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Treasure Chest Poetry Poem 14 - A Considerable Speck MCQs 1. (a) 2. (a)  3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (a)  6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (c) 10. (d) 11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (d) 14. (a) 15. (b) Contextual Questions Extract 1 Ans 1: The speaker noticed ‘a speck’, when he was writing something and had lifted his pen to mark a period. It would have been beneath his sight because he was busy writing so the speck would not have been in his line of vision. Ans 2: The speaker idly posed his pen in the air because he was about to mark a period i.e., put a full-stop and probably think what to write next. Ans 3: The strange thing was the speck on the paper. In reality it was a tiny mite. Ans 4: The last line means that the tiny mite had its own minds and feelings, as well as decision-making power. Ans 5: The speck appears insignificant but it has a mind of its own and the ability to wander anywhere on the paper making the speck a significant thing. Thus it justifies the title of ‘considerable speck.’ Extract 2 An

Treasure Chest Story - 14 The Pedestrian MCQs 1.(b) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (b) 11. (d) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (d) Contextual Questions: Extract 1 Ans 1: There was complete silence on the city streets because all the citizens were inside their homes, watching different types of programs on television. He was Leonard Mead, an adult male the only named character in the story. That was his routine, as he has been walking the city streets every night alone for the last ten years. Ans 2: Leonard Mead was a resident of an unnamed city and a writer by profession. Mead loved walking the city streets at night and taking in the sights, sounds and smells of the natural world. He had been taking this lonely walk at night for the last ten years. Ans 3 : Because he used to walk along the road which did not have any traffic and he was all alone there. It suggests that Mead had become so used to living all lone and taking the lonely walk at night for the last

Treasure Chest Story 13 The Girl Who Can MCQs b b c b d b b a c a c a b a Contextual Questions Extract 1 1: ‘I’ refers to the narrator of the story, Adjoa, a seven-year-old girl. According to Adjoa, her grandmother’s problem was Adjoa’s thin and long legs, which she considered as not suitable for supporting strong hips required for childbearing. 2: Adjoa’s problem at the age of seven was that she was not able to express in words the things that were in her mind, as she did not know the proper language to speak them out with. It was a serious problem because her grandmother forbade her from saying certain things and at times asked her to repeat what she had said for the purpose of adult’s entertainment. Thus, she was confused when to keep quiet or when to repeat them and get laughed at. 3: When Adjoa said something, her grandmother would at first stare at her for a very long time, and then would ask her to repeat what she had said. After Adjoa repeated what she had said, her grandmot