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

Edit

Answer

c.

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.

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