‘The boy who never told a lie’ Poem: Summary & Notes

The boy who never told a lie: Notes, question and answers

Complete Poem

Once there was a little boy, With curly hair and pleasant eye— A boy who always told the truth, And never, never told a lie.

And when he trotted off to school, The children all about would cry, “There goes the curly-headed boy— The boy that never tells a lie.”

And everybody loved him so, Because he always told the truth, That every day, as he grew up, ‘Twas said, “There goes the honest youth.”

And when the people that stood near Would turn to ask the reason why, The answer would be always this: “Because he never tells a lie.”

Question and Answers

Question. References to context.

‘And when he trotted off to school, The children all about would cry’ a) ‘He’ in the above lines is i) a dishonest boy ii) a lonely boy iii) a truthful boy
Ans: a truthful boy.

‘All the children would say?’ i) that the boy never tells a lie ii) that the boys always lie iii) that the boy always cries
Ans: That the boy never tells a lie.

And when the people that stood near Would turn to ask the reason why, The answer would be always this:

a) The people would want to know i) why the youth lied. ii) why the youth was called honest. iii) why the youth walked by.
Ans: why the youth was called honest.

b) The answer would always be i) that he never tells a lie. ii) that he was always dishonest. iii) that he never went home.
Ans: i) that he never tells a lie

Q. What good quality did the boy have?
Ans: The boy had the good quality of always telling the truth.

Q. How did people talk about him?
Ans: People talked about him that he always told the truth.

Q. How did people treat him when he grew up?
Ans: When he grew up, people always spoke good about him and would say that there goes the honest youth.

Q. What do you think are the qualities that everyone respects?
Ans: The qualities that everyone respects are truthfulness, honesty, sincerity etc.

Question. Read the poem ‘The boy who never told a lie’ and answer the questions that follow:

Question. Say whether the statements are true or false:

• The boy had curly hair and bloodshot eyes.
• The Children School new the boy never told a lie.

Question. Give Antonyms from the poem for the words: Truth, Laugh

Question. Answer the following:

• Why did everyone love the boy?
• What did the children say when his boy went to school?