TextBook Solutions for Maharashtra Board Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 10 An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum

Tick the item which best answers of the following:

• The tall girl with her head weighed down means the girl

   

• is ill and exhausted

   

• has her head bent with shame

   

• has untidy hair.

Tick the item which best answers of the following:

• The paper-seeing boy with rat’s eyes means the boy

   

•  sly and secretive

   

•  thin, hungry and weak

   

  
  

   

• unpleasant looking.

Tick the item which best answers of the following:

• The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means the boy

•  has an inherited disability

   

• was short and bony.

Tick the item which best answers of the following:

• His eyes live in a dream. A squirrel’s game in the tree room rather than this means the boy is

   

• full of hope in the future.

   

• mentally ill

   

• distracted from the lesson.

Tick the item which best answers of the following:

• The children’s faces are compared to “rootless weeds.” This means they

   

• are insecure

   

• are ill-fed

   

•  are wasters.

What do you think is the colour of “sour cream?” Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?

The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of ‘Shakespeare, ‘buildings with domes’, ‘world maps’ and ‘beautiful valleys’. How do these contrast with the world of these children?

What does the poet want for the children of the slums ? How can their lives be made to change?

Have you ever visited or seen an elementary school in a slum? What does it look-like?

How does Stephen Spender depict the life of the children of ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?