Revision on Literature

PRACTICES-I WONDER, HEIR CONDITIONING, ONE IS ONE AND ALL ALONE
POEMS
I WONDER

Practice 1
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.

I Wonder
I wonder why the grass is green,
And why the wind is never seen?

Who taught the birds to build a nest,
And told the trees to take a rest?

O, when the moon is not quite round,
Where can the missing bit be found?

Who lights the stars, when they blow out,
And makes the lightning flash about?

Who paints the rainbow in the sky,
And hangs the fluffy clouds so high?

Why is it now, do you suppose,
That Dad won’t tell me, if he knows?

1. What does the use of the word ‘wonder’ in the poem show?
A. thinking
B. solving problems
C. making silly remarks
D. feeling of shock

2. The phrase ‘…how the wind looks like’ tells us that the writer is….
A. curious
B. confused
C. passionate
D. angry

3. What is ‘hanging’ according to the persona?
A. stars
B. clouds
C. rainbow
D. wind
Practice 2

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.


1. In this poem, the persona is a……
A. man
B. child
C. woman
D. father

2. The persona is enthusiastic in …
A. exploring the nature
B. finding out if his dad knows anything
C. looking at the sky
D. finding out more about the moon

3. What is the best title for to replace “I wonder” if you have to?
A. I am Lost
B. Oh My God
C. Please Answer Me
D. Please Help Me

Practice 3

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.


1. Which word means –‘to make something look bright’?
A. paints
B. hangs
C. lights
D. makes

2. The title of the poem implies that the persona has …
A. desire to know
B. very little patience
C. a lot anger
D. no desire to know

3. State one value that we can learn from the poem?
A. Nature should be appreciated
B. Nature should be left alone
C. We must not be so curious
D. We should not ask too many questions.

Practice 4

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.

1. Who is the persona disappointed with?
A. God
B. Her mother
C. Her father
D. Nature

2. What is invisible?
A. The lightning
B. The wind
C. The clouds
D. The moon

3. The word ‘fluffy’ means…
A. light
B. feathery
C. thin
D. crispy

Practice 5

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.


1. The phrase ‘blow out’ means…
A. explode
B. brighten
C. disappear
D. appear

2. What is the persona wondering about the birds?
A. How the birds can fly
B. How they can build their nests
C. Why they are so small
D. Why they cannot talk

3. In the fourth couplet, the word ‘they’ refers to the…
A. lights
B. stars
C. moon
D. rainbow
Practice 6

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.


1. What does the phrase ‘the missing bit’ refers to?
A. fluffy clouds
B. parts of the moon
C. parts of the stars
D. the trees

2. How does the rainbow look like?
A. hanging
B. fluffy
C. painted
D. round

3. Two pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
A. fluffy- clouds
B. round- found
C. lightning-flash
D. birds-build

Practice 7
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.

1. Which characteristics will allow a child to learn more?
A. Being lazy
B. Being curious
C. A happy go lucky attitude
D. Always being suspicious

2. What does the poet really mean when she says that the trees take a rest?
A. the trees are strong
B. there is no wind
C. the wind is too strong
D. the trees are swaying in the rain.

3. What does the use of the word ‘wonder’ in the poem indicate?
A. the reality of life
B. magical happenings
C. man is always thinking
D. the creation of nature

Practice 8
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.



1. One of the major themes in the poem is…
A. the value of money
B. the value of education
C. nature is a crazy place to live in
D. the poet is a wanderer

2. What is the poem about?
A. Our world is mysterious and that there are so many crazy people.
B. We are living in a world that really does not have any answers.
C. We must try to find questions and answers all the time.
D. Our world is mysterious and there are so many unanswered questions

3. The last two lines imply that …
A. fathers like to keep secrets.
B. fathers are actually very stupid
C. a teacher is needed to guide the curious child
D. a child does not need to so busy body

Practice 9

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.


1. Who is the speaker relating the events?
A. An angry father asking his child
B. A curious child asking his father
C. A child who is always disturbing his father.
D. A father who does not want to answer the questions.

2. The half moon is seen as…
A. something not normal
B. a completed puzzle
C. a puzzle missing some of its pieces
D. a round object

3. The poem somehow portrays the thinking of a child …
A. who thinks about unnecessary things in life
B. who is really bored with life
C. who generalises everything using his own concept
D. who is very pampered and spoilt by the parents.

Practice 10
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘I wonder’.

