Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes The Land of Story-Books Question Answer

Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes The Land of Story-Books Question Answer 

Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Noted

Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes The Land of Story-Books Question Answer 

Read the following stanza carefully and answer the questions that follow–

1.At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.

(a)When is the lamp lit?
(b)Who sit at home,talk and sing?
(c)Write the name of the poet.

Ans-
(a)The lamp is lit the evening.
(b)Poet's parents sit at home,talk and sing.
(c)Robert Louis Balfour Sevenson

Answer the following questions—

1.Who sits around the fireplace in the evening?
Ans-The poet's parents sit around the fireplace in the evening.

2.What dose the poet imagine the place behind the sofa back to be?
Ans-The pote imagnes the place behind the sofa back to be the forest track.

3.Describe the things the poet talks about in the 4th stanza.
Ans-The things the poet talks about in the 4th stanza are the hills woods,river and roaring lions.

4.What dose the poet do when his mother comes in to put him to sleep?
Ans-The poet goes to the bed with backward looks at his dear land of story books.

Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes The Land of Story-Books Question Answer 

Choose the correct option—

(a)What does the poet do when his parents sit and talk in the evening?
(i)He goes to camp 
(ii)He reads story books.

(b)Why does the child crawl against the wall?
(i)So that no one can see him.
(ii)Because he wants to steal the gun.

(c)Where does the child lie so that no one can see him?
(i)behind the camp,
(ii)behind the sofa back.

(d)How long does the child stay in the land of story books?
(i)till it is time to play.
(ii)till is time to go to sleep.

(e)Which line in the pome suggest the child's lover for story books?
(i)Home I return across the seas.
(ii)and go to bed with backward looks.

Ans-(a)(ii),(b)(i),(c)(i),(d)(ii),(e)(ii)

Fill in the blanks with suitable words to complete the summary of the poem—

The child is extremely fond of (a)___story books.At (b)____time,when his (c)____sit around the (d)____and talk,he crawls behind the (e)____and imagines the place to be a hunter's (f)____He thinks of all the (g)____he has read and imagines himself to be in one such Land of adventure.He imagnes himself to being Indian (h)____He imagines(i)____and (j)____arld roaring (k)____that come to the river bank to drink water.But he needs to return from his land of imagination when his (l)____comes in to wise him good night.

Ans-
(a)land
(b)evening 
(c)parents 
(d)fire
(e)sofa
(f)camp
(g)book
(h)scout
(i)hills
(J)woids
(k)lines
(l)mother

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