Practice Questions: Vocation | Practice Questions with Solutions for Class 6 PDF Download

Q1: What did the poet think about the gardener?
Ans: The gardener was free to do work of his choice, and none could stop him.

Q2: Why did the poet want to become a gardener?
Ans: So that he could do anything of his choice, and none could stop him from doing it.

Q3: Who sends him to bed?
Ans: His mother.

Q4: Whom did he see through the open window?
Ans: Watchman.

Q5: How did the poet see the watchman?
Ans: Through an open window in his room.

Q6: How did the street lamp stand like according to the poet?
Ans: Like a giant with a red eye in its head.

Q7: Whom did the poet wish himself to dig away at the garden?
Ans: The gardener.

Q8: What did the poet do when it's dark?
Ans: He went to sleep.

Q9: When does the day turn dark?
Ans: In the evening.

Q10: Where was the watchman walking?
Ans: In the dark and lonely street.

Q11: Describe the hawker according to the poet.
Ans: In the morning, when he walks towards his school at ten, he used to meet a hawker carrying bangles to sell them and shouting aloud. He imagined hawker as free to go anywhere, anyplace and anytime. He had no hurry to do anything and enjoy his freedom. Thus, the poet wished himself to become a hawker to live independently.

Q12: Describe watchman.
Ans: As the day turned dark in the evening, his mother took him o bed to sleep and through the open window he noticed a watchman walking from place to another in the dark and lonely streets. He was holding a lantern whose shadow was on his side. The poet wished to become a watchman as he walking on the lonely street at the dark and following his shadow everywhere in dependently.

Q13: Why did the poet want to become a hawker, a gardener and a watchman?
Ans: Firstly, the poet wished to become a hawker because as he notice a hawker travelling one place to another without any plan or any time fined to sell his goods. So he wanted to be a hawker and travel independently everywhere.
Again, he wished to become a gardener because he enjoy what he does and no one could stop him or cares about. So, the poet imagined himself to become a gardener to live life independently.
Lastly, he wanted to become a watchman because he walks up and down the dark and lonely streets, and holding a lantern in his hand that follows his shadow on the side. He thought that the watchman never sleeps at night and kept on walking the lane. So, the poet wanted to do all the things the watchman do.

Q14: Why the poet wanted to become a gardener?
Ans: The poet observed a gardener through the gate of his house when he returned from school at 4 in the afternoon. He was digging the soil with his spade where his clothes got dirty and didn’t matter for him in the sunlight as sweating whole time. He was enjoying to do that and no one cares about, so that poet wished to become a gardener and enjoy his work around.

Q15: What were the wishes the poet wanted to become?
Ans: Firstly, he wished to become a hawker travelling everywhere. Secondly, he wanted to become a gardener digging the ground with freedom and nobody could stop him. Lastly, he wished to become a watchman walking on the lonely streets all night by holding a lantern.