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प्रश्न
Say ‘WHY’?
The writer found his stay abroad very profitable.
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उत्तर
The writer found his stay abroad very profitable - because it helped him in diminishing the intensity of insular prejudice.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Choose two of the passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions that follow:
Raina :
Come away from the window (She takes him firmly back to the middle of the room. The moment she releases him he turns mechanically towards the window again. She seizes him and turns him back, exclaiming) Please! (He becomes motionless, like a hypnotized rabbit, his fatigue gaining fast on him. She releases him, and addresses him patronizingly). Now listen. You must trust to our hospitality. You do not yet know in whose house you are. I am a Petkoff.
The Man: A pet what?
Raina : [rather indignantly] I mean that I belong to the family of the Petkoffs, the richest and best known in our country.
The Man: Oh yes, of course. I beg your pardon. The Petkoffs, to be sure. How stupid of me!
Raina: You know you never heard of them until this moment. How can you stoop to pretend!
The Man: Forgive me. I'm too tired to think, and the change of subject was too much for me. Don't scold me.
(i) Why did the man keep turning to the window?
(ii) Which examples of the social superiority of the Petkoff's does Raina give the man?
(iii) Which opera does Raina mention? With whom does she compare herself? What does this tell you about her?
(iv) In Raina's opinion, what should the man have done instead of threatening her?
(v) What does the man tell Raina about his father? Why does he do so?
(vi) What does the man do at the end of the scene?
They had to climb ____________the steep pathway to reach the top.
Identify the stanzas that talks of each of the following.
| Individuality | rationalism | hypocrisy |
‘It was worth a wound—it was worth many wounds—to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay behind that cold mask’— how does this comment throw light on the kind of relationship between Holmes and Watson?
______ do you have for breakfast?
Now write a short story to explain these proverb.
Despair gives courage to a Coward
How did Jack manage to pay seven pounds eighty and eighty pence out of six pounds?
Read the given sentence and underline the no word.
Was Gopal nowhere around?
Using the given informal letter as a model, write a letter on any one of the topics given below.
Write a letter to your father asking permission to go on a educational tour.
Using the given informal letter as a model, write a letter on the topic given below.
Write letter to your father asking permission to go on an educational tour.
