The Inch-cape Rock Questions and Answers

THE INCH CAPE ROCK

1.What does the poet want to convey in the first two stanzas?

In these stanzas the poet is describing the calmness of the sea. There is no stir in the air

and the sea also appears to be calm. The ship stood very still in the ocean, this we know

because the ‘keel’ of the ship is steady. On the other hand the Inchcape rock ahead

of the ship was also standing firm and the waves flowed steadily not affecting the

Inchcape rock.

2.What is the figure of speech used in these lines?

a)       “no stir in the air, no stir in the sea.”

b)       “So little they rose, so little they fell.”

Here at two places poet has used ‘repetition’, “no stir in the air, no stir in

the sea.” “So little they rose, so little they fell.” Also there is ‘alliteration’

in the lines, “The ship was still as till could be.”

3.Who anchored the bell and why it has been called as warning bell?

The bell was anchored by the kind Abbot(monk) of Aberbrothok  on the Inchcape rock.

 This bell worked as a warning bell for the mariners, whenever there happened

 to be a storm, the bell swayed and floated along with buoys producing

sound and mariners became aware about the presence of a dangerous rock,

 which would have otherwise been hidden by the swell of sea waves. All the

 mariners were thankful towards Abbot of Aberbrothok and blessed him for

his kind deed.

4.What is the figure of speech used in these lines?

a) The ship was as still as she could be ,her keel was steady

Her sails from heaven received no motion.

b) A sound as if with the inchcape bell

The devil below was ringing the bell

a)Personification

b)Metaphor

VERY SHORT QESTIONS

1.Do you think this poem is ballad? Why?

Yes,it is ballad because it is narrating a story of two characters .

2.What do you make out of the Abbot of Aberbrothok’s character?

He was a kind- hearted, humane person who wished well for everyone.

That is why he had placed the bell at the Inchcape Rock’s buoy.

3.Why did Sir Ralph want to create trouble for Abbot of Aberbrothok?

 …...because he was jealous of the popularity of Abbot of Aberbrothok and

 simply wanted to make life difficult for him.

4.What is the mood of the poem in the first few stanzas of the poem?

The mood is of happiness, stillness. It is peaceful and calm. The day is bright and sun is shining.

Everything looks just perfect.

5.Which rhyme scheme is followed in this poem?

……aabb.

6.What is the difference between a ‘surge’ and a ‘wave’?

 A surge is a very strong forward movement of sea

waves whereas wave is the regular movement of sea water.

7.What is the structure?

Poem has seventeen stanzas.

8.What is the form?

It is a lyrical ballad.

9.What is the style?

 It is narrative poem by the poet.

10.Are opening and closing lines of poem significant?

Yes, Opening lines tells that everything is peaceful and calm and closing lines

 talk about death and destruction.

11.Is there a clear passage of time mentioned in the poem?

No, the poem just describes the life of pirates and sailors at sea.

12.What is the mood of the poem?

 it is very serious and adventurous.

13.What is the tone of the poem?

Is it a satiric, serious ,adventurous and somber poem .

14.What is the theme?

One pays for ones misdeeds.

