KSEEB Karnataka SSLC Solution Class 10 English First Language – Ulysses And The Cyclops
Board |
KSEEB (Karnataka Board) |
Exam |
SSLC (Class 10) |
Subject |
English |
Language |
1st Language |
Part |
2 |
Chapter |
3 |
Chapter Name |
Ulysses And The Cyclops |
Topic and Notes |
Solution of Question Answer/ Study Material |
Ulysses And The Cyclops Class 10 English SSLC Study Material / Notes / Question Answer
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ULYSSES AND THE CYCLOPS
II.) COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS :
Answer briefly the following questions.
1.) Who were Cyclops?
Answer: Cyclops were the giant shepherds who dwell in caves on the steep heads of mountains.
2.) Pick any five details to show that they were not civilized.
Answer: The Cyclops neither sow nor plough, but the earth untilled produces for them rich wheat and barley and grapes. They neither had bread nor wine, nor did they know the arts of cultivation, not care to know them. They didn’t have laws or government or anything like a state or kingdom. They didn’t have ships or boats, no trade or commerce, or wish to visit other shores.
3.) Why did Ulysses and his men enter the habitation of the Cyclop?
Answer: Ulysses and his men enter the habitation of the Cyclop to explore what sort of men dwelt there, whether hospitable and friendly to strangers, or altogether wild and savage.
4.) Read the last four sentences of paragraph 2 and try to draw the picture of Polyphemus (savage face, massive body, one eye….)
Answer: Polyphemus was the largest and savagest of the Cyclops. He looked more like a mountain crag than a man and to his brutal body he had a brutish mind answerable. He had no more than one eye which was placed in the midst of his forehead.
5.) How strong was the Greek wine?
Answer: The Greek wine so strong that no one ever drank it without an infusion of twenty parts of water to one of wine, yet the fragrance of it even then so delicious, that it would have vexed a man who smelled it to abstain from tasting it; but whoever tasted it, it was able to raise his courage to the height of heroic deeds.
6.) How did Ulysses introduce himself and his group to the Cyclop?
Answer: Ulysses introduced himself and his group to the Cyclop by saying that they came neither for plunder nor business, but were Grecians, who had lost their way, returning from Troy. He also said that they acknowledged him to be mightier than them.
7.) What horrid response did the Cyclop give to Ulysses, request for hospitality?
Answer: The Cyclop replied nothing, but gripping two of the nearest of Ulysses’ men as if they had been no more than children, he dashed their brains out against the earth, and tore in pieces their limbs, and devoured them, yet warm and trembling, making a lion’s meal of them, lapping the blood.
8.) What prevented Ulysses from attacking the Cyclop with his sword?
Answer: When Cyclop slept among his goats, Ulysses drew his sword, and half resolved to thrust it with all his might in at the bosom of the sleeping monster; but wiser thoughts restrained him because he realized that he needed to keep Polyphemus alive as it was Polyphemus who could have removed that mass of stone which he had placed to guard the entrance.
9.) How did Ulysses prove that “manly wisdom excels brutish force”?
Answer: Ulysses chose a stake from among the wood which the Cyclop had piled up for firing, in length and thickness like a mast, which he sharpened, and hardened in the fire; and selected four men, and instructed them what they should do with this stake and made them perfect in their parts.
10.) What ‘gift’ does the Cyclop offer Ulysses in return for the wine?
Answer: The Cyclop took and drank the win vehemently and enjoyed its taste, which was new to him. He swilled again at the flagon, and entreated for more. He prayed Ulysses to tell him his name, that he might bestow a gift upon the man who had given him such brave liquor. Then Ulysses said to him that his name was Noman, to which the Cyclop replied that he would eat him after he had eaten of his friends.
11.) How do the brave Greeks blind the Cyclop?
Answer: Ulysses watched waited for some time while the Cyclop lay insensible; and heartening up his men, they placed the sharp end of the stake in the fire till it was heated red-hot. Then the four men with difficulty bored the sharp end of the huge stake, which they had heated red-hot, right into the eye of the drunken cannibal.
12.) Why didn’t the fellow Cyclops help Polyphemus when he cried out for help?
Answer: When the fellow Cyclops came flocking from all parts to inquire what ailed Polyphemus, then Polyphemus answered within the cave saying that Noman had hurt him and he was with him in the cave. The fellow Cyclops thought that Polyphemus was all alone in the cave and no had hurt him but he himself. So they left him, thinking that some disease troubled him.
13.) How did Ulysses help his men escape from the cave?
Answer: Ulysses made knots of the osier twigs upon which the Cyclop commonly slept, with which he tied the fattest and fleeciest of the rams together, three in a rank; and under the middle ram he tied a man. In this way the man could escape from the cave along with the ram which was moving towards their accustomed pastures.
14.) How did Ulysses himself escape from the cave?
Answer: Ulysses tied himself fast with both his hands in the rich wool of one, the fairest of the flock. When the sheep began to pass the doorway of the cave, then he felt the back of those fleecy wools, without realizing that they carried his enemies under them. When the last ram came with Ulysses under it, the Cyclops stopped the ram and felt it, and had his hand once in the hair of Ulysses, but didn’t come to know about it.
15.) How did Ulysses introduce himself to the Cyclop at the end of the story?
Answer: Ulysses introduced himself as ‘Ulysses, son of Laertes; he was called the King of Ithaca and the waster of cities.’