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?
4.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
5.
What kind of life do the children living in slums have?
6.
Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
7.
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
8.
Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
9.
What attracts the slum children?
10.
Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?
11.
The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of –
12.
In what sense are the slum chidren different?
13.
How can powerful people help the poor children?
14.
What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
15.
What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
16.
What does the poet portray in the poem?
17.
‘Break O break’. What should they break?
18.
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
19.
The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world.
20.
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
