Class 10 English Amanda Chapter 7 Solutions
Robin Klein
Selected Question Answers
Q.1. How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this? HSLC ’16, ’19
Ans: Amanda seems to be a young girl. We can tell this from her childish actions like biting her nails and shrugging her shoulders.
Q.2. Is Amanda a student? How do you know? HSLC ’17, 20
Ans: Yes, Amanda is a student. We know this because her guardian asks if she has finished her homework.
Q.3. How do we know that Amanda was a teenager? HSLC ’15
Ans: Amanda was a teenager. This is evident because she had acne, which usually appears in boys and girls around the age of 12 or 13.
Q.4. Who do you think speaking to her?
Ans: The poet of the poem is speaking to Amanda.
Q.5. What would Amanda do if she were a mermaid? HSLC ’15
Ans: If Amanda were a mermaid, she could live a peaceful and happy life in the sea.
Q.6. Is Amanda an orphan? Why does she say so?
Ans: No, Amanda is not an orphan. She says this because she imagines herself wandering freely like an orphan on the street.
Q.7. Read the last stanza. Do you think Amanda is sulking and is moody?
Ans: The last stanza shows Amanda is moody but not sulking. She has her thoughts and ignores the advice of others.
Q.8. What does Amanda believe about silence and freedom?
Ans: Amanda thinks that silence is golden and freedom is sweet.
Q.9. Who wrote the poem ‘Amanda’?
Ans: The poem ‘Amanda’ was written by Robin Klein.
Q.10. Where does Amanda roam? What does she do with her bare feet? HSLC ’18
Ans: Amanda roams freely in the street. She makes patterns in the dust with her bare feet.
Q.11. In the first stanza of the poem, ‘Amanda, what is Amanda told not to do? HSLC ’23
Ans: In the first stanza of the poem ‘Amanda’, she is asked not to bite her nails, not to bunch her shoulders, to stop slouching, and sit up straight.
Multiple Choice Questions
Choose the correct answer from the options given below each question.
1. Who was Amanda?
- (A) A college-going girl.
- (B) A school-going girl.
- (C) A housewife
- (D) None of the Above
- Ans: (B)
2. What was Amanda to finish?
- (A) Her homework
- (B) Her painting
- (C) Her bath
- (D) Catching fishes
- Ans: (A)
3. Name the literary devices used in the line “Stop that slouching and sit up straight”.
- (A) Epistrophe
- (B) Assonance
- (C) Metaphor
- (D) Alliteration
- Ans: (D)
- (A) Broad Sit
- (B) Side Sit
- (C) Straight
- (D) Ring Sit
- Ans: (C)
- (A) black hair
- (B) bright hair
- (C) yellow hair
- (D) bronze hair
- Ans: (B)
- (A) Golden
- (B) White
- (C) Platinum
- (D) Love
- Ans: (A)
- (A) eat meals
- (B) take tea
- (C) blow the fire out
- (D) sit up straight
- Ans: (D)
- (A) Bend
- (B) Sit in a lazy way
- (C) lie down
- (D) bend backwards
- Ans: (B)
- (A) Clip it
- (B) Bite it
- (C) Hurt it
- (D) None of the above
- Ans: (B)
- (A) Be in the green sea
- (B) Lead a relaxing life
- (C) All of the above
- (D) None of the above
- Ans: (C)
- (A) Catch the fishes
- (B) Hunt various animals
- (C) Watch soft-moving waves
- (D) None of the Above
- Ans: (C)
- (A) catch the fishes
- (B) hunt various animals
- (C) watch soft-moving waves
- (D) None of the Above
- Ans: (C)
- (A) Epistrophe
- (B) Epigram
- (C) Metaphor(
- D) Alliteration
- Ans: (C)
- (A) go out and play
- (B) wear a red ribbon
- (C) bite her nails
- (D) eat her food.
- Ans: (C)
- (A) a queen and a mermaid
- (B) an orphan and a princess
- (C) a mermaid and an orphan
- (D) a queen and an orphan.
- Ans: (C)
