My Own True Family Question Answer | Class 10 | Lesson 4 | Ted Hughes | WBBSE

1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) Creeping in an oakwood, the poet was looking for a –
  (i) goat
  (ii) rhinoceros
  (iii) stag
  (iv) buffalo
Ans: (iii) stag

(b) Whenever an oak tree is felled, the number of trees the poet must plant is –
  (i) two
  (ii) three
  (iii) four
  (iv) five
Ans: (i) two

(c) When the poet came out of the oakwood, his heart was that of a –
  (i) stag
  (ii) tree
  (iii) human child
  (iv) old woman
Ans: (ii) tree

2. State whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences / phrases / words in support of your answer.

(a) The old woman held the poet’s secrets in her little bag. [T]
Supporting statement: She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’

(b) The tree tribe said that the poet is bothered to see the chopping down of oak trees. [F]
Supporting statement: We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.

(c) The poet never came out of the oakwood. [F]
Supporting statement: When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company.

3. Answer the following questions:

(a) When did the poet come twice awake?

Ans: When the old woman opened her little bag, the poet came twice awake.

(b) What would happen to the poet if he failed to make the promise?

Ans: If the poet failed to make the promise, he would die.

(c) What was it that altered the poet?

Ans: The dream that the poet dreamt beneath the boughs of the oak trees, altered the poet.