Test No 01
Questions
Q. Read the extract and complete the activities given below.10
A1) Select any two statements to Describe central idea of the poem.
* Without money there is no joy.
* Greed of money make life like a child that holds a trumpet that he must not blow.
* Lots of money and friends are two key requirements of life.
* Good friends and real joy never ask for money.
A2) Explain ground of comparison between poet and child that holds trumpet but couldn’t blow it.
A3) Suggest some ideas to make management of money and needs of life.
A4) Find out example of Hyperbole from the extract.
A5) Compose two to four poetic lines to focus on uselessness of money.
Model Answer Test No 01
A1) Ans-
1)Greed of money make life like a child that holds a trumpet that he must not blow.
2)Good friends and real joy never ask for money.
A2) Ans-
In the poem poet had lots of money but poet could not make use of it to enjoy life or for what he was earning it. It was like a child who has given trumpet but not allowed to play it. So poet's earning is compared with trumpet which is not allowed to enjoy.
A3) Ans – There can be good management of money and our need. It’s very easy and interesting. First fix your needs from environmental point of view, then decide upper limit of your earning.
A4) Ans-
‘Came knocking all day at my door’ idea of coming is exaggerated by saying ‘all day’
A5) Ans –
A bed but not sleep
Computer but not brain
Medicine but not health
Sex but not love
Acquaintances but not friends.
Test No 02
Questions
Q. Read the extract and complete the activities given below.10
( When I had money ……………. though very few)
A1) Global understanding (2)
State whether the following statements are true or false
i) Poor people are always light hearted
ii) The poor men’s wives always complain about their husbands’ continuous work
iii) The poet was so happy in his richness
iv) The poet received true friends when he had money
A2) Inference/Interpretation/Analysis (2)
When the poet had money, he had many true friends. Explain the Statement.
A3) Personal Response (2)
‘Money cannot give you eternal happiness.’ Express your opinion.
A4) Poetice Device (2)
a) Identify the figure of speech in following lines and explain it.
i) When I had money, money ,O!
ii) And how their wives do hum like bees with humming of bees by using the word ‘like’
iii) Then felt I like a child that holds
iv) And how their wives do hum like bees.
v) About their work from morn till night.
A5) Creativity (2)
Compose a four line poem on ‘True friend.’
Model Answer Test No 02
A1) Global understanding (2)
State whether the following statements are true or false
i) True
ii) True
iii) False
iv) False
A2) Money is an important part of everyone’s daily life. If anyone have lot of money people gather around him to fulfil their needs. So there is proverb money makes the world go round.In the same manner when the poet had money, he had many true friends
A3) Money is useful only for materialistic pleasure not for inner happiness .Money is not the most important thing in the world. It’s just need not a priority
A4) Poetice Device (2)
a) Identify the figure of speech in following lines and explain it.
i) Repetition – The above line is repeated two times in the poem.The word ‘money’ is also repeated in the same line.
ii) simile - The wives complains are compared with humming of bees by using the word ‘like’
iii) Inversion – The normal word order has changed in above line.The proper word order is I felt like a child that holds then.
iv) Onomotoporia – The word ‘hum’ denotes a sound
v) Antithesis – ‘morn’ and ‘night’, these opposite ideas came together in above line
A5) A best friend is not a just a friend
but also like your soul
that stays with you and takes risk with you
with every step of your roles
Test No 03
Questions
Q. Read the extract and complete the activities given below.10
Page 122 Poem - Money
A1 Global understanding
Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false
i ] The poet's true friends knocked at his door for money.
ii ] The poet felt like a child with the trumpet.
iii ]Poor men's wives do hum like bees.
iv ] when the poet became poor, his all friends left him.
A2 Inference
Guess why poor ones laugh.
A3 Personal response
' Money doesn't mean everything in life' Express your views in brief.
A4 Poetic device
Mention two figures of speech in the following line.
And how their wives do hum like bees
A5 Poetic Creation
Compose a short poem in about 4 to 6 lines on your best friend
Model Answer Test No 03
A1- (1) False
(2)True
(3)True
(4)False
A2- Because they are light hearted and their family life is satisfied. They work very hard from morning till night. They don't have time to worry about comforts and luxuries as they are very busy like honey bees.
A3- Money is important no doubt but some things can not be bought with cash like happiness , peace and pleasure. We can buy a bad but slumber can't be sold in any shop in the market.we can't offer money someone to love us. Money has limitations. We can build homes and apartments with money but humanity and sweetness in the home and peace of mind matters more than money. Money is a mean and not a destination.
A4- simile, onomatopoeia
A5- The best friend is life's light for anybody he can fight
I love him and he loves me
I am honey and he is my honey bee.
Test No 04
Questions
Que.- Read the following extract and do the activities given below. 10 Marks
Extract- Whole poem
A1- Global Understanding 02 Marks
Complete the given table.
| When poet had money | When poet had no money |
|---|---|
| 1) He had no happiness. | 1) ………………………… |
| 2) ………………………… | 2) He had few but true friends |
| 3) ……………………………….. | 3) He was light hearted. |
| 4) He was worried about wealth | 4) ………………………… |
A2- Inference/Interpretation/Analysis 02Marks
Give reason .
Poet says that poor men’s wives hum like bees because……..
A3- Personal Response 02 Marks
Express your own views about ‘ Money .‘
A4- Poetic Devices 02 Marks
a) Identify the rhyme scheme of the 1st and the 5th stanza.
b) Identify the figure of speech in the following line-
‘ Then felt I like a child that holds
A trumpet that he must not blow’
A5- Poetic creativity 02 Marks
Compose a four line poem on ‘Money’.
