Amanda

 Amanda  First Flight

Read the following extracts and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow :

Question 1.

Don’t bite your nails, Amanda ! 

Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda !

Stop that slouching and sit up straight,

Amanda!

(a) The speaker wants Amanda.

(b) The speaker is …… .

(c) The word from the passage which means the same as ‘erect’ is ………… .

(d) Who is the poet ?

Answer:

(a) to learn good habits.

(b) Amanda’s mother.

(c) straight.

(d) Robin Klen.

Question 2.

Stop that sulking at once, Amanda ! 

You’re always so moody, Amanda !

Anyone would think that I nagged at you,

Amanda!

(a) Who is the speaker of these lines ?

(b) What kind of a girl was Amanda ?

(c) Did the speaker rebuke her ?

(d) Which word in the passage means the same as bending ?

Answer:

(a) Amanda’s parent is the speaker in these lines.

(b) Amanda was a girl who loved freedom.

(c) The speaker didn’t rebuke her but pointed out certain habits of her.

(d) Sulking.

Question 3.

There is a languid, emerald sea, 

where the sole inhabitant is me— a mermaid, drifting blissfuly.

(a) Who is me omit the in these lines ?

(b) What does the desire to be “sole inhabitant” tell you about ‘Amanda’ ?

(c) Which word in the extract means the same as : ‘Relaxed’

(d) What is the colour of the sea ?

Answer:

(a) Amanda.

(b) Her desire is to be a mermaid, living in the green sea.

(c) blissfully.

(d) Emeral/Green.

Question 4.

There is a languid, emerald sea, 

where the sole inhabitant is me — a mermaid, drifting blissfully.

(a) The speaker here is ………….. .

(b) The stanza is bracketed as it ……….. .

(c) Amanda imagines herself as ………. .

(d) Which word in the passage refers to resident ?

Answer:

(a) Amanda herself.

(b) Brackets are used to provide more meaning to the phrase. And poet uses it to present the imagination of the little girl.

(c) a mermaid living in the green sea.

(d) ‘Inhabitant’

Question 5.

Did you finish your homework, Amanda ?

Did you tidy your room, Amanda ?

I thought I told you to clean your shoes,

Amanda

(a) According to the narrator, Amanda is a very ……….. girl.

(b) What the narrator asks Amanda is to ………… .

(c) …. is talking to Amanda.

(d) Who is the poet ? 

Answer:

(a) careless

(b) finish her homework and then clean her room and shoes.

(c) One of the parents.

(d) Robin Klein

Question 6.

I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I Pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.

(a) “I” calls herself an orphan but …….. .

(b) “I” is really not speaking but ………… .

(c) The reason why she wants to be an orphan is ………. .

(d) Which word in the passage refers to naked ? 

Answer:

She is not an orphan, only imagines herself to the one.

(b) Only thinking of these thoughts.

(c) her parents always nags at her which she doesn’t like.

(d) Bare.

Question 7.

I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I Pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.

Who is described here ?

The speaker makes design ……….. .

The speaker looks at freedom with ………. .

Which word in the passage means the same as ‘wandering’. A child, fed up of his parents instructions thus feels himself, with her bare feet on the soft dust underneath, intense love, roaming. 

Answer:

(a) A child, fed of his parents instructons thus feels himself

(b) With her bear feet on the soft dust underneath

(c) intense love

(b) roaming

Question 8.

Don”t eat the chocolate, Amanda !

Remember your acne, Amanda !

Will you please look at me when I’m speaking to you Amanda !

(a) Who is scolding Amanda ?

(b) Amanda should not eat chocolate because ………. .

(c) Amanda does not look at the speaker because ……….. .

(d) Which word in the passage refers to ‘memorize’ ? 

Answer:

(a) Amanda’s mother is scolding her.

(b) it will cause acne.

(c) she is displeased with her.

(d) remember

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1.

What is Amanda’s desire ? Why ?

Answer:

Amanda’s desires herself to be an orphan as she wants to live a life of her own without any disturbance. She feels troubled by her parents.

Question 2.

What can you depict of Amanda’s nature ?

Answer:

Amanda is a moody girl. She is nagged most of the time. She often escapes from reality, which makes her moody and uninterested.

Question 3.

Does the title ‘Amanda’ suet the poem ?

Answer:

The title of the poem revolves around the little girl. Her life is full of struggle with no freedom. She experiences calmness away from her nagging parents.

Question 4.

What is the age of the girl in the poem ? How do you come to know her age ?

Answer:

Amanda is 9 -10 years old school going girl. This fact is known because her parents are trying to inculcate good habits in her, but she is very innocent and immature.

Long Answer Type Question 

Question 1.

What do you leam from the poem ‘Amanda’ ?

Answer:

The poem ‘Amanda’ teaches us that children tend to learn bad habits, Any child can not be taught in one day. It is natural for a child like Amanda to seek freedom. Parents who are judging their children every time would do more harm than good. She is corrected every time by her parents we witness miserable failure of parents when Amanda wishes to be an orphan so that she could be free.