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प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
.......Once again Clover and Benjamin warned him to take care of his health, but Boxer paid, no attention. His twelfth birthday was approaching. He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on a pension.
Late one evening, in the summer, a sudden rumor ran round the farm that something had happened to Boxer. He had gone out alone to drag a load of stone down to the windmill. And sure enough, the rumor was true….
(i) In what condition did the animals find Boxer?
(ii) Why did the animals feel uneasy when Squealer told them that Boxer would be sent to a hospital at Willingdon for treatment?
How did Squealer reassure them?
(iii) How much longer did Boxer expect to live?
How did he plan to spend his remaining days?
(iv) What was written on the van that took Boxer away? What did Boxer do when he heard the screams of the animals?
(v) What was the new name given to Animal Farm by Napoleon?
What strange transformation did the animals notice on the faces of the pigs?
What is the significance of this transformation?
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उत्तर
(i) Boxer had fallen /he was lying on this side and could not get up/his neck was stretched out/he was unable to raise his head/his eyes were glazed/his sides were matted with sweat/a thin stream of blood had trickled out of his mouth.
(ii) Except for Molly and Snowball, no other animal had left the farm. They did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings.
(iii) Boxer expected to live another three years.
He looked forward to peaceful days/he would live in the corner of the big pasture/he would have the leisure to study and improve his mind/he wanted to learn the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
(iv)
- Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer, and Glue Boiler, Willingdon/Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal,/Kennels Supplied.
- He tried to kick his way out.
(v)
- The Manor Farm.
- The faces of the pigs were just like human faces.
- The pigs resembled the men against whom they had rebelled to set up the Animal Farm/ Power had corrupted them/they were just like humans.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What is the single major memory that comes to the poet? Who are the “darling
dreamers” he refers to?
Thinking about the Poem
How many common features can you find in stanza 2? Pick out the words.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The Screams and yells,the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week ot two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start - oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
Read the lines given above and answer the question given below.
What does Dahl ask the parents to do?
“You haven’t brought home that sick brat!” Anger and astonishment were in the tones of Mrs. Joe Thompson; her face was in a flame.
“I think women’s hearts are sometimes very hard,” said Joe. Usually Joe Thompson got out of his wife’s way, or kept rigidly silent and non-combative when she fired up on any subject; it was with some surprise, therefore, that she now encountered a firmly-set countenance and a resolute pair of eyes.
“Women’s hearts are not half so hard as men’s!”
Joe saw, by a quick intuition, that his resolute bearing h«d impressed his wife and he answered quickly, and with real indignation, “Be that as it may, every woman at the funeral turned her eyes steadily from the sick child’s face, and when the cart went off with her dead mother, hurried away, and left her alone in that old hut, with the sun not an hour in the sky.”
“Where were John and Kate?” asked Mrs. Thompson.
“Farmer Jones tossed John into his wagon, and drove off. Katie went home with Mrs. Ellis; but nobody wanted the poor sick one. ‘Send her to the poorhouse,’ was the cry.”
“Why didn’t you let her go, then. What did you bring her here for?”
“She can’t walk to the poorhouse,” said Joe; “somebody’s arms must carry her, and mine are strong enough for that task.”
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What does Mr Thompson feel about the other women who had left Maggie alone and gone away?
Was the customer interested in the care and feeding of the doves he had bought? If not, why not?
Why did it make Mr. Purcell feel “vaguely insulted”?
The wicked farmer wanted to be rich like his neighbour. What happened every time when he tried to do so?
Describe Nishad as a child.
Give a character sketch of Vijay Singh. How did he outwit the ghost?
Read these lines from the poem:
(i) One thing led to another
(ii) The start of it was slight
(iii) The end of it was strong
(iv) The afternoon turned black
(v) Thumped me on the back
Discuss with your partner what these lines mean.
