NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Chapter 6 - The Shed

Question 1:

Who is the speaker in the poem?

Answer:

The poet is the speaker in the poem.

Question 2:

Is s/he afraid or curious or both?

Answer:

The poet is both afraid and curious.

Question 3:

What is s/he planning to do soon?

Answer:

The poet is planning to go into the shed soon.

Question 4:

“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:

“But not just yet...” suggests hesitation and fear because the poet is postponing his going into the shed. He only delays it further as he suspects someone’s presence, sometimes.

Question 5:

Is there a room in your house or a house in your neighbourhood/locality where you would rather not go alone, and never at night? If there is such a place and a story to go with it, let others hear all about it.

Answer:

Yes, there is a house in our locality where I would never go alone. It is said that it is a haunted one. It is visited by ghosts. There is a rain of stones from the ceiling at night. So people are afraid of visiting it.