The Secret of the Machines Book Back Questions & Answers
Unit 5 > English > Class 10 > Samacheer Kalvi - English Medium
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1. Who does we refer to in first stanza? a. Human beings b. Machines
Correct answer: Machines
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2. Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem?
Correct answer: The speakers are the Machines and the listeners are the human beings
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3. What metals are obtained from ores and mines? Iron ore
Correct answer: Steel, Copper, Nickel, Lead, Tin, Aluminum, Gold and Uranium are some of the metals that we obtain from Ores and Mines.
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4. Mention a few machines which are hammered to design.
Correct answer: The lever, the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the wheel, the axle and the pulley.
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5. Mention the names of a few machines that run on water, coal or oil.
Correct answer: Steam engine, generator, washing machine, and turbine of power plants.
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6. Mention a few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, reading, and writing etc.
Correct answer: Farm tractor, Crane, printer, trucks, cycle, computer, telegraph, etc.
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7. Are machines humble to accept the evolution of human brain? Why?
Correct answer: Yes. machines accept that they are the children of the human brain. they have to work as per the instructions of human brain. so they humbly accept it.
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8. What feelings are evoked in us by the machines in this poem?
Correct answer: Love and care are the emotions that are evoked in us by the machines.
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9. And a thousandth of an inch to give us play: Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line? a. Once Machines are fed with fuel, they take a very long time to start. b. Once Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.
Correct answer: Once machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.
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10. And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day! a. Who does the pronoun you refer to here?
Correct answer: You refers to the people.
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11. And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day! b. Whose task is referred to as our task here?
Correct answer: Our task here refers to the work of the machines.
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12. And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day! c. Open conditional clause is used in the given line. Why is the future tense will set and will serve used both in the if clause and in the main clause?
Correct answer: The future tense is used both in the If clause and in the main clause because when the machines are given a task they will perform no matter what they are instructed. If we choose to give them a task, they will do it. if we don't, they don't do it.
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13. And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day! d. Do the machines serve us twenty four hours a day?
Correct answer: Yes, they serve us twenty-four hours a day as they can never get tired.
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14. And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day! e. Rewrite the given lines with the ending 365 days a year.
Correct answer: And now if you will set us to our task, We will serve you, three hundred and sixty five days a year!