Hi Everyone!! This article will share The Call Of Africa Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by C Emily Dibb. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of The Rainbow, What is Pink and The Ungrateful Frog so, you can check these posts as well.
The Call Of Africa Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Hooked – (informal) addicted
- Coucal – a bird of the cuckoo family
- Traces – (here) attachments of any kind
- Horizon – the line where the earth’s surface and the sky appear to meet
- Yearns – longs
- Rustling – soft crackling sound
- Fish-eagle – a kind of large eagle
- Raspìng – harsh-sounding
Question 1: Choose the correct option:
1. You are hooked for life on Africa when you have acquired a taste for
(a) fruits.
(b) dust
(c) vegetables.
2. In the first stanza, the poet talks about
(a) lions.
(b) elephants.
(c) jackals.
3. In the second stanza, you long to hear the song of the
(a) breeze.
(b) coucal.
(c) seas.
4. In the third stanza, the poet says that you will be at peace, when you return to
(a) Australia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Asia
5. In the last stanza, the poet says that the visitor will always hunger for
(a) moonrise
(b) rain.
(c) the bush.
Question 2: Pick out the lines from the first stanza which suggest that the jackals are active in the night.
Answer: The poet in the first stanza mentions that the jackals are around you waiting in the dark. This signifies that they are active in the night.
Question 3: The poet suggest a solution for us to feel right again. What is the solution?
Answer: The poet suggests that we must watch the setting moon and hear the jackals bark to feel right again.
Question 4: Pick out the lines from the second stanza which suggest that the poet is talking about someone who was once in Africa.
Answer: The second stanza mentions about the various traits by which one feels if he is way from Africa by which we can presume that poet is talking about someone who was once in Africa and then has gone out of the continent.
Question 5: List the special things in Africa that the poet mentions in the last stanza.
Answer: In the last stanza, the poet mentions about various special things in Africa like:
- Touching the open sky
- Loving the rustling grass.
- Hearing the wild fish eagle’s cry and lion’s rasping roar.
- Camping beneath the stars and to be at peace.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.