Unit 10 Question Answers of A Mild Attack of Locusts, 11 English by AG Ahmad
Chapter-wise Questions
of 1st Year English
You have to attempt any six questions
out of eight questions. (12 Marks)
Chapter No. 10
A Mild Attack of Locusts
Q. 1. What are locusts? (G.B 2015)
Ans. Locusts are small insects that eat crops and trees
terribly even from the root. It is a natural calamity for agriculture. They
attack in groups and destroy vegetation within a short time.
Q. 2. Why did farmers
throw wet leaves on fire?
Ans. The farmers were throwing wet leaves onto the fire to
make the smoke acrid and black. They did not want the locusts to see their
crops and vegetables below. They wanted that the locusts might settle somewhere
else.
Q. 3. What was the desire
of every farmer? (L.B 2016)
Ans. Every farmer hoped and desired that the locusts should
overlook his farm and go onto the next. None of the farmers wanted to see his
farms got destroyed by the locusts.
Q. 4. Did Margaret know
what to do to keep the locusts away?
Ans. She did not know anything to keep the locusts away.
It was her first experience. She just stood and gazed at the sad spectacle of
devastated and mangled countryside.
Q. 5. What was the
condition of trees?
Ans. All the trees were queer and still, clotted with
insects, their boughs weighed to the ground. The branches of trees were
snapping off. The trees began to settle down heavily to the ground.
Q. 6. How did the old
Stephen treat the stray locusts?
Ans. He picked stray locusts off his shirt and split it
down. It was clotted inside with eggs. He pointed Margaret to imagine the
number of those eggs multiplied by millions.
Q. 7. Are the hoppers
different from the locusts?
Ans. The hoppers are the young locusts, while the locusts
are full grown insects. They are born when the locusts lay eggs. They cannot
fly and just march on the earth.
Q. 8. Did Margaret lose
heart on the loss of crops? (G.B 2012) Or Why was Margaret worried? (G.B 2014)
Ans. Yes, Margaret lost heart on the loss of Crops. She
preferred not even to think of them. She was trying to get used to the idea of
three or four years of locusts. She felt like a survivor after war. We came to
know about her mental situation by her saying;
"For the Lord's
sake," said Margaret angrily, still half-crying, "what here is bad
enough isn't it?"
Q. 9. Why are locusts
compared with bad weather? (L.B 2007, G.B 2015,
2016)
Ans. Locusts are going to be like bad weather, from now
on, always imminent because they destroy the vegetables and crops just like
storms, floods, and earthquakes. Both attack without any intimation.
Q. 10. Why did the men eat
their supper with good appetites? (L.B 2016)
Ans. They were tired because they had tried hard to save
their crops. They also thought that it could have been worse. So, they ate
their supper with savor.
Additional
Questions from Past Papers
Q. 11. Why did the farmers
want to kill the locusts? (L.B 2015)
Ans. They wanted to save their crops. That's why; they
wanted to kill the locusts. They knew that locusts will destroy their farms.
Q. 12. What did old
Stephen tell Margaret? (L.B 2012)
Ans. He told her that they were finished. The locusts could
eat every leaf and blade of grass in just half an hour. It they could make
enough noise and smoke, the locusts might settle somewhere else.
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