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SAI International School
                                                    Class IX – English
                                             Chapter – The Snake Trying
                                                    Home Assignment


               1. Read the given extracts and answer the following questions (2x4=8)

               A. The snake trying
               to escape the pursuing stick,
               with sudden curvings of thin
               long body. How beautiful
               and graceful are his shapes!

                   a) Name the poet and the poet?
                   b) What is the snake trying to escape?
                   c) Why does he take sudden curvings of his body?
                   d) Where does the snake go and why?



               B. Along the sand
               he lay until observed

               and chased away, and now
               he vanishes in the ripples
               among the green slim reeds.


                   a) Who does ‘he’ refer to?
                   b) Where was he lying?
                   c) Where does he vanish?
                   d) When was he chased?


               2. Answer the questions in 30-40 words                                          (2x4=8)

               a) Does the poet support the person with the stick?

               b) What is the poet’s request to the people?

               c) Why does the poet want the snake to be spared?

               d) Where did the snake hide and how?
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