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प्रश्न
What does the king want to know?
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उत्तर
The King wants to know why the Sage made such a strange appeal.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What is the name of the town?
What is the speciality of the land?
What are the titles of King Chaupat?
If you had been the merchant, what would you have said?
Do you think the Potter is telling the truth? Why?
List the characters that have appeared so far in the play.
Copy the orders (imperative sentences) from the play.
Use your imagination and the details from the play and draw a map of Andher Nagari.
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against him:
Potter
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against him:
Bricklayer
Write what following should have said after listening to the complaint against him:
Merchant
Is the Goldsmith telling the truth? Give reasons for your answer.
What is the Sage's request?
Is the King willing to hang the Sage?
What is your opinion about the king - is he wicked, greedy, stupid or all of these? Which of his actions/words show that?
List the characters that appear for the first time in this part of the play. Write one or two lines about each of them.
The King thought that the Goldsmith had a good reason to delay the Daughter’s work.
The Goldsmith was hanged.
The Sage wanted to die on that day.
The Sage wanted to save his Disciple.
Write any three instances of funny rules and twisted logic used in Andher Nagari.
List the proverbs and sayings used in the play.
Form groups. Translate one page of the play into your mother tongue as a group activity. Gather the pages translated by different groups and prepare a translated script of the entire play.
Divide the play (Part I as well as Part II) into sections. Form groups and assign roles. Practise your lines in groups. Hold play reading sessions in the classroom. Which group/student presents the most effective reading?
Note the features that make an oral presentation effective. Some of them are :
- Meaningful reading - taking proper pauses (breaking the speech into meaningful chunks)
- Using suitable intonation
- Speaking clearly
- Good pronunciation - using English sounds and stress patterns
- Pleasant and confident appearance of the speakers.
Note the way the dialogue in the play is presented. Look up the word ‘colon’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages and note how it is used in the play.
