Question

Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.

Seven years I could not walk a step.

When I to the great physician came

He demanded: Why the crutches?

And I told him: I am lame.

(i) Why does the poet go to the physician?

(ii) How long could the speaker not walk a step?

(iii) Who does ‘He’ in the third line refer to?/Whom does the speaker meet?

(iv) Why does the speaker use crutches?

(v) What did the physician ask the speaker? T

Answer 1

(i) The poet goes to the physician to get his lameness cured.

(ii) Seven years.

(iii) The great physician.

(iv) The speaker uses crutches because he is lame.

(v) The physician asked the speaker why he used crutches.