Lesson 4: The Hero by Rabindranath Tagore | Butterfly Class 4 English Q&A

Lesson 4: The Hero

📘 Butterfly | Class 4 | West Bengal Board

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A. Tick (✔️) the correct answer:

1. Who is the speaker in the poem? – (b) a young boy ✔️
2. What did the boy imagine himself to be? – (c) a hero ✔️

B. Answer the following questions:

1. Who is the speaker in the poem?
   Ans: The speaker is a young boy.
2. Where does the boy want to go?
   Ans: The boy wants to go to the distant and dangerous path.
3. What does the boy imagine?
   Ans: The boy imagines that he is a brave hero saving his mother from dacoits.
4. What do we learn from the poem?
   Ans: We learn that children have powerful imagination and they dream of doing brave things.

C. Fill in the blanks with words from the box:

(hero, dacoits, afraid, distant, brave)

1. The boy wants to be a hero.
2. He is not afraid of danger.
3. He walks along the distant path.
4. He fights with dacoits.
5. He is very brave.

D. Make sentences with the following words:

1. Hero – A hero is a person who does brave things.
2. Brave – Soldiers are brave men who protect our country.
3. Afraid – I was afraid of the dark last night.
4. Mother – My mother helps me with my homework.
5. Imagine – I imagine flying in the sky like a bird.

E. Who said to whom?

1. "Don’t be afraid, mother."
   ➤ The young boy said this to his mother (in his imagination).

F. Write ‘True’ or ‘False’:

1. The boy was afraid to go alone. – False
2. The path was near and safe. – False
3. The boy wanted to save his father. – False
4. The boy fought with dacoits in his imagination. – True
5. The poem shows the courage of a young boy. – True

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