Reading Comprehension (Unseen Poem) - 9 | English Language & Pedagogy for CTET & TET Exams - CTET & State TET PDF Download

Direction: Read the following poems carefully and answer the questions that follow.
I do not understand this child
Though we have lived together now
In the same house for years. I know
Nothing of him, so try to build
Up a relationship from how
He was when small. Yet have I killed
The seed I spent or sown it where
The land is his and none of mine?
We speak like strangers, there’s no sign
Of understanding in the air.
This child is built to my design
Yet what he loves I cannot share,
Silence surrounds us. I would have
Him prodigal, returning to
His father’s house, the home he knew,
Rather than see him make and move
His world. I would forgive him too,
Shaping from sorrow a new love.
Father and son, we both must live
On the same globe and the same land.
He speaks: I cannot understand
Myself, why anger grows from grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
Longing for something to forgive.    Elizabeth Jennings

Q1: What is the name of the poem from which these lines have been extracted?
(1) Son to Father
(2) Son to Mother
(3) Father to Son
(4) Son and Father 

  View Answer

Q2: This poem seems to be a
(1) personal
(2) non-subjective
(3) subjective
(4) memory of childhood

  View Answer

Q3: This poem deals with
(1) general issue of generation gap
(2) extravagant of son
(3) caring for elderly
(4) comfortable relationship 

  View Answer

Q4: The father’s helplessness is brought out very
(1) differently
(2) poignantly
(3) seriously
(4) commonly

  View Answer

Q5: The rhyme scheme is
(1) a, b, b, a, b, a
(2) abcdef, faebdc
(3) aaba
(4) a, b, a, b, ab, c, c

  View Answer