1. Where does the snail stick itself?
Answer: The snail sticks itself to grass, leaf, fruit or wall.
2. Has it any fear to fall?
Answer: No, the snail has no fear to fall from its place.
3. How does snail stick itself to grass, leaf or wall?
Answer: The snail sticks itself to grass, leaf or wall very closely as if it has grown there till its birth.
4. Where does the snail hide?
Answer: The snail hides in its house i.e. shell.
5. When does the snail hide?
Answer: The snail hides when danger like storm, weather or other harmful thing betide.
6. “When danger imminent betides”—What are the dangers?
Answer: Here dangers refer to storm, weather or other harmful thing.
7. What happens when snail’s horn is touched?
Answer: When snail’s horn is touched, it immediately shrinks into his house i.e. shell with much displeasure.
8. Does the snail become happy when its horn is touched?
Answer: No, the snail does not become happy; rather when its horn is touched it shrinks into his house with much displeasure.
9. How does a snail dwell?
Answer: A snail dwells alone like a hermit.
10. What makes a snail well satisfied?
Answer: To be his own whole treasure makes a snail well satisfied.
11. What is meant by ‘chatells’?
Answer: ‘Chatells’ means personal belongings.
12. Why has the snail been compared to a hermit?
Answer: A hermit always lead his life alone leaving his all relations. Also he has no greed for earthly element. Likewise, a snail lives alone and it has no personal belongings except its own body.
13. How does snail eat? What happens when he meets one while eating?
Answer: A snail eats alone and slowly. But when he meets one while eating, he eats faster.
14. Who is worse than blind according to the poem?
Answer: According to the poem, one who seeks a snail, is worse than blind.
15. Who is the master of snail’s house? Why does one fail to find its master?
Answer: The snail himself is the master of snail’s house. One fails to find its master because snail and his house i.e. shell are inseparable.
TEXT BOOK EXERCISES
Comprehension exercises
1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:
(a) With the slightest touch, the snail shrinks into its house with
(i) displeasure
(ii) pleasure
(iii) pain
(iv) surprise
(b) In its house, the snail lives with
(i) parents
(ii) friends
(iii) relatives
(iv) no one
(c) The poet has compared the snail to a
(i) tree
(ii) hermit
(iii) rock
(iv) blind man
2. State whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/ phrases/words in support of your answer:
(a) The snail fears to fall from the wall. Answer: FALSE
Supporting statement: "The snail sticks close, nor fears to fall"
(b) The snail comes out of his house during a storm. Answer: FALSE
Supporting statement: "Within that house secure he hides,
When danger imminent betides Of storm"
(c) The snail and his house are conjoined. Answer: TRUE
Supporting statement: "He and his house are so combin'd"
3. Answer the following questions:
(a) What does the snail usually stick itself to?
Answer: The snail usually sticks itself to grass, leaf, fruit or wall.
(b) What makes the snail well-satisfied?
Answer: To be his own whole treasure makes a snail well satisfied.
(c) How does the snail feed faster?
Answer: While eating, when snail meets one, it feeds faster.
Grammar in use
(a) Siraj always rises early. (Interrogative sentence using 'does')
Answer: Does Siraj not always rises early?
(b) Joyce is the best singer in the class. (Information question using 'who')
Answer: Who is the best singer in the class?
(c) He saw the rainbow. (Interrogative sentence using 'did')
Answer: Did he not see the rainbow?
(d) I go to school by bus. (Information question using 'how')
Answer: How do you go to school?
Writing activity
5. Write a letter (within 100 words) to the editor of an English daily about the disturbances caused by the thoughtless use of loudspeakers.
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