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Do you think that the third leve was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
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‘It’s easy to judge others and give advice, but much more difficult to apply it to ourselves.’ Elaborate with reference to the character of Sam in The Third Level.
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On returning home, Tishani Doshi writes her thoughts reflecting on how her decision to enrol for the Students on Ice programme has been the single most important decision of her life that has completely transformed her.
Imagine yourself to be Tishani and express these thoughts.
You may begin like this:
I can’t thank my stars enough for having cashed in on the opportunity of........
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Answer the following question in about 120-150 words.
In the story, ‘The Third Level’ by Jack Finney, Charley is obsessed with finding the third level. In an attempt to thrash out whether this obsession is a good quality or a harmful one, Charley’s wife expresses her thoughts in a diary entry.
As Louisa, Charley’s wife, write this diary entry. Support your response with reference to the story.
You may begin this way:
I have been married to Charley for a few years now and I have always known him to be an intelligent man with an imaginative mind. However, his recent obsession with finding the Third Level has …
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Read the given extract and answer the questions.
| The clerk figured the fare – he glanced at my fancy hat band, but he figured the fare – and I had enough for two coach tickets, one way. But when I counted out the money and looked up, the clerk was staring at me. He nodded at the bills. ‘‘That ain’t money, mister,’’ he said, ‘‘and if you’re trying to skin me, you won’t get very far,’’ and he glanced at the cash drawer beside him. Of course the money was old-style bills, half again as big as the money we use nowadays, and different-looking. |
- Why did Charley ask for two tickets? (1)
- Complete the sentence by choosing the correct option: (1)
When Charley offered money to the booking clerk, the latter stared at Charley because the booking clerk ______.
- thought it wasn't money
- did not trust Charley
- thought Charley was trying to tease him
- thought that Charley had given him less money
- Select the option that best describes Charley in this extract. (1)
He is ______.- a cheat
- gullible
- an opportunist
- an escapist
- 'If you're trying to skin me' suggests ______. (1)
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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What extraordinary experience did Charley have when he went to the Grand station?
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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What did Charley find in his collection of first-day covers?
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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
Why did Charley buy old-style currency?
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Send a formal letter of invitation · in 50 words to Dr. Mehra, noted novelist and educationist, to speak on, The Importance of Books'. You are Lena/Sanjay, Secretary Literary Club, S. S. Public School. Meritionday, date, time and venue.
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Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words :
At the end of the storytelling session, why does Jack consider himself ‘caught in an ugly middle position’?
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Answer the following question in 120-150 words:
Lammeter sisters have money but not class or education. What do you think about them?
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, ......
(a) How can the trees sprint?
(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(c) What did she observe?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
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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?
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
(a) Whom does the word ‘those’ refer to?
(b) What does the poet mean by : ‘put on clean clothes’?
(c) Describe the irony in the third line.
(d) When can a person walk about with ‘their’ brothers?
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness; but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
(a) Which two qualities of beauty are mentioned here?
(b) How does it give calm to a troubled mind?
(c) What does the word ‘bower’ mean?
(d) How does beauty lead to ‘a sleep full of sweet dreams’?
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How did the Champaran episode prove to be a turning point in India's freedom struggle ?
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Use Your Imagination to Suggest Another Ending to the Above Story.
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The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
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It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
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Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
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