Reading Comprehension
[A] Put a tickmark on the correct alternative:
(I) Who is ‘I’ in the poem?
(a) tree (c) poet (b) women (d) bird
(ii) The tree is like:
(a) a mother (b) a child (c) God (d) The Earth
The tree is fed by:
(a) another tree
(b) Mother Earth (c) God
(d) the Robin
(iv) The Earth in the poem is compared to :
(a) God
(b) a little girl
(c) a mother
(d) a tree
(v) The hair of the tree is its :
(a) stem
(b) branches (c) flowers (d) roots
[B]
Answer the following questions:
Q.1. What does the tree wear during summer?
Ans. During summer a tree may wear a nest of robins,
Q.2. What part of the tree is referred to as its mouth? Ans. The root is called the mouth of the tree.
Q.3. How can the tree lift its arms to pray?
Ans. A tree can lift its leafy arms to pray.
Q.4. Which lines show that the tree is a female?
Ans. The following line shows that the tree is female. ‘A nest of robins in her hair.
Q.5. Who lives intimately with the tree?
Ans. The tree lives intimately with rain.
Q.6. What does the tree get from the earth’s sweet flowing breast?
Ans. The tree gets its nutrition from the earth’s sweet flowing breast.
Q.7. What lay in the bosom of the tree? Ans. Snow is laid in the bosom of the true.