THE GENTLEMEN OF THE JUNGLE - Jomo Kenyatta.

> REVISION

I) Answer the following in a word, phrase or a sentence each:

1. What favour did the elephant ask the man on a rainy day?

2. According to the man, his hut had room for only him. state whether True or False

3. How did the elephant sneak into the man’s hut?

4. According to the elephant, the man can afford to remain in the rain because ______________
a. the skin of the man is harder than any other animal.
b. the skin of the elephant is delicate.
c. the skin of the elephant is harder than that of the man.

5. How did the lion decide to solve the problem?

6. What kind of judgement did the man expect?

7. Why was the man unhappy with the members of the Commission of Enquiry?

8. Why was the man told that only jungle animals would be on the Jungle Commission?

9. According to the elephant, the man had invited him into the hut ________________
a. to save his skin. b. to give shelter to his trunk.
c. to save the hut from the hurricane. d. to fill the empty space in the hut.

10. In whose favour was the judgement given?

11. Why did the man accept the suggestion of building a new hut?

12. How did the man buy peace finally?

13. Which African tribe does Kenyatta refer to?

14. Who made a friendship with the man?

15. What, according to the lion, was the argument of the man and the elephant destroying?

16. Name the members of the imperial commission.

17. Who selected the commission?

18. Why was there no representative from the man’s side in the commission?

19. The human race is described as the race less adequately endowed with ______________
(fill the blanks with the appropriate word from the lesson.)

20. Who gave evidence in favour of the elephant?

21. Who gave evidence in favour of the elephant?

22. According to the verdict, due to what had the dispute arisen?

23. Why did the man act as the commission suggested him to?

24. What did the commission enjoy at the expense of the elephant?

25. Who was found to be sound asleep in the grand hut built by the man?

26. Who basked on the roof?

27. What did the hyena howl for?

28. Who had a little hut at the edge of the forest?

29. The elephant intended to protect his delicate skin from_______________

(Fill in the blank with the appropriate word from the lesson.)

30. Who stood around listening to the argument between the man and the elephant?

31. Who ordered the man to quit and build a new hut?

32. What did the man do as the animals embroiled together?

33. The man denied the elephant shelter in his hut. State whether True or False.

34. Who was the Chairman of the Imperial Commission?

35. Who was the Secretary of the Imperial commission?

36. What were the members of the Imperial Commission reputed for?

37. How had the hurricane gained access into the hut, according to the elephant?
38. Why was the man not able to fill the hut, according to the elephant?

39. What permission did the Commission give the man?

40. What does the lin ‘Ng-enda thi ndeagaga motegi’ mean?

41. When did the man build a bigger, better hut?

42. Whom did Mr. Rhinoceros find sleeping in the new hut?

THE SCHOOL BOY - William Blake.

>REVISION

I) Answer the following in a word, phrase or a sentence each:

1. Who do you think,‘I’ refers to in the poem?

2. What is the ‘sweet company’ referred to in the poem?

3. What drives the boy’s joys away?

4. One of the things that the boy likes to do in the poem is ________________

5. How do the little ones spend their day?

6. How do they sit?

7. What can the boy not take delight in?

8. What wears the boy out?

9. Whom does the poet make an appeal to?

10. What strips the joy off the springing day?

11. Mention what each season refers to in the poem?

12. What does ‘blasts of winter’ refer to?

13. Which is the ‘mellowing year’ mentioned in the poem?

14. Which stage of life does ‘summer’s fruits’ indicate?

15. What does ‘cage’ stand for in the poem?

16. The boy loved to go to school on the summer morning (state whether True or False).

17. The distant huntsman winds his horn. (appropriate word from the poem)

18. What is the imagery that runs throughout the poem ‘The School Boy’?

19. Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day. (appropriate word from the
poem).