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Question 2 :
What does Valli tell the elderly man when he calls her a child?
Question 3 :
Why didn't Valli get off the bus at the bus station?
Question 4 :
Does ‘dyin’ really rhyme with ‘lion’? Can you say it in such a way that it does?
Question 5 :
Do you think the words ‘lept‘ and ‘lep’ in the third stanza are spelt correctly? Why does the poet spell them like this?
Question 6 :
How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this?
Question 7 :
What does the girl yearn for? What does this poem tell you about Amanda?
Question 9 :
Read the last stanza. Do you think Amanda is sulking and is moody?
Question 10 :
What ideals does he set out for the future of South Africa?
Question 12 :
What do the military generals do? How has their attitude changed, and why?
Question 13 :
Can you say how 10 May is an 'autumn day' in South Africa?
Question 14 :
Why didn't Maddie ask Peggy to stop teasing Wanda? What was she afraid of?
Question 16 :
The aliens in the play speak English. Do you think this is their language? What could be the language of the aliens?
Question 17 :
Why was the twentieth century called the 'Era of the book'?
Question 18 :
What happens to the house when the trees move out of it?
Question 19 :
What picture do these words create in your mind: “... sun bury its feet in shadow...'? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?
Question 20 :
Why do you think that the poet does not mention “the departure of the forest from the house” in her letters? (Could it be that we are often silent about important happenings that are so unexpected that they embarrass us? Think about this again when you answer the next set of questions.)
