Reading Comprehension
A. Answer the following questions:
1. What does ‘I’ refer to in the poem?
Ans. ‘T’ in the poem refers to the poet.
2. How do the poet’s eyes look like in the fog?
Ans. The poet’s eyes were looking like balls of burning lead in the fog
3. Why did the poet lose his judgement and why?
Ans. The poet lost his judgement because due to fog it grew so black that he failed to understand anything.
4. Who was the man who passed by the poet?
Ans. A blind man passed by the poet.
5. How did the poet reach home?
Ans. The poet reached home with the help and guidance of the blind man.
6. Which word indicated to us that the second man was blind?
Ans. The word blind man used in the last line of the poem tells us that the second man was blind.
7. What message do you get from this poem?
Ans. The poem gives us the message that the blind has skills that can prove an advantage over people with vision.
B. Write true or false against the given statements:
1. The man was able to see everything in the fog.
2. In the fog, his eyes looked like burning lead.
3. He imagines that lamps, lights and cars are heavenly stars.
4. The blind man helped him to cross the road.
5. The poet reached his home safely.
Ans. 1. False, 2. True, 3. True, 4. True, 5. True..