Question 7. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: The stunted, unlucky heir<br>Of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease.<br>His lesson, from his desk. At the back of the dim class<br>One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream.<br>Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than this.<br>(i) Who is the unlucky heir?<br>(ii) What has he inherited?<br>(iii) Who is sitting at the back of the dim class?<br>(iv) How is he different from the rest of the class?
Solution
(i) The unlucky heir is the boy with stunted growth. (ii) He has inherited his father’s gnarled disease of twisted bones. (iii) A young, sweet, unnoted boy is sitting at the back of the dim class. (iv) He is different from the rest of the class as he is lost in the world of his dreams of a bright future and he isn’t sad or morbid like others.
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