Extract Based Questions: Poem - Geography Lesson | English Class 8 PDF Download

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions. 
When the jet rose six miles high,
it was clear the earth was round
and that it had more sea than land.
But it was difficult to understand
that the men on the earth found
causes to hate each other, to build
walls across cities and to kill
From that height, it was not clear why.

(i) When did the poet realize about the earth being round?
Ans: The poet’s plane attained another six miles. When he looked down as it was clear to him that the earth was round.

(ii) What was ‘difficult to understand’ for the poet?
Ans: The poet failed to understand that the men hate each other.

(iii) How have the men create a rift amongst them?
Ans: The men raised boundaries and barriers that brought ill feelings for each other.

(iv) Name the poem and poet?
Ans: The poem’s name is Geographical lesson written by Zulfikar Ghose.

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions. 
When the jet sprang into the sky,
it was clear why the city
had developed the way it had,
seeing it scaled six inches to the mile.
There seemed inevitability
about what on ground had looked haphazard,
unplanned and without style
When the jet sprang info the sky.

(i) What did the poet see from the sky?
Ans: The poet observed that the city was developed in a specific way.

(ii) What was the difference of the scale of measurement from sky?
Ans: When the land was viewed from sky an area spread over a mile was reduced to six inches on scale.

(iii) What seemed ‘an inevitability’ to the poet?
Ans: The poet observed that haphazard and unplanned ground gained clarity when viewed from the sky.

(iv) Find out the poetic devices used in the poem?
Ans: The poet used ‘imagery’ in the stanza.

Q3: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions. 
When the jet reached ten thousand feet,
it was clear why the country
had cities where the rivers ran
and why the valleys were populated.
The logic of geography
that land and water attracted man
was clearly delineated
When the jet reached ten thousand feet.

(i) How high did the jet plane reach?
Ans: The jet plane reached at the height of ten thousand feet.

(ii) What was ‘clear’ to the poet from height?
Ans: It was clear to the poet to understand the logic of geography and designs of various cities.

(iii) What according to the poet was ‘clearly delineated’?
Ans: The poet clearly understood that the water and land attracted man and thus human settled where the resources were in abundance.

(iv) What was the purpose of repeated use of sentence ‘when the… Feet’?
Ans: The poet tried to emphasize on the height at which plane was flying.