1 . What is the name of the poet?
2. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
3. What was the boy with rat’s eyes trying to escape from?
Answer
dim light of the class
4. What is the stunted boy reciting?
Answer
the lesson from his desk
5. What kind of life do the children living in slums have?
Answer
Hopeless and full of struggle
6. Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
7. What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
Answer
energetic children
8. Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
Answer
an unnoticed young boy
9. What attracts the slum children?
Answer
All beautiful things like ship, Sun
10. The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of –
Answer
the beautiful world
11.In what sense are the slum chidren different?
Answer
because of no access to hope and openness of the world
12. Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?
Answer
by the burden of the world
13. How can powerful people help the poor children?
Answer
by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
14. What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
Answer
sadness and lack of enthusiasm
15. What does the poet portray in the poem?
Answer
the plight of young children in the slums
16. What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
Answer
Powerful and influential people
17. ‘Break O break’. What should they break?
