MY OWN TRUE FAMILY STUDY NOTES
Q. The poet had to promise to plant two oak trees instead of one fallen tree.
Ans. True.
Supporting statement: “Whenever you see an oak tree felled, swear now you will plant two.”
Q. The tree tribe said the poet was annoyed to see the oak tree cut down.
Ans. False.
Supporting statement: we have to cut down, we are fragmented, you don’t blink.
Q. The scruffy woman had the poet’s secret inside her little bag.
Ans. True.
Supporting statement: I saw an old lady there- all throwing sticks and scraps/ she said, “I have your secret here, inside my little bag.”
Q. An old lady carried a stick that had a knob here and there.
Ans. True.
Supporting statement: All crooked sticks and scrap.
Q. If the poet did not keep his promise, he would have had to meet death.
Ans. True.
Supporting statement: “unless you make a promise now, – now you are going to die.”
Q. The poet never showed off the oak tree.
Ans. False.
Supporting statement: After coming out from the oak wood, the poet goes back to the human company.
Q. Whenever the poet saw a tree being uprooted, he had to cut down two more trees.
Ans. False.
Supporting statement: “Whenever you see an oak tree felled, swear now you will plant two.”
Q. The poet’s dream had no effect on him.
Ans. False.
Supporting statement: “The dream that altered me.”
Q. Arriving from the oak tree, the poet carried the heart of the tree and stepped out like a kid.
Ans. True.
Supporting statement: “…back in the company of people, my walk was a human baby step, but my heart was a tree.”
Q. The woman’s stick was tied with a worn cloth.
Ans. False.
Supporting statement: The poet tied a pole.
MY OWN TRUE FAMILY STUDY
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS – 1 MARKS OF MY OWN TRUE FAMILY
Q. The poet was enclosed by–
A) Plants.
B) Deer.
C) Ladies.
D) Tribe.
Q. She opened her ‘little bag’, here ‘she’ means-
A) An old lady.
B) A gorgeous woman.
C) A young woman.
D) Mother of the poet.
Q. The ‘Staring tribe’ relate to-
A) Oak tree.
B) Aged woman.
C) Creatures.
D) Humans.
Q. The author had a dream-
A) At night-time.
B) On the couch.
C) At midday.
D) Under the tree.
Q. What is the meaning of ‘Knobbly’?
A) Loyalty.
B) Unsteady.
C) Sickly.
D) Honorable.
Q. In this poem the poet presents himself as a-
A) Playful child.
B) Elderly woman child.
C) Oak tree.
D) Indigenous tribes.
Q. “Then she began to cackle and I began to quake”. The meaning of “quake” here-
A) Cackle.
B) Be in tears.
C) Trimble.
D) Be asleep.
Q. The poet was looking for a-
A) Stag.
B) Goat.
C) Gentlewoman.
D) Hind.
Q. The poet met an elderly woman in-
A) A Mountainside.
B) An Oak wood.
C) Poet house.
D) His friend’s home.
Q. Who wrote the poem?
A) Edward John Hughes.
B) Edward James Ted Hughes.
C) Edward Ted Hughes.
D) Edward Hughes.
MY OWN TRUE FAMILY
SHORT QUESTIONS – 2-3 MARKS OF MY OWN TRUE FAMILY
Q .Who complained against whom?
Ans. The Oak tribe complained about bringing them down. Their complaint was that mankind was indifferent to cutting down oak trees.
Q. What secret did the woman reveal to the poet?
Ans. The woman said that people like the poet do not bother to cut oak trees, people are always indifferent about this and they call their own destruction.
Q .What were the conditions for his release?
Ans. The oak trees make the poet swear to plant two trees instead of cutting one oak tree.
Q .Why did the little poet begin to tremble in panic?
Ans. The old woman told the poet that she was inside her little bag and started laughing wildly. The child poet panicked and he began to tremble.
Q. What did they mean by saying ‘We are the oak trees and your own true family’?
Ans. They wanted to say that oak and humans grew up in the same environment and provided oxygen to the world. Their message is that mankind should refrain from destroying and protecting nature.
Q. What will happen to the poet if he is not committed?
Ans. If the poet is not committed, the black bark of the oak tree will fold over him and he will stick it inside the trees Where the poet was born but will never grow again.
Q .What was the poet’s feeling after returning from Oak Forest or What did the poet realize in the end?
Ans. The poet felt that the oak tree and the human race should be considered as one family. He also realized that his heart had changed as the heart of a tree had left him with a child body.