Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
What do you call, O ye pedlars?
Chessmen and ivory dice.
What do you make, O ye goldsmiths?
Wristlet and anklet and ring, …… .
(In the Bazaars of Hyderabad: Sarojini Naidu) (i) What all were being sold by the merchants? (ii) What is being ground by the maidens? Which items are the vendors weighing? (iii) Describe the bells that the goldsmiths are crafting for blue pigeons?
What do the goldsmiths make for the dancers and the king? (iv) Which instruments are the musicians playing? What are the magicians doing? (v) Mention the happy as well as the sad occasions for which the flower girls are weaving
flowers. Write one reason why the poem has appealed to you.
SECTION C – PROSE
Collection of Short Stories