Answers of The Happy Prince Unit -I

THE HAPPY PRINCE

                                                                                                          -Oscar Wilde

Unit-I

Activity-1

Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes:

• All the friends of the Swallow had left for warm Egypt. 3
• The Happy Prince asked the Swallow to take the ruby out of his sword hilt. 6
• The Swallow took shelter beneath the statue of the Happy Prince. 4
• The woman's son was suffering from fever. 5
• The Happy Prince lived in the wonderful palace of Sans-Souci. 1
• The town built the statue of the Happy Prince. 2

Activity-2

Complete the following sentences with information from the text:

       (a) The young mother told her child not to cry because the Happy Prince

               never cried for  new things.

       (b) The Swallow took shelter beneath the statue of the Happy Prince because 

              it appeared  to him to be a good shelter for the night.

       (c) The Swallow mistook tear drops from the eyes of the Happy 
              Prince for rain.

Activity-3

*Why does the Swallow think that the statue of the Happy Prince has a golden heart?

Ans. The Swallow thought that the statue of the Happy Prince has a golden heart because he felt sad and his eyes were full of tears at the sight of the sufferings of the poor people and all the ugly things.

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