Mother to Son എന്ന പാഠത്തിലെ കൂടുതല്‍ ചോദ്യങ്ങളും ഉത്തരങ്ങളും (Class 10)

1. Read the lines from ‘Mother to Son’ and answer the questions that follow. 
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor -
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ Iandin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So, boy, don’t you turn back.
a. Who is ‘I’ referred to here?
Mother
b. What does the speaker compare her life to?
Crystal stair
c. What is the speaker’s advice to her son?
The speaker advises her son not to turn back.
d. What impression do you get about the speaker from these lines?
The speaker had to face many difficulties in her life. Life was not easy for her. She advises her son to be prepared to the same type of difficulties in his life also.
2. Supply the missing words in the following passage.
Before tracing/ (a) first letter, he glanced several times anxiously/ (b) the door and window, peered at the dark icon, with shelves holding cobbler’s lasts stretching on either side/(c) it, and gave a quivering sigh. The paper lay/(d) the bench, and Vanka knelt on the floor at the bench.
(at, of, by, the, on)
Answers: a) the b) at c) of d) on