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Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Away, away in the Northland,
Where the hours of the day are few,
And the nights are so long in winter
That they cannot sleep them through.
Q. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
Detailed Solution: Question 1
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
Away, away in the Northland,
Where the hours of the day are few,
And the nights are so long in winter
That they cannot sleep them through.
Where they harness the swift reindeer
To the sledges when it snows.
And the children look like bear’s cubs
In their funny, furry clothes
Q. How did the children wearing furry clothes look?
Detailed Solution: Question 2
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
Away, away in the Northland,
Where the hours of the day are few,
And the nights are so long in winter
That they cannot sleep them through.
Where they harness the swift reindeer
To the sledges when it snows.
And the children look like bear’s cubs
In their funny, furry clothes
Q. Where did the story of this poem occur?
Detailed Solution: Question 3
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
Away, away in the Northland,
Where the hours of the day are few,
And the nights are so long in winter
That they cannot sleep them through.
Where they harness the swift reindeer
To the sledges when it snows.
And the children look like bear’s cubs
In their funny, furry clothes
Q. Why can’t people sleep the winter nights through in Northland?
Detailed Solution: Question 4
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
Away, away in the Northland,
Where the hours of the day are few,
And the nights are so long in winter
That they cannot sleep them through.
Where they harness the swift reindeer
To the sledges when it snows.
And the children look like bear’s cubs
In their funny, furry clothes
Q. Which literary device has been used in these lines?
Detailed Solution: Question 5
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth.
And being faint with fasting,
For the day was almost done,
He asked her, from her store of cakes,
To give him a single one.
Q. What time of the day did St. Peter reach the little women’s cottage?
Detailed Solution: Question 6
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth.
And being faint with fasting,
For the day was almost done,
He asked her, from her store of cakes,
To give him a single one.
Q. What did St. Peter ask for from the little women?
Detailed Solution: Question 7
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth.
And being faint with fasting,
For the day was almost done,
He asked her, from her store of cakes,
To give him a single one.
Q. What was the little women doing when St. Peter went to her?
Detailed Solution: Question 8
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth.
And being faint with fasting,
For the day was almost done,
He asked her, from her store of cakes,
To give him a single one.
Q. How was Saint Peter feeling when he reached the little women’s cottage?
Detailed Solution: Question 9
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth.
And being faint with fasting,
For the day was almost done,
He asked her, from her store of cakes,
To give him a single one.
Q. Give a word from the passage that means ‘fireplace’.
Detailed Solution: Question 10
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