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Answer the following in 125-150 words:
What is the bond that unites the two − the old Mr. Lamb and Derry, the small boy? How does the old man inspire the small boy?
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Do you think Dr. Sadao’s final decision was the best possible one in the circumstances? Why/ Why not? Explain with reference to the story, ‘The Enemy’.
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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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Why did Aunt Jennifer decide to create animals so different from her own character ?
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What change did Saheb feel working at the tea shop ?
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Why did Jansie not approve of Sophie’s dream ?
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Why did McLeery bring a smallish semi-inflated rubber ring to Oxford Prison ?
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Why was Dr. Sadao not sent abroad with the troops during the war ?
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Why did Roger Skunk go to visit the owl ?
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The Tiger King wanted to protect himself from a tiger attack. Describe the difficulties created by him for his officials and subjects.
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How did Mr. Lamb transform Derry's life ?
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Both Bama and Zitkala-Sa face difficult situations in their lives.
Describe how they face these situations.
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How did the Champaran episode prove to be a turning point in India's freedom struggle ?
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When and how did the peddler realise that he had fallen into a rattrap ? How could he get out of it ?
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The Last Lesson shows that people suddenly realised how precious their language was to them.
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