Lost world Ch 4 & 5

RECAP Questions (only for reference)
Who is Ned Malone?
A journalist with a newspaper and a spurned lover.
Who is his lover?
Gladys
Why has Gladys spurned his proposal?
Ned was not an ideal man of her dreams. She wanted Ned to achieve something
great.
Who is Mc. Ardle?
The editor of the newspaper that Ned works at.
With what purpose does Ned approach Mc. Ardle?
To send him on a challenging assignment.
What is the challenging assignment given to Ned?
To interview Professor Challenger.
Extra questions of Chapter-4 and 5
1.What did Ned find when he went to his friend’s office on Wednesday?
He found a letter.
2.What does Professor Challenger find offensive in Ned’s letter?
The use of the word speculation with regards to the professor’s statement upon the
subject of Darwinism.
3.Who is Austin?
Probably an assistant or Professor Challenger’s servant.
4.What work is assigned to Austin?
To shield Professor Challenger from the journalists.
5.According to Professor Challenger what kind of people are journalists?
They are intrusive rascals.
6.Why did Ned gasp as he saw Professor Challenger?
Professor Challenger’s appearance made him gasp. His head was enormous. He
had the face and beard of an Assyrian bull. The eyes were blue-grey, very critical
and very masterful. A huge chest and two massive hands covered with long black
hair.
7.Why did Professor Challenger attack Ned?
He recognized that Ned was a journalist
8.Why didn’t Ned give in Professor Challenger to the policeman?
Ned was to blame himself. He had intruded upon Professor Challenger inspite of
the fair warning given to him.
9.Why did Ned return to Professor Challenger’s room?
Because he felt that the fault of the incident lay with him.
10.What were the contents in the dead man’s knapsack/backpack?
Scraps of verse, pictures of sceneries, a paint box, a box of coloured chalk, a few
paint brushes and a cheap revolver.
11.From the above contents what was evident?
That  the man was an artist or a poet.
12.Who were the Indians with whom Professor Challenger spent the night in an Indian village
in South America?
Cucama Indians.
13.Describe the strange creature sketched by the artist?
It’s head was like that of a fowl, the body of a bloated lizard, the trailing tail was
furnished with upward-turned spikes and the curved back was edged with a high
serrated fringe.
14.How does Professor Challenger’s convince Ned of the existence of the creature?
The professor shows Ned a monograph by his friend Ray Lancaster. In the
reconstructed animal of a dead world there was a great resemblance to the
sketch of the unknown artist.
15.What did Professor Challenger finally hand over to Ned?
The upper portion of the wing of a large bat.
16.Why did the picture that Professor Challenger showed Ned have an unsatisfactory
appearance?
Because when the Professor and the Indian guide descended into the river, the
boat was upset and the case which contained the undeveloped films was broken
and ruined beyond repair.
17.To which creature did it actually belong?
The dimorphodon or pterodactyl, a flying reptile of the Jurassic period.

Tenses

Please write it.

Madame Cama

MADAME CAMA

Extra questions:

1.What was the occasion in which Madame Cama spoke the words mentioned in the beginning of the lesson?

It was the International Socialist Conference

2.Where was it being held?

In Stuttgart, Germany

3.What was Madame Cama’s full name?

Her full name was Bhikaji Rustom Cama

4.Whom did she marry?

She married Rustom Cama, a rich lawyer.

5.How did the two differ in their ideologies of the British?

Rustom Cama was fond of the British and admired their culture whereas Madame Cama held different views about the British.

6.What were Madame Cama’s views about the British?

That the British kept India in poverty for their own selfish gains.

7.Why was Bhikaji sent to Britain in 1901?

In 1896 plague broke out in Bombay. Bhikaji worked very hard to save the victims.She caught the disease and was saved miraculously. She was sent for further treatment to Britain in 1901.

8.Name the two important nationalists whom Bhikaji interacted with while in Britain?

Shyamji Krishna Verma and Dadabhai Naoroji.

9.Why did the British refuse Bhikaji a return to India?

They were displeased with her revolutionary activities.

10.Under what condition were they ready to send her back to India?

Under the condition that she signed a statement declaring that she would not take part in anti-national activities.

11.Name the organisation that she started in Paris?

Paris Indian Society.

12.With whom did she start this organisation?

Singh Rewabhai Rana and Mynchershah Burjorji Godrej.

13.What are the names of her revolutionary writings?

Bande mataram and Madan’s Talwar.

14.What kind of a person do you think was Madame Cama?

Lover of independence, craved for independent India, strong willed, indomitable spirit, not ready to bow down even to a superior power hence maintained her own individuality, had the courage to go against her husband’s views at a time when women held a secondary position to man in society.

Through which place in India were these writing smuggled into India?

Pondicherry-a French colony.

Apart from fighting for India’s independence, what else did Bhikaji Cama support?

Gender equality.

Who influenced her in this?

Christabel Pankhurst and the Suffragette movement.

Till when did Madame Cama stay in exile in Europe?

Till 1935

What are the ways in which she has been honoured?

A stamp was issued to honour her memory, A patrol vessel of the Indian Coast Guard in 1997, was called ICGS Bhikaji Cama, Many streets in India are named after her.

What prestigious title has been conferred upon her?

