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प्रश्न
According to the speaker’s brother, where did the ghost hid himself?
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उत्तर
According to the speaker’s brother, the ghost hid himself under the rotten floorboards of the shed.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
On the basis of your understanding of the poem, answer the following questions
by ticking the correct choice.
The setting of the poem is ___________.
Imagine a child has been caught stealing in school. In groups of eight play the
roles of
- The child caught stealing
- The child she/he stole from
- The teacher
- The headmaster
- The witnesses
Try to find the reason why the child stole and the possible advice you can give her/him.
Should the child be punished? Or should she/he be counselled?
CHARACTERS
The Bishop : An ordained or appointed member of clergy.
Persome : The sister of the Bishop.
Marie : Their house hold helper.
Convict : A prisoner who has been proved guilty of a felony.
Sergeant of Gendarmes : Policeman
“If you are rested I would go,” I urged. “Get up and try to walk now.”
“Thank you,” he said and got to his feet, swayed from side to side and then sat down backwards in the dust.
“I was taking care of animals,” he said dully, but no longer to me. “I was only taking care of animals.”
There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a grey overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that the old man would ever have.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Explain the line, ‘There was nothing to do about him.’
Mr. Oliver, an Anglo-Indian teacher, was returning to his school late one night on the outskirts of the hill station of Shimla. The school was conducted on English public school lines and the boys – most of them from well-to-do Indian families – wore blazers, caps and ties. “Life” magazine, in a feature on India, had once called this school the Eton of the East.
Mr. Oliver had been teaching in this school for several years. He’s no longer there. The Shimla Bazaar, with its cinemas and restaurants, was about two miles from the school; and Mr. Oliver, a bachelor, usually strolled into the town in the evening returning after dark, when he would take short cut through a pine forest.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
When did Mr Oliver return from the town?
She again rubbed a match on the wall, and the light shone round her; in the brightness stood her old grandmother, clear and shining, yet mild and loving in her appearance. “Grandmother,” cried the little one, “O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious Christmas-tree.” And she made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.
In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was burnt. “She tried to warm herself,” said some. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year’s day.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Why was there a smile on the girl’s lips? Did the people understand?
The crocodile lay on the bank of the Limpopo river. Golu thought it was
Answer the following question.
What happened one Sunday when the lady was going to her sister’shouse? What did the lady do? What was the bear’s reaction?
The king forgave the bearded man. What did he do to show his forgiveness?
The following sentence has two blanks. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the word given in brackets.
It isn’t__________ that_________ should always be the mother of invention. (necessary)
Find in the poem an antonym (a word opposite in meaning)of the following word.
sober
What was special about the Arabian horse?
How the author and his friend spent the entire day?
Which phrase in the poem expresses Dad’s self-confidence best?
Multiple Choice Question:
Who is the poet of this poem?
Multiple Choice Question:
How can a singer create beauty?
Multiple Choice Question:
What are these doubts and worries called?
Who says this to whom and why?
“But is it right, my son, to keep mum and not say what you consider just and fair?”
What trick did the shopkeeper play to tempt his customers to play the losing game?
What did the squirrel do if someone came too close to his tree?
“When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills."
Which one of the following explains why the short story, The Story of an Hour ends with the phrase "...of joy that kills"?
- To convey a sense of irony.
- To make the readers judge Mrs. Mallard.
- To convey Mrs. Mallard’s sheer sense of shock.
- To explain Brently Mallard’s shock at the incident.
