My Own True Family – Ted Hughes Madhyamik Class 10 English Lesson 4 Question Answer

Lesson 4: My Own True Family – Ted Hughes

Class 10 English (Bliss) Solutions with Bengali Meaning

Comprehension Exercises

1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

• • (a) Creeping in an oakwood, the poet was looking for a
    (বাংলা মানে: ওক বনে ঢোকার সময় কবি খুঁজছিলেন—)
    (i) goat (ছাগল)
    (ii) rhinoceros (গণ্ডার)
    (iii) stag (পুরুষ হরিণ)
    (iv) buffalo (মহিষ)
    Answer: (iii) stag (পুরুষ হরিণ)

• • (b) Whenever an oak tree is felled, the number of trees the poet must plant is
    (বাংলা মানে: যখনই একটি ওক গাছ কাটা হয়, কবিকে তখন কতগুলি গাছ লাগানোর শপথ নিতে হয়?)
    (i) two (দুটি)
    (ii) three (তিনটি)
    (iii) four (চারটি)
    (iv) five (পাঁচটি)
    Answer: (i) two (দুটি)

• (c) When the poet came out of the oakwood, his heart was that of a
  (বাংলা মানে: কবি যখন ওক বন থেকে বেরিয়ে এসেছিলেন, তখন তাঁর হৃদয়টি কার মতো হয়ে গিয়েছিল?)
  (i) stag (হরিণ)
  (ii) tree (গাছ)
  (iii) human child (মানব শিশু)
  (iv) old woman (বৃদ্ধ মহিলা)
  Answer: (ii) tree (গাছ)

2. State whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/phrases/words in support of your answer:

• • (a) The old woman held the poet’s secrets in her little bag. – True (সত্য)
    Supporting statement: “She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.'”

• • (b) The tree tribe said that the poet is bothered to see the chopping down of oak trees. – False (মিথ্যা)
    Supporting statement: “We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.”

• (c) The poet never came out of the oakwood. – False (মিথ্যা)
  Supporting statement: “When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company,”

3. Answer the following questions:

• • (a) When did the poet come twice awake?
    Answer: The poet came twice awake when the old woman opened her little bag and he found himself surrounded by a staring tribe and tied to a stake (বৃদ্ধ মহিলা তাঁর ছোট ব্যাগটি খোলার পর এবং কবি নিজেকে একঝাঁক তাকিয়ে থাকা উপজাতির মাঝে খুঁটির সাথে বাঁধা অবস্থায় দেখতে পাওয়ার পর দু’বার সজাগ হয়ে উঠেছিলেন).

• • (b) What would happen to the poet if he failed to make the promise?
    Answer: If he failed to make the promise, the black oak bark would wrinkle over him and root him among the oaks where he was born but never grew (যদি তিনি প্রতিজ্ঞা করতে ব্যর্থ হন, তবে কালো ওকের ছাল তাঁর ওপর কুঁচকে যাবে এবং তাঁকে ওক গাছের মাঝেই শেকড় গেড়ে বসাবে যেখানে তিনি জন্মেছিলেন কিন্তু কখনো বড় হননি).

• (c) What was it that altered the poet?
  Answer: The dream that the poet experienced beneath the boughs of the oakwood altered him (ওক গাছের ডালের নিচে কবির যে স্বপ্ন হয়েছিল, তা তাঁকে বদলে দিয়েছিল).

Grammar in Use

4. Change the following into indirect speech:

• • (a) Rahul asked Dipa, “Will you go to school today?”
    Answer: Rahul asked Dipa if she would go to school that day.

• • (b) Rita said to Ayesha, “Please give me a glass of water.”
    Answer: Rita requested Ayesha to give her a glass of water.

• (c) The old man told the little girl, “May you be happy!”
  Answer: The old man wished that the little girl might be happy.

5. Do as directed:

• • (a) Ranjan said, “Who does not know the name of Rabindranath?” (Change into affirmative sentence)
    Answer: Ranjan said that everyone knows the name of Rabindranath.

• • (b) Sangeeta runs faster than any other girl in her class. (Rewrite using the positive degree of ‘faster’)
    Answer: No other girl in her class runs as fast as Sangeeta.

• (c) Kaushiki blamed her friend for the trouble. (Rewrite using the noun form of ‘blamed’)
  Answer: Kaushiki laid the blame on her friend for the trouble.