Extract Based Questions: Poem - Vocation | English Class 6 (Honeysuckle) PDF Download

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
When at four in the afternoon
I come back from the school,
I can see through the gate of that house
the gardener digging the ground.
He does what he likes with his spade,
he soils his clothes with dust,
nobody takes him to task,
if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the
garden with nobody to stop me from digging.

(i) Who was digging the ground?
Ans: The gardener was digging the ground with his spade outside the house.

(ii) What did the child notice about the gardener?
Ans: The child noticed that the gardener has spread soil all over his clothes and nobody punished him for getting baked under the Sun.

(iii) Name the poet of the above lines.
Ans: The poet of the above lines is Rabindranath Tagore.

(iv) Give synonym for the word ‘bake.’
(a) Burn roast
(b) Garden
(c) Sun
(d) Stop
Ans: (a)

(v) Write antonym for the word ‘ wet.’
(a) Move
(b) Continue
(c) Soaked
(d) Dry
Ans: (d)

(vi) Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(a) A small boy
(b) An adult man
(c) A hawker
(d) An old man
Ans: (a)

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and
I walk to school by our lane,
Every day I meet the hawker crying, “Bangles,
crystal bangles!”
There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no
road he must take, no place he must go to, no
time when he must come home.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in
the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”

(i) Who used to cry “bangles, crystal bangles”?
Ans: A hawker used to cry “bangles, crystal bangles” every morning on the road.

(ii) What was the routine of the hawker?
Ans: The hawker was seen in the morning and was never in a hurry. He can take any road, go anywhere and return his home anytime.

(iii) Why did the child want to be a hawker?
Ans: The child wanted to become a hawker, so that he could spend his entire day on the road.

(iv) Write synonym for the word ‘hurry.’
(a) Hawker
(b) Rush
(c) Walk
(d) Child
Ans: (b)

(v) Give one word substitute for a person who sells goods by moving on roads.
(a) Teacher
(b) Cobbler
(c) Gardener
(d) Hawker
Ans: (d)

Q3: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to bed, I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and down. The lane is dark and lonely, and the streetlamp stands like a giant with one red eye in its head. The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side, and never once goes to bed in his life. I wish I were a watchman walking the street all night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.

(i) In the evening poet’s mother sends him to:
(a) Market
(b) Bed
(c) Tution
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)

(ii) Watchman swings his:
(a) Hand
(b) Whistle
(c) Lantern
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)

(iii) What poet wish to do after becoming a watchman?
Ans: The poet wanted to be watchman as he loved the way how the watchman walks on the street all night, chases the shadow with his lantern.

(iv) How the lamp stands look like in the dark?
Ans: At night when the lane is dark and lonely, the streetlamps stand like a giant with one red eye in its head.

(v) What the poet sees from his window?
Ans: Poet sees through the window that the night watchman walking on the road with the lantern holding in his hand. He chases his shadow by himself. In the dark and lonely street the lampshades standing like giants with one red eye on top of each one.

Q4: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our lane, Every day I meet the hawker crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!” There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home. I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”

(i) The morning gong sounds at:
(a) 9
(b) 10
(c) 11
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)

(ii) The hawker is selling:
(a) Apple
(b) Bag
(c) Bangle
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)

(iii) What happens when the gong sounds?
Ans: When the gong sounds ten in the morning and Poet walk by the lane to school. Everyday he meets the bangle hawker.

(iv) Briefly describe the hawker.
Ans: The Bangle seller had no restrictions, no hurry, no bindings for life. He had no place to reach in time, no way to follow. Even he didn’t have any fixed time.

Q5: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school, I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging the ground. He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to task, if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet. I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging.

(i) The poet returns from school at:
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)

(ii) Soil digging is the job of:
(a) Gardener
(b) Plumber
(c) Cobbler
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)

(iii) What poet can see through the gate of his house?
Ans: The poet can see through the gate of his house that the gardener working on the ground while returning from his school.

(iv) Which tool the gardener use to dig soil?
Ans: The gardener use spade to dig soil.

(v) Why the poet wishes to be a gardener?
Ans: The poet was a student; he loved to run in the sun, wet in the rain but had got enough restrictions. He has seen the gardener to soil his own cloth, getting wet or sun baked but nobody stops or punishes him for that. So he wanted to become gardener.