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A Roadside Stand
What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
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Why do the people who had put up the roadside stand want some city money to fell in hand?
The poor rural people had put up the roadside stand in the countryside. It was here the speeding city folk cars could wait a while and see the beautiful natural mountains and landscape. They can buy the fruits and other things put on sale for them.
The rural people pathetically plead that the speeding polished traffic to stop for a while. They wait all day for the cars to stop and buy something and give them money. They wanted to earn money from them. That is why, they had put up the roadside stand in the countryside.
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The flow of cities is supported by:
Polished traffic refers to:
The reaction of a stopping car for the landscape was:
Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts
Or crook-necked golden squash with silver warts
Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene
You have the money, but if you want to be mean
Why keep money (this crossly) and go along.
The hurt to the scenery wouldn’t be my complaint
So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid
1. What was offered for sale and where?
2. According to the poet where does the beauty rest?
3. Explain: If you want to be mean.
The items which were sold on the roadside stand were:
Beauty, according to Robert Frost, rests in:
Moneyed people are mean. It means:
Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Here far from the city we make our roadside stand
And ask for some city money to feel in hand
To try if it will not make our being expand
And give us the life of the moving pictures promise
That the party in power is said to be keeping from us.
1. Who made a roadside stand and where?
2. Who wanted to feel the money in hand?
3. Who hoped to be helped and by whom?
4. What was the promise made and who made it?
The roadside stand was set up by:
From whom did the rural people desire to get money?
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