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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

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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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Class : Class 8
ima confused

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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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Class : Class 9
Option a

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Class : Class 8

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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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Class : Class 9
confusing question

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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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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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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....)

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Class : Class 8

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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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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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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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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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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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Class : Class 8
ya YOUNG GIRL

Ans 18: (Master Answer)

Class : Class 1
The correct answer is B.

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Class : Class 8

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

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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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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Class : Class 9

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Class : Class 1
The correct answer is C.

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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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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Class : Class 9
it should be B

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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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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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Class : Class 8
it is b

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Class : Class 8
the answer should be b . it suites best in the sentence

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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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Class : Class 8
Why not option B ?

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Class : Class 9
Answer should be B

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Class : Class 9
Should be B

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Class : Class 9
It must be option B!

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Class : Class 9
B

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Class : Class 9
B

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Class : Class 3
A is the correct answer

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Class : Class 4
i think its wrong

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Class : Class 1
The correct answer is A.

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Class : Class 9

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Class : Class 6

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Class : Class 6
A is correct

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Class : Class 5
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

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Class : Class 4
CCCCCCCC

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Class : Class 5

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Class : Class 4
abc

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Class : Class 5
answer is c

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Class : Class 4
the answer is b

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Class : Class 6
answer is c

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Class : Class 6
C is the answer as the correct spelling is Petulance

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Class : Class 9

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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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Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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Class : Class 8
I think that answer will be 'a'

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Class : Class 9
The incorrect part is option b as there shud be ‘a’ before it

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