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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow :
When I’m An Old Lady
When I’m an old lady, I’ll live with each kid, And bring so much happiness just as they did. I want to pay back all the joy they’ve provided. Returning each deed. Oh, they’ll be so excited! I’ll write on the walls with reds, whites and blues, And bounce on the furniture wearing my shoes, I’ll drink from the carton and then leave it out. I’ll stuff all the toilets and oh, how they’ll shout. When they’re on the phone and just out of reach, I’ll get into things like sugar and bleach. Oh, they’ll snap their fingers and then shake their head, And when that is done, I’ll hide under the bed. When they cook dinner and call me to eat, I’ll not eat my green beans and salad or meat. I’ll gag on my okra, spill milk on the table, And when they get angry I’ll run if I’m able. I’ll sit close to the T.V., through the channels I’ll click I’ll cross both eyes just to see if they stick I’ll take off my socks and throw one away, And play in the mud till the end of the day. And later in bed, I’ll lay back and sigh, I’ll thank God in prayer and then close my eyes. My kids will look down with a smile slowly creeping. And say with a groan, “She’s so sweet when she’s sleeping!”
–Barbara Hall
Who is the narrator of the poem?

A A young girl
B An old lady
C The grandmother
D None of these


I wrote option d but they say its option c...but the Pom starts by aging when I’m an old lady...so its a mother who is thinking and thus she is the narrator

Ans 1:

Anora from , Indore
Class : Class 9
it should be a young girl because of the creative imagination and because it is in the future tense,the person is not an old lady

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ARAVINDAN MANIKANDAN from NPS INternational, Singapore
Class : Class 8
ima confused

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Anora from , Indore
Class : Class 9
it is a young girl because of the creative imagination and because the poem is in the future tense, the narrator cannot be an old lady

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Ashwin Shridhar from Vidyashilp Academy, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
Option a

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Dhairya Vinayak from Loyola High School, Patna
Class : Class 8

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Venya from CHIREC International, Hyderabad
Class : Class 9
The answer must be D. She can't have been a young girl as not only would she not have kids but also in the first lines of the poems she says she will 'return the deeds'. She also says that she will live with her kids, hence indicating that whatever her kids did to her, she will do it to them WHEN she becomes an old lady. Again, all of this is in future tense so we cannot determine whether she is actually an old lady or if she is literally using future tense. The most apt option will be that we cannot determine her age and it is safe to say that she is a frustrated mother imagining all the things she would do when she becomes an old lady. HENCE OPTION D IS JUSTIFIED AND OPTION B IS NOT CORRECT

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Ashmi Narkar from The Shishukunj International School, Jhalaria Campus, Indore
Class : Class 9
confusing question

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Dhruti Kedilaya from Podar International School Powai, Mumbai
Class : Class 8
It should be a young girl1)cause of the imagination and creativity2)because of the line”when I’m an old lady”

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Bhumi Chheda from SVKM J V Parekh International School, Mumbai
Class : Class 9
it should be a frustrated mother because a young girl does not say these thinks because she might be doing it herself

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Rishith Sunil from BVM Global BHS, Chennai
Class : Class 8
If the narrator was a young girl,she wouldn’t have children.The title of the poem is,’When I am an old lady’.So,she can’t eat an old lady/grandmother either.So,the answers none of the above(The narrator is probably a mother....)

Ans 11:

samik from Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mndir, Mumbai
Class : Class 8

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Sara Gandhi from Rustomjee Cambridge International school, Mumbai
Class : Class 8
The answer is young girl because the title says 'when I am an old lady' which means that the narrator is not yet an old lady and the poetry is in future tense.

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Abhinav from BVM Global Bollineni Hillside, Chennai
Class : Class 8
No, the answer is D. This poem came in the ASSET exam and what they said the right answer was it was by a frustrated mother whom her kids kept annoying and that makes the most sense in context.

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Rishith Sunil from BVM Global BHS, Chennai
Class : Class 8
If the narrator was a young girl,she wouldn’t have children.The title of the poem is,When I am an old lady.So,she can’t ™t eat an old lady/grandmother either.So,the answers none of the above(The narrator is probably a mother....)

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Anusha Gupta from St. Kabir, Gandhinagar
Class : Class 10
Guys The answer should be A a young girl because the title says that WHEN I AM AN OLD LADY so she is saying that she would do all this nuisance when she is a old lady and then of course it is obvious that right now she is a young girl and all this is just her imagination .But the answer key says that the answer is B an old lady So guys how can an old lady say that when i am an old lady when she IS an old lady?please clear my doubts friends

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Chada Lakshmi Chaitra from Timpany School, Visakhapatnam
Class : Class 8
The answer must be NONE OF THE ABOVE. The title of the poem "When I'm An Old Lady" clearly states that the narrator cannot be an old lady yet as she says 'when'. She cannot be an young girl because then she wouldn't be having kids.Therefore, she must be an mother with kids.So, the answer is NONE OF THE ABOVE

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Shreyas Gupta from CHIREC International, Hyderabad
Class : Class 8
ya YOUNG GIRL

Ans 18: (Master Answer)

Admin from revisewise, Noida
Class : Class 1
The correct answer is B.

Ans 19:

Dhairya Vinayak from Loyola High School, Patna
Class : Class 8

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Safiyyah Chinnur from DMIS, DOHA
Class : Class 8
EXACTLYYY!!!!! I was gonna tell that too guys!! answer is b ...totalllyyy agree guyyzz.. @Anora, @Master

Ans 21:

Shivapriyaa from Delhi Public School, Chennai
Class : Class 9
The name of the poem itself is “When I am an old lady”. So according to that and the first line, the answer is clearly young girl

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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Ashvik Banerjee from Mount Litera Zee School , Vasco
Class : Class 9

Ans 2: (Master Answer)

Admin from revisewise, Noida
Class : Class 1
The correct answer is C.

