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

Q1: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

Don’t bite your nails, Amanda! ‘
Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!
Stop that slouching and sit up straight,
Amanda!

(i) Name the poem and poet.
(ii) Who, do you think could be the speaker in the stanza?
(iii) What is the tone of the speaker towards Amanda?
(iv) Who is Amanda?
Ans: 
(i) This stanza has been taken from the poem ‘Amanda’ composed by Robin Klein.
(ii) I, think the speaker could be either mother or the father.
(iii) The tone of the speaker towards Amanda is ‘ragging’ and ‘scolding’.
(iv) Amanda is a teenage girl.

Q2: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

(There is a languid, emerald sea,
where the sole inhabitant is me
a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)

(i) Who is the speaker?
(ii) What does the speaker wish?
(iii) Pick out the word from the stanza an antonym of‘energetic’.
(iv) Name the poem and poet.
Ans:
(i) Amanda is the speaker.
(ii) Amanda wishes to have freedom from constant nagging.
(iii) ‘languid’.
(iv) The poem “Amanda” composed by ‘Robin Klein’.

Q3: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

Did you finish your homework, Amanda?
Did you tidy your room, Amanda?
I thought I told you to clean your shoes,
Amanda!

(i) Who speaks these lines and to whom?
(ii) What are the various works she has to do?
(iii) What does the parent think she asked Amanda to do?
(iv) Does Amanda like the advice of the speaker?
Ans:
(i) These lines are spoken by Amanda’s mother to Amanda.
(ii) She has to complete homework, clean her room and her shoes.
(iii) The parents think that she asked Amanda to clean her shoes.
(iv) No, she does not like the constant nagging by the poet. She wants to live without any restrictions.

Q4: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

(I am an orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet,
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

(i) Who is referred to as an orphan in the first line?
(ii) What does the speaker want to convey through this stanza?
(iii) Pick out the word from the stanza that means the same as—‘wandering’.
(iv) Name the poeip and poet.
Ans:
(i) Amanda.
(ii) She wants to roam in the street and make pattern on sands with her feet.
(iii) ‘roaming’
(iv) The poem “Amanda” written by ‘Robin Klein’.

Q5: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

Don’t eat that chocolate, Amanda!
Remember your acne, Amanda!
Will you please look at me when I’m speaking to you,
Amanda!

(i) Who is the speaker in these lines?
(ii) What does the speaker advise Amanda?
(iii) Which lines show that Amanda does not take interest in what the speaker says?
(iv) Name the poem and poet.
Ans: 
(i) Robin Klein (poetess) is the speaker in these lines.
(ii) The speaker advised Amanda not to eat chocolate. She wants her to take care of her acne.
(iii) The line “will you please look at me… to you” shows that she is not interested in what the speaker says.
(iv) The poem “Amanda” composed by ‘Robin Klein’.

Q6: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

(I am Rapunzel, I have not a care;
life in a tower is tranquil and rare;
I’ll certainly never let down my bright hair!)

(i) Who is the speaker in the stanza?
(ii) What does the speaker wish to do?
(iii) What does the stanza promise?
(iv) Name the poem and poet.
Ans:
(i) Amanda is the speaker in this stanza.
(ii) The speaker wants to be like Rapunzel who lived peacefully in the tower.
(iii) The speaker promised herself that she would never let down her bright hair.
(iv) The poem “Amanda” written by ‘Robin Klein’.

Q7: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

Stop that sulking at once, Amanda!
You’re always so moody, Amanda!
Anyone would think that I nagged at you,
Amanda! 

(i) Who is the speaker in the above stanza?
(ii) Who is being nagged and by whom in the above lines?
(iii) Do you think Amanda is moody?
(iv) Name the poem and poet.
Ans:
(i) Robin Klein is the speaker in this stanza.
(ii) Amanda is being nagged by the poet.
(iii) No, Amanda is not a moody girl. She is a normal girl who wants to get rid of constant nagging and live a peaceful life.
(iv) The poem “Amanda” written by “Robin Klein”.