Answer Key 14.

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Marks - 10

Case study based questions

10th English
Dust of Snow
Passage - 1 5 Marks

Read the following extracts and answer the questions/complete the sen-
tences that follow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

Q1. 213 The crow was on a hemlock tree.

Q4. 243 The poet was in a sad, depressed and hopeless state of mind.

Q’. 2’3 The crow shaking the dust of snow on the poet from a tree on the poet
changed his state of mind.

Q5. 253 The crow signies the poet s sad and depressive mood.

Q . 213 It shook dust of snow on the poet.

Passage - 2 5 Marks

Read the following extracts and answer the questions/complete the sen-
tences that follow
 Answer Key 14.1
Marks - 10

The way a crow

Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Q1. 243 A crow shook dust of snow on the poet. The crow sat on the branch of
a hemlock tree.

Q4. 2’3 The crow changed the poet s mood by shaking down the dust of snow
from a hemlock tree.

Q’. 253 The crow sat on the branch of a hemlock tree.

Q5. 213 The poet s day would have been worse.

Q . 243 The poem is wri en by Robert Frost.