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SAI INTWRNATIONAL SCHOOL

CLASS IX-ENGLISH

MODULE &-THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

ASSESSMENT

1. Read the following para and answer the questions:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
a. Who is the poet of the poem?
b. What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?
c. Why could the poet not travel both the roads
d. Why did the poet look down the road?.
2. Read the following stanza and answer the questions with reference
to the text:
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

a. What does the poet mean by 'as just as fair'?
b. Why does the poet say 'wanted wear'
c. What comparison is the poet making between the two roads?
d. Why according to the poet 'the other ' has a better claim?

Answer the following questions in about 30 words:

3. What do you think the poet is trying to express by saying ' I could not
travel both'? (30-50 WORDS)
4. 'And both that morning equally lay' Explain.
5. Why did the poet say 'I doubted if I should ever come back'?
6. 'And that has made the difference'. What has made the difference?