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प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
.......Once again Clover and Benjamin warned him to take care of his health, but Boxer paid, no attention. His twelfth birthday was approaching. He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on a pension.
Late one evening, in the summer, a sudden rumor ran round the farm that something had happened to Boxer. He had gone out alone to drag a load of stone down to the windmill. And sure enough, the rumor was true….
(i) In what condition did the animals find Boxer?
(ii) Why did the animals feel uneasy when Squealer told them that Boxer would be sent to a hospital at Willingdon for treatment?
How did Squealer reassure them?
(iii) How much longer did Boxer expect to live?
How did he plan to spend his remaining days?
(iv) What was written on the van that took Boxer away? What did Boxer do when he heard the screams of the animals?
(v) What was the new name given to Animal Farm by Napoleon?
What strange transformation did the animals notice on the faces of the pigs?
What is the significance of this transformation?
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उत्तर
(i) Boxer had fallen /he was lying on this side and could not get up/his neck was stretched out/he was unable to raise his head/his eyes were glazed/his sides were matted with sweat/a thin stream of blood had trickled out of his mouth.
(ii) Except for Molly and Snowball, no other animal had left the farm. They did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings.
(iii) Boxer expected to live another three years.
He looked forward to peaceful days/he would live in the corner of the big pasture/he would have the leisure to study and improve his mind/he wanted to learn the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
(iv)
- Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer, and Glue Boiler, Willingdon/Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal,/Kennels Supplied.
- He tried to kick his way out.
(v)
- The Manor Farm.
- The faces of the pigs were just like human faces.
- The pigs resembled the men against whom they had rebelled to set up the Animal Farm/ Power had corrupted them/they were just like humans.
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And he before his cottage door
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