Class 9 English: A Legend of the Northland Worksheet (with Answers)
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- 1. A Legend of the Northland was written by:
- (a) Robert Frost
- (b) W.B. Yeats
- (c) Phoebe Cary
- (d) James Kirkup
- 2. The poem is set in the cold:
- (a) desert
- (b) city
- (c) sea
- (d) Northland
- 3. Who asks the old woman for a cake?
- (a) Saint Peter
- (b) a king
- (c) a child
- (d) a soldier
- 4. The old woman is shown to be:
- (a) generous
- (b) greedy/selfish
- (c) kind
- (d) poor and honest
- 5. Who asks the old woman for food?
- 6. Why does she refuse him?
- 7. Narrate the legend told in 'A Legend of the Northland'.
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- 1. (c) Phoebe Cary — It is by Phoebe Cary.
- 2. (d) Northland — It is set in the Northland.
- 3. (a) Saint Peter — Saint Peter, tired and hungry, asks for a cake.
- 4. (b) greedy/selfish — She is greedy and selfish.
- 5. Saint Peter, who is tired and hungry.
- 6. Because she is too greedy to part with even a small cake.
- 7. The poem retells an old legend set in the cold Northland. One day, Saint Peter, while travelling, grows tired and hungry and stops at the door of an old woman who is baking cakes. He humbly asks her for a single cake to ease his hunger. But the old woman is extremely greedy and cannot bear to give away any of her cakes. Each cake she bakes seems too large to part with, so she keeps making smaller and smaller cakes; yet even the tiniest one seems too much to give to the hungry saint, and she gives him nothing. Angered by her selfishness and lack of charity, Saint Peter punishes her. He declares that she is too greedy to live as a human being enjoying a warm home and plenty of food, and he turns her into a woodpecker — a bird condemned to bore into hard, dry wood to find its food. Thus the legend ends with the greedy woman fittingly punished for her meanness.
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- Which board and class is this for?
- This worksheet is aligned to CBSE Class 9 English, chapter “A Legend of the Northland”.