1. What can you say about the persona in the poem?
A. Worried about the animals
B. sensitive and alert about nature
C. angry with his father for being fierce.
D. sensitive about his father.

2. Which phrase show human characteristics in non living things?
A. Birds build a nest
B. the trees to take a rest
C. the grass is green
D. wind is never seen

3. The mood of the poem is …
A. cheerful and inspiring
B. dull and uninspiring
C. sad and gloomy
D. humorous

POEM
HEIR CONDITIONING

Practice 1
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

Heir Conditioning

Grand dad did you breathe
before air cons were invented?
was it hard staying
alive without modern inventions?
Grandma weren’t you flustered
as you fluttered with paper fans?
could you communicate before
faxes and long distance calls
became basic necessities?

Grandchild we lived
before your age. Because
of our ignorance,
we did not know
pollution, stress, traffic jams
destruction of forests, streams and
hills
we feared God and nature
now nature fears you and
money is your new God.

1. Which word rhymes with ‘heir’?
A. hare
B. air
C. airy
D. hair

2. What is the tone of the poem?
A. Sad
B. Sarcastic
C. Anger
D. Sorrow

3. How does the poet view modernization?
A. optimistic
B. pessimistic
C. confident
D. cynical
Practice 2

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1 In stanza 1, the grandparents did not have all the following except
A. air conditioners
B. telephone
C. fax machine
D. paper fans

2. What does the title of the poem suggest?
A. Changes on how the younger generation thinks.
B. Changes in the mindset of the older generation
C. We must appreciate all the modern inventions
D. Technology is very important to mankind

3. What is meant in the line we feared God and nature… now nature fears you?

A. we are scared of nature
B. we are scared of God
C. we actually destroyed nature
D. nature destroyed our faith to God
Practice 3

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. What is meant by ‘money is your new God’?
A. Money can buy all the new inventions
B. The younger generation worship money.
C. Money is very important in our lives.
D. The older generation realizes the importance of money.

2. What does the word ‘feared’ imply?
A. scared of
B. believed in
C. hated
D. angry at

3. How many speakers does the poem have?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
Practice 4

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. What is the theme of the poem?
A. The usefulness of modern inventions.
B. Technology is not good for us
C. Respecting God
D. Effects of development

2. What can you infer from the line Grand child we lived before your age?
A. Grandparents enjoyed a long life
B. Grandparents have more experience than grandchild
C. Grandparents have lived a difficult life for a long time.
D. Grandparents do not understand grandchild’s lifestyle

3. What is the poet’s main concern in the second stanza?
A. Spiritual well being
B. Nature’s gift
C. God’s gift
D. Respect for the elders
Practice 5

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. What is the message that the poet wishes to express in this poem?
A. Grandchild is very modern
B. Grandfather is very modern
C. Effects of progress
D. Nurture of spiritual beings

2. Which parties are talking in the dialogue in the poem?
A. Grandfather and Grandmother
B. Grandfather and God
C. Grandparents and Grandchild
D. Grandfather and Grandson

3. The word ‘flustered’ means
A. comfortable
B. uncomfortable
C. cool
D. good
Practice 6

Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. According to the poem, how does man treat nature nowadays?
A. with a lot of fear
B. with no respect
C. with a lot of love
D. with a lot of care

2. What is the grandchild’s reaction to his grandparents life in the past?
A. angry
B. disappointed
C. puzzled
D. sad

3. An example of ‘basic necessities’ would be something that is…
A. expensive
B. very essential
C. trivial
D. hardly useful

Practice 7
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. The poet suggests that damage to the environment cannot be prevented because…
A. human beings are trained to do so.
B. of the attitude of the young generation
C. of the attitude of the older generation
D. it is in God’s hands

2. The phrase ‘money is your new God’ show that nowadays we are…
A. Lazy
B. Materialistic
C. Very spiritual
D. Very hard working

3. What is the theme of the poem?
A. modern inventions are useless
B. progress destroys mankind
C. we should not forget our spiritual values
D. importance of money to buy modern gadgets
Practice 8
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. The phrase “because of our ignorance, we did not know pollution, stress, traffic jams” is
A. metaphor
B. sarcasm
C. symbolism
D. personification

2. The poet wants the younger generation to have …
A. The exact life as their grandparents
B. balance between development and conserving environment
C. a good balance in the bank account and be very spiritual
D. respect for their grandparents.

