My mother saw a dancing bear poem questions and answers
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1.Read the poem given below carefully and answer the questions.
My mother saw a dancing bear
By the schoolyard, a day in June.
The keeper stood with chain and bar
And whistle-pipe, and played a tune.
And bruin lifted up its head
And lifted up its dusty feet,
And all the children laughed to see
It caper in the summer heat.
They watched as for the Queen it died.
They watched it march. They watched it halt.
They heard the keeper as he cried,
„Now, roly-poly!‟ „Somersault!‟
And then, my mother said, there came
The keeper with a begging-cup,
The bear with burning coat of fur,
Shaming the laughter to a stop. They paid a penny for the dance,
But what they saw was not the show;
Only, in bruin's aching eyes,
Far-distant forests, and the snow.
Questions
a) Why do you think the keeper had a chain and bar?
b) Name any three tricks that the bear performed.
c) When did the children stop laughing? Why?
d) Do you think the bear longed for its natural habitat? Which lines show us that?
e) Find words from the poem which mean the following:
a. to run or jump around happily and excitedly - ___________
b. to turn over completely in the air - ____________