Adrift at Sea:

1. Who is Richard Parker?

2. How does the narrator remember his family members during the time of
crisis?
3. Is the narrator wounded during the crisis?
4. Describe Richard Parker’s reaction on seeing the lifebuoy.
5. What does the narrator choose to do in the end?
6. Write down meaning of Words and make sentences:
i) Ironic:
ii) Immortality:
iii) Yanked:
iv) Oarlock:
v) Tarpaulin:
As I grew older:
1. Who is the speaker of the poem?
2. What did the speaker have a long time ago?
3. Why does the speaker mention using his hands to break through the wall?
4. What is the dream?
5. What do you think will be the effect of breaking through the wall?
6. How are the images of light and darkness used in the poem?
7. What does "shatter" mean?
8. Where does the speaker lie down?

The Face on the Wall

1. What was the topic of discussion of the people gathered at Dabney’s?
2. What did the people at Dabney’s ask the little man to do? What was his
reply?
3. What did the little man, the narrator of the story, find on the wall of his
room?
4. Why and where did the narrator look for the man having the same face
that had appeared on the wall of his room?
5. What did the little man, the narrator, ask the man he met outside the cabin
in a ship? What happened after the narrator read the card?
6. What happened to the face on the wall when the narrator went back
home?