Class 10 English Chapter 14 Animals
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ANSWER
Very Short type Questions Answers
Q.1. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Animals’?
Ans. Walt Whitman, a major American poet.
Q.2. Who is Walt Whitman?
Ans. Walt Whitman is a major American poet.
Q.3. What type of a man Whitman was in his social life?
Ans. In his social life Whitman was a nonconformist.
Q.4. “……they are so placid and self contained?” Who are the ‘they’ in the above line?
Ans. The ‘they’ in the above line are the animals.
Q.5. With whom could the poet live and why?
Ans. The poet could live with the animals because they are so placid and self contained.
Q.6. How do the animals accept their condition?
Ans. The animals accept their condition without sweat and whine.
Q.7. Choose the meaning of the underlined words from the alternative given in the brackets:
(a) I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self-contained. (angry/calm and peaceful/harmful)
Ans. Calm and peaceful.
(b) Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owing. Things. (feeling unhappy)/feeling displeased/behaving crazily for beings upset)
Ans. Behaving crazily for being upset.
Q.8. How are the animals over the whole earth?
Ans. Over the whole earth no animal is respectable or unhappy. They live in contentment as they lead plain life.
Q.9. How do the animals show their relations to the poet? And what does he do them?
Ans. The animals lead placid and self contained life. The poet too likes simplicity and leads a plain life. Also the poet acknowledges his animal ancestry. So he feels that the animals show their relations to him. He accepts them.
Q.10. “…….they evince them plainly in their possession.’
(i) Who are the ‘they’?
(ii) What is there ‘in their possession?’
Ans. (i) The ‘they’ are the animals.
(ii) Lessons of simplicity, plain and peaceful, self contained life are there in possession of the animals.
TEXTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Multiple Choice Questions & Answers
1. Who is the poet of the poem ‘‘Animals”?
(a) Leslie Norris
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Carolyn Wells
(d) Walt Whitman
Ans. (d) Walt Whitman.
2. Who, according to the poet, is better?
(a) human beings
(b) animals
(c) plants
(d) none
Ans. (b) Animals.
3. What do humans do that animals don’t?
(a) greed
(b) jealousy
(c) infuriate
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d) All of the above.
4. What is the meaning of ‘‘placid”?
(a) peaceful
(b) clumsy
(c) greedy
(d) jealousy
Ans. (b) Clumsy.
5. Who is not dissatisfied always?
(a) humans
(b) animals
(c) plants
(d) All of the above
Ans. (b) animals.
6. What qualities have the humans given up?
(a) innocence
(b) kindness
(c) truthfulness
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d) All of the above.
7. What is the attitude of the animals toward their sins?
(a) confused and unhappy.
(b) calm, peaceful and self-confident
(c) confused and bored
(d) none of the above
Ans. (b) Calm, peaceful and self-confident.
8. What is the meaning of “whine”?
(a) a beverage
(b) cry
(c) shout
(d) None
Ans. (b) Shout.
9. Who, according to the poet, is better?
(a) human beings
(b) animals
(c) both are equal
(d) none
Ans. (b) Animals.
10. Why do humans lie awake in the dark?
(a) Do not feel sleepy
(b) Do not feel tired
(c) Worried
(d) Cry for their sins
Ans. (d) Cry for their sins.
Thinking about the poem
1. Notice the use of the word ‘turn’ in the first line. ‘I think I could turn and live with animals…’ what is the poet turning from?
Ans: The poet is turning from a human – being to an animal.
2. Mention three things that humans do and animals don’t.
Ans: Humans cry about their condition. They lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They also hanker after owning wealth. But animals don’t do these.
3. Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago? Discuss this in groups.
Ans: yes, humans – beings kneel to other humans as a part of their culture to show respect to the elders.
4. What are the ‘to kens’ that the poet says he may have dropped long ago, and which the aminals have kept for him? Discuss this in class. (hint : Whitman belongs to the romantic tradition that includes rousseau and wordsworth, which holds that civilisation has made humans false to their own true nature. What could be the vaise aspects of our nature as living beings that humans choose to ignore or deny?)
Ans : The ‘ tokens’ are love, affection, kindness, sympathy etc. The poet says that he may have dropped these human qualities. Because all these have disappeared from among man. But animals have not lost their qualities, so they are better than humans in many ways.
Comprehension questions and answers
Q:- Read the extract and answer the questions choosing the most appropriate options given below:-
1. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they so not make me sick discussing their duty to god, no one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with
The mania of owning things,
Nor one kneels to another, nor to his kind that
Lived thousand of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Questions :-
1. What do the animals not do about their condition?
a) They do not weep.
b) They do not pray.
c) They do not sweat and complain.
d) They do not love others.
Ans: c) They do not sweat and complain.
2. What do the animals not do for their sins?
a) They do not repent.
b) They do not pray.
c) They do not commit sin.
d) They do not lie awake in the dark and weep.
Ans: d) They do not lie awake in the dark and weep.
3. No one of them is dissatisfied because
a) They have everything.
b) They can own everything.
c) They have no mania of owning thing.
d) Human beings have the mania of owning things.
Ans: c) They have no mania of owning thing.
4. Why does no one kneel to another? Because
a) All are equal.
b) Someone is superior.
c) Someone is inferior.
d) All are powerful.
Ans: a) All are equal.
2. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, they bring me tokens of myself, they evince
Them plainly in their possession I wonder where they get those tokens, Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
Questions :-
- who are the ‘they’ here
a) The human beings.
b) His friends.
c) The animals.
d) The vegetation.
Ans: c) The animals.
2. What do they bring to the poet?
a) Love and affection.
b) Sincerity.
c) Symbol of love.
d) Familiarity.
Ans: a) Love and affection.
3. How do they show their love?
a) Artificially.
b) Plainly.
c) In a complex manner.
d) Emotionally.
Ans: b) Plainly.
4. Where do they get those token from?
a) The field.
b) Other living beings.
c) Man.
d) Among themselves.
Ans: c) Man.
Short answers type questions
1. Why does the poet want to ‘turn and live’ with animals?
Ans:- The poet found that animals possess better qualities than man. They are peace – loving and self- contained. They do not complain about their condition and do not weep for their sins. They don’t hanker after wealth. So the poet wants to turn live with animals.
2. How are animals different from man in relation to owing things?
Ans:- In the case of owning things animals are different from man. Man is greedy and madly hankers after wealth. But animals never do so. They are not interested in owning material things.
3. What does the poet think of the tokens which came to the animals?
Ans:- The poet thinks that man had those tokens of love long ago. As a man he too had those human qualities. But he wonders if he had left those for the animals long ago.
1. What is the attitude of the animals toward their sins ?
(a) Confused and peaceful
(b) Calm, peaceful and self-confident
(c) Confused and sad
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b) Calm, peaceful and self-confident
(c) Mania of possessing things
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