A Roadside Stand

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

SAI (2 marks)

Who does the poet accuse of having double standards in "The Roadside Stand"? (2023) []

1. What does the expression 'polished traffic' refer to? What does it reveal about city people? (2023) U
2. What are the probable causes of the passing cars to stop near the roadside stand? 2020) R

SA III (4 marks)

Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear The thought of so much childish longing in vain, The sadness that lurks near the open window there, That wants all day in almost open prayer

But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow

For the squeal of brakes, the sound of a stopping car. supports

1. Why does the poet call this desire childish?
2. Why is there sadness among people?
3. Why do these people pray for a car to stop?
4. What does the word 'squeal' mean? (2020) [An]

LAI (5 marks)

A Roadside Stand is a social satire depicting the two

contrasting worlds existing in society. Justify this

statement with reference to the poem. (2023)

LAII (6 marks)

Read the following extract and answer the

questions that follow: (2023)

In front at the edge of the road where the traffic

speed.

A roadside stand too pathetically pled,

It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread,

The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint.

The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,

Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts At having the landscape marred with the artless paint Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong

1. What is the tone of the poet in the extract? Choose the correct option:
2. optimistic (b) resigned
3. sympathetic (d) indifferent

1. With reference to the given extract, what harm has been caused by the 'artless paint'?

1. The city is compared to ___
2. a landscape (b) signs of N and S
3. a flower (d) a dole of bread

(iv) Choose the correct option :

The roadside stand is (c)

1. (b) marred with artless paint.

1. What type of expectations do the stand owners have from the city dwellers who come there?
2. Complete the analogy with a word from the given extract. donate : contribute : dying ___

CBSE Sample Questions

LAII (6 marks)

Read the given extracts to attempt the questions with reference to context. It is in the news that all these pitiful kin Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store, Where they won't have to think for themselves anymore, While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey, Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits. And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day. Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way. (A Roadside Stand)

1. What is the tone of the poet in the above lines?
2. aggressive
3. tolerant
4. sarcastic
5. resigned
6. sentimental Choose the most appropriate option.
7. Only (i)
8. (ii) and (iii)
9. (i), (iv) and (v)
10. Only (iii)

Identify the phrase from the extract, that suggests

the following: No one bothers to take 'their' consent before

pushing the promise of a better life, their way.

What quality of the villagers can be inferred through

these lines?

1. gullible
2. futuristic
3. hypocritical
4. ambitious

1. Complete the following analogy correctly. Do NOT repeat from used example. greedy good doers: alliteration :: _____ : oxymoron
2. On the basis of the extract, choose the correct option with reference to (1) and (2) given below.
3. The city dwellers make promises for the betterment of the villagers.
4. The city dwellers have ulterior motives.
5. (1) is true but (2) is false.
6. (2) is true but (1) is false.
7. (2) is the reason for (1).
8. Both (1) and (2) cannot be inferred from the extract.
9. Fill the blank with an appropriate word, with reference to the extract. "... calculated to soothe them out of their wits" implies that 'them' are being ____ (2022-23)