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Read the Extract Given Below and Answer the Question that Follow. Where Was the Religion of the White People Written? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. You wander far from the graves of your ancestors and seemingly without regret. Your religion was written upon tablets of stone by the iron finger of your God so that you could not forget. The Red Man could never comprehend or remember it. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors — the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander away beyond the stars. They are soon forgotten and never return. Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun. However, your proposition seems fair and I think that my people will accept it and will retire to the reservation you offer them. Then we will dwell apart in peace, for the words of the Great White Chief seem to be the words of nature speaking to my people out of dense darkness.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

Where was the religion of the White people written?

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उत्तर

The religion of the white people was written on stone slabs so that they would never forget but they could never understand its significance.

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अध्याय 2.01: Chief Seattle’s Speech - Passage 2

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अध्याय 2.01 Chief Seattle’s Speech
Passage 2 | Q 3

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Discuss in pair and answer question below in a short paragraph (30 − 40 words.

Why did Jerome have to reopen the packed bag?


Thinking about Poem

What does he mean by “the strength of the tree exposed”?


What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civic good____
His blessing on the neighbourhood,
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land____
A nation's growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:

What motivates the man to plant a tree according to the poet?


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Why does the writer mention the blue bead at the same time that the crocodile is introduced?

Ans. The author mentions the blue bead at the same time that the crocodile is introduced to create suspense and a foreshadowing of the events’to happen.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

Describe Sibia’s home.


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Multiple Choice Question:
Which one of the following mistakes the child does not make?


Talk to your partner and say whether the following statement is true or false.

No animal can survive without water.


In groups of four, discuss the following lines and their meanings.

And everyone’s longing today to hear
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