3. One of the messages in the poem is …
A. we should not be too dependent on modern gadgets to run our life
B. we should be independent enough to choose modern gadgets.
C. we should not be too dependent on modern gadgets as it will ruin our life
D. we should be dependent on modern gadgets to run our life.

Practice 9
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. In the first stanza, the persona is the…
A. grandchild
B. grandparent
C. both grandparent and grandchild
D. grand dad and grandma.

2. According to the grandparents, they did not have to live in a polluted world…
A. as they did not want any gadgets
B. because there were a lot of trees left
C. because they did not much money
D. as they were not dependent on modern gadget

3. The verse “ we feared God and nature, now nature fears you” is an example of
A. Similarities between the past and present
B. How things are better now
C. Comparison between the past and the present
D. Things that not changed at all

Practice 10
Questions 1 – 3 are based on the extract from the poem ‘Heir Conditioning’

1. What are the problems mentioned in the poem?
A. modern inventions
B. stress and pollution
C. increase in crime rate
D. power failure

2. Why did the poet use many questions in stanza one?
A. to portray that the young generation is stupid
B. to show that the inquisitiveness of a child
C. to ensure that the grandparents answer the questions
D. to portray that children were not educated in the past

3. Which of these lines show comparison between the past and present?
A. Grandchild we lived before your age. Because of our ignorance,..
B. we feared God and nature now nature fears you..
C. Grand dad did you breathe before air cons were invented?
D. Grandma weren’t you flustered as you fluttered with paper fans?

SHORT STORY
ONE IS ONE AND ALL ALONE

Practice 1
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story ‘One Is One And All Alone’.

You mean. It’s still done.
Certainly. Why to set up a clone laboratory, all that is required…
VP went on and on describing cloning techniques so I decided to press ‘save’ and listen to it all later. For now I have some serious thinking to do.
I’ll tell you what I was thinking. The Biolab in this ship is very big. It has to be, because biology is what this trip is all about- the biology of Trion- what lives there now and what, and who, could live there in the future. At the moment the ships Biolab is deserted. It won’t become busy until we reach Trion.
I need to use it.
I need it all to myself.
I will make a clone. It will be my perfect friend and companion. Perfect, because I am going to clone myself. Make another Me.

1. Why is there no one in the BioLab?
A. No one knows how to use it
B. Experiments has not begun
C. The ship has not reached Trion
D. The BioLab is not perfect.

2. What has Trish decided to do?
A. visit the BioLab
B. make a clone of herself
C. help her father find Trion
D. search for a good friend

3. What was the VoicePrinter doing?
A. describing cloning techniques
B. talking nonsense and irritating Trish
C. playing games with trish
D. printing all that Trish is saying.

Practice 2
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story ‘ One Is One And All Alone’.

Dear Diary,
I haven’t spoken to you for ages because I have been busy with my new friend Clo.
Clo for Clone. Clo is me. I am Clo. We are identical twins. No, even closer than that. Clo is made of me, from me. We are one. Except that there are two of us- which is tricky. I mean, suppose Dad put his head round the door and saw Two Trishes instead of one!
But I’ve solved that. My cabin door leads to an identical cabin next door. Clo can vanish through that door in a split second.
The next-door cabin is empty of course. All the cabins are. They won’t be filled until the return trip from Trion. So, I sleep here. Clo sleeps there. Clothes, food, toothbrushes?
Well, yes. I now need two of everything- but the ship is loaded with stores. No one notices or cares about an extra toothbrush or an extra towel.

1. Trish does not need to talk to VoicePrinter very often as…
A. she now hates it
B. she has a new companion
C. she has found her mother in Trion
D. she has found her twin sister.

2. Who is Clo?
A. Trish’s friend from Earth
B. Another name given to Trish
C. Identical twin created by Trish
D. Trish’s biological mother.

3. What will all the cabins be used for?
A. To hide Clo.
B. to store things from Trion
C. To store all the toothbrushes and towels.
D. They are actually bedrooms

Practice 3
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

Dear Diary,
I get so lonely, that’s my trouble. I am the only child on this space ship. Everyone else is a grown up with things to do. They’re all busy running the ship or checking their equipment. We will soon land on the planet Trion. Our mission is to find out more about this planet.
Yes, we’re heading for Trion. Now that might sound exciting, but it’s not. It’s not exciting at all.
When we set out, I used to tick off the days on my calendar. We left Earth on 12 March 2045. So I ticked off March 12, 13,14,15…then April, May , June. Then I gave up. We don’t reach Trion until mid-January 2047. By then I’ll be 13.
Dad does his best, he’s always poking his head round my door, grinning at me.
He asks, ‘Hi Trish. How’s things?
Everything all right? How do you fancy meeting me in the diner at 6 o’clock for a chocolate milkshake?
I grin back and say, Yum, Yum! But even as I say it his face changes. The grin is still there but the busy look is back in his eyes.

