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The Ball Poem Extra Questions and Answers Class 10 English First Flight

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The Ball Poem Extra Questions and Answers Class 10 English First Flight

Extract Based Questions (4 marks each)

Read the following extracts and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
Question 1.
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, (1×4=4)
What, what is he to do ? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water !
(a) The boy has lost ………. .
(b) It fell down …….. .
(c) At the loss of his ball the boy felt ………. .
(d) The boy saw the ball go.
Answer:
(1) to learn good habits.
(b) Amanda’s mother.
(c) straight.
(d) Robin Klen.

Question 2.
An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy (1×4=4)
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down.
All his young days in to the harbour where His ball bent I would not intrude on him,
A dime another ball, is worthless. Now He senses first responsibility
In a words of possessions.
(a) The boy is in grief because his ball has been …… .
(b) The boy feels trouble and stands rigid because he is thinking about his ……. .
(c) The poet does not offer to give him the new ball because he wants to teach him the value of …….. .
(d) The boy senses first responsibility in …….. .

Answer:
(a) lost
(b) days when he was young.
(c) responsibility
(d) Words of possession

Question 3.
His ball went. I would not intrude on him; (1×4=4)
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now He senses first responsibility In a world of possessions.
(a) Where did the ball go ?
(b) The poet does not want to interfere as he wants the child …….. .
(c) This will help the child in understanding his ……. .
(d) Giving another ball to the child is ……. .

Answer:
(a) The ball went into the water.
(b) to learn to bear the loss.
(c) responsibility.
(d) Worthless.

Question 4.
I would not intrude on him,
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now He sense first responsibility In a world of possessions.
(a) Why is another ball worthless for him ?
(b) The loss of the ball teaches the boy …….. .
(c) ‘A world of possessions’ means ……… .
(d) The poet does not want to ……. . (1×4=4)

Answer:
(a) Another ball is worthless for him because he wanted the one which has been lost.
(b) the sense of responsibility.
(c) The world of materialism.
(d) interfere on the child.
OR
(a) Who would not intrude ?
(b) Whose eyes are desperate ?
(c) The word “intrude” in the above given extract means ………. .
(d) The poet senses.
(a) The poet would not intrude.
(b) The boys eyes are desperate.
(c) To go/interfere into something/matter forcefully.
(d) a world of possession.

Question 5.
The epistemology of loss, how to stand up Knowing what every man must one day know And most know many days, how to stand up.
(a) The boy has lost ……. .
(b) The lost has taught the boy ……… .
(c) The word ‘epistemology’ means …….. .
(d) According to the poet every man. (1×4=4)

Answer:
(a) his ball.
(b) the sense of responsibility.
(c) study of knowledge.
(d) should know how to succeed.

Question 6.
His ball went. I would not intrude on him;
A dime, another ball, is worthless, now He senses first responsibility In a worlds of possessions.
(a) These lines tell us that the boy …… .
(b) The word ‘worthless’ tells us that …….. .
(c) Losing the ball teaches the boy to ……. .
(d) Giving another ball to the child is ……. . (1×4=4)

Answer:
(a) is upset at losing his ball
(b) the boy does not wish to have another ball
(c) to become responsible
(d) Worthless.

Short Answer Type Questions (30-40 words & 2 marks)

Question 1.
What is the deep meaning hidden in the poem “The Ball Poem ?
Answer:
The deep meaning of the poem is that our childhood can quickly fly as a ball is lost. Also me grow up unsuspect¬edly and face hardships like loss.

Question 2.
What is the boy’s state of mind at the loss of his ball ?
Answer:
The boy is very disturbed at the loss of his ball. He keeps staring at the ball with his desperate eyes.

Question 3.
Pick out the words that suggest that the boy has not lost anything earlier.
Answer:
The words that suggest that the boy has not lost anything earlier are “He senses first responsibility in a world of possessions.”

Long Answer Type Question (4 marks).

Question 1.
Elaborate the idea that one should learn to accept and let go and not stick to something that we can not have.
Answer:
It is important for everyone to experience to accept the loss and be bold and get on with life. Staying strong is the only way to survive. One should understand that the past is gone and will never came back. Sometimes loss helps us to grow up and we are able to face hardships like loss. We also learn to accept and let go and do not stick to something which we can not have.

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