Class 10 English: The Ball Poem Worksheet (with Answers)
A free, print-ready worksheet on The Ball Poem for CBSE Class 10 English, with a matching answer key. Use the sample below, or build your own with the exact mix of questions you need — no login, no ads.
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- 1. The Ball Poem was written by:
- (a) John Berryman
- (b) Robert Frost
- (c) W.B. Yeats
- (d) Robin Klein
- 2. The boy loses his ball into the:
- (a) bushes
- (b) water
- (c) drain
- (d) street
- 3. The poet decides NOT to:
- (a) watch the boy
- (b) write the poem
- (c) offer money or a new ball
- (d) leave the scene
- 4. The ball symbolises the boy's:
- (a) homework
- (b) future job
- (c) friends
- (d) cherished things and childhood
- 5. What happens to the boy's ball?
- 6. Why doesn't the poet buy him a new ball?
- 7. What lesson about loss does the boy learn in 'The Ball Poem'?
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- 1. (a) John Berryman — It is by John Berryman.
- 2. (b) water — The ball goes into the water.
- 3. (c) offer money or a new ball — He refrains from offering money or a new ball.
- 4. (d) cherished things and childhood — It stands for his childhood and prized possessions.
- 5. It bounces away and falls into the water, lost.
- 6. Because the boy needs to learn the real lesson of loss.
- 7. In 'The Ball Poem', a young boy loses his ball when it bounces into the water and is gone. Although it is only a ball, the boy is overcome with grief, staring at the place where it vanished. The poet deliberately does not console him by offering money or a new ball, because he understands that the boy is going through an important first experience — learning what it truly means to lose something he loved. Through this small loss, the boy begins to grasp the deeper truth that in life we will lose many things and people, and that lost things cannot always be replaced. He must learn to stand up, accept the loss, and carry on. This understanding of how loss works, which the poet calls the 'epistemology of loss', is a vital and unavoidable lesson of growing up.
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- Does the The Ball Poem worksheet come with answers?
- Yes. Every worksheet has a separate answer key with the correct answers, short explanations and marks, so it is ready for marking.
- Can I choose how many questions and which types?
- Yes. Open the generator for this chapter and set how many MCQs, short, long and HOTS questions you want; totals and marks update live, and you can swap any single question.
- Which board and class is this for?
- This worksheet is aligned to CBSE Class 10 English, chapter “The Ball Poem”.