Directions: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 10 to 15) by selecting correct/most appropriate options.
My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O ! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child :
But I am black as if bereav’d of light.
My mother taught me underneath a tree
And sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And pointing to the east began to say.
Look on the rising sun : there God does live
And gives his light, and gives his heat away.
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning joy in the noonday.
And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,
And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
Q10. ‘The Little Black Boy’ was born in
(1) the desert wastes
(2) the servants’ house
(3) the southern wild
(4) the east coast
Q11. ‘The Little Black Boy’ wished that he could be –
(1) educated
(2) older
(3) free
(4) white
Q12. The mother of ‘the Little Black Boy’ says God put people on earth-
(1) to learn to endure his love
(2) to work off their sins
(3) to prepare them for future trials
(4) to learn how to treat one another as equals
Q13. The mother of ‘the Little Black Boy’ says his dark skin and face are
(1) a blessing
(2) a veile
(3) a curse
(4) a cloud
Q14. The phrase ‘like a shady grove’ is
(1) a metaphor
(2) a simile
(3) an example of alliteration
(4) a personification
Q15. Through the phrase ‘as if bereav’d of light’, the poet hints at-
(1) low self-esteem of the child
(2) lack of hope for the future
(3) colour of the boy
(4) All of the above