Q102
The village becoming a graveyard is a metaphor that :
- (1) people are migrating to other cities.
- (2) more graveyards are being planned.
- (3) people are living in graveyards.
- (4) people are dying in large numbers.
CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 102
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : (100-105)
Put away the road maps now.
To go there,
you do not need
helicopters any more;
wherever there is hunger,
there Kalahandi is.
The god of rain
turned away his face.
There was not one green leaf
left on the trees for supper.
The whole village a graveyard.
Cracked ground,
drab river sand.
All the plans failed;
the poverty line
receded further.
Solution.
CBSE answer: (4)
Answer: (4) people are dying in large numbers.
- A graveyard is a place for the dead.
- Calling the whole village a graveyard shows that hunger and drought have killed many people there.
- It is a metaphor, so people are not literally living in graveyards and no new graveyards are planned.
- Migration is not mentioned in the extract.