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Give a synonym for ‘like’ in the context of the poem.

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पाठ 1.2: The Squirrel - Extra Questions

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पाठ 1.2 The Squirrel
Extra Questions | Q 6

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Answer these question in a few words or a couple of sentence.

What things about the book did she find strange?


Answer these question in one or two words or in short phrase.
Name five kinds of flutes.


What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?


The next man looking 'cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And Couldn't bring himself to give 
The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought 
of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.

Why did “the third one” refuse to use his stick of wood?


Why did Abbu Khan’s goats want to run away? What happened to them in the hills?


The following sentence has two blanks. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the word given in brackets.

Asking for_________ is as noble as willingness to________ . (forgive)


Why a newspaper or stick lying in the open does not catch fire on its own?


What did Kari eat and how much?


What is in general, the relationship between a mongoose and a snake?


Give a character sketch of the shepherd. What qualities pleased the king?


“The watch was nothing special and yet had great powers.” In what sense did it have ‘great powers’?


“Trees are to make no shade in winter.” What does this mean? (Contrast this line with the line immediately before it.)


Multiple Choice Question:
‘And its wings fill’. What do the ‘wings’ bring to your mind?


Multiple Choice Question:

Inner beauty of a person is shown in______


Multiple Choice Question:
How are words related to ideas?


Complete the following sentence by providing a reason:

In Act III, Scene II of the play The Tempest, Stephano and Trinculo are angry with Caliban as they struggle out of the filthy pool because ______.


Referring closely to the poem, The Darkling Thrush, examine the poet's encounter with the aged thrush as a passage from amazement to introspection.


Read the following extract from Norah Burke's short story, ‘The Blue Bead' and answer the questions that follow:

On the way back, she met her mother, out of breath, come to look for her, and scolding.

"I did not see till I was home that you were not there. I thought something must have happened to you."

And Sibia, bursting with her story, cried, “Something did!"

  1. What are the tasks that Sibia was required to perform from a very young age?   [3]
  2. What had delayed Sibia and separated her from the other village women on her way home that day?
    What was Sibia doing when she heard the Gujar woman's cry for help?   [3]
  3. What were the dangers that the crocodile had to overcome before it could grow into the ferocious creature that Sibia encountered?   [3]
  4. How does Sibia’s knowledge of the ways of the jungle help her fight the crocodile?   [3]

  5. Compare and contrast the mother’s mood with Sibia's in the given extract. Give one reason to explain why each one of them was feeling this way.   [4]


Caliban:

No noise, and enter
Do that good mischief which may make this island
Thine own forever, and 1, thy Caliban,
For aye thy foot-licker.

In the above lines taken from Act IV Scene i of the play, The Tempest, what does Caliban refer to by the phrase “good mischief“?


Tarapada, the central character in the short story, Atithi, is a free soul who cannot be restrained by the bonds of society. Examine this statement in 200-250 words.


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