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1. Where are the two characters? How have they come here? Ans: Rosalind and Orlando are in the Forest of Arden. Rosalind had escaped from the Duke’s palace and Orlando had been warned by Adam, his servant that his brother Oliver had planned to get rid of him, so he should run for safety. 2. How could a true lover tell the time according to Rosalind? Ans: The true lover would sigh every minute and groan every hour and this would tell him the slow passing of the time as correctly as a clock. 3. Which words are used by Rosalind to describe movement of time? Ans: Rosalind says that time ambles, trots, gallops and stands still. 4. Which examples did Rosalind give to explain the pace of time? Ans: Rosalind compares the movement of time with the speed of the horse. Time has been personified here. Time trots with a girl from the day of fixing of her marriage to the day of the wedding ceremony. Even if it is only a week, time passes so heavily with her that each day seems a year long. Time paces gently with a priest who has never worried himself with learning, and with a wealthy man who is free from gout. The priest does not have to study and the rich man does not suffer from pain. Time gallops for a thief who has been condemned to death. Though he walks slowly, he reaches the spot too soon. Time does not move at all with lawyers who sleep during vacation. Q3. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow. Rosalind: Peace, you dull fool: I found them on a tree. Touchstone: Truly, the tree yields bad fruit. Rosalind: I’ll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit i’ the country; for you‘ll be rotten ere you be half ripe, and that’s the right virtue of the medlar. 1. What does Rosalind find on a tree? Ans: Rosalind finds a paper with love poems hanging from a palm‐tree. 2. Where are the speakers at the moment? Ans: The speakers Rosalind and Touchstone are in the Forest of Arden. 3. What is a medlar? Ans: A medlar is a kind of apple which cannot be eaten until it is over‐ripe. Rosalind puns on ‘meddler’‐ an interfering person, and says that Touchstone will be dead or rotten before his mind has matured. 4. How was Touchstone compared with a medlar? Whom does he appeal to? Ans: Touchstone was meddlesome and he would be dead or rotten before his mind has matured. When Rosalind puns with the word medlar, he remarks that those statements were Rosalind’s and he appealed to the woods for a verdict as to their wisdom or folly.
5. Who enters just after this conversation and what is the person doing? Ans: Celia, Rosalind’s cousin enters reading a paper. This paper was also found hanging on the tree. Q4.Read the extract and answer the following. Celia: Why should this a desert be? For it is unpeopled? No; Tongues I’ll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. 1 .Where is Celia? Where has she found this? Who listens when she reads? Ans: Celia is in the Forest of Arden. She has found a paper hanging from a tree. Rosalind and Touchstone listen to her while she reads the love poem. 2. Whom does Celia ask to go away and why? Ans: Celia had entered reading a long love poem. When she finished reading, Rosalind remarked that Touchstone and Corin were bored with it so Celia asks both of them to retire and take rest. 3.Explain the extract given. Ans: The poem had been written by Orlando. He said that there were no dwellers in the forest but it did not mean that the forest would lay silent. He would make the trees speak the ways and manners of civilized life in an eloquent manner. 4.To whom is the poem dedicated and how is that person made of many parts? Ans: The poem is dedicated to Rosalind. Nature was commanded by God to put all the womanly attributes of good quality in one body. Nature obeyed the order and produced the fair face of Helen leaving out her faithlessness. Nature added the dignity of Cleopatra combined with Atalanta’s speed and humble nature of Lucretia. Thus, Rosalind was made of many parts. 3. What did Rosalind say about seven of the nine days out of the wonder and Pythagoras? Ans: Rosalind referred to the phrase as a short lived surprise and said that she had almost recovered from her amazement of the verses hanging from the trees which praised her. The Greek philosopher believed that souls were transmitted from one form of animal to another. Rosalind claimed to have been a rat at the time of Pythagoras. As an Irish rat she had been killed by ritual incantation but never had been a subject of so many poems. Q5.Read the extract and answer the following. Rosalind: Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel. 1. Whom is Rosalind speaking to? Where are they? Ans: Rosalind is speaking to Orlando. They are in the Forest of Arden.
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