07 August 2020 Class – VII

Day –Friday Subject – English

Magic Lantern

About the Poem

The Gresford mining disaster occurred in September 1934 at Gresford
colliery in Wales, UK. An explosion killed 266 men and boys who were
working in the mines. The cause was never proved but inquiry revealed that
failure in safety procedures and poor mine management were responsible
for the disaster. Gresford is the worst mining disaster in Wales. Only 11
bodies were recovered, the rest were left buried in Colliery’s permanently
sealed districts.
The anonymus poem commemorates the tragedy and narrates the incident
in the voice of one of the dead mines.

Main Idea
Human greed for profits can cause terrible disasters.
Understanding the Poem

A. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. The Gresford disaster refers to what incident?
Ans. The Gresford disaster refers to the terrible mining tragedy that took
place at Gresford Colliery in Northeast Wales.

2. How many men were killed in this disaster?

Ans. As many as 245 people died in the disastrous incident – 24 colliers
including men and boys, and 3 men of the rescue brigade.

3. Explain the lines: ‘The gas in the Dennis deep section / was
packed there like snow in a drift’.
Ans. The lines employ a simile to explain how a large quantity of
methane gas had accumulated in a pit in the Dennis shaft. It was tightly
packed as a mass of snow built up by the movement of the wind.

4. Why did the colliery manager destroy the records?

Ans. The colliery manager had the records destroyed to cover up his
wrong doings and the criminal negligence of the management prompted
by greed for profit.

5. What does the line ‘They died for nine shillings a day’ mean?
Ans. The colliery miners worked for a wage as meagre as nice shillings a
day, which was less than half a pound. They lost their lives working in
dangerous conditions for paltry sum.

6. What do the owners’ actions after the disaster suggest?

 Ans. The owners sent some white lilies as a gesture, almost as if to pay
for the lives of the dead colliers. The act suggests that they were insensitive
to the sufferings of the colliers’ families and showed little sense of regret
and remorse after they died in the tragedy.

B. Read the lines from the poem and answer the questions that
follow.
The Lord Mayor of London’s collecting
To help both our children and wives,
The owners have sent some white lilies
To pay for the poor colliers’ lives.

1. What was the Lord Mayor of London collecting?

Ans. The Mayor was collecting money and probably clothes.

2. For what purpose was the Lord Mayor of London collecting?

Ans. The collection was being made to help the families of the colliers
who lost their lives in the Gresford disaster. It is a comment on the fact
that the owners took no responsibility.

3. To whom does the word ‘owners’ refer to?

Ans. The work ‘owners’ refers to the private management of the colliery,
the company that owned it.

4. What is the significance of the line: ‘To pay for the poor colliers’
lives’?
Ans. There is bitter sarcasm in the lines as the poet mentions how the
greed, selfish and insensitive owners of the colliery did nothing to help
the families of the colliers who died for their negligence except send a
few while lilies. The flowers can hardly be a compensation for the loss
 suffered by the families, especially when no justice could be done as the
fireman’s reports had been destroyed by the manager.

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Class: VII Subject: Science Name:
Paper Name: Chapter-6
Paper Duration: 30 Mins. Roll No:
(Worksheet-2)
Maximum Marks: 20 Total Questions: 20 Marks Obtained:

Instructions
Attempt all questions.

Section - A

Q1. When a substance undergoes a change in its physical properties, the change is called
(Marks : 1)
_______.
(a) natural change (b) mechanical change
(c) chemical change (d) physical change
Q2. Properties such as shape, size, colour and state of a substance are called its ______
(Marks : 1)
properties.
(a) nuclear (b) chemical
(c) physical (d) atomic
Q3. Ploughing a field is an example of_______. (Marks : 1)
(a) chemical change (b) physical change
(c) structural change (d) Irreversible change
Q4. Which of the following examples is not a physical change? (Marks : 1)
(a) Milk turns sour (b) Stretching a rubber band
(c) Dissolving salt in water (d) Glowing of an electric bulb
Q5. A physical change is: (Marks : 1)
(a) Always irreversible (b) Always r
(c) Sometimes irreversible (d) Always continuous
Q6. When electric current is passed through the filament of a bulb, the filament starts
(Marks : 1)
glowing and the glow stops as soon as the current is cut off. What type of change is this?
(a) Electrical (b) Chemical
(c) Physical (d) Electromagnetic
Q7. Which of the following activities leads to a physical change? (Marks : 1)
(a) Burning of candle (b) Rusting of iron
(c) Melting of ice cream (d) Digestion of food
Q8. Water boiling at 100 C is: (Marks : 1)
(a) Nuclear change (b) Chemical change
(c) Physical change (d) Molecular change
Q9. Evaporation is a __________change. (Marks : 1)
(a) chemical (b) physical
(c) nuclear (d) molecular
Q10. The process by which large crystals of pure substances can be formed from their
(Marks : 1)
solutions is known as ___________.
(a) crystallization (b) galvanization
(c) evaporation (d) precipitation
Q11. Rusting of iron is a form of _____________ change. (Marks : 1)
(a) physical (b) reversible
(c) structural (d) chemical
Q12. The new substance formed after burning a magnesium ribbon is ______________. (Marks : 1)
(a) magnesium hydride (b) magnesium peroxide
(c) magnesium oxide (d) magnesium hydroxide
Q13. What happens to lime water if carbon dioxide is passed through it? (Marks : 1)
(a) Hydrochloric acid is formed (b) Calcium hydroxide is formed
(c) Carbonic acid is formed (d) Calcium carbonate is formed
Q14. A chemical change is also called a ___________. (Marks : 1)
(a) chemical reaction (b) reversible reaction
(c) metabolic reaction (d) chain reaction
Q15. Which of the following activities leads to a chemical change? (Marks : 1)
(a) Breaking down of glucose (b) Breaking of glass
(c) Folding a paper (d) Formation of ice from water
Q16. Apart from oxygen, __________ is essential for the process of rusting. (Marks : 1)
(a) calcium (b) heat
(c) water (d) sunlight
Q17. Which of the following objects does not undergo rusting? (Marks : 1)
(a) Copper (b) Stainless steel
(c) Iron (d) Aluminium
Q18. Which of the following processes can prevent rusting of iron? (Marks : 1)
(a) Heating (b) Zink coating
(c) Freezing (d) Salt coating
Q19. A blue copper sulphate solution changes its colour to ______ when an object made of iron
(Marks : 1)
is added to it.
(a) yellow (b) green
(c) red (d) white
Q20. Rusting can be prevented by: (Marks : 1)
(a) Putting iron in sea water (b) Coating iron with paint or grease
(c) Placing iron in high moisture environment (d) Adding oxygen and water to the iron