From A Railway Carriage Questions and Answers Class 8 English Unit 2 Chapter 2 Kerala Syllabus Solutions

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Kerala State Syllabus 8th Standard Hindi Solutions Unit 2 Chapter 2 From A Railway Carriage  (R L Stevenson)

Std 8 English Textbook From A Railway Carriage Questions and Answers

From a Railway Carriage Questions and answers Question 1.
Does the train move through a village or city? Justify your answer.
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Answer:
The train moves through a village. We can see the bridges, houses, hedges, ditches, meadows, horses, cattle, etc. which are the common scenes of a village.

From a Railway Carriage Questions and answers for Class 8 Question 2.
What are the expressions used by the poet to show the amaz¬ing speed of the train?
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Answer:
a. faster than fairies faster than witches.
b. Fly as thick as driving rain.
c. Each a glimpse and gone forever.

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Question and answers of the Poem from a Railway Carriage Question 3.
How does the poet bring out the locomotive rhythm in the poem?
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Answer:
The words like fast, fairies, witches, ditches have a repetition of particular sounds which give the sound of a moving train. They also give the feeling of a train journey.

From A Railway Carriage Textbook Activities And Answers

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Answer the following questions by selecting appropriate options.

From a Railway Carriage Question 1.
What is the poem about?
a. The invention of the steam engine.
b. A scary journey in a fast train.
c. A runaway cart in the road.
d. A fast-moving train and the people, places and things seen from it.
Answer:
d. A fast-moving train and the people, places and things seen from it.

From a Railway Carriage Question answer Question 2.
What was the aim of the poet while writing the poem ‘From A Railway Carriage’?
a. To entertain readers with an exciting description of a train ride.
b. To teach the readers how the train engines operate.
c. To tell readers about his experience on a train.
d. To warn readers never to ride on fast trains.
Answer:
c. To tell readers about his experience on a train.

The Man on the Train Class 8 Questions and answers Question 3.
Read the line from the poem. ‘Here is a beggar who stands and gazes’. Which word has almost the same meaning as gazes?
a. sits
b. looks
c. screams
d. ignores
Answer:
b. looks

Question answer on from a Railway Carriage Question 4.
What is similar about the words Switches’ and ‘ditches’?
a. Both are in the middle of the line and rhyme with each other.
b. Both are at the end of a line and rhyme with each other.
c. Both are at the end of a line and do not rhyme with each other.
d. Both are at the beginning of the line and rhyme with ea¬ch other.
Answer:
c. Both are at the end of a line and rhyme with each other.

From a Railway Carriage Poem Question answer Question 5.
How do the troops resemble the train?
a. They are faster than fairies and witches
b. They stand and gaze
c. They charge along
d. They climb and scramble
Answer:
a. They charge along

Question 6.
In what ways are the child and the tramp different?
a. The child is standing and gazing and the tramp is gathering brambles
b. The child is clambering and scrambling and the tramp is standing and gazing
c. The child is clambering and scrambling and the tramp is gathering brambles
d. The child is charging along and the tramp is gathering brambles
Answer:
b. The child is clambering and scra¬mbling and the tramp is standing and gazing.

Question 7.
What are the last two things seen from the railway carriage?
a. A mill and a cart.
b. A man and a cart
c. A man and a river
d. A mill and a river
Answer:
d. A mill and a river

Question 8.
In what order are the people and things seen from the railway carriage?
a. A beggar, a child, a cart, a mill, and a river
b. A cart, a child, a beggar, a river and a mill
c. A child, a beggar, a cart, a mi 11 and a river
d. A river, a mill, a cart, a beggar and a child
Answer:
c. A child, a beggar, a cart, a mill, and a river.

Question 9.
Read these lines from the poem. ‘And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Painted stations whistle by’ Why does it seem that the painted stations appear and disappear in the wink of an eye?
a. As they are seen from the window of a horse-drawn carriage.
b. As they are seen from the window of a slow railway carriage.
c. As they are seen from the side of a hill.
d. As they are seen from the window of a fast-moving railway carriage
Answer:
a. As they are seen from the window of a fast-moving railway carriage.

Question 10.
Read the last line of the poem. ‘Each a glimpse and gone forever!’ What does the poet mean by this line?
a. You only get a quick look at something as you pass by, but you can see it again.
b. You look at something for a long time as you pass by, never to see it again.
c. You only get a quick look at something as you pass by, never to see it again.
d. You can look at something many times as you pass by, over and over again.
Answer:
b. You only get a quick look at something as you pass by, never to see it again.

Question 11.
In the poem, certain words and clusters of letters (‘-es’) are repeated. Can you list out the repeated words and the truster of letters from the poem?
Do you think repetition enhances the musical quality of poem?
Answer:
a.Fairies, witches, houses, hedges, ditches, troops, meadows, horses, sights, stations, clambers, scrambles, brambles, stands, gazes, daisies. The repeated sounds in the poem give a locomotive rhythm. It makes the poem more musical.

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Question 12.
Imagine that you are on a train, passing through a number of places/stations. Name any five scenes you would see through the window. Do you have the same feeling of joy if you travel by bus?
Answer:
Accept any logical answers like fishing boats, lakes and backwater rivers, paddy fields, farmers. Etc. No, because the bus is slower than a train. A railway track often passes through suburban areas.

Activity 1.

