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c1 answer the following questions and share your responses with
your partner.
1. What kind of a woman do you find in this poem?

2. Where was the woman standing? Why was she standing there?
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3. Why was the woman very anxious?

4. What are the children compared to?
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5. Did the boys lend the old woman a helping hand?
6. Why was the old woman hesitating to cross the street?

Read and Write:
c2 Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then
write.

1. How did the boy help the old woman?
2. What made the boy happy?

3. What did the boy tell his friends?
4. What did the old woman say in her prayers that night? Why?

5. Do you like this poem? Why or why not?

c3 answer the following as directed.
1. Pick out the rhyming words in the poem, and read them aloud.

2. Name the figure of speech in these lines :
a] ‘………. came the boys ………….

like a flock of sheep’. What are the boys compared to?
b] Her aged hand on his strong young arm.

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