Extract Based Questions – Vocation Class 6 English Textbook Chapter 7. We had updated here some important phrase from Vocation Chapter and also updated Important Questions on each phrase.
Extract Based Questions for Vocation Chapter
Extract-1
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our lane, Every day I meet the hawker crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!” There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home. I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”
1.) Multiple Choice Questions Marks: 1×2=2
i) The morning gong sounds at:
a) 9
b) 10
c) 11
d) None of the above
ii) The hawker is selling:
a) Apple
b) Bag
c) Bangle
d) None of the above
2.) Very short question: Marks: 1×2=2
ii) What happens when the gong sounds?
3.) Short Question: Marks:2×1=2
i) Briefly describe the hawker.
Extract-2
When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school, I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging the ground. He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to task, if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet. I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging.
1.) Multiple Choice Questions Marks: 1×2=2
i) The poet returns from school at:
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) None of the above
ii) Soil digging is the job of:
a) Gardener
b) Plumber
c) Cobbler
d) None of the above
2.) Very short question: Marks: 1×2=2
i) What poet can see through the gate of his house?
ii) Which tool the gardener use to dig soil?
3.) Short Question: Marks:2×1=2
i) Why the poet wishes to be a gardener?
Extract-3
Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to bed, I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and down. The lane is dark and lonely, and the streetlamp stands like a giant with one red eye in its head. The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side, and never once goes to bed in his life. I wish I were a watchman walking the street all night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.
1.) Multiple Choice Questions Marks: 1×2=2
i) In the evening poet’s mother sends him to:
a) Market
b) Bed
c) Tution
d) None of the above
ii) Watchman swings his:
a) Hand
b) Whistle
c) Lantern
d) None of the above
2.) Very short question: Marks: 1×2=2
i) What poet wish to do after becoming a watchman?
ii) How the lamp stands look like in the dark?
3.) Short Question: Marks:2×1=2
i) What the poet sees from his window?
Answer Sheet
Extract-1
1.) I) b
ii) c
2.) I) Poet wished to be a bangle seller who would be spending the whole day selling and crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”
ii) When the gong sounds ten in the morning and Poet walk by the lane to school. Everyday he meets the bangle hawker.
3.) The Bangle seller had no restrictions, no hurry, no bindings for life. He had no place to reach in time, no way to follow. Even he didn’t have any fixed time.
Extract-2
1.) I) a
ii) a
2.) I) The poet can see through the gate of his house that the gardener working on the ground while returning from his school.
ii) The gardener use spade to dig soil.
3.) The poet was a student; he loved to run in the sun, wet in the rain but had got enough restrictions. He has seen the gardener to soil his own cloth, getting wet or sun baked but nobody stops or punishes him for that. So he wanted to become gardener.
Extract-3
1.) I) b
ii) c
2.) I) The poet wanted to be watchman as he loved the way how the watchman walks on the street all night, chases the shadow with his lantern.
ii) At night when the lane is dark and lonely, the streetlamps stand like a giant with one red eye in its head.
3.) Poet sees through the window that the night watchman walking on the road with the lantern holding in his hand. He chases his shadow by himself. In the dark and lonely street the lampshades standing like giants with one red eye on top of each one.
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