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A Roadside Stand
A Roadside Stand
Q 1 : Where was the new shed put up? What was its purpose?
Ans : It was put up in front of an old house at the edge of the road.
Its purpose was to earn a little money by selling some little things.
Ans : Robert Frost uses this word to underline the poverty and misery of the people living in the
countryside.
Ans : The rich people of the city life have been referred to as ‘the flower of cities’.
Q 5 : Which open window is referred to? Why does sadness lurk there?
The poor farmer keeps sitting all day at his open window but none of the thousands cars
passing that way stops at his stand. It leaves the poor man sad.
Ans : He prays for the sound of a stopping car to buy something from his stand.
Ans : The poor farmers and other deprived classes have been referred to as ‘pitiful kin'.
Ans : ‘Polished traffic’ implies sophisticated and elegant vehicles indicating wealth of the owners.
OR
Ans : It offered wild berries , golden squash and beautiful picture of a mountain scene for sale.
Ans : They expected a better life that the party in power has promised.
Ans : The selfish rich people who pretend to be worried about the poor have been called ‘greedy
good-doers'.
Ans : They make a show of helping the poor but, in fact, exploit them for their own benefits.
Ans : Benefits are enforced on the poor so that the real advantage of these benefits reaches the rich
themselves in the end.
Ans : The wealthy and powerful city people are ‘greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of pray'.
Because they draw benefits and cheat the poor people out of the reward that is rightfully theirs.
Ans : Because none of them cares to think of the poor farmer's longing.
Ans : The poor farmer keeps waiting all day for some car to stop at his stand. But hardly any car
stops there. With a longing heart, he keeps sitting by the open window and waiting all day.
Ans : Because his longing proves vain when no one comes to buy the things.
OR
Ans : (i) First one to inquire about the prices. (ii) Second, to reverse and turn. (iii) Third, to ask the
way. (iv) Fourth, to ask for gas.
Q 23 : What was the plea of the folk who had put up the Roadside stand?
Ans : Those who had put up the roadside stands were poor farmers. They hoped to earn some
money from the rich city people who kept going up and down in their cars all day, in return for the
things they had to sell.
Ans : The complaint was that the beauty of the landscape had been marred by the artless paint.
Q 26 : What does Robert Frost say about the ‘greedy good-doers’ and ‘beneficent beasts of pray'?
Ans : Robert Frost calls the foxy rich politicians ‘greedy good-doers’ and ‘beneficent beasts of pray'.
These people fool the poor with their false promises. They take away all the peace and sleep of the
poor while they themselves sleep during the day even.
Ans : Robert Frost sees how the poor man keeps waiting for some car to stop at his stand to buy
anything, but none stops. The poor man is left waiting in sorrow. His plight fills Robert Frost with
sympathy for the helpless rural poor.