CBSE

Grade 10- The Dear Departed Worksheet 1

A. Read the following extract carefully and answer the following questions.

1. What are they coming for? They havent been here for ages.

a) Who is the speaker and how old is the speaker?

b) Who is the speaker referring to?

c) What is the purpose of their visit?

2. Theyre coming over to talk over poor grandpas affairs. Your father sent them a telegram

a) Who says this to whom?

b) Who are they and why have they been called?

c) Explain affairs

3. Im not satisfied but its the best we can do till our new blacks ready, and Ben and Elizabeth will never
have thought of mourning yet, so well outshine them there.

a) Who is the speaker and what is the speaker not satisfied about?

b) What do you infer about the speakers character from these lines?

c) Which word in the extract means the same as to be better than?

4. I suppose its in the family.

a) Who is the speaker and who is he speaking to?

b) What is he referring to? Why is it ironic?

c) Explain the phrase in the family

5. Elizabeths that sharp that shell see Im after it, and shell drive a hard bargain over it. Eh, what its
like to have a low money grubbing spirit
a) Over what would Elizabeth drive a hard bargain?

b) What does the phrase drive a hard bargain suggest?

c) What is ironical about the statement, Eh what it is to spirit.

6. Theyll stretch, wont they? Im not going to have them wasted.

a) What is the speaker referring to?

b) What do the lines reveal about the speakers character?

c) What is the speaker asking the person spoken to, to do?

7. Chut! Be quiet! Its ours now. Come Henry, lift your end.

a) What does the word end suggest?

b) What are they trying to lift?

c) Who is being told to remain quiet and why?

8. No? For myself its such a relief to get into black. And now perhaps youll tell us all about it.

a) Who is the speaker? What does the speaker want to know all about?

b) What do the lines reveal about her?

c) Explain the phrase get into black.

9. Look at the many cases of persons being restored to life hours after they were thought to be gone.

a) Which word in the text suggests coming back to life?

b) Who is gone in this case?

c) Why hadnt he been taken to a doctor?

d) Explain the irony in these lines.

10) Oh, but he did, Amelia, when he was living with us. He was very fond of Jimmy.

a) Who is the speaker and who are he, Amelia and Jimmy?

b) What is the speaker talking about?

c) How is this remark received?

11. After all Ive done for him, having to put up with him in the house these three years. Its nothing short
of swindling.

a) Who is the speaker and who is being referred to?

b) Why is the speaker annoyed?

c) Provide another word for swindling.

12. Well, he must have gone around to the Ring-o-Bells afterwards, for he came in as merry as a
sandboy.

a) What is Ring-o-Bells?