I semester (supplement)
5th std
1. CRADLE SONG
{English}
1. What is a cradle song?
Ans: A song sung for a baby to make himself sleep.
2. Who is singing the song and to whom?
Ans: Mother is singing the song to the baby.
3. What is the singer trying to tell the listener?
Ans: The singer is trying to tell that she has brought a lovely dream for
the baby.
4. What does the poet mean by the following lines?
Ans: As the mother is caressing her baby, she is bringing a lovely dream
for the baby.
2. LITTLE GIRLS WISER THAN MEN
Answer the following
1. Why did the older girl tell the younger one to take off her shoes and
stockings?
Ans: The older girl told the younger one to take off her shoes and
stockings because they wanted to play in the puddle.
2. Why did the younger girl howl?
Ans: Akoulya’s mother seized Malasha and struck her on the back of her
neck. So she howled at her.
3. Who started the fight?
Ans: Malasha’s mother started the fight.
4. What did the girls do when the women were abusing each other?
Ans: The girls began scraping away the earth in front of the puddle to
carve a channel through which the water could run out in to the street.
5. Why were the men ashamed of themselves at the end of the story?
Ans: The men were ashamed of themselves, They quietly returned to
their homes.
3. COYOTE BRINGS FIRE
Answer the following
1. Why did the animals call a secret meeting in autumn?
Ans: The animals called a secret meeting in autumn day because to talk
about their problems.
2. Who thought of a plan?
Ans: The coyote thought of a plan.
3. What was the plan?
Ans: The coyote asked the animals to eat till they were full and be
ready to make a great noise when he swished his tail.
4. How can one get fire from food?
Ans: All they had to do was rub two sticks together and the wood
would release the fire for them.
Reference to context
1. Many of our aged family members and the newborns will die.
a) Who said this to whom?
Ans: The squirrel said this to animals.
b) Why did the speaker say this?
Ans: Because in the autumn cold winds blew, all the animals get more
cold. So the speaker said this.
2. He is intelligent and comes up with good plans readily.
a) Who said this?
Ans: The fire people said this.
b) Who is referred to as ‘he’ in this line.
Ans: The Coyote referred to as he in the poem.
3) Who is it?
a) Who said this?
Ans: The fire people said this.
b) Why did the speaker say this?
Ans: The Coyote planned and stood in front of fire people. So the
speaker said this.
4. TRUNK THAT CAN BEND
Answer the following.
1 Why did a clever monkey go to the spirit?
Ans: The elephants were proud of their beautiful noses by which the
monkey suffered of humiliation and went to the noble spirit and asked
the way to make their noses long and ugly.
2 Who came visiting the spirit when the monkey was there in the
temple?
Ans: A weak crocodile came visiting the spirit when the monkey was
there in the temple.
3 What was the crocodiles problem?
Ans: . The crocodile’s problem was it could not swim fast to hunt the
food.
4 What did the monkey do when the spirit was disappearing?
Ans: When the spirit was disappearing the monkey grabbed a handful
of the magic powder and scampered away.
5 How did the spirit convince the elephants?
Ans: The spirit convinced the elephants by telling them that their noses
or strong as tree trunks and they can be used as another limb to work
with.
6 Why were the elephants happy with their trunks in the end?
Ans: The elephants were happy to have strong and beautiful trunks that
could move and trumpet very loudly.
5. TWO SUN FLOWERS MOVE IN THE YELLOW ROOM
Answer the following
1 What it the human quality given to something non human in the
poem?
Ans: The human quality of travelling is given to the flowers.
2 What does the poet mean by “weary of weather”?
Ans: The poet mean buy “weary weather” is to be tired of the sunny
weather.
6. SOME ONE
Answer the following
A) What did the poet do when he heard someone knocking on the
door?
Ans: The poet opened the door and looked to left and right, When he
heard someone knocking on the door.
B) What sounds did he hear in the night?
Ans: He heard the beetles tapping, owls screeching and crickets
whistling in the night.
C) Was the poet afraid of those sounds?
Ans: No, the poet was not afraid of those sounds.
D) Explain in your own words the meaning of the following lines.
“But nought there was a stirring
In the still dark night;”
Ans: There was nothing moving in the calm dark night.