The Shed Poem Important Questions Class 7 Honeycomb English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What does the poet think while lying in the bed?
Answer
The poet thinks to open the door of the shed one day while lying in the bed.
Question 2. What does the poet think when he passes the shed
Answer
The poet thinks that someone is starting at him when he passes the shed.
Question 3. Why does the brother warm him not to enter the shed?
Answer
The poets brother warm him not to enter the shed because the ghosts would chop off his head.
Question 4. Why were the hinges of the door rusty?
Answer
Since the doors were not opened for a long time, its hinges would have become rusty.
Question 5. Why does the door make a creak sound?
Answer:
The door makes a creak sound because it has become rusty.
Question 6. What is there at one side of the shed?
Answer
There is a dusty old window at one side of the shed.
Question 7. What does the poets brother say about the shed?
Answer
The poets brother says that there is a presence of ghosts inside the shed.
Question 8. Where does the ghost hide according to his brother?
Answer
The ghost hides under the rotten floorboards according to his brother.
Question 9. Did the poet believe to his brother? If not why?
Answer
Although the poet was scared but did not believe him because there was on one staring at him anymore nor making weird noises. Also the topsiders too had gone from his web.
Question 10. The speaker was hesitant initially yet grew confident by the end of the poem. Comment.
Answer
The initial lines display the horrified appearance of the shed. The poet affirms his faith in himself and confidently resolves to enter the shed.
Question 11. Why do you think glass window was broken?’
Answer
The broken glass-panes of the dusty window suggested it to be ignored part of the house. There was hardly anybody who went inside the shed.
Question 12. What happened to the window of the shed?
Answer
The window is covered with dust at one side of the shed. The glasses of the window panes are broken. The poet often feels that someone is staring at him through the window. He wishes to peep inside through the window one day whenever he pass that way.
Question 13. What do you mean by a shed?
Answer
A shed is a small room, away from the main house, for storing or keep things animals, tools, vehicles, etc.
Question 14. What was his brother’s story about ghost?
Answer
According to the speaker’s brother the ghost hid himself under the rotten floorboards of the shed.
Question 15. What did the speaker’s brother try to scare the poet?
Answer
The speaker’s brother talked about the presence of a ghost inside the shed with an intention to keep him away from shed. He also warned the speaker that if he ever went inside the shed, the ghost might chop off his head.
Question 16. Describe briefly the shed according to the poet.
Answer
The shed is situated at the bottom of the poets garden. In the shed, a spider’s web is hanging on the door. The poet feels that someone is staring at him. The window glasses were also broken at one side. He wishes to step inside the shed one day.
Question 17. What did his brother threat him?
Answer
The poets brother threated him by lying that inside the shed there stays a ghost who hides under the rotten floor boards. If he dare to enter the shed, the ghost might chop off his head down.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. How was the door of the shed?
Answer
The spider’s web is hanging on the door. The hinges joints of the door are very rusty whenever, the wind blows, this makes a creaking sound. The poet wished to open the door and step inside the shed one day to look around everywhere as he was lying in the bed.
Question 2. How was the shed according to his brother?
Answer
The poets brother said that there was a ghost inside the shed. The ghost himself was hidden under the rotten floorboards. If the poet doors to open the shed some day, the ghost would jump out and chop off his head down. The poet still was very curious to step inside the shed one day.
Question 3. Answer the following questions.
(i) Who is the speaker in the poem?
(ii) Is she/he afraid of curious, or both?
(iii) What is she/he planning to do soon?
(iv) “But not just yet…” suggests doubt, fear, hesitation, laziness or something else. Choose the word which seems right to you. Tell others why you chose it.
Answer
(i) The speaker of the poem is poet Frank Flynn when he was a small boy.
(ii) He was curious not afraid as she/he always peep through that window and ready to take a peek one day.
(iii) He is planning to go inside the shed soon.
(iv) “But not just yet…” Suggests the hesitation of the poet from going inside that shed. Though he was confident that there were no ghosts but still he was hesitated to go inside and thought that soon he will go inside the shed but not now.
