My Own True Family
Textual Questions & Answers
1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences :
a) Creeping in an oakwood, the poet was looking for a
(i) goat
(ii) rhinoceros
(iii) stag
(iv) buffalo
Ans: (iii) stag
b) Whenever an oak tree is felled, the number of trees the poet must plant is
(i) two
(ii) three
(iii) four
(iv) five
Ans: (i) two
c) When the poet came out of the Oakwood, his heart was that of a
(i) stag
(ii) tree
(iii) human child
(iv) old women
Ans: (ii) tree
2. State whether the following sentences are true or false. Provide sentences/phrases/words in support of your answer :
(a) The old woman held the poet’s secrets in her little bag.
Ans: True , Supporting Statement: “I have your secret in my little bag.”
(b) The tree tribe said that the poet is bothered to see the chopping down of oak trees.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: ‘‘we are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye”.
(c) The poet never came out of
the oakwood.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “When
I came out of the oakwood, back to human company”.
3. Answer
the following questions :
(a) When did the poet come twice awake?
Ans: The poet came twice awake when the old woman whom he met in the oakwood opened the bag to show a magic.
(b) What would happen to the poet if he failed to make the promise?
Ans: The black oak tree would wrinkle over him and rooted him among the oak trees if the poet failed to make the promise and in this way he would die.
(c) What was it that altered the poet?
Ans: The poet was altered by the dream about the ill fate of oak trees. He felt compassionate when he was awoken from his dream.
4. Change
the following into indirect speech:
(a) Rahul asked Dipa, “Will you
go to school today?”
Ans: Rahul asked Dipa if she would go to
school that day.
(b) Rita said to Ayesha, “Please give me a glass of water.”
Ans: Rita requested Ayesha to give her a
glass of water.
(c) The old man told the little girl, “May you be happy!”
Ans: The old man wished/prayed that the little girl might be happy. / The old man wished the little girl that she might be happy. / The old man prayed for the little girl to be happy.
5. Do as
directed:
(a) Ranjan said, “Who does not know the name of Rabindranath?” (Change into an affirmative sentence)
Ans: Ranjan said that everybody knows the name of Rabindranath. / Ranjan said who doesn’t know the name of Rabindranath.
(b) Sangeeta runs faster than any other girl in her class. (Rewrite using the positive degree of faster)
Ans: No other girl in her class runs as fast as Sangeeta.
(c) Kaushiki blamed her friend
for the trouble. (Rewrite using the noun form of ‘blamed’)
Ans: Kaushiki put the blame on her friend for the
trouble. / Kaushiki gave the blame to her friend for the trouble.