FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 07 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - SELF-RELIANCE

 

Poem – 01

SELF-RELIANCE

(For Memorization)

Kathleen Delicato

i) Answer the following questions in a sentence or two each:

1) Who is the speaker in the poem?
Ans: Kathleen Delicato is the speaker in the poem.

 

2) Who is alone in the poem?
Ans: Kathleen Delicato is alone in the poem.

 

3) What does the speaker decide to do if she fails?
Ans: The speaker decides to try again and again if she fails.

 

4) Who is the ruler of the speaker’s kingdom?
Ans: Kathleen Delicato is the ruler of the speaker’s kingdom.

 

5) How can the speaker convert her choice into a victory?
Ans: Being consistent with herself which instructed her to remain solitary with fearlessness which causes her to take the illustrious street to progress. Thus she can convert her choice into a victory.

 

ii) Answer the following questions in a paragraph each.

1) Which line of the poem do you like? Why?
Ans: The lines of the poem which I like: By being true to myself I begin, to learn how to stand alone: how to win. We all ought to have a dream throughout everyday life. So as to understand our vision, we ought to be consistent with ourselves and buckle down towards it. The self-assurance, the trust in ourselves, and the difficult work will assist us with understanding our fantasy into a reality. Confidence and self-reliance will assist us with figuring out how to remain solitary at whatever point the time requests. Liberality and generosity are to help other people on the off chance that they need us, these will prompt satisfaction.

 

2) Ask your partner what is self-respect/ self confidence/ self reliance.
Ans: Self-respect: Regard for oneself or self-regarding is simply the importance regard. Sense of pride can be increased just when we ought to never do stealthily what we ought to be embarrassed about doing within the sight of our most esteemed companions.

 

Self- confidence: There are numerous individuals who have a genuine ability in various lines but achieve nothing since they are hesitant to make the main endeavor and thusly, great and valuable things are lost to the world. A sensible measure of trust in one's own forces is fundamental for progress.

 

Self-reliance: It implies depending upon ourselves or freely taking up the choices. Choices taken by others about our life may turn out badly; still, the choices given by others are to be examined without anyone else once more. So it will be smarter to depend on ourselves.

 

3) How can you show to others that you have these qualities? Give some examples, Write down what you said.
Ans: "Achievement" is the main thing from which we can show to others that we have every one of these characteristics.

Ex: At whatever point I got an opportunity to partake in any of the occasions, with no vacillating, which demonstrated my self-assurance.