Question 4. Why do you think that the spider web hanging on the door was no longer there?
Answer
The first time when the speaker describes the shed, the speaker talks about a spider web hanging across the door of the shed. However, the next time when the speaker describes the shed, the speaker shares that it had been a long time since the spider and the web were not to be seen. Perhaps the door of the shed had been opened by the speaker’s brother, thereby displacing the spider’s web that covered the door.
Context Based Questions
Stanza 1
There’s a shed at the bottom of our garden
With a spider’s web hanging across the door,
The hinges are many and creak in the wind.
When I’m in bed I lie and I listen,
I’ll open that door one day.
Explanation
There is a shed at the bottom of the poet’s garden and the poet wishes to visit it one day. There is a . spider’s web on the door of the shed and its hinges are rusty and creak when the wind blows. The poet often thinks about it while lying in his bed. He decides to open the gate of the shed.
(i) Where was the shed?
(ii) What does the presence of a spider’s web show?
(iii) What do ‘spiders web’ and ‘Rusty and creaky’ imply?
(iv) What is the plan of the poet?
Answer
(i) The shed was at the bottom of garden.
(ii) It shows that the place was not often visited and is ignored part of the house.
(iii) These implies that the place was a hunted place.
(iv) The poet’s plan is to open the door of the shed.
Stanza 2
There’s a dusty old window around at the side
With three cracked panes of glass,
I often think there’s someone staring at me
Each time that I pass,
I’ll peep through that window one day.
Explanation
On one side of the shed, there is a dusty window and three of its window panes are broken. The poet feels as if someone stares at him through the window and whenever the poet visits the shed he would like to find out who lives there.
(i) What is the state of window of the shed?
(ii) What does he feel when he pass across the shed?
(iii) What is planning for ‘one day’?
(iv) Give the meaning of ‘staring’.
Answer
(i) The old window was dusty and has three cracked glass panes.
(ii) It seems to him that someone’s staring at him each time he passes.
(iii) He plans that he will peep through the window of the shed.
(iv) Gape.
Stanza 3
My brother says there’s a ghost in the shed
Who hides under the rotten floorboards,
And if I ever dare to set foot inside
He’ll jump out and chop off my head,
But I’ll take a peek one day.
Explanation
The poet’s brother informs him that a ghost lives inside the shed and if the poet dares to enter the shed, the ghost would chop off his head. Despite these warnings, the poet wishes to visit the shed and peep inside.
(i) Who informed about the presence of the ghost?
(ii) Where does the ghost hide?
(iii) What harm will the ghost cause to the poet?
(iv) What was his brother aiming at?
Answer
(i) The poet’s brother informed him about the presence of the ghost.
(ii) The ghost hides under the rotten floor boards.
(iii) The poet’s head will be chopped off by the ghost if dare to enter the shed.
(iv) His brother tried to scare him away from the shed.
Stanza 4
I know that there isn’t really a ghost, .
My brother tells lies to keep the shed for his den;
There isn’t anyone staring or making strange noises
And the spider has been gone from his web Since I don’t know when,
I’ll go into that shed one day soon,
But not just yet…
Explanation
The poet believes that his brother tells him imaginative stories about the ghost as he wants to keep the shed for himself. The poet no longer feels anyone staring at him or hears any strange noises coming from the shed. The spider, too, is no longer there. Thus, very soon he would go inside the shed.
(i) How does his brother use the shed?
(ii) Explain ‘There is not anyone staring or making strange noises’.
(iii) What does ‘But not just yet’ mean?
(iv) Do you think the poet believed ghost stories of his brother?
Answer
(i) His brother uses the shed as his den.
(ii) The poet is rational in his approach. He knows that no ghost exists in the shed.
(iii) It means that the poet wants to visit the shed but is delaying it. It seems that he wants to gather the strength first before daring anything.
(iv) The poet decided to enter the shed because he thought that the ghost stories were concocted by his brother.