English Literature

VI

Topic: The Chocolate Room, The Master’s Mistake, Going for Water, The Naughty Boy,
Summer Sun

Q.1 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Mr. Wonka opened the door. Five children and nine-grown-ups pushed their way in- and oh,
what an amazing sight it was that now met their eyes!
They were looking down upon a lovely valley. There were green meadows on either side of the
valley, and along the bottom of it there flowed a great brown river.

a. When the visitors entered the Chocolate Room they saw ‘a lovely Valley’. Mention
three things about it.

b. What were the pipes made up of? Why had they been installed in the chocolate
factory?

c. How many children are addressed here? What was an amazing sight that then met
their eyes?

d. Why did Willy Wonka ask the visitors to be calm?

Q2. Read the extract from the poem and answer the questions that follow:

Each laid on other a staying hand

To listen ere we dared to look,
And in the hush we joined to make
We heard, we knew we heard the brook.

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A note as from a single place,
A slender tinkling fall that made
Now drops that floated on the pool
Like pearls, and now a silver blade.

a. There is a dearth of water. How is it conveyed in the poem?

b. What images does the poet use to convey the idea that the water is precious?

c. What does the brook sound like? Name the poem and the poet of the above extract.

d. Why did they lay a staying hand on each other? Give the rhyme scheme for the above
stanzas.

Q3. Read the extract from the poem and answer the questions that follow:
The dusty attic spider-clad,
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles,
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around

He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

a. Who did the sun make happy? How did he do this?

b. How did the sun enter the ladder hayloft?

c. What do these lines tell about the sun?

d. Why do you think the poet has chosen Summer for the poem?

e. What is personification? Give an example from the poem?

Q4. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

“ He was such a naughty boy

They threw away the key

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 He spent years alone In the Penitentiary
Locked up in a hole
Turn over With nowhere left to run
He finally sobered up
From a life of staying spun
He started contemplating”
a. Find synonyms for the following words from the extract given above.
i. confined-
ii. mischievous-
b. Give example of one figure of speech employed in the above stanza.

(Write the line and name the figure of speech employed.)

c. Why was the boy put in prison?

d. How did the boy transform his mischievous ways?

e. Why did the boy finally sober up?

f. What prayer did he offer to Lord Jesus? What does this show about his character?

g. What message does Michael Jordan wish to convey through Poem 2?

Q5. Read the extract and answer the following questions.

“Then tell the truth, Joe, and take the hiding; it’ll soon be over—just a couple of cuts with the
cane and it’ll be all over.”

a. Who said these words?

b. Make a sentence with the word ‘hiding’ from the passage but different in meaning
from how it has been used here.
c. Why was Joe asked to take the hiding?
d. If you were asked to choose between the two boys, who would you want to be like
and why? Write a short paragraph baser on the events of the story.

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 Q6. Choose the right option:

a. Why did the master write a note to Will’s father?

1.Will was misbehaving in class
2. Will didn’t complete his homework
3.Will stayed away from school.

b. What was the name of Will’s friend?

1. Johnny Nowlette 2. John White 3. Roger Moore

c. Who snatched the note from the pocket and threw it in the goldfield?
1. Joe 2. Will 3. John

d. Why did the dog follow Bill?

1. He thought he was in trouble
2. He thought it was a possum hunting expedition
3. None of the above.

e. What did Joe promise the master?

1. to complete his work.
2. to give his note to his father
3.to participate in the art competition

f. Who wrote the story “The Master’s Mistake”?

1. Henry Conan Doyle 2. Roald Dahl 3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4. Henry Lawson

g. “Getting a hiding” cannot mean

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 1. getting punished 2. being beaten up
3. searching for a hiding place 4. getting a beating

h. Who helped in finding Bill at the shaft?

1. the dog 2. the Master 3. Dad 4. Joe

i. What did Bill claim not to do for Joe?

1. He would tell a hundred lies. 2. He would jump into the shaft.
3. He would take a dozen hidings. 4. He would tear the note in bits.

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