Class 8 Chapter 12 Solution
Someone
1. Very Short Question Answer
1. Whose door is referred to here?
Ans: The door of the poet’s house is referred to here.
2. How was the door of the poet’s house?
Ans: The door of the poet’s house was very small.
3. Why did the poet look left and right?
Ans: The poet looked left and right to see who knocked at his door.
4. What did the poet see in the still night?
Ans: The poet saw nothing in the still night.
5. Who was tap-tapping and where?
Ans: The beetle was tap-tapping in the wall.
6. Who was calling and from where?
Ans: The screetch-owl was calling from the forest.
7. What was the cricket doing while the dewdrops were falling?
Ans: The cricket was whistling while the dewdrops were falling.
8. What did the poet do after he heard the knocking on the door?
Ans: The poet opened the door and looked left and right after he heard the knocking on the door.
9. What was the night like?
Ans: The night was still and dark.
10. Name the insect mentioned in the poem.
Ans: Beetle and cricket are the insects mentioned in the poem.
2. Short Question Answer
1. Who do you think came knocking at the poet’s small door?
Ans: The poet was sure that someone was knocking at his small door. He could feel something uncanny in the stillness and darkness of the night. Myste- rious surroundings prevailed. So, the uncertain knocking on the door actually hightens the super- natural atmosphere.
2. Was the poet sure who was knocking at his door? Pick out sentence(s) in support of your answer (
Ans: No, the poet was not sure who was knocking at his door. The lines are “So I know not who came knocking,/At all, at all, at all.”
3. There are some sounds in the silent night. What are they?
Ans: The sounds in the silent night are tap-tapping of the busy beetle in the wall, sreech – owl’s call from the forest, cricket’s whistling and the sound of dewdrops falling.
4. Why does the poet use the expression ‘at all’ thrice in the last line of the poem?
Ans: The poet uses the expression ‘at all’ thrice ‘in the last line of the poem to emphasize the fact that he did not know who came knocking on his door. But the still, dark night gave him a mysterious feeling that there was someone knocking on the door.
3. Fill In The Blanks
(i) The Mayor to Pune next week. (go)
(ii) By next December, we years. (stay) here for three
(iii) Perhaps they Dooars later. (visit)
(iv) The boy television since morning. (watch)
ANSWERS:
(i) will go
(ii) will have been staying
(iii) will visit
(iv) has been watching