Class 10 English
Unit 5 Adventure (Reading B)
Sumba’s Adventure
COMPREHENSION-
1. Answer the following questions :
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Q. 1. What places does Sumba imagine in the poem ?
Ans. Sumba imagines in the poem some adventurous places, where the road leads to a path at which she takes a walk. She imagines luscious forest and golden hills and waterfalls. She also thinks of mountain tops and eerie caves. She imagines dragon, bears, spiders and wolves.
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Q. 2. What creatures does Sumba imagine in the poem ?
Ans. She imagined dragons, wolves, bears and spiders in the poem.
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Q. 3.Are Sumba’s adventures real? Or is s/he just day dreaming? Pick out the words/phrases from the poem in support of your answer.
Ans. Sumba’s adventures are not real. She is just daydreaming. The lines from the poem are :-
Well …. I’ve thought about adventuring.
Whilst lying in my bed
I think I’ll Stay here snoozing now
And dream of them instead.
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Q. 4. Would you like to only dream of an adventure, or experience it in reality?
Ans. I would like to dream of an adventure. But not only dreaming about it, I would like to experience it in reality. Adventures makes life exciting and exploring.
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Q. 5. What are the dreadful things that sumba talks about ?
Ans. The dreadful things in the poem are dragons, wolves and bears. Sumba talked about them.
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Q. 6. List the qualities necessary for an adventure as suggested in the poem. Which of these qualities, according to you, did Sumba have?
Ans. The Qualities in the poem necessary for an adventure are :-
(i) Risk taking (ii) Fearlessness
(iii) Ability to suffer (iv) Strength.
Sumba has none of the qualities because she was just day dreaming.
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II. Read the passage given below and answer the questions:
“If any fences, gates or walls
Should rise in front of me
I’ll hurdle them with such a bound
And see what I can see !”
1. ‘Fences, gates and walls’ in these lines refer to.
(a) Opportunities (b) Challenges (c) Bad luck
2. Sumba plans to ‘hurdle’ them. ‘Hurdle’ here means :
(a) Welcome
(b) Jump over
(c) Overcome
3. By ‘and see what I can see’ the author wants to say.
(a) I will explore as much as I can
(b) I will look beyond my wall as far as I can
(c) I want to see the road across the wall.
Ans. 1. Challenges, 2. Overcome, 3. I will explore as much as I can.