Answer these questions orally:

Q. 1. What things in the first stanza tell you that the poet is curious?
Ans. Asking questions about the green colour of grass, unseen wind. building a nest by a bird and the rest of trees tell me that the poet is curious. 

Q. 2. Why do you think the speaker calls the cloud fluffy?
Ans. The clouds are flying very easily and smoothly, so they seem fluffy to the speaker.

Q. 3. Does the wind have any colour? 
Ans. No, the wind does not have any colour.

Q. 4. Do you often ask your father about the things that you wonder at? Does he answer your questions? If he doesn't, what do you
do to satisfy your curiosity?

Ans. Yes, I often ask questions to my father about the things that I wonder at. He, sometimes, answers me and sometimes not. When he does. not answer me I imagine some answer or ask some other persons.



B.1.2. Based on your reading of the poem say whether the following statements are 'true' or 'false'.

(a) The shape of moon is fixed.    

(b) The birds make their own nests.

 (c) The rainbow is not always colourful.

(d) The stars do not give light.

Ans. (a) False. (b) True, (c) False, (d) False.

B.2.2. Answer the following questions in not more than 50 words. 

Q. 1. Make a list of things that the poet is curious to know about.
Ans. The poet is curious to know about: reason of greenness of grass, invisibility of wind, teacher of bird to build nest, instructor of trees, who commanded them to take rest, place of missing bit of moon, the person who lights the stars, makes lightning flash, paints rainbow and hangs the fluffy clouds so high.

Q. 2. Who do you think is the 'I' in the poem-a child or an adult? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans. The 'I' in the poem is used for a child. Reasion: The questions raised by the inquirer is childish.

Q. 3. What opinion do you form about the speaker?
Ans. In my opinion, the speaker is a child. It seems that the poet himself feels all the questions in his mind in childhood. Now, he composes these ideas for people to experience the peculiarity of nature.
Q. 4. What does the question in the end suggest about the speaker's attitude towards his dad ?
Ans. The speaker thinks that his dad won't answer his questions, if he knows, because he (dad) thinks that the answers to these questions are not understandable to a child.