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Time to answer
A. Choose the correct option.
1. What is the poem about?
a boy and his imaginary race between two drops of rain
a boy and a race between his brothers John and James
a race between a boy and his two friends John and James
an imaginary race between the boy’s pets John and James
2. What is the child waiting for at the window-pane?
to see the puddles formed by the rain
to see the people getting wet in the rain
to see the people falling into the puddles
to see which of the two drops of rain will win
3. What is the setting of the poem?
at home by the door
by the window by a lake
4. What is the poem about?
enjoying little things in life enjoying rain
enjoying races in life win or loss in life
B. Answer these questions.
1. Whom does the child want to lose and whom does he want to win?
2. Why wasn’t John able to start the race along with James?
3. Why was John able to quickly hurry by James?
4. In the last line of the poem, what does the poet mean by ‘Look! I told you! Here’s
the sun!’?
Reference to the context
Read these lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.
Both of them have different names.
One is John and one is James.
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