Class 10 English Chapter 1 Extract Based Question Answers - First Flight

Q1: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.

(i) Name the poem and poet.
(ii) Who does ‘He’ refer to? Where is he kept?
(iii) Where is ‘He? Is he happy there?
(iv) Pick out the word from the extract that means the same as—‘bright’.
Ans:
(i) These lines have been taken from the poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’ composed by Leslie
(ii) Norris. ‘He’ refers to the Tiger. He is kept in a cage.
(iii) He is in the cage in the zoo. No, the tiger is not happy in the zoo.
(iv) ‘vivid’.

Q2: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
He should be lurking in shadow
Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole
Where plump deer pass.
(i) Who does ‘He’ refer to?
(ii) Where is the tiger at present?
(iii) Give a word opposite in meaning from these lines to ‘light’.
(iv) Pick out the word from the extract that means the same as—“wait in hiding”.
Ans:
(i) ‘He’ refers to the tiger.
(ii) Tiger is in its natural habitat at present.
(iii) Shadow
(iv) ‘Lurk’.

Q3: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
He should be snarling around houses
At the jungle’s edge,
Baring his white fangs, his claws,
Terrorising the village!
(i) Who is ‘he’ in the stanza?
(ii) Why does he move around the houses?
(iii) How should he be terrorising the village?
(iv) Give noun form of‘terrorise’.
Ans:
(i) ‘He’ in the stanza stands for the tiger.
(ii) He moves around the houses in search of his prey.
(iii) He should be terrorising the village people with baring of his white fangs and with his claws.
(iv) Terror

Q4: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
But he’s locked in a concrete cell,
His strength behind bars,
Stalking the length of his cage,
Ignoring visitors.
(i) Where is he locked?
(ii) Where is he striding.
(iii) Whom does he ignore?
(iv) Pick out the word from the stanza that means the same as – “Walk stiffly’.
Ans:
(i) He is locked in a concrete cell behind the bars.
(ii) He is striding in his concrete cell.
(iii) He ignores the visitors.
(iv) “Stalk”.

Q5: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
He hears the last voice at night,
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.
(i) Who does “he’ refer to?
(ii) What does Tie’ do at night?
(iii) What are the cars doing?
(iv) Pick out the word from the stanza that means thapame as—‘gleaming’.
Ans:
(i) ‘He’ refers to the tiger.
(ii) The tiger watches the stars at night.
(iii) The cars are patrolling the area
(iv) ‘brilliant’