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Anant Saxena from Delhi public school Gandhinagar , Gandhinagar
Class : Class 9
I think the question had a blank before "king of scotland" thus i think the answer should remain a

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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Bhumi Chheda from SVKM J V Parekh International School, Mumbai
Class : Class 9
it should be B

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Advika Narkar from The Shishukunj International School, Jhalaria Campus, Indore
Class : Class 8
Option A, if applied to the sentence, will sound odd,"Mrs.Otis exclaimed with disgust and told the ghost that how miserably he was belching.". In this case, Option B sounds much better,"Mrs.Otis exclaimed with disgust and told the ghost that he was belching very miserably." Option A when applied to the sentence sounds like a question, not an assertive statement. Option D is excluded since pronouns in the second person will change into third person in indirect speech. And Option C doesn't make any sense. Hence, Option B is the correct answer. ADMIN FROM REVISEWISE NOIDA IS KINDLY REQUESTED TO RECTIFY THIS ERROR AND EVERY SINGLE ERROR IN OTHER TESTS, SO THAT STUDENTS DON'T HAVE ANY DIFFICULTY SOLVING THE TESTS AND DON'T HAVE TO GET THEIR MARKS UNFAIRLY CUT DUE TO THE WRONG OPTION BEING MARKED AS THE CORRECT ANSWER AND THE CORRECT ANSWER BEING MARKED AS THE WRONG ANSWER.

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Ashmi Narkar from The Shishukunj International School, Jhalaria Campus, Indore
Class : Class 9
there's no way the answer would be option ait would be bbcz an exclamatory sentence changes its form to declarative onealso option a sounds incorrectWHY doesn't SOF correct the incorrect options that they have given?

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harsha from dps noida, noida
Class : Class 8
it is b

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Jayad Khaitan from St Xaviers Collegiate School, KOLKATA
Class : Class 8
the answer should be b . it suites best in the sentence

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Ayush Gorain from Sarala Birla Public School, Ranchi
Class : Class 8
When changing from direct to indirect voice, an exclamatory sentence (or any type of sentence for that matter) is changed to an assertive sentence. Option (A) and option (D) are thus excluded, because if they are filled into the respective blank, the sentence would be an exclamatory one. Additionally, the 'you' in option (D) is not acceptable, as personal and possessive pronouns change along with the tense when converting from direct to indirect.Option (C) simply doesn't make sense. The word 'how' advocates that Mrs. Otis is asking a question, while Mrs. Otis is simply exclaiming the manner in which Mr. Ghost was belching. Thus, by deduction, option (B) is the correct answer (in my opinion).

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Veda Gayatri from NPS Agara, Bangalore
Class : Class 8
Why not option B ?

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Anuhya A from National Public School, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
Answer should be B

Ans 9:

Avantika Raj from Delhi Public School, Bengaluru
Class : Class 9
Should be B

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Ashvik Banerjee from Mount Litera Zee School , Vasco
Class : Class 9
It must be option B!

Ans 11:

Bipasana from KV IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Class : Class 9
B

Ans 12:

Angshu from Dehli Public School Bangalore East, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
B

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Anwesha Patra from Dav school , Bhubaneswar
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Snehal mishra from Army school, Siliguri
Class : Class 3
A is the correct answer

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S chaarvi from DPS, Bangalore
Class : Class 4
i think its wrong

Ans 3: (Master Answer)

Admin from revisewise, Noida
Class : Class 1
The correct answer is A.

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R SANKARSHNAN from NPS, BANGALORE
Class : Class 9

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Shreyas Gupta from CHIREC International, Hyderabad
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Anisha James from psbb millennium, chennai
Class : Class 6

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Jaanhavi Kher from Greenwood High , Bengaluru
Class : Class 6
A is correct

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Shreerang Manchali from Jnana Prabodhini Navanagar Vidyalaya, Pradhikaran, Pune 411044, Pune
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Aajani Datta from The Samhita Academy, Bangalore
Class : Class 5
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

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Adhrit from vibgyor high, Mumbai
Class : Class 4
CCCCCCCC

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Tanmay Sinha from Garden High School, Kolkata
Class : Class 5

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AARUSH CHOKSI from BRIGHT START FELLOWSHIP INT SCHOOL, MUMBAI
Class : Class 4
abc

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Tanmay Sinha from Garden High School, Kolkata
Class : Class 5
answer is c

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Kavya Vasarla from Greenwood High, Bangalore
Class : Class 4
the answer is b

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mahati from Delhi public school, Hyderabad
Class : Class 6
answer is c

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Vikas from NPS BSK, Bengaluru
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Aswath Krishna from DPS EAST, Bengaluru
Class : Class 6
C is the answer as the correct spelling is Petulance

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chaitali Chakraborty from dps, kolkata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Kanishk Mishra from DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, INDIRA NAGAR, LUCKNOW
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Tanmay Lakhotia from Chrysalis High Kadugodi, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Class : Class 9

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Navdha Jain from DLRC , PUNE
Class : Class 8
The correct sentence is "Shalini is a proficient horse rider", 'a' was missing but, the options given were confusing as it could be associated with option A and option B as well

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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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Sanjana yadav from Mount litera zee school , Rewari
Class : Class 8
I think that answer will be 'a'

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Ethel shiju from National Public School Indiranagar, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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