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

A: 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!"

Q1. Who is speaking to Amanda?
(a) Amanda's teacher
(b) Amanda's mother
(c) Amanda's elder sister
(d) Amanda's father
Ans. (b) Amanda's mother

Q2. How is Amanda feeling?
(a) She is feeling happy.
(b) She is in a thoughtful mood.
(c) She is sulky and feeling a bit low.
(d) She is depressed.
Ans: (c) She is sulky and feeling a bit low

Q3. What was Amanda's posture?
(a) She was sitting straight
(b) She was lying on the bed
(c) She was standing straight
(d) She was sitting in a lazy dropping way
Ans: (d) She was sitting in a lazy dropping way

Q4. Which of the following things Amanda's mother didn't tell her to do?
(a) stop biting her nails
(b) hunch her shoulders
(c) stop slouching
(d) sit up straight
Ans. (b) Hunch her shoulders

B: 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.)

Q1. Give the word from the passage which means the same as 'free flowing act of going with mentioned force'.
(a) languid
(b) drifting
(c) emerald
(d) blissfully
Ans. (b) drifting

Q2. Why are the lines given in brackets?
(a) they are not very important.
(b) they were added after the poem had already been written.
(c) these reflect the inner thoughts of Amanda.
(d) these lines do not carry any meaning.
Ans. (c) these reflect the inner thoughts of Amanda

Q3. What is the role of mermaid here?
(a) Mermaid is Amanda's favourite fantasy character.
(b) Amanda loves watching a mermaid drifting in water.
(c) Amanda longs to be free like a mermaid which sails effortlessly in the sea.
(d) Amanda wants to sail with a mermaid in the deep sea water.
Ans. (c) Amanda longs to be free like a mermaid which sails effortlessly in the sea

Q4. Why does Amanda want to be the sole inhabitant in the sea?
(a) she loves to be in the water.
(b) she doesn't like the company of anyone.
(c) she loves to swim like a mermaid.
(d) she is fed up of the constant nagging of the elders.
Ans. (d) she is fed up of the constant nagging of the elders

C: 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!

Q1. Which poetic device is used in line 3 and 4?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Simile
(c) Metaphor
(d) Personification
Ans. (a) Alliteration

Q2. Who is the speaker here?
(a) Amanda
(b) Amanda's mom
(c) Amanda's brother
(d) Amanda's uncle
Ans. (ii) Amanda's mom

Q3. What has the other person told Amanda to do?
(a) swim like a mermaid
(b) clear her house
(c) sing a song
(d) finish her homework
Ans. (d) to finish her homework

Q4. What do you get to know about the speaker from these lines?
(a) loves Amanda
(b) is very sweet
(c) is always rebuking Amanda
(d) is trying to inculcate good habits in her
Ans. (d) is trying to inculcate good habits in her

D: 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.)

Q1. Who is the speaker here?
(a) Amanda
(b) the poet
(c) Amanda's friend
(d) Amanda's mom
Ans. (a) Amanda

Q2. Why does she call herself an orphan?
(a) her parents don't love her.
(b) her parents are dead.
(c) her parents don't live with her.
(d) the mere presence of her parents around her distresses her.
Ans. (d) the mere presence of her parents around her distresses her.

Q3. What does she wish to do while roaming in the street?
(a) She wishes to watch people's activity.
(b) She wants to sit silently on the road.
(c) She wants to create designs on the road with her feet.
(d) She wants to observe the beauty of nature.
Ans. (c) She wants to create designs on the road with her feet.

Q4. Why does Amanda say 'freedom is sweet?
(a) she is not allowed to go out of her house.
(b) she is always doing things which her parents like.
(c) she has to study all the time.
(d) she doesn't have the freedom to act in the way she wants to.
Ans. (d) she doesn't have the freedom to act in the way she wants to.

E: 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!

Q1. Which poetic device is used in line 1?
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Alliteration
(d) Imagery
Ans. (c) Alliteration

Q2. Why is Amanda not allowed to eat a chocolate?
(a) she has gained a lot of weight.
(b) she gets pimples on her face.
(c) her teeth are rotten.
(d) she gets a toothache very often.
Ans. (b) she gets pimples on her face

Q3. What does the speaker want Amanda to do?
(a) finish her homework.
(b) talk to her nicely.
(c) look at her while she was talking to her.
(d) obey all her orders.
Ans. (c) look at her while she was talking to her

Q4. What do these lines tell us about the speaker?
(a) very rude
(b) very authoritative
(c) a disciplinarian
(d) very calm
Ans. (c) a disciplinarian

F: 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!)

Q1. Who is Rapunzel?
(a) Rapunzel is Amanda's friend
(b) Rapunzel is the most beautiful girl of Amanda's town
(c) Rapunzel is the girl who lives alone in a tower
(d) Rapunzel was a girl who was kept in a tower by a witch
Ans. (d) Rapunzel was a girl who was kept in a tower by a witch

Q2. Why does Amanda want to be Rapunzel?
(a) she also wants to have long hair like her.
(b) she wants to live a peaceful life alone in the tower like Rapunzel.
(c) she wants to look beautiful like Rapunzel.
(d) she thinks she would find a charming prince for herself like Rapunzel.
Ans. (d) she thinks she would find a charming prince for herself like Rapunzel.

Q3. Which poetic device is used in line 1 of the stanza?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Alliteration
(d) Personification
Ans. (a) Metaphor

Q4. Why does she say never let down my bright hair'?
(a) she doesn't wants to spoil her bright hair.
(b) if the witch sees her bright hair she will cut them.
(c) she loves to keep her hair tied in a bun.
(d) she doesn't want any prince to climb up the tower and disturb her tranquility.
Ans. (d) she doesn't want any prince to climb up the tower and disturb her tranquility.

G: 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! 

Q1. Which poetic device is used in line 1 of the stanza?
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Personification
(d) Alliteration
Ans. (d) Alliteration

Q2. What is the irony in the last line?
(a) Amanda was not sulking
(b) the speaker herself was sulking and spoiling the peaceful atmosphere of the home.
(c) Amanda was never moody
(d) the speaker was nagging Amanda continuously and yet said 'Anyone would think I nagged you.'
Ans. (d) the speaker was nagging Amanda continuously and yet said 'Anyone would think I nagged you.'

Q3. Why is the name Amanda repeated again and again?
(a) it is the title of the peom.
(b) the name of the poetess is Amanda
(c) the speaker constantly nags Amanda.
(d) Amanda was not listening to the speaker at all.
Ans. (c) the speaker constantly nags Amanda.

Q4. Why does speaker call Amanda moody?
(a) she would always throws tantrums
(b) she would always be rude to everyone
(c) she hardly reacts to the speaker's words
(d) she had an angry discussion with the speaker
Ans. (c) she hardly reacts to the speaker's words.