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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
When do the residents of Alsace realise how precious their language is to them?
Concept: The Last Lesson
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What were Franz's feelings as he set out for school and why?
Concept: The Last Lesson
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
(b) What is their slag heap?
(c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?
Concept: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
Even today so many among us believe in superstitions. An astrologer predicted about 'the Tiger King' that he would be killed by a tiger. He 'killed' one hundred tigers yet was himself 'killed' by a tiger. How did the superstitious belief 'prevail'?
Concept: The Tiger King
Read the given extract and answer the questions.
| And in dark hutments, next to lines of flames of flickering oil lamps, sit boys and girls with their fathers and mothers, welding pieces of coloured glass into circles of bangles. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is why they often end up losing their eyesight before they become adults. |
- Complete the sentence with reference to the extract: (1)
Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside because ______. - Which of the following would NOT be true? (1)
- The hutments were shining and inviting.
- The children's lives were as bleak as their surroundings.
- There were no electricity connections.
- The boys and girls had got used to the dark.
- The bangle workers lose their eyesight before they become adults because ______. (1)
- they already have poor eyesight
- they work in dim light
- they are married in childhood
- they are malnourished
- Which of the following most nearly means 'adjusted' in the context of the extract? (1)
- conditioned
- favoured
- accepted
- reconciled
- 'Flickering oil lamps' suggests ______. (1)
- What is the antonym from the extract of the word 'rarely'? (1)
Concept: Lost Spring
Answer the following in about 120-150 words.
'Lost Spring' and 'Indigo' bring out how the common man is a victim of exploitation. Explain.
Concept: Lost Spring
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What vicious circle are the bangle-makers trapped in?
Concept: Lost Spring
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
In case of a difference of opinion it is generally the adult who has his way. Comment on how Jack justifies the mother Skunk's action?
Concept: Should Wizard Hit Mommy?
How did Evans manage to smear himself with blood? What effect did it have on the officers?
Concept: Evans Tries an O-level
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What were Douglas's initial thoughts when he was pushed into the pool?
Concept: Deep Water
Answer the following in about 120-150 words.
How has human civilization impacted our environment? Comment with reference to the lesson "Journey to the End of the Earth".
Concept: Journey to the End of the Earth
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
After coming to Raveloe, for fifteen years, earning and hoarding money remained a passion for Silas. Comment.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Attempt a character sketch of Squire Cass.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Describe how Silas Marner is betrayed by his friend, William Dane.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
'Evil begets evil.' In the light of this remark, describe the character of Dunstan Cass.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
After robbing the Vicar, Griffin came back to find the Halls in his room. How did he manage to turn them out?
Concept: The Invisible Man by HG Wells
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Griffin is an evil character. Wherever he goes he carries destruction with him. Comment.
Concept: The Invisible Man by HG Wells
Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Why and how did Griffin rob the Vicar's house?
Concept: The Invisible Man by HG Wells
Dr. Sadao faced a dilemma. Should he use his surgical skills to save the life of a wounded person or hand an escaped American P.O.W. over to the Japanese police? How did he resolve this clash of values?
Concept: The Enemy
The iron master accuses the peddler of not being quite honest. What does the peddler say to justify the situation?
Concept: The Rattrap
