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Fire and Ice Extract Based Questions Class 10 English
Very Short Answer Questions
1. What is ‘fire’ a symbol of?
Answer: ‘Fire is a symbol of lust and endless desires.
2.What is ‘Ice’ a symbol of?
Answer: ‘ice is a symbol of hatred.
3. What will fire do to the world?
Answer: Fire will put the world to an end.
4. What will the world end in?
Answer: The world will end in the fire as well as ice.
5. Why does the poet hold with those who favour fire?
Answer: The poet holds with those who favour fire because the lust for material things is increasing quickly.
6. Why do some people say that the world will end in ice?
Answer: They say so because hatred among people is increasing fast.
7. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Fire and Ice’?
Answer: Robert Frost.
Extract Based Questions
Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
1. Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
a. What do people think about the ending of the world?
b. What is the poet’s opinion?
c. What does ‘desire’ mean here?
d. Name the poem and the poet.
Answer:
a. Some people think that the world will end in fire. Others say that it will end in ice.
b. The poet thinks it right that the world will end in fire.
c. Here, ‘desire’ means man’s passions and violence.
d. The poem is ‘Fire and Ice’ and the poet is ‘Robert Frost’.
2. But if it had to perish twice.
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
a. What does ‘it’ refer to here?
b. How is ‘ice’ sufficient for destruction?
c. What is the main idea of these lines?
d. What is ice a symbol of?
Answer:
a. Here, ‘it’ refers to the ‘world’.
b. ‘Ice’ symbolises hatred. So hatred is sufficient for the world’s destruction.
c. The main idea of these lines is that hatred can destroy the world.
d. Ice is a symbol of hatred