What If - Worksheets

 CBSE Worksheet 01

What If

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1. Who is the speaker in the poem What if?

2. When did strange things hit the child’s mind? (What If)

3. What do you understand by What if song?

4. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow by choosing the best option from among the given ones. 
   What if I get beat up?
   What if there’s poison in my cup?
   What if I start to cry?
   What if I get sick and die?
   What if I Flunk that test?

   1. The first possibility in the passage is that the speaker might
      1. be canned
      2. be depressed
      3. beat someone
      4. be beaten by someone.
   2. The questions show that the speaker looks at the future with
      1. fear
      2. hope
      3. dismay
      4. courage.
   3. The speaker does not want to
      1. live
      2. be happy
      3. die
      4. succeed.
   4. The last line shows that the author is probably a
      1. policeman
      2. businessman
      3. teacher
      4. student.
   5. The word Hunk’ means the same as
      1. miss
      2. fail
      3. top
      4. succeed.

5. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow by choosing the best option from among the given ones.
   What if the wind tears up my kite?
   What if they start a war?
   What if my parents get divorced?
   What if the bus is late?
   What if my teeth don't grow in straight?
   What if I tear my pants?
   What if I never learn to dance?
   Everything seems swell, and then
   The night-time Whatif strikes again!

   1. This passage has been taken from the poem
      1. A House, A Home
      2. What if
      3. The Quarrel
      4. Beauty
   2. The name of the poet is
      1. Shel Silverstein
      2. R.N. Tagore
      3. Mary O’Neill
      4. Peter Dixon
   3. Who might start a war?
      1. the speaker’s enemies
      2. terrorists
      3. the foreigners
      4. the peoples of the world
   4. The speaker’s fear was
      1. logical
      2. illogical
      3. necessary
      4. unnecessary
   5. The word ‘swell’ in the passage is
      1. verb
      2. noun
      3. adjective
      4. adverb

6. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow by choosing the best option from among the given ones.
   What if green hair grows on my chest?
   What if nobody likes me?
   What if a bolt of lightning strikes me?
   What if I don’t grow taller?
   What if my head starts getting smaller?
   What if the fish won’t bite?

   1. The word Whatif’ indicates that the speaker is
      1. in real danger
      2. thinking of the
      3. under threat
      4. wasting his time and energy
   2. The speaker suffers from
      1. a sense of insecurity
      2. a brilliant imagination
      3. a threat to his life
      4. the fear of lightning
   3. This passage has been taken from
      1. Beauty
      2. What if
      3. The Kite
      4. Vocation 
   4. The poem has been composed by
      1. Lorraine M. Halli
      2. Harry Behn
      3. Shel Silver stein
      4. Eleanor Farjeon
   5. The word holt’ means the same as
      1. a lock
      2. a sudden strike
      3. door
      4. a piece of iron

CBSE Worksheet 01
What If

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Solution

1. She! Silverstein, the poetess, is the speaker in this poem 'What if'.

2. Strange things hit the child’s mind when she was lying on her bed the last night.

3. The 'What if song' in the poem means what will happen in case such a change takes place in the child’s life.

4. i. (b), ii. (a), iii. (c), iv. (d), v. (b)

5. i. (b), ii. (a), iii. (d), iv. (d), v. (c)

6. i. (d), ii. (a), iii. (b), iv. (c), v. (b)