

10.How would you describe the house of Lord Raxton?

The house had rich furs, strange mats were scattered all over the floor.

 There were rare pictures and painting on the walls .

11.Upon meeting Malone, what did Lord Roxton do?

 he wanted to find out if Melone was brave enough to go on a dangerous expedition or not?

12.What stigma was attached to Melone?

 That he was a coward.

 13.Was Melone really brave or he pretended to be brave?

He pretended to be Brave.

14.Which phrase made you think of this: Although the drunk gave me jitters ,

 I rose from my chair  and  said to Lord Roxton.

 People don’t like to have me ( stigma) .

15. How would you describe Lord Roxton after reading about him so far?

 He was a man who was adventurous by nature. He wanted to explore things

and was interested in finding about wonderful things that existed on planet

earth.

16.What did Melone explain to McArdle?

That Melone should write full accounts of his adventures, in letters to Mc Ardle.

 17.What happened when the team tried to contact Professor Challenger?

 They made three attempts but all their attempts were futile.

 18.What did he do?

At first he abused the press, then he did not give any response

at all, and finally only a sound was heard from his side that sounded like his phone

receiver crashed.

19.What message did Professor Challenger give all of them?

 he gave them a sealed envelope with his directions and guidance, told them to

 open it only when they reached Manaos , a town located in the Amazon.

20. Contrast the characteristics  of Lord Roxton and Professor Summerlee.

Roxton: brisk walk, beaming face, eager

Summerlee: dejected, melonchaly figure, dragging steps, drooping head

Both : Interested in learning about wonderful mysteries of the Earth.

Question Bank Cycle Test – 2 (2015-16)

PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (CBSE)
Question Bank Cycle Test – 2 (2015-16)
Std: VIII
Subject: English

I. Read the following passage carefully.
For many people who live in cities, parks are an important
part of the landscape. They provide a place for people to relax
and play sports, as well as a refuge from the often harsh
environment of a city. What people often overlook is that parks
also provide considerable environmental benefits.
One benefit of parks is that plants absorb carbon
dioxide—a key pollutant—and emit oxygen, which humans
need to breathe. According to one study, an acre of trees can
absorb the same amount of carbon dioxide that a typical car
emits in 11,000 miles of driving. Parks also make cities cooler.
Scientists have long noted what is called the Urban Heat Island
Effect: building materials such as metal, concrete, and asphalt
absorb much more of the sun’s heat and release it much more
quickly than organic surfaces like trees and grass. Because city
landscapes contain so much of these building materials, cities
are usually warmer than surrounding rural areas. Parks and other
green spaces help to mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect.
Unfortunately, many cities cannot easily create more parks
because most land is already being used for buildings, roads,
parking lots, and other essential parts of the urban environment.
However, cities could benefit from many of the positive effects
of parks by encouraging citizens to create another type of green
space: rooftop gardens. While most people would not think of
starting a garden on their roof, human beings have been
planting gardens on rooftops for thousands of years. Some
rooftop gardens are very complex and require complicated
engineering, but others are simple container gardens that
anyone can create with the investment of a few hundred dollars
and a few hours of work.
Now answer the following questions by choosing the correct options

