Hi Everyone!! This article will share Grandfather Clock Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Meera Krishnan. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of The Great Barrier Reef, Brave Rani Lakshmibai and A Unique Party so, you can check these posts as well.
Grandfather Clock Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Huge – very large
- Sturdy – strongly built
- Hum – make a low, steady sound like a bee
- Puppet band – a musical group of puppets
- Chime – make melodious series of ringing sounds to indicate time
- Beat – rhythmic sound
- Suite – a set of connected rooms
- Awe – wonder
Question 1: Fill in the blanks with suitable words.
1. The clock was kept in the museum hall.
2. A puppet band chimes out the correct time.
3. When the band master gives a beat, sweet music can be heard,
4. A puppet man holds a hammer and announces the time.
5. The cuckoo sings in a sweet voice.
Question 2: What is being described in the first stanza of the poem? Pick three describing words that tell us about it.
Answer: The clock is being described in the first stanza. It is huge, old and musical.
Question 3: Who gives a beat every hour?
Answer: The puppet band master gives the beat every hour.
Question 4: Why does the cuckoo come out?
Answer: The cuckoo comes out to announce the time.
Question 5: Read the line and answer the questions.
‘They took with awe and surprise.’
(a) Who are ‘they’ in the above line?
Answer: ‘They’ are the visitors, and the children, who gather to look at the clock.
(b) What do they look at?
Answer: They look at the clock and its puppet band.
(c) Why do they look with ‘awe and surprise’? Give one reason.
Answer: They took at it with awe and surprise because of its huge size.
Question 6: Write a few pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer: Table-stable, chime-time, hold-world, beat-sweet, surprise-size.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.