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Literature Comprehension

A) Direct questions and answers

1) What do the birds do when they are faint with the hot Sun?

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2) When does the cricket sing?

Ans.

3) To whom does the cricket’s song seem like that of the grasshopper’s?

Ans.

B) Reference to context

4) ‘When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun,

And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;’

a) Whose voice will run from hedge to hedge?

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b) In which season will the voice be heard?

Ans.

c) When can the voice be heard?

Ans.

5) ‘On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills

The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,’

a) How is the weather in the given lines?

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b) What is it that shrills?

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