SEBA CLASS 10 Animals is a Beautiful Chapter of Class 10 English (The First Flight). Here you will find a detailed Question Answer of Animals with Previous Year Question of Animals As well as Here you will see 1 marks Question- From Animals and you can prepare for MCQ. Also 2 & 5 marks Questions from Text and Previous Year examination
Seba Class 10 English
Animals
✍️ Walt Whitman
Important Question Answers for 'Animal' Poetry of Class 10 English SEBA Assam Board
Q.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 wants to turn from man to animal. He means to say that He would like to change himself into an animal, from whose ancestry he has become man through prolong evolution.
Q.2. Mention three things that humans do and animals do not do.
Ans. (i) Humans sweat and whine. (i) Humans weep for their sins.
(ii) Humans kneel down to one another and to their ancestors.
Q.3. Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago? Discuss.
Ans. Yes, they do. Human beings treat the ancestors with honour and respect. All over the world. people practising various religions observe different kinds of rituals in memory of their forefathers. They remember the ancestors with reverence.
Q.4. What are the 'tokens' that the poet says he may have dropped long ago and which the animals have kept for him?
Ans. The "token" referred to here is the quality of simplicity that has been prevailing still among the animals. The poet, as a man acknowl edges his animal ancestry but says that in course of evolution he has dropped the quality of simplicity and innocence which the animals have preserved and kept for them.
SEBA Class 10th English Poetry Animal Important Questions Answers HSLC Exam
Additional Questions & Answers
Who is the poet of the poem "Animals"? Ans. Walt Whitman, a major American poet.
Q. Who is Walt Whitman?
Ans: Walt Whitman is a Big 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.6How do the animals accept their condition?
Ans. The animals accept their condition without sweat and whine.
Q.7. 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.8. 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.9. 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 the possession of the animals
Q.10. What does the poet mean when he says 'Did I pass that way huge time ago?
Ans. The poet praises the animals for their peaceful and self conrtroled life. In this connection he refers to animal ancestry of man. Man has emerged from animals passing through long process of evolution. The poet means to say that long time ago he too passed through the process of evolution.
Q.11. For what qualities of theirs does the poet praise the animals?
Ans. The poet praises the animals for their placid, self contained and simple life. They never complain about their sins, nor do they weep for their sins. They do not discuss their duty to God. No one of them is dissatisfied and hankers after anything. All are equal in animal community and none pays respect to the others, including their ancestors.
Q.12. There are some indirect references to human qualities in the poem? Mention some of them.
Ans. People are hardly placid and self contained. They are never satisfied with their condition and go on sweating and whining. They repent and weep for their sins and discuss their long duty to God. They hanker after more and more things and the worst thing is that they do not treat fellowmen as equals. There are high and low, rich and poor, common and respectable ones among them.
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SEBA Class 10 English: Animal Important Questions Answers For HSLC 2023