given below:
1. For many people who live in the cities, parks provide a place to:
a. relax
b. work
c. stress
d. sleep
2. Which of the following best describes the main difference
between parks and rooftop gardens?
a. Parks are expensive to create
while rooftop gardens are not.
b. Parks are public while rooftop
gardens are private.
c. Parks absorb heat while rooftop gardens do not.
d. Parks require much space while rooftop gardens do not.
3. Urban Heat Island Effect is caused by the fact(s) that:
a. cities are warmer than nearby rural areas
b. building materials absorb more of the sun’s heat than organic
surfaces
c. building materials release the sun’s heat more quickly than
organic surfaces
d. villagers burn a lot of wood in their households
4. After reading the paragraph, it can be inferred that:
a. cities with rooftop gardens are cooler than those without
b. some plants are not suitable for growth in rooftop gardens
c. most people prefer parks to rooftop gardens
d. most people prefer life in the country over life in the city
5. ‘mitigate’ belongs to which word group?
a. absorb, consume
b. aggravate, intensify
c. destroy , annihilate
d. allay, reduce
II. Writing
1. Given below is the profile of Bertrand Russel, a great English
philosopher. Write his bio-sketch. Take help from the clues given
below.
Date Of Birth: 18 May 1872
Place Of Birth: Trilleck
Family: aristocratic
Profession: Lecturer in Trinity College
Offered post at Harvard University
Specialization: Maths and philosophy
Faith: Individual Freedom
Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature
2. Read the following table about the favourite games of school going
children. Interpret the same
Age Group Cricket Football Hockey Video
Games
5-8 Yrs 40 2 4 54
9-12Yrs 44 4 3 49
13-16 yrs 30 3 2 65
3. Describe your school’s library in about 80 words.
4. You are Simran living in Vishnu Garden, Delhi. Your friend Pushpa has
recovered from long illness. Write a letter to her showing your
happiness on her recovery and telling her how to take care of her
health in future.
III. Grammar
1. In each of the following sentences, choose whether the verb in bold is
transitive or intransitive.
a. He gave the book to the teacher.
b. We lived in Mexico for two years.
c. Those people painted their house blue.
d. My brother moved to another city.
e. We clean our room every day.
2. Fill in the blanks below with the correct modal auxiliary verb. Choose
the words required from the box given below:
will might would can shall could should ought to must had better
have to may
a. The rabbit _______________ have gotten into my garden because
the fence is torn
b. Before he died, my dog ________________ sleep with me every
night.
c. Mrs. Henry says we ________________ finish our work before recess.
d. I ___________ do my chores before mother has to remind me.
e. ______________I please stay home from school today?
3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate non finite verbs.
a. My husband and I postponed _______________ our vacation.( to
plan/planning)
b. The students decided _______________ on a field trip. ( to go/
going)
c. Bob has _______________ a new pair of shoes. ( to buy/buying)
d. Yesterday, Sarah forgot _______________ her cat. ( to feed/feeding)
e. Every week, Jack remembers _______________ his mother. ( to
phone/phoning)
4. Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb.
a. Mrs. Polanski (know) _______ ________ Peter since he was a little boy.
She has lived next door to his family for many years
b. Right now I (watch) _______ _______ a movie. I (watch) _______ a lot
of movies.
c. (You, be) ________ _______ ________ to Africa before? I (hear)
________ _________ it is beautiful there. I would like to go on a safari
in Kenya.
d. My mom (cook) _______ _______ dinner tonight. (You, want) _______
_______ _______ to eat with us?
e. Andrew (finish) _______ ________ his work. He is ready to take a
break.
5. Choose the correct option from these regular/irregular verbs.
a. Last summer we _____ (go/went/gone) to our grandfather’s
house.
b. We ______ ourselves at the fair. (enjoy/enjoyed/enjoys)
c. Mr. Sharma ______ a lot of money on his son’s wedding.
(spend/spent)
d. I _______sad when my grandmother passed away. (feel/felt)
6. Choose the correct option.
a. Dr. Ferndon is one of those professors who ___________ distracted
most of the time (seem/seems)
b. Neither Luis nor his parents ___________ the least bit interested in
keeping in touch with her. (is/are)
c. Because there ___________ so many students in that class, I can
sometimes sleep in the back row. (is/are)
d. Neither traffic light--neither the one on Asylum Avenue nor the one
on Farmington Avenue-- ___________ working after the storm.
(was/were)
e. Mr. Bradley, along with his two sisters, ___________ lived in this town
for thirty years (has/have)
Literature
IV. 1. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
“See here, sir! See what my wife found in the crop!” He held out his
hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly
scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size.
a. Who is saying this to whom?
b. What is the significance of ‘blue stone’? Who did this belong to?
c. Give the synonym of the word ‘scintillating’.
2. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
“I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I
am saving a soul.”
a. Who said it to whom?
b. Why does the speaker think that he is commuting a felony?
c. Make a sentence with the word ‘felony’.
3. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
“But the tigress was growing old… Gravely ill and suffering from a
stroke, she requested the British government to be allowed to come
back to India.”
a. Why did the British Government not allow Bhikaiji Cama to go back
to India?
b. Why do you think Madame Cama wanted to return to India?
c. Use the word ‘gravely’ in a sentence.
4. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
Her patriotism, her efforts to promote the cause of India’s freedom
among other nations will never be forgotten.
a. Who is mentioned in the extract given above?
b. Discuss few efforts made by the mentioned person to promote the
cause of India’s freedom struggle.
c. Give the antonym of the word ‘forgotten’.
5. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
“Oh you are the young person who cannot understand plain English?”
he asked.
a. Who is speaking these lines?
b. Why is the speaker asking this question?
c. Give a word that is opposite of the word ‘plain’.
6. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
“I believe every single word the professor said to you”, he said
sincerely, “for you see, South America is a place very dear to my
heart.”
a. Who is speaking this to whom?
b. Why South America is dear to speaker’s heart?
c. Give another word closest to the meaning of ‘sincerely’
7. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
No stir in air, no stir in the sea
The ship was still as she could be
Her sails from heaven received no motion
Her keel was steady in the ocean
a. Name the poem and the poet of the given extract.
b. What is the rhyme scheme in the given stanza”
c. Give another rhyming word for the word ‘sea’
8. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
But even in his dying fear
One dreadful sound could Rover hear,
A sound as if with the Inchcape bell
The devil below was ringing his knell
a. Who is Rover? How would you describe him?
b. Explain the meaning of the phrase, “The devil below was ringing his
knell”
c. Mention the rhyme scheme given in this stanza.
9. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passion read
a. Write the name of the poem and the poet.
b. Write the meaning of the phrase’ its sculptor well those passions
read’
c. Explain the term ‘shattered visage’.
10. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.
“ I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: ’Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert, near them, on the sand”
a. Which land is the poet referring to when the poet speaks of an
antique land.
b. What does poet mean when he says ‘trunkless legs’
c. What is the setting of the poem?
V. Answer the following questions in 30 to 40 words each.
1. The Blue Carbuncle
a. How did Homes find out that Henry Baker was innocent?
b. Which incident in the story is the turning point that helped Holmes
solve the case faster?
c. According to Holmes why did Ryder accuse the plumber Horner
of stealing the carbuncle?
d. Why does Holmes let Ryder go?
e. ‘Sherlock Holmes has extraordinary powers of reasoning and
observation.’ Do you agree? Justify you answer.
2. Madame Cama
a. Why is Madame Cama called the ‘Mother of the Indian
Revolution’?
b. Describe Madame Cama’s activities in Paris.
c. How has India honoured the mother of Indian revolution?
d. Why do you think Madame Cama wanted to return to India?
e. What happened when Madame Cama went to Britain in 1901?
3. Ozymandias
a. “The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”. Whose
hand and heart has poet referred to in this line?
b. What is the main theme of the poem ‘Ozymandias’?
c. Which traits of Ozymandias have been highlighted by the
sculptor?
d. Bring out the irony in the poem.
e. Explain the lines-‘the hand that mocked them and the heart that
fed’.
4. The Inchcape Rock
a. How did Sir Ralph the Rover become rich?
b. Why did Sir Ralph cut off the bell on the Inchcape rock?
c. What do you know about the Inchcape Rock from the poem?
d. What was the wicked deed done by Ralph the Rover?
e. Compare the character of Ralph the Rover with that of the Abbot
of Aberbrothok.
V. Answer the following questions in about 60 -80 words.
1. Why Did Melone decide to volunteer for the expedition?
2. Describe the ‘extraordinary creature’ that the narrator sees in the
sketch book.
3. Who were the narrator’s companions for the expedition? Discuss their
characteristics.
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