1. How old is Trish now?
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13

2. The expected duration to reach Trion is within
A. 1year
B. 2 years
C. 15 years
D. 47 years

3. Trish’s father is …
A. the only grown up in the ship
B. the only human in the ship
C. always poking fun at Trish
D. an extremely busy person

Practice 4
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

Dad does his best, he’s always poking his head round my door, grinning at me.
He asks, ‘Hi Trish. How’s things?
Everything all right? How do you fancy meeting me in the diner at 6 o’clock for a chocolate milkshake?
I grin back and say, Yum, Yum! But even as I say it his face changes. The grin is still there but the busy look is back in his eyes.
After all he is the ship’s captain.
And I suppose he misses mum as much as I do. Almost as much anyhow. She is on Trion helping set up the space station. Busy Dad, busy Mum.
Which leaves me all alone in front of my VoicePrinter, talking to it, talking and talking. Then I watch it print out what I’ve been saying. It’s my private diary. It corrects my spelling and punctuation. It’s clever. It gives me school lessons, but it also plays game with me. My favourite game is Pop Star, where I can act out being a pop star on VP’s enormous screen.
I can switch it from Diary to Dialogue too. I suppose it’s my best friend, really. I’m going to switch from Diary to Dialogue now…

1. Who is the captain of the ship?
A. Trish
B. Trish’s Dad
C. Trish’s Mum
D. The VoicePrinter

2. Trish’s best friend is
A. her dad
B. her mum
C. her voiceprinter
D. no one.

3. The Voiceprinter is able to do all of the following except…
A. correct spelling and punctuation errors.
B. print whatever Trish says
C. play a game called Pop Star.
D. read Trish’s mind

Practice 5
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

And those are only the small things.
To be truthful, I can’t stand the way Clo’s mind works. I can’t stand Clo’s corny jokes and her dismal sulks. I can’t stand Clo’s laugh or eating habits or finger picking. And I won’t stand Clo intruding on my most private and personal thoughts.
One of the features of this ship is its disposal system. There are five big hatches, each one marked ‘DISPOSAL’. You open the hatch, put the thing you want to get rid of into the hole, and whoosh it’s gone. Disposed of for ever in infinite space. One of the five hatches happen to be outside my cabin, in the corridor. There’s never anyone in the corridor at night.
There you are then. Tonight’s the night. I’ll be disposing of something definitely. I am going to write a note to go with the item. The note will read, ‘Goodbye, Clo. Have a good trip. Yours never, Trish.

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1. All of the following things about Clo makes Trish angry except…
A. for the way Clo jokes
B. for how Clo sulks
C. for Clo’s looks
D. for the wat Clo’s thinks.

2. How many hatches are there for disposal?
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five

3. Trish intended to dispose Clo by
A. giving her a note
B. asking her to go away
C. putting her into the disposal system
D. telling her father about Clo.

Practice 6
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

One of the features of this ship is its disposal system. There are five big hatches, each one marked ‘DISPOSAL’. You open the hatch, put the thing you want to get rid of into the hole, and whoosh it’s gone. Disposed of for ever in infinite space. One of the five hatches happen to be outside my cabin, in the corridor. There’s never anyone in the corridor at night.
There you are then. Tonight’s the night. I’ll be disposing of something definitely. I am going to write a note to go with the item. The note will read, ‘Goodbye, Clo. Have a good trip. Yours never, Trish.
Well, it wouldn’t be murder, would it? How could it be? You can’t be charged with murdering yourself, can you? You couldn’t even be charged with suicide because there will still be one person left and that person will be alive- walking and talking, eating and sleeping.
So, it’s foolproof. “Goodbye, Clo. Yours never Trish.”

1. What is Trish planning?
A. She wants to destroy Clo
B. She wants to dispose garbage
C. She wants to kill herself
D. She wants to tell her family the truth.