Model Answer Test No 04
A1- Complete the table.
| When poet had money | When poet had no money |
|---|---|
| 1) He had no happiness. | 1) He lived happy life |
| 2) He had many false friends | 2) He had few but true friends |
| 3) He was cheerless and gloomy. | 3) He was light hearted. |
| 4) He was worried about wealth | 4) He lived worry free life. |
A2- Give Reason.
Poor men’s wives hum like bees because poor men are not worried about wealth from cheater friends. They have true friends and so they are happy. Their wives are also busy in their routine work. They are able to talk and laugh freely, happily like bees.
A3- Personal Response
Money is the important thing in life, no doubt, but I think, it is not the most essential thing in our life. Money is useful to fulfill our basic needs but to make our life meaningful we should gain happiness, we should gain real friends, and respect in society.
A4- Poetic Device
a) Rhyme scheme of the 1 st stanza is abcb
Rhyme scheme of the 5th stanza is abab.
b)Simile-
The poet compares himself with a child, holding trumpet, but not blowing.
A5- Poetic creativity
Money gives house, but not home
Money gives companion, but not friends
Test No 05
Questions
Que.- Read the following extract and do the activities given below. 10 Marks
Extract- Whole poem
(When I had money---------------my friends are real through very few.)
A.1 State whether the following statements are true or false. 2
1. The poet knew no joy till he was rich
2. The poet felt that rich men’s heart is ever light.
3. When poet had money, he had many true friends.
4. When poet became poor he had few real friends.
A.2 Give reason 2
‘Friends came knocking all day at the poet’s door.
A.3 Personal response 2
‘Money is necessity not a priority.’ Explain.
A.4 Poetic device 2
Identify the figure of speech from the following line
‘And their wives do hum like bees’.
A.5 Poetic creativity 2
Compose 4 lines on ‘Money’.
Model Answer Test No 05
A.1
1.False
2. False
3. False
4. True
A.2 When the poet was rich he had many friends .They claimed that they were true friends, but it was only because he had money, they were not true friends. So they knock all the time.
A.3 ‘Money is necessity not a priority’, in my view its right. We can buy many things by money, without money we can do nothing so it is necessity, but it should not be our priority, we must think about our health, our relations our family. These should be our priority.
A.4 ‘And their wives do hum like bees ‘this is example of simile because, the wives of poor men are as busy as bees in their work.
A.5 Money
Money can buy clothes,
But not a beauty,
Money can buy books,
But not wisdom.
Test No 06
Questions
Que.- Read the following extract and do the activities given below. 10 Marks
“ I was quite happy ……….. came over me and gripped me.”
A.1 True or False (2)
1) The writer had his entire education in English.
2) The writer had developed superiority complex.
3) He wanted to run away from IIT.
4) He felt extremely humiliated and upset.
A.2 Give reason :- (2)
The writer had a lot of problems speaking in English. Give its reasons.
A.3 Find Out (2)
Find out the things which caused to feel the writer extremely humiliated and upset.
A.4 Personal Response (2)
Describe your ambition in short.
A.4 Language Study (2)
1) My spoken English was quite pathetic.
(Frame Wh question to get underlined part as an answer.)
2) I felt extremely humiliated and upset.
( Make it exclamatory sentence.)
A.6 Vocabulary (2)
Find the words from the extract which mean.
Proud
lacking confidence
arousing pity
lack of self esteem or feeling of inadequacy.
Model Answer Test No 06
A.1 True or False
False
False
True
True
A.2 The writer had lot of problems speaking in English because his vocabulary was very weak, his construction of sentences was very awkward, his spoken English was quite pathetic, his pronunciation was terrible, he had a very weak vocabulary.
A.3 A senior guy was a convent educated with fairly sophisticated English in spoken or colloquial. He was a bit arrogant and wanted to pull writer’s leg. He tried to engage in some conversation with the writer and started pointing out errors in everything that the writer said. He walked away after insulting the writer.
A.4 My ambition is to become a dancer. It is my choice and interest. I have always had the instinct for dancing from an early age. I have already joined a dance class. My parents always support me.
A.5 1) How was my spoken English?
2) How humiliated and upset I felt !
A.6 1) Proud – arrogant
2) lacking confidence – diffedent
3) arousing pity – pathetic
4) lack of self esteem or feeling of inadequacy – inferiority complex.
Test No 07
Questions
Que.- Read the following extract and do the activities given below. 10 Marks
“When I had money………. thought very few.”
A.1 True or False (2)
1. When poet had money, he had not any true friends.
2. When poet became poor he had not a few real friends.
3. Poor men’s wives do hum like bees.
4. The poet felt that he should not talk about his poverty.
A.2 Describe :- (2)
Describe the poet’s experience about friends.
A.3 Personal Response (2)
Give your opinion about excessive love of money.
A.4 Poetic device (2)
Write the rhyming words of the first two stanzas and write the rhyme scheme of the last stanza.
A.5 Poetic Creativity (2)
Compose four lines on friendship.
Model Answer Test No 07
A.1 1) True
2) False
3) True
4) False
A.2 The poet experienced very bad experience about his friends. When he was rich, he had many friends. They took advantage of his money. When the poet became poor, his untrue friends left him. The poet had very less number of friends now.
A.3 The excessive love of money makes man a slave. It makes man greedy. Such man commits so many mistakes and fells in the inevitable fate of misery. Not money but excessive love of money is the root of all evils. Money should run after man but man should not run after money.
A.4 Rhyming words – 1) poor – door 2) blow – know.
Rhyming scheme – abab.
A.5 Poetic Creativity
Friendship I always cherish in mind,
Friends who are so poor and kind.
Friendship for me is a treasure,
Which increases everyday so pleasure.
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