Amanda by Robin Klein - prepared by Mr. Rupjyoti Goswami
1. Choose the correct answer:
(i) Chocolates were harmful for Amanda's: hslc-2023
(a) nails
(b) hair
(c) acne
(d) tummy
Ans:- (c) acne
(ii) Amanda is a:
(a) school student
(b) college student
(c) an infant
(d) a lady
Ans:-(a) school student
(iii) What would Amanda do if she were an orphan?
(a) live care-freely in a tower
(b) roam about in the streets
(c) drift blissfully in the green sea
(d) listen to her mother
Ans:-(b) roam about in the streets
(iv) What would Amanda do if she were Rapunzel?
(a) run away from the tower
(b) never let down her bright hair
(c) sing melodious songs
(d) roam freely
Ans:-(b) never let down her bright hair
(v) How is silence described in the poem?
(a) Silver
(b) Golden
(c) Diamond
(d) Bronze
Ans:-(b) Golden
(vi) What did the speaker ask Amanda to clean?
(a) her clothes
(b) her face
(c) her shoes
(d) her hands
Ans:-(c) her shoes
(vii) What did the speaker ask Amanda to finish?
(a) her food
(b) her homework
(c) her painting
(d) being daydream
Ans:-(b) her homework
(viii) Who is the sole inhabitant of the emerald sea?
(a) Rapunzel
(b) witch
(c) mermaid
(d) Amanda
Ans:-(c) mermaid
2. Choose the correct alternatives for the underlined words:
(i) Life in a tower is tranquil and rare. (calm, beautiful, happening)
Ans:- calm
(ii) a mermaid, drifting blissfully. (moving quickly/moving slowly/jumping)
Ans:- moving slowly
(iii) Stop that slouching. (bend backwards/ sitting in a lazy way/bend forward)
Ans:- sitting in a lazy way
(iv) ...languid, emerald sea. (Icy/happening/relaxed)
Ans:- relaxed.
3. Who was Amanda?
Ans:- Amanda was a school going teenager. She was a very imaginative girl.
4. Who wrote the poem Amanda? What is Amanda to remember?
Ans:- The poem "Amanda" was composed by Robin Klein. Amanda was asked to remember her acne.
5. Is Amanda a student? How do you know? hslc-2020, 2017
Ans:- Yes, Amanda is a student.
It is clear from the fact that her mother asks her to do her homework.
6. How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this?
Ans:-
I think Amanda is approximately 10-12 years old. This can be guessed by
the reference to mermaid and Rapunzel. Children of Amanda's age are
generally fond of reading such stories and living in a world of their
fancy.
7. Who do you think is speaking to her?
Ans:- think
her mother is speaking to her. It is seen everywhere that mothers take a
keen interest in the well-being, upbringing and education of their
children.
8. What could Amanda do if she were a mermaid?
Ans:-
Amanda imagines herself to be a mermaid moving happily in the
slow-moving green water of the sea. She wants to follow her instincts in
living a carefree life uncured by parental pressure and prohibitions.
4. Is Amanda an orphan? Why does she say so?
Ans:-
No, Amanda is not an orphan. She says so because she is quite fed up
with the instructions and restrictions imposed by her mother. Her
day-to-day life is embittered by merciless scolding and harassment from
her mother. This is why she nurtures a desire to live like an orphan.
9. Do you know the story of Rapunzel? Why does she want to be Rapunzel?
Ans:-
Rapunzel is none other than a character in a story. She is a girl held
captive in a tall tower by an old witch.She has long h air that is used
as a ladder by the witch to climb the tower. One day, a prince climbs
the tower with the help of her hair. They live happily in spite of the
witch's attempts to separate them.
Amanda wants to be Rapunzel to live a life of alienation, untroubled by visitors.
10. What does the girl yearn for? What does the poem tell you about Amanda?
Ans:-
The girl yearns for a life of uncured freedom and peace. She is
beleaguered with the restrictions imposed by her mother to make her
well-mannered,obedient and disciplined.
Amanda represents those
children who are constantly harassed and tortured by their parents in
the name of bringing reputation to their families.
11. What could Amanda do if she were a mermaid? hslc-2015
Ans:- If Amanda were a mermaid, she could live in a languid, emerald sea drifting blissfully.
12. Where does Amanda roam? What does she do with her bare feet? hslc-2019
Ans:- Amanda, the imaginative girl, roams the street.
She patterns soft dust with her hushed, bare feet.
13. Who do you think is speaking to her?
Ans:- I think her parents are speaking to her.
14. How does the speaker find Amanda to be in the end?
Ans:- The speaker finds that Amanda is sulking and moody.
15. How, according to Amanda, is life in a tower?
Ans:- According to Amanda, life in a tower is calm and rare.
16. What makes Amanda sulky and moody?
Ans:- Amanda becomes sulky and moody when her mother gives her too many instructions. She feels her freedom is curtailed.
17. Why is Amanda asked not to eat chocolate?
Ans:- Amanda is asked not to eat chocolate because it might increase her acne.
18. Who is Rapunzel?
Ans:- Rapunzel is a beautiful princess who is captured in a tranquil tower by a witch. She has beautiful long hair.
19.Why does Amanda want to be Rapunzel?
Ans:- Amanda wants to be Rapunzal because she wants to lead a carefree life. According to her life in a tower is calm and rare.
20. How old is Amanda? How do you know it? hslc-2016
Or
How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this?
Ans:-Amanda is a school going teenager.
As a teenager, Amanda is asked to do her homework, tidy her room and clean her shoes on her own. Moreover the acne that she is suffering from is commonly found in teenagers. Hence, I know that Amanda is in her teens.
21. What does Amanda yearn for? What does this poem tell you about Amanda?
Ans:- The girl yearns for freedom. She wants to lead her life the way she likes. As a teenager, Amanda has certain natural habits. But her parents don't like these habits.
22.In the first stanza of the poem 'Amanda', what is Amanda told not to do? hslc-2023
Ans:- In the first stanza of the poem 'Amanda', the poet instructs Amanda not to bite her nails and not to hunch her shoulders. Further she is asked to stop slouching and rather sit straight.
23. How do we know that Amanda was a teenager? hslc-2015
Ans:- In the poem, the poet Robin Klein mentions that Amanda bites her nails, eats chocolates, sulks and remains moody. From this, we know that Amanda is a teenager.
Syllabus of Class X English
1. A Letter to God2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
3. A Tiger in the zoo by Leslie Norris
4. Amanda by Robin Klein
5. Animals by Walt Whitman
6. Coorg by Lokesh Abrol
7. Tea from Assam by Arup Kumar Datta
8. Madam Rides the Bus by Vallikkannan
9. The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
Momemts Supplimentary Reader in Class X English
10. The Midnight visitor11. A Question of Trust
12. Footprint without feet
13. The Hack Driver
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Bhogeswar Hazarika Girls' Higher Secondary School, Bebejia, Nagaon, Assam.
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