Read the following stanzas and do the activities : (5 marks)A1. Choose the correct alternatives : (2) (i) The poet’s father goes back early in the ........................... (morning/evening) (ii) The poet asks for seeds of .........................…

Q.3 (A) Read the following stanzas and do the activities : (5 marks)

A1. Choose the correct alternatives : (2) (i) The poet’s father goes back early in the ........................... (morning/evening) (ii) The poet asks for seeds of .................................. (sunlight/moonlight) (iii) The whole village goes ........................... to work. (daily/weekly) (iv) The poet wants to sow seeds on the sides of the ............ (road/path)

O moon,
give me moonlight,
basketful or two baskets full,
with seeds of moonlight.
From the city to my village,
on the sides of the path
I want to sow many,
small, small moons of light.
The whole village goes to the city
daily to work.
It becomes dark on its way back
as my village is quite far.
The route is tough and full of
snakes and scorpions.
Neither bus nor cart plies.
When my father returns home
I am asleep.
And he goes back early in the morning
while I am sleeping.

A2. Describe the route in the poem from the city to village. (2)

A3. Write your own rhyming words for the following : (1) (i) light — ............................................ (ii) plies — ............................................