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प्रश्न
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason.
Beethoven amputated the legs of his piano because ______.
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उत्तर
Beethoven amputated the legs of his piano because he was deaf and got down on his knees so that he could feel the vibrations through the floor.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer these question in 30–40 words.
Why did Bismillah Khan refuse to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A.?
This story about a frightening incident is narrated in a humorous way. What makes it
humorous? (Think of the contrasts it presents between dreams and reality. Some of them
are listed below.)
1. (i) The kind of person the doctor is (money, possessions)
(ii) The kind of person he wants to be (appearance, ambition)
2.(i) The person he wants to marry
(ii) The person he actually marries
3.(i) His thoughts when he looks into the mirror
(ii) His thoughts when the snake is coiled around his arm
Write short paragraphs on each of these to get your answer.
Why does he break down in tears after the fire?
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civic good____
His blessing on the neighbourhood,
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land____
A nation's growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What is the reference to in the phrase ‘stirs in his heart’?
Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Who is the speaker in the poem?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
Duke: You hear the team’d Bellario, what he writes:
And here, I take it, is the doctor come.
[Enter Portia, dressed like a Doctor of Laws]
Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario”?
Portia: I did, my lord.
Duke: You are welcome : take your place.
Are you acquainted with the difference
That holds this present question in the court?
(i) Where is this scene set? Why was Portia there?
(ii) What reason had Bellario given for his absence? Whom had he sent in this stead?
(iii) Bellario's letter stated that he had taken some measures to prepare the 'young and learned doctor' to deal with the case. What were they?
(iv) What was the 'difference' between Shylock the Jew and Antonio the merchant that the Duke was unable to resolve?
(v) How does Portia succeed in saving Antonio? What does this reveal of her character?
Do the following activity in groups.
Go to the library and collect information about the lifestyle of people in desert areas— their food, clothes, work, social customs, etc. Share this information with the group.
Discuss the following topic in groups.
Freedom is life. Discuss this with reference to ‘Chandni’ and ‘I Want Something in a Cage’.
The following sentence has two blanks. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the word given in brackets.
Hermits are_________men. How they acquire their________ no one can tell. (wise)
Describe the bearded man in your own words.
What were Soapy’s hopes for the winter?
What was the metal door’s function? How did it open?
Who was Ray? What was his handicap?
Describe briefly to the class an improbable dream you have had.
What have certain doctors found about dreams?
What does walking by dragging feet suggest?
Describe the Cat and the Dad situation in the beginning and at the end of the poem.
Why did the narrator run away seeing the garden snake?
Multiple Choice Question:
A house becomes a home with ________
Multiple Choice Question:
Inner beauty of a person is shown in______
What did the speaker do while hiding himself in the banyan tree branches?
Multiple Choice Question:
What does the poem reveal about the speaker?
Complete the following sentences from memory choosing a phrase from those given in brackets.
Uncle told me ______ while he was away.
The child wants to become_______________.
Who was the bearded man?
Add im- or in- to each of the following words and use them in place of the italicised words in the sentences given below.
| patient, proper, possible, sensitive, competent |
That’s not a proper remark to make under the circumstances.
What was the effect on Mr Gessler of the author’s remark about a certain pair of boots?
“You should be able to qualify with your eyes closed.” Who said these words and to whom?
What does Banquo’s soliloquy in Act III Scene i of the play Macbeth, reveal about him?
