Question 1.
What type of creature cricket was ?
(a) intelligent
(b) hypocrate
(c) silly
(d) honest
(c) silly
Question 2.
“Oh!” What will become of me?” Who said so ?
(a) ant
(b) cricket
(c) poet
(d) trees
(b) cricket
Question 3.
‘Dance the winter away’. Who said to whom ?
(a) Cricket to Ant
(b) Poet to Cricket
(c) Ant to Cricket
(d) Poet to Ant
(c) Ant to Cricket
Question 4.
I’m your servant and friend. What does ‘T’ refer to ?
(a) cricket
(b) ant
(c) poet
(d) rain
(b) ant
Question 5.
The word ‘crumb’ here means
(a) a piece of pie
(b) a piece of wood
(c) a piece of bread
(d) a piece of stone
(c) a piece of bread
Question 6.
The Cricket says, “Oh! what will become of me?” When does he say it, and why?
The winter has set in. He has nothing to eat. He can’t find even a crumb on snowcovered ground. He is worried and starved. At that time he says so.
Question 7.
(i) Find in the poem the lines that mean the same as “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” (Shakespeare).
The following lines have the same meaning : ‘But we ants never borrow, we ants never lend’. It conveys the same sense as ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’.
Question 8. (ii) What is your opinion of the ant’s principles?
The ants’ principles are appropriate. As a principle, it deserves to applaud. But we should not so hard as let the other die of starvation. However, one should make one realize one’s mistake.
Question 9.
The ant tells the cricket to ‘dance the winter away’. Do you think the word ‘dance’ is appropriate here? If so, why?
The word ‘dance’ is appropriate as it suits the carelessness of cricket.
Question 10.
(i) Which lines in the poem express the poet’s comment? Read them aloud.
Folks call this fable. I’ll warrant it true: Some cricket have four legs, and some have two (Read-aloud)