Unless, governor, inspector, visitor, This map becomes their wind…

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Unless, governor, inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs.
Break O break open till they break the town

Answer the following.

(1) The ‘governor, visitor, inspector’ are?

(i) corporate officials

(ii) powerful and influential people

(iii) politicians

(iv) ordinary peopl

(2) What have the windows done in the lives of these children?

(i) blocked the light

(ii) blocked their growth

(iii) shut these children from exposure to the outside world

(iv) both (ii) and (iii)

(3) ‘Catacombs’ means the same as

(i) traps

(ii) hangings on the wall

(iii) underground cemeteries

(iv) none of the above

(4) What is the poet asking them to break o break open?

(5) The windows of the classroom have been compared to ____________ .

(6) ________________ in the classroom is an outlet to the world beyond.

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Answer

(1) (ii) powerful and influential people
(2) (iv) both (ii) and (iii)
(3) (iii) underground cemeteries
(4) the barriers that are blocking their way to progress
(5) catacombs
(6) map

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