REVISION - Literature. L7 and L 8

1.   Read the lines from the lesson, ‘Tenali Raman and the Thieves’ and choose the correct option to answer the given questions:

 

“Oh look at that! The plants are all drying up. It hasn’t rained at all this summer. I, too,

have been busy at the court and didn’t have the tie to water the plants.”

 a) The speaker in the above lines is ___________________________.

• i) the thieves

• ii) Tenali Raman

• iii) the wife

   

b) The speaker is talking to ___________________________.

• i) the villagers

• ii) the thieves

• iii) himself

c) The speaker could not water the plants because_______________________________.

 

• i) he did not want to water the plants.

• ii) he didn’t have enough time to water the plants.

• iii) he wanted others to water the plants.

1.            Read the lines from the chapter, ‘A Visit to Mawlynnong’ and answer the      questions that follows:

 

“The villagers greeted us warmly and took us to the guesthouse. On both sides of the street were thatched huts with garden full of colourful flowers. There were bamboo baskets outside every house.”

a)      ‘Us’ in the above lines refers to?

a)      Why were the bamboo baskets placed?

                                                                                                                                                                

 

__________________________________________________________________________

 

a)      Write one line to describe the beauty of the place?

 

 

1.   Complete the following sentence based on your understanding of the lessons read in the course book:

Shray stayed below with his mother near Sky view because

Tenali Raman told his wife to  

   Answer the following question in one or two sentences.

a)      Why visiting Mawlynnong became a unique experience for Janvi?

a)      Who wanted to draw water from the well and why?