A House, A Home Poem Important Questions Class 6 Honeysuckle English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. How can you define a house?
Answer
We can say that a house is a non-living structure made up of bricks, stones and woods. It consists of windows, doors, a yard and a roof.
Question 2. Who lives in a home?
Answer
Brothers, sisters, mother and father they all live together at home. Love binds family.
Question 3. Who are the parts of a family?
Answer
The parts of a family are parents, sisters and brothers. They stand together in all ups and downs of life. They care for one another.
Question 4. What binds a family?
Answer
Love binds a family.
Question 5. What is a home?
Answer
A home is where loving members of a family live together.
Question 6. Why is home called “Sweet Home”?
Answer
A home is called “Sweet home” because the souls occupying it love each other. They keep the home in order and tidy. They do all sorts of repair to keep home healthy and livable.
Question 7. What is the difference between a house and a home?
Answer
A house is a structure of brick and stone. A home is made of loving and caring family members.
Question 8. What is house made of?
Answer
A house is made of brick and stone.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What is the message of the poet?
Answer
The message of the poet in the poem ‘A House, A home’ by Lorraine M. Halli is to show the importance of a home over a house. According to her, a house is just an infrastructure which is built up of bricks, stones and wood which has an architectural structure in which there may be windows, tile floors, stucco and lots of doors but it is useless until it is turned into a home. A home according to the poet can be made by a family only which consists of father, mother, sister and brother who care and love one another’ without any selfish interest. They share one another’s happiness and sorrows without any selfish motive.
Question 2. A family plays an important role in a home. How?
Answer
A house becomes a home when there is the presence of a family which consists of father, mother, brothers and sisters and another family members. They do unselfish service and takes care of one other in happy and sad days. If there will be no family then there will not be any home and there will be no more sympathy and care for anyone.
Question 3. How can you differentiate between a house and a home on the basis of the poem you have read?
Answer
The difference between a house and a home is that a house is a structure made up of bricks and stones. There are windows, doors, chimneys and a roof in it. On the other hand, a home is a place of love and affection where family members live together selflessly. They love and care for each other and they share their pleasure and pain together.
Question 4. How does a home differ from a house?
Answer
A home has people in it who are related to each other and are caring and sharing. A house is a lifeless structure made of mud, mortar bricks, steel, and wood. It can be a vacant house or can have people living in it.
Context Based Questions
Stanza 1
What is a house?
It’s brick and stone
and wood that’s hard.
Some window glass
and perhaps a yard.
It’s eaves and chimneys
and tiles floors
and stucco and roof
and lots of doors
Explanation
The opening lines the poet enquires about what a house is. The materials like brick, stone and hard woods are used to build a structure. Window panes are fixed, walls are decorated with stucco, and flooring with tile beautifies it. It has chimneys and a lot of doors perhaps with a yard.
Questions
(i) Who wrote the poem?
(ii) What are the basic elements to build a house?
(iii) What are the accessories required for a house?
(iv) What materials are used to beautify it?
(v) What is Stucco?
Answer
(i) ‘Lorraine M Halli’ wrote the poem.
(ii) The basic elements to build a house are brick, stone, wood and cement.
(iii) A house requires doors, roof, walls, windows and chimneys etc.
(iv) Tiles and stucco are used to beautify a house.
(v) Stucco is fine plaster used for coating wall surfaces or moulding into architectural decoration.
Stanza 2
What is a home?
It’s loving and family
and doing for others.
It’s brothers and sisters
and fathers and mothers.
It’s unselfish acts
and kindly sharing
and showing your loved ones
you’re always caring.
Explanation
The poet tries to analyse what a home is. He says that family loves and do things for each other. All the members of the family take care of each other. Unselfish act, sharing and showing concern for each other makes a family.
Questions
(i) How successful is the poet in differentiating a house from a home?
(ii) What should be done by the family members?
(iii) According to the poet, who are the member of a family?
(iv) The poet used ‘always’ for taking care of each other. Why?
(v) Give synonym of ‘unselfish’.
Answer
(i) Both are structures but home is where a family lives.
(ii) The family members should be kind, loving and caring.
(iii) Brothers, sisters, father and mother make a family.
(iv) ‘Always’ shows that care is an ongoing process and it should go on.
(v) Kind, benevolent.