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Class : 6th Class
Subject : English
Chapter Name : Sympathy
C1. Discuss the following Questions in Small
groups and present your answers to the class :
1. How did the proud man react to the poet’s sorrow?
Ans: The proud man looked at the poet ‘closely’ i.e, without
any emotions. He did not even offer words of sympathy but
he gave the poet ‘gold’ (money).
2. What do you mean by ‘his looks were cold’?
Ans: His cold looks were cold and tells us that the proud
man did not sympathise with the poet.
3. In spite of having gold, the poor man was not happy.
Why?
Ans: In spite of having gold, the poor man was not happy
because nobody spoke to him with kind words.
4. The poet paid back the proud man. What does this tell
you about the poet’s character?
Ans: The poet was grateful for the proudman’s help. He was
very sincere in paying back his money.
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5. State any two ways by which the poor man expressed his
sympathy.
Ans: a. The poorman bound the poets head. He gave him
bread.
b. The poorman cared for the poet day and night and
nursed him back to health.
6. What, according to the poet, is greater than gold?
Ans : Heavenly sympathy is greater than gold.
7. Explain the last two lines of the poem.
Ans : For any man gold is very precious and greater than
gold because that quality cannot be acquired. This was an
inborn quality in the poet , so it is called as heavenly
sympathy.
8. In not more than 50 words, describe a situation when
someone was kind to you.
Ans : It was a rainy day, Due to clumsy weather the school
was left off. I started homework, came to the bus stand in
an autorickshaw and had to walk home. The road that led
me home was a muddy road. The clay on the road was very
slippery because of the rain. My walking stopped when I
was at the entrance of the road. There was no one there on
the road. I was waiting in the drizzle for more than an hour
for somebody to come and help me across that clay road.
There appeared a man in a two wheeler, who was kind
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enough to enquire about me and dropped me at home
within 5 minutes.
C2. Given below is a summary of the poem. Complete it by
writing the missing word / words.
Once I was very (1) sad. A proud man (2) heard my grief.
He gave me some money, but did not
say even a single word of (3) kindness When my sorrow
was over, I went to him, (4) gave back his
money and (5) thanked him. After some time, I was again
in trouble. A poor man (6) passed by
me. He bandaged my head. He gave me bread and (7)
looked after me day and night. I feel I won’t
be able to repay him because (8) sympathy is more
precious than gold
The following words are spelt wrongly. Can you write the
correct spellings? Use a dictionary.
1. grat – great allthough – although greif – grief
2. blesed – blessed heavnly – heavenly distres –
distress
3. proad – proud wached – watched shiwer – shiver
4. singel – single togather – together cherity – charity
5. heared – heard sorow – sorrow sympthy – sympathy
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