8th Class English Comprehension Comprehensions Based on Stanza

 

Comprehensions Based on Stanza

 

Study the following examples.

 

·                     Example 1

 

There was time indeed

they used to shake hands with their hearts;

but that?s gone, son.

Now they shake hands without hearts

while their left hands search

my empty pockets.

 

Choose the correct alternative for each question.

 

1.            Who wrote the lines given above?

(a) Ben Jonson                          

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) Thomas Hardy                

(d) Gabriel Okara                       

(e) None of these

 

2.            People in the past used to shake hands_____.

(a) sincerely                               

(b) friendly and cordially 

(c) formally                               

(d) All of these

(e) None of these

 

3.            The handshake of modern people ______.

(a) shows sincerity                 

(b) is full of warmth

(c) has become just a ritual          

(d) Both (a) and (b)

(e) None of these

 

4.            The left hands of modern people are trying ______ them with whom they are having handshake with right hands.

(a) to rob                      

(b) to kill     

(c) to harm                    

(d) All of these

(e) None of these

 

5.            According to the poet, what is gone?

(a) Truthfulness in human relations

(b) Sincerity of feelings

(c) Feeling of cordinality and friendship

(d) All of the above

(e) None of these

 

·                     Example 2

 

So, I have learned many things, son.

I have learned to wear many faces

like dresses - homeface,

office face, street face, host face,

cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles

like a fixed portrait smile.

 

 

Choose the correct alternative for each question.

 

1.            What has the poet learnt?

(a) To smile artificially

(b) To make false expressions on the face

(c) Hypocrisy

(d) All of the above

(e) None of these

 

2.            By ?wearing faces? the poet means _______.

(a) putting on different masks

(b) painting faces

(c) making false expressions on the face

(d) All of these                                                           

(e) None of these

 

3.            How does the poet smile now?

(a) Artificially                (b) Heartily

(c) Mockingly                  (d) All of these

(e) None of these

 

4.            The poet puts on _______ while welcoming guests at his home,

(a) officeface                 (b) cocktailface

(c) homeface                  (d) hostface

(e) None of these

 

5.            Why do the ?conforming smiles? look like a ?fixed portrait smile? to the poet?

(a) Because they don't spring from heart

(b) Because they are formal and artificial

(c) Because they are false expressions

(d) All of these

(e) None of these

 

Answer

 

Example-1:	1.    (D)	2.    (A)	3.    (C)	4.    (A)	5.    (A)
Example-2:	1.    (C)	2.    (A)	3.    (C)	4.    (C)	5.    (B).