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Tick the item which best answers the following.

The children’s faces are compared to ‘rootless weeds’


This means they


(i) are insecure


(ii) are ill-fed


(iii) are wasters

(i) is insecure.

Explanation: The children faces were in-secure as they are unnourished and depressed under a touchful environment, where their aspiration and plan were carried away and never had an open and freedom life where they can lay their dreams and always condensed in an injustice domain.


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Tick the item which best answers the following.

The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means


The boy


(i) has an inherited disability


(ii) was short and bony

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Tick the item which best answers the following.

His eyes live in a dream, A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this means


The boy is


(i) full of hope in the future


(ii) mentally ill


(iii) distracted from the lesson

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What do you think is the color of ‘sour cream’? Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?

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The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of ‘Shakespeare’, ‘buildings with domes’, ‘world maps’ and beautiful valleys. How do these contrast with the world of these children?