2. The phrase “one person’ refers to
A. Trish’s Dad
B. Trish’s Mum
C. Clo
D. Trish herself.

3. The words on the note, “ Yours never” implies that Trish…
A. Loves Clo very much
B. Hates Clo
C. Never wanted a friend
D. Loves to be alone

Practice 7
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

Last night Clo did something I cannot forgive. I was thinking about Mum. I am always thinking of her- and I suppose I gave a sort of sigh and murmured, ‘Oh, Mum.”
As I said it, Clo said precisely the same thing. ‘Oh,Mum.” Clo said precisely the same thing and gave a sigh.
Now that’s going too far, don’t you angry. I mean my is my mum. Nothing to do with Clo. Mu mum, mine only.
I’m not going to put up with this kind of thing. It’s like being swamped, invaded, taken over. She wears the same clothes as me. And crossword puzzles! And how would you like it when, after puzzling over a clue for ages, you finally find the answer and shout it out “NAVIGATOR!”- and at that very moment, hear a voice from the cabin next door shout “NAVIGATOR!”.
And those are only the small things.

1. Why was Trish so angry with Clo?
A. Clo calls her ‘Mum”
B. She does not want Clo to share her mother
C. She has to learn to share things
D. Clo imitates her all the time.

2. All of the following events made Trish angry, except…
A. They wear the same clothes
B. Clo solves the puzzle at the same time
C. She solves the puzzles faster
D. Clo calls Trish’s mother as her mum.

3. Trish is always thinking of …
A. Clo
B. Her father
C. Her mother
D. Herself

Practice 8
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

Over and done with. Finished and forgotten.
No, that’s not true. There’s no question about forgetting. Just the opposite. Every minute of every hour. I mentally hug myself and give a silent shout. Of “Whoopp! Yarroop! Hooray! Finally Free! Alone at last!”
Even dad noticed a change in me. “You’re looking wonderful today,” he said.
“Suddenly you’re bright as a button.”
‘I feel terrific! I said. “Can I have a chocolate milkshake?’
“Have as many as you like.”
“Just one.” I said. “Only one. One’s enough isn’t it? Who needs two? There’s only one Me. No longer do I have to remind another me to wipe chocolate from it’s greedy mouth. No longer do I have to listen to that other Me’s corny “Yum,yum! Noises whenever chocolate milkshakes are mentioned. From now on, there’s only one me.
You have no idea how wonderful it feels, how bright the future looks.

1. Dad shows surprise at his daughter’s good mood because…
A. usually Trish hates chocolate milkshake
B. Trish is usually moody
C. She likes to talk to the Voice Printer
D. Trish is always hot tempered.

2. What has happened to Clo?
A. She is now dead
B. She is living the life of Trish
C. She is sleeping
D. She left because she was unhappy.

3. Clo’s feelings can be described as …
A. extremely happy
B. very sad
C. disappointed
D. very confused

Practice 9
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

One of the features of this ship is its disposal system. There are five big hatches, each one marked ‘DISPOSAL’. You open the hatch, put the thing you want to get rid of into the hole, and whoosh it’s gone. Disposed of for ever in infinite space. One of the five hatches happen to be outside my cabin, in the corridor. There’s never anyone in the corridor at night. There you are then. Tonight’s the night. I’ll be disposing of something definitely. I am going to write a note to go with the item. The note will read, ‘Goodbye, Clo. Have a good trip. Yours never, Trish.

1. The word ‘item’ refers to
A. the dustbin
B. garbage
C. Clo
D. the note

2. What is Trish planning as in the extract?
A. to clear her space
B. clear the garbage
C. destroy her clone
D. write notes to Clo.

3. What is the function of a ‘hatch’?
A. to store things
B. to throw garbage
C. a place to send letters or notes
D. to keep clothes

Practice 10
Questions 1-3 are based on extracts from the short story One Is One And All Alone.

VP went on and on describing cloning techniques so I decided to press ‘save’ and listen to it all later. For now I have some serious thinking to do.
I’ll tell you what I was thinking. The Biolab in this ship is very big. It has to be, because biology is what this trip is all about- the biology of Trion- what lives there now and what, and who, could live there in the future. At the moment the ships Biolab is deserted. It won’t become busy until we reach Trion.
I need to use it.
I need it all to myself.

1. Why does Trish need to use the BioLab?
A. she wants to play
B. to create a clone
C. to investigate who is in Trion
D. she will do some research on her own.

2. What is VP?
A. Vice President
B. Very Popular
C. Voice Printer
D. Very Proud

3. The word ‘deserted’ means
A. dry as a desert
B. no air and water
C. not being used
D. very dry

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