Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:As he walked along with the money in his pocket he felt quite pleased with his smartness.He realised, of course, that at first he dared not continue on the public highway, but mustturn off the road, into the woods. During the first hours this caused him no difficulty.Later in the day it became worse, for it was a big and confusing forest which he hadgotten into. He tried, to be sure, to walk in a definite direction, but the paths twisted backand forth so strangely! He walked and walked without coming to the end of the wood,and finally he realised that he had only been walking around in the same part of the forest.All at once he recalled his thoughts about the world and the rattrap. Now his own turnhad come.a) Why did ‘he’ feel quite pleased?i) for his smartness resulting in his favourii) for deceiving his own selfiii) for robbing in the shopkeeperFoe befooling his friendsb) Why did ‘he’ decide to turn off into the woods?i) to reach the destination in timeii) to complete a dare that he gave himselfiii) to show off his smartness and be pleasediv) to escape the police from following himc) ‘Now his own turn had come’, what does this statement reflect?i) He had found his way to his destinationii) He had cheated an old maniii) He had fallen prey to the rattrapiv) He felt guilty of of what he has doned) What did the peddler realise when he turned into the woods?e) Why did the peddler think that he had indeed fallen into a rattrap?

Two roads diverged1 in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I could[5]To where it bent in the undergrowth;2Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted3 wear;Though as for that the passing there[10]Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden4 black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,[15]I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,[20]And that has made all the difference."The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is in the public domain.Unless otherwise noted, this content is licensed under theCC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licenseNotesAllDefinitionsFootnotesDiverge (verb) : to separate from another route or go in a different directiona dense growth of shrubs and other plants, especially under trees in woodlandlackedcrushed, flattened, or walked uponRead AloudAnnotateTranslateAssessment QuestionsShow Less12345Which statement best describes the significance of lines 13-15 on the meaning of the poem?A. The speaker is not worried they made the wrong choice because they can return to take the other road.B. The speaker is worried they took the more traveled road and will not be able to return to take the less traveled one.C. The speaker understands that taking one opportunity will likely prevent them from going back to take another.D. The speaker believes that they will be able to take all of the opportunities presented to them at some point in life.BackSave & Next

He stepped out of his vehicle to survey the uneven and _________ terrain of the new planet, certain that if he was going to cross the rocky landscape ahead of him, he would need to do so on foot.decadentcausticraucouscraggy

wo roads diverged1 in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I could[5]To where it bent in the undergrowth;2Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted3 wear;Though as for that the passing there[10]Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden4 black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,[15]I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,[20]And that has made all the difference."The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is in the public domain.Unless otherwise noted, this content is licensed under theCC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licenseNotesAllDefinitionsFootnotesDiverge (verb) : to separate from another route or go in a different directiona dense growth of shrubs and other plants, especially under trees in woodlandlackedcrushed, flattened, or walked uponRead AloudAnnotateTranslateAssessment QuestionsShow Less12345How do lines 9-12 affect the meaning of the poem?A. The speaker admits that both roads were untraveled, revealing that the indecisive speaker never chose a road.B. The speaker admits that the two roads were actually similar, suggesting that one choice was not clearly better than the other.C. The speaker admits that the first road was actually more traveled than the second, suggesting that he made the wrong choice.D. The speaker admits that the two roads were actually just one, revealing that the speaker is lying about having to make a difficult choice.BackSave & Next

Select the correct answerPrem After walking 25 m, turns left, turns left, turns right, turns left, turns right, turns left, finally turns left. In the end, he was moving towards the North. From which direction did Prem start his journey?OptionsNorthWestSouthEast

Select the correct answer.What theme is common to the two excerpts below? . . . His theory of running until he reached camp and the boys had one flaw in it: he lacked the endurance. Several times he stumbled, and finally he tottered, crumpled up, and fell. When he tried to rise, he failed. He must sit and rest, he decided, and next time he would merely walk and keep on going. As he sat and regained his breath, he noted that he was feeling quite warm and comfortable. He was not shivering, and it even seemed that a warm glow had come to his chest and trunk. And yet, when he touched his nose or cheeks, there was no sensation. Running would not thaw them out. Nor would it thaw out his hands and feet. Then the thought came to him that the frozen portions of his body must be extending. He tried to keep this thought down, to forget it, to think of something else; he was aware of the panicky feeling that it caused, and he was afraid of the panic. But the thought asserted itself, and persisted, until it produced a vision of his body totally frozen.(Jack London, To Build a Fire)Presently the boat also passed to the left of the correspondent with the captain clinging with one hand to the keel. He would have appeared like a man raising himself to look over a board fence, if it were not for the extraordinary gymnastics of the boat. The correspondent marvelled that the captain could still hold to it.They passed on, nearer to shore—the oiler, the cook, the captain—and following them went the water-jar, bouncing gayly over the seas.The correspondent remained in the grip of this strange new enemy—a current. The shore, with its white slope of sand and its green bluff, topped with little silent cottages, was spread like a picture before him. It was very near to him then, but he was impressed as one who in a gallery looks at a scene from Brittany or Algiers.He thought: "I am going to drown? Can it be possible? Can it be possible? Can it be possible?" Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."(Stephen Crane, The Open Boat) A. mysteries of life and death B. finding hope after tragedy C. humanity's helplessness against nature D. finding inner strength E. choosing between security and individualism