Hi Everyone!! This article will share Have You Earned Your Tomorrow Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Edgar Albert Guest. In this poem, the poet gives an important message through a series of questions: Were you kind and polite to everyone you met today? Did you make someone happy? Did you help someone be brave? Even if you helped one person today, you deserve a happy tomorrow. Whether you are young or old, you can always help people through big or small deeds.
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Have You Earned Your Tomorrow Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Passed his way – met someone
- Toiling time – time for working hard
- Churlish – unfriendly, bad-tempered, or rude
- Vanish – disappear
- Throng – a crowd of people
- Parting with the day – the end of day or evening time
- Slipping – (here) coming to an end
- Rejoicing – feeling happy about something
- Hopes were fading – losing hope
- Sorely – in pain
- Trail – way or path
- Scar – a mark left on your skin after a wound has healed
Question 1: Choose the correct option:
1. This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through. What does ‘toiling time’ refer to?
(a) a time to work
(b) a time to sleep
(c) a time to talk
2. Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that’s slipping fast,
That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed? What is slipping fast?
(a) a friend
(b) a pet dog
(c) the day
3. Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent? What do ‘trail of kindness’ and ‘a scar of discontent’ refer to?
(a) Did you walk on a long road filled with happiness?
(b) Did you help people or did you spread unhappiness?
(c) Did many kind and happy people help you?
Question 2: Write the meaning of the first stanza in two or three sentences.
Answer: ln this poem, the poet asks us if we have done anything to the person we have met to make his life a delightful one. The poet further wants to know from us when the day is over, if anybody has spoken words of kindness about us.
Question 3: What are two methods of greeting people mentioned by the poet? Which one should we adopt?
Answer: The poet has mentioned two methods of greeting the people – one is to greet people in a cheerful way wearing an attractive smile on our lips.
The other way is to be indifferent to someone that we meet and go on our way and disappear in the crowd. This is rude and unfriendly.
We should adopt the first one because it will bring hopes, joy and aspirations for the person we meet.
Question 4: What, according to the poet, should be our last thought before we go to sleep?
Answer: God is omniscient. He rewards a person for his good deeds. So, the thought we should have in our mind while in deep sleep that if we have done something for the betterment of the people then we will certainly earn God’s blessings for a better tomorrow.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.