Hi Everyone!! This article will share The Sun Travels Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by R L Stevenson. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of The Women Who Saved The Apes, Biking and The Garden Surprise so, you can check these posts as well.
The Sun Travels Questions & Answers
Question 1: Match the two columns.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. The child sleeps | a. when other children are being put to bed |
| 2. The child plays | b. when other children are getting up. |
| 3. The child has evening tea | c. when the sun is awake. |
Question 2: Which lines tell you that the speaker in the poem is a child?
Answer: The line that tells us that the speaker in the poem is a child is:
We round the sunny garden play.
Question 3: What does the sun do when the child is in bed at night?
Answer: When the child is in bed at night, the sun seems to travel round the earth and make morning in another part of the world.
Question 4: What is the poem really about?
Answer: The poem is about the rotation of the earth and how it causes days and nights.
Question 5: The child says the sun goes around the earth. Do you agree? Why or why not?
Answer: No, I don’t agree because the sun does not go around the earth. The earth revolves around the sun.
Question 6: Read the lines and answer the questions:
1. Still round the earth his way he takes,
And morning after morning makes.
(a) Who is ‘he’?
Answer: ‘He’ is the sun.
(b) How does he ‘make’ mornings?
Answer: He makes mornings by going around the earth and appearing after night.
2. While here at home. . . put to bed.
(a) What time is it for the child?
Answer: It is daytime for the child.
(b) What time is it for Indians?
Answer: It is night for the Indians.
3. And all the children in the west
Are getting up and being dressed.
(a) What time is it in the west?
Answer: It is morning in the west.
(b) Why are the children getting dressed?
Answer: The children are getting dressed to go to school.
Question 7: Write six pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer: I-lie, takes-makes, day-play, head-bed, tea-sea, west-dressed.
Question 8: Identify the lines in the poem that describe the sun performing human action.
Answer: The lines in the poem that describe the sun performing human action are:
The sun is not a-bed
Still round the earth his way he takes,
And morning after morning makes.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.