In the poem, there are a number of words that describe movement and sound. Complete the following table selecting appropriate words/ expressions from the words in the box below.
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Answer:

Words that describe movement Words that describe sound
Faster Whistle
Fly Driving rain
Stringing
Clambers
Scramble
Charging along
Battle

Activity 2.

Look at the words from the poem. Don’t they sound similar?
witches – ditches cattle – battle
These are rhyming words. They make the poem more musical. Find out pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer:
Battle- cattle, plain-rain, eye-bye, scrambles-brambles, road-load, river forever.

Activity 3.

In this poem, the poet uses two similes. Pick out these similes from the poem.
…………………………..
…………………………..
Answer:

  • And charging along like troops in a battle. All through the meadows the horses and cattle.
  • All of the sights of the hill and the plain. Fly as thick as driving rain.

Activity 4.

Underline the initial sounds of words repeated in the given lines.
a. Faster than fairies, faster than witches
b. Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
Now, underline the vowel sounds repeated in each line.
Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds of words in a line.
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds in a line.
Identify the lines having alliteration.
…………………………………………….
Identify the lines having assonance.
…………………………………………….
What effect do the repeated sounds bring to the poem?
…………………………………………….
Answer:
Alliterating Lines:
Faster than fairies, faster than witches. Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches
Assonance:
Fly as thick as driving rain. Here is a child who clambers and scrambles. All by himself and gathering brambles. Here is a tramp who stands and gazes. And here is a hill and there is a river. They lend a rhythmic quality to the poem.

Activity 5.

Consider the first two lines of the poem. Can you find out any pattern?
Fast-er than fair-ies. fast-er than wit-ches Brid-ges and hous-es. hed-ges and ditches
Read the poem aloud giving stress to the underlined parts. The poem follows a stressed and unstressed pattern. This pattern is repeated, but not exactly the same in every line. Read the poem again. Doesn’t it sound like the beats of a drum? The poem has the rhythm of a moving train.
How does this rhythm contribute to the meaning of the poem?
Answer:
The rhythm gives a feel of the moving train.

Activity 6.

List down the rhyming words of each line in the first stanza. Name the words according to the similarity of ending sound. Begin the naming with ‘a’. Words with similar endings should be named using the same letter.
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Rhyme scheme of the stanza: aabb, Find out the rhyme scheme for the second stanza of the poem.
………………………………………….
………………………………………….
………………………………………….
Answer:

Ending word of each line Naming pattern
Plain a
Rain a
Eye b
By b

Activity 7.

In this poem, the poet uses words to make pictures just as you might use a camera to take pictures. Word pictures created by poets are called images. Such pictures may appeal to our eyes (visual), ears (auditory), touch (tactile), smell (olfactory) and taste (gustatory). Can you pick out the images from the poem? Complete the following word web by selecting appropriate images from the poem.
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Answer:
a. Painted stations whistling – Auditory
b. Charging along like troops – Visual
c. Hill and the plain – Visual
d. A child who clambers and scrambles – Auditory.
e. A cart running away in the road – Auditory
f. Mill and river – Visual

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Activity 8.

You have enjoyed the locomotive rhythm of the poem, haven’t you? Recite the poem individually and in groups. List out the pictures that come to your mind when you read the poem. Can you present the pictures in the form of stills in the class? Attempt to choreograph the poem in your class.
Answer:
Do it yourself

From A Railway Carriage  Additional Questions & Answers

Questions 1 – 4. Read the lines from the poem ‘ From A Railway Carriage’ and answer the questions that follow.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And here is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart runaway in the road Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!
1. How does the speaker describe the tramp and the child?
2. Which line indicates the movement of the cart? ‘
3. Why do the sights appear as ‘a glimpse’ to the speaker?
4. Pick out a set of rhyming words from the above lines.
Answer:
1. The tramp who stands and gazes, and the child who clamber a scramble.
2. The line ‘ lumping along with man and load’
3. The train is moving very fast so the the sights appear as a glimpse to the speaker.
4. road – load, river – forever

Questions 5 to 8. Read the lines from the poem ‘From a Railway Carriage’ and answer the following questions.
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches:
And charging along like troops in a battle All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by
5. What is faster than fairies and faster than witches?
6. Pick out two pairs of rhyming words.
7. What idea is expressed in the lines ‘…. in the wink of and eye, painted stations whistle by?
8. Write down an instance of simile used in the poem.
Answer :
5. Train
6. Witches – ditches, battle- cattle, plain- rain
7. Sudden movement of the train/ The train passed the stations so quickly.
8. Fly as thick as

From a Railway Carriage Comprehension Questions and answers Question 9.
Prepare a short profile of R.L. Stevenson using the hints given
Name: R L Stevenson
Born: November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland
Education: University of Edinburgh
Famous as: Novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
Notable works: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Died: December 3, 1894
Answer:
R.L Stevenson:
R.L Stevenson was born on November 13 in 1850 in Edinburgh in Scotland. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was famous as a novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. The notable works of R.L. Stevenson include Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He passed away on December 3 in 1894.

From A Railway Carriage Summary in English

[Children like train journey very much. The rhythm of the train, the scenes around and the experience of the journey are fascinating to children.]
Trains travel very fast. They travel faster than fairies and witches. Trains travel like troops in a battle through different places. As the train moves through hills, plains, and painted stations quickly. There are many scenes around. A Child’s play the gazing of cattles, the daisies, a cart run away in the road with the luggage, the river and a mill are the main scenes narrated in the poem.

From A Railway Carriage  Summary in Malayalam

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From A Railway Carriage  Glossary

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