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Time to answer
A. Choose the correct answer.
1. Who do you think is the narrator of the poem?
a college student a school student
a school teacher a parent
2. What is the setting in Stanza 2?
in a meadow in the house
in the classroom in the playground
3. The rhyme scheme of the poem is .
aabba ababa
ababb aaabb
4. From the first stanza to the second, the tone changes from to
.
delight and rejoicing, dismay and despair
dismay and despair, delight and rejoicing
distress and sadness, joyfulness
boredom and despair, joy and happiness
5. What does the ‘caged bird’ symbolize?
It symbolises childhood.
It symbolises the bird that sings on every tree.
It symbolises the sky-lark that sings with the narrator.
It symbolises a child who wants to play but is sent to school.
B. Answer these questions.
1. What takes the joy out of a summer morning?
2. Which lines from the poem best describe the poet’s dislike towards school?
3. What does the narrator tell his parents?
4. Write the summary of the poem in about 80 words.
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