Hi Everyone!! This article will share Old Man With A Beard Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Edward Lear. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Turning The Tide, Lawley Road and A Little Princess so, you can check these posts as well.
Old Man With A Beard Questions & Answers
Question 1: What was unusual about the beard of the old man?
Answer: The unusual about the beard of the old man was that he had such a long, extraordinary beard that two owls and six birds made their nest in it by thinking it as a grass.
Question 2: In the line, ‘It is just as I feared!’, who is ‘I’ and what was his fear?
Answer: In the line, ‘I’ is the old man. His fear was his long and extraordinary beard in which six birds were living.
Question 3: Do you think this poem makes sense?
Answer: No, this poem does not make any sense. The poem is designed to elicit laughs from children as they picture the improbable and chaotic sight of an old man having a long and unusual beard who has just realised that six birds are living in it.
Question 4: Write two pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer: Beard-feared and hen-wren.
Question 5: Read and answer the questions:
It is just as I feared!
(a) Who said this line?
Answer: The old man with a beard said this line.
(b) What was he afraid of?
Answer: He was afraid of the birds building their nests in his beard.
(c) Did his fear come true?
Answer: Yes, two owls, a hen, four larks and a wren built their nests in his beard.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.