Mother of the Indian revolution

Cell: The Building Blocks of Life

Question and Answers

 

Q: What is cytoplasm? How does it play an important role for cell?

Ans: Cytoplasm is a jelly like substance present between cell membrane and nucleus. It is like a factory campus where different activities take place simultaneously. This includes breaking and making of molecules that help to give energy. It deals with transport of components within and outside the cell. It contains organelles like nucleus, mitochondria, Golgi apparatus etc. It is present in plant and animal cell.

Q: What are the components of a nucleus?

  

• Ans: The nuclear membrane separates the nucleus from the cell cytoplasm.

•  The small spherical body inside the nucleus is called nucleolus.

•  The nucleus contains thread like network called chromatin.

•  When the cell divides the chromatin forms rod like structure which are called chromosomes.

•  The chromosomes carry genes that are responsible for transfer of traits/ characteristics from parents to offsprings.

•  Nucleus is absent in matured red blood cells.

Ques: Which is the power house of the cell? How does it function?

Ans:

 

• Mitochondria are small kidney shaped organelles found in both plant and animal cells.

• They are site of various chemical processes which lead to synthesis of energy rich molecules, which are used by the cells for doing work. Thus mitochondria are called power house of the cells.

•  Mitochondria use oxygen to generate these energy rich molecules.

•  A cell may contain one or more mitochondria

 

Ques: What are plastids?

 

 

 

• Plastids are membrane bound organelles.

•  These are found only in plant cells.

•  Plastids like chloroplasts are the site of photosynthesis.

•  Some plastids also store starch, are called (amyloplasts)

 While some plastids help in synthesis of many types of molecules that are needed as cellular building blocks.

Ques: What is the other name for ribosomes?

Ans: Ribosome are also called cell’s protein factories because they help in synthesis of proteins.

Ques:  Why are vacuoles present in a cell?

Ans:  Vacuoles are like sac surrounded by a membrane. Vacuoles in general are used to store various substances as food, enzymes, and      waste for short period of time. Vacuole occupy between 30% to 90% of the total cell volume.

Important message

Dear children/freinds ,

We are proud Indians. we respect and salute our nation and the national flag too. So on this note we all take a pledge to hold the flag high and sing the national song loud. Never allow it to litter in the dustbins.Wishing you all a happy independence day.

 

From every INDIAN............

Ozymandias Questions and Answers

OZYMANDIAS

1.Whom does the poet meet?

A traveller from an antique land.

2.What kind of a place is the land visited by the traveller?

It’s a desert.

3.What does the poet mean by ‘Two vast and trunk less legs of stone’?

Just two huge legs of stone without a body.

4.What else did the traveler find in the sand?

He found a visage half sunk.

5.How was the visage?

It had a frown and a wrinkle on the lip. There was a sneer of cold command.

6.Explain:....that its sculptor well those passions read

The sculptor read those passions well and sculpted it on the visage or the face of the statue.

7.What is the only thing remaining in the vast desert?

The trunkless legs, the visage and the words on the pedestal.

8.What do the words tell us about the King?

He was a proud person

9.What lesson did you learn from the poetry?

Nothing lasts forever.

10.What features on the King’s face tell that he was proud?

He had a frown and a wrinkled lip on his face. His face also had a sneer of cold command.

11.What else tells that he was proud?

The inscription on the pedestal: ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on

my works, ye mighty, and despair!”

12.Identify the Figures of speech in the poem

The entire poem is Metaphorical where there is implied comparisons between the King and

human attitude.

King of Kings is a Hyperbole . An exaggerated statement meant for emphasis.

‘Look on my works, ye Mighty , and despair!” Here it is an irony, where the King is boastful

of his achievements but what remains is stretches of sand.

13.What happens to people who are proud?

Nothing remains of them except evidences that they were proud.

14.What should be the qualities that achievers should imbibe?

They should be humble about their achievements and not boastful.

15.What will happen then?

Achievements and our name will not be forgotten by the sands of time. It will always be remembered.

16.Discuss the value of the poem.

The poem reminds powerful people that their power is only temporary. However much powerful people may wish to think that their power is immortal, they are only deceiving themselves. Earthly power is mutable/changeable, and indeed all human beings need to remember this lesson.