Worksheet: Poem - The Duck and the Kangaroo | English Literature for Grade 9 PDF Download

Q.1. Read the following stanzas and answer the questions:
“Please give me a ride on your back!”
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
“I would sit quite still,
and say nothing but ‘Quack’,
The whole of the long day through!
And we’d go to the Dee, and the Jelly Bo Lee,
Over the land, and over the sea;
Please take me a ride! O do!”
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
(i) What request did Duck make to Kangaroo?
(ii) What was her promise?
(iii) How long did she want a ride?
(iv) Where she wanted to go?

Q.2. What do you think why did the Duck ask for a ride?

Q.3. Which were the places the Duck wanted to see?

Q.4. Do you find any humor in the poem, if yes, point out one or two lines?

Q.5. How did the Kangaroo react to the wish of the Duck? Why did he accept her request?

Q.6. Read the following stanzas and answer the questions:
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,

“Good gracious! how you hop!

Over the fields and the water too,
As if you never would stop!
My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
And I long to go out in the world beyond!
I wish I could hop like you!”
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
(i) What did the Duck say to the Kangaroo?
(ii) What did the Duck say about her life?
(iii) What was her wish?
(iv) What did she long to do?

Q.7. What is the rhyme scheme of first four lines of second stanza?

Q.8. Would Kangaroo fulfill her wish?

Q.9. What is your opinion about the conversation between the Duck and the Kangaroo?

Q.10. What did the duck say in praise of Kangaroo? What was duck’s wish that he wanted the kangaroo to fulfill?

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