Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, _ _ _

 (a) How can the trees sprint?
 (b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
 (c) What did she observe?
 (d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
On their slag heap, them children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
 With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
 (a) Who are these children?
 (b) What is their slag heap?
 (c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
 (d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?

Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:                    
How did Rajkumar Shukla establish that he was resolute?

Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
'Life is what it is all about...' How is keeping quiet related to life?

Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:                    
Mention any four things of beauty that add joy to our life.

Everybody during the last lesson is filled with regret. Comment.   

Sophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realize. Comment.