Poem Chapter 2 The Grumble Family The Grumble Family Textual Questions A. Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions given below. 1. There’s a family nobody likes to meet; They live, it is said, on Complaining Street (a) Where does the family live? (b) Why do you think the street is named as ‘Complaining Street’? Answer: (a) The family lives in Complaining Street. (b) The street is named as Complaining Street because a family which is never satisfied lives there.. 2. They growl at that and they growl at this; whatever comes, there is something amiss; (a) What does the word ‘growl’ mean here? (b) Why do they find everything amiss? Answer: (a) The word ‘growl’ means shouting or snarling at everything. (b) They find everything amiss or quite wrong because they are never satisfied with anything. They shout and complain about everything. 3. Nothing goes right with the folks you meet Down on that gloomy and Complaining Street. (a) What is the opinion about the folk...
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