NCERT solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew Poem) Chapter – 5 The School Boy Question & Answer

NCERT Solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew Poem) Chapter – 5 The School Boy

NCERT Solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew Poem) Chapter – 5 The School Boy

Chapter – 5

The School Boy

Question & Answer

Question 1. Find three or four words/phrases in stanza 1 that reflect the child’s happiness and joy.
Answer – The words/phrases that reflect the child’s happiness are the song of birds and the skylark, and the sound of hunter’s horn.

Question 2. In stanza 2, the mood changes. Which words/phrases reflect the changed mood?
Answer – The words/phrases reflecting the child’s mood are:
(a) drives all joy away
(b) cruel eye outworn (of the Teacher)
(c) sighing and dismay.

Question 3. ‘A cruel eye outworn (stanza 2)’ refers to
(i) the classroom which is shabby/noisy
(ii) the lessons which are difficult/uninteresting
(iii) The dull/uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.
Answer – (iii) The dull/uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.

Question 4. “Nor sit in learning’s bower worn thro’ with the dreary shower’
Which of the following is a close paraphrase of the lines above?
(i) Nor can I sit in a roofless classroom when it is raining.
(ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and explaining.
(iii) Nor can I sit in the school garden for fear of getting wet in the rain.
Answer – (ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and explaining.

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