CTET (Central Teacher Eligibility Test) Paper-II English: Questions 1 of 286
Question 1 of 6 Based on Passage
Passage
My Shadow
I have a little shadow
that goes in and out with me.
And what can be that use of him
is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me
from the heels upto the head;
And I see him jump before me
When I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him
is the way he likes to grow-
Not at all like proper children,
Which is always very slow;
For he sometimes gets so little
and there՚s none of him at all
He hasn՚t got a notion
of how children, ought to play.
And can only make a foal of me,
in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me.
he՚s a coward you can see;
I՚d think shame to stick to nursie
as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early
before the Sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew
on every buttercup
But my lazy little shadow,
like an arrant sleepyhead,
Had stayed at home behind me
and was fast asleep in bed.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Question MCQ▾
‘And I see him jump before me’ . Here, ‘him’ refers to-
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
---|---|---|
a. | the poet՚s brother | |
b. | not clear from the poem | |
c. | the poet՚s shadow | |
d. | the poet՚s pet |
Answer
Explanation
‘And I see him jump before me’ . Here, ‘him’ refers to “the poet՚s shadow” . My shadow is a poem about the common ideology of children and their world of fantasy and imagination. The child thinks that the shadow is another person and he compares himself to it.