Let There Be One Race - Starburst - Class 8 - English

He also wishes that people ......................

i. forget their differences and boundaries.
ii. maintain their differences and boundaries.
iii. maintain only the differences in their religions.

The speaker wants that communities should .....................

i. forget their specific cultures and create one common culture.
ii. preserve their culture and way of life for future generations.
iii. live in peace and spread their culture to other communities.

According to him truth should .........................

i. be proclaimed loudly.
ii. become an integral part of life.
iii. be attractive like tapestry.

Truth should be also be ................................
i. decorated on walls like tapestry.
ii. Left to the free-minded people to interpret.
iii. encased in golden letters.

... Pursue in peace their chosen path to grace.

i. who is being talked about?
ii. What will they pursue in peace?
iii. What does the word ‘chosen path to grace’ mean?

And that its legacy across the vast
Dark future fields like hand-sown seeds be cast.

i. What is the legacy that needs to continue?
ii. Why are the future fields dark?
ii. Why would the legacy be like hand-sown seeds?

And let each slender thread well rendered be
By those whose passionate hearts and minds are free...

i. Of what is ‘each slender thread’ made of?
ii. Who will weave the truth into the tapestry?
iii. Why would they be the best persons to do so?

Do you think the speaker is advocating a common religion or a common culture for the people of the world? Pick words from the poem to support your answer.

What would happen if we break the walls that separate us?

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? Find the rhyming words.

Use the similes appropriately in the sentences below.

1. The tree is long since dead. Look its branches are .................................................. .

2. My students are ..................................... . They do not create a disturbance even when left unattended.

3. He came home looking ..................................... . We wondered what had frightened him so much.

4. Don’t worry he will survive in the difficult circumstances. He is ..................................... .

5. After a nap the baby got up ..................................... . She was ready for fun but I was too tired to play with her.

6. Granny is ..................................... without her glasses. Give her her glasses or she’ll keep bumping into things.

7. After my last examination got over I felt ..................................... .

8. I had been thinking about my friend the whole day. And there he was standing at my front door ..................................... .

9. Nothing seems to unnerve him. He is always ..................................... .

10. The truth is ..................................... . You cannot fool me with your excuses.