I Dream of Spices
A. Answer the following questions.
1. Who is Raj?
Answer:
Raj is a little boy.
2. Where did Raj’s mother send him?
Answer:
Raj’s mother sent him to Muthu’s shop.
3. Who is Muthu?
Answer:
Muthu is the owner of the shop.
4. What did mother ask Raj to buy?
Answer:
Mother asked Raj to buy cinnamon, betel leaves and ginger, and garlic.
5. What did Raj buy?
Answer:
Raj bought sesame seeds, onions, tomatoes, and pickles.
B. Choose the correct answers.
1. Mother called …………………….
a) Muthu
b) Raj
c) Ram
Answer:
b) Raj
2. Mother did not ask for …………………….
a) cinnamon
b) cardamom
c) betel leaves
Answer:
b) Cardamon
3. Raj did not buy …………………….
a) onions and sesame
b) ginger and garlic
c) tomato and pickles
Answer:
b) ginger and garlic
C. Find an example of alliteration in the poem.
sesame – seeds
what – want
ginger – garlic
E. Tell the story of the poem in three or four sentences with the help of the pictures given below.
* One day, mother sent Ram to shop.
* Ram went to Prakash's shop.
* Ram forgot to get back the balance money.
* Mother twisted Ram's ear.
F. Read the jumbled lines from the poem and rearrange them in correct order.
Answer
1. My mother would say:
2. “Little boy Raj.
3. Go to Muthu’s
4. and get some
5. cinnamon, betel leaves
6. and ginger and garlic.”
7. And so I go to the shops.
8. singing all the way
9. and when Muthu asks me
10. what I’d want
11. I rattle off a list:
12. “Sesame seeds, onions
13. tomatoes and pickles”
14. and back home
15. Mother twists my ears
16. ouch!
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