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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?

The color ‘sour cream ‘expresses nearly white color. The poet uses this expression to express the pathetic environment, where the walls were completely vanished and were totally dusty in an appearance. Due to this ugly environment, slum children were depressed, pale and were mislay to their hopes and dreams.


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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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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

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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?

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What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How can their lives be made to change?