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What made Jesse Owens one of the best remembered athletes of all time? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

What made Jesse Owens one of the best remembered athletes of all time?

पर्याय

  • His remarkable achievement of winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

  • The amazing bond of friendship that he developed with arch-rival Luz Long.

  • His struggle to qualify for the finals of the broad jump at the 1936 Olympic Games.

  • His anger at the rising nationalistic feelings characterized the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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उत्तर

His remarkable achievement of winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

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2021-2022 (March) Set 1

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Discuss in pair and answer question below in a short paragraph (30 − 40 words.

What “horrible idea” occurred to Jerome a little later?


The passing of time will no longer affect her, says the poet. Which lines of the poem say this?


What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?


Now rewrite the pair of sentences given below as one sentence.

What do you do after you finish the book? Perhaps you just throw it away.


The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set-----
Or better still, just don't install
The Idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
we've watched them gaping at the screen
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.

Read the lines given above and answer the question given below. 

How does television keep the children still?


I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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

Explain with reference to context.

Answer the following question.

Why was the bear looking sorry for himself in the evening? Why did the cook get angry with her mistress?


Nishad decides to trust Mr Nath. Do you think we should trust others, why so?


Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Bassanio: 
And, I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority.
To do a great right, do a little wrong,
and curb this cruel devil of his will.

Portia: 
It must not be. There is no power in Venice
Can alter a decree established:
“I will be recorded for a precedent,

  1. Who is on trial?
    Why is this person on trial?     [3]
  2. Explain in your own words Bassanio’s request to portia in the given extract.
    What reason does he give for his request?    [3]
  3. How does Portia respond to Bassanio's request? What TWO reasons does she give for her response?   [3]
  4. Who does Bassanio refer to as ‘this cruel devil’? What is this person's response to Portia’s words in the given extract?   [3]
  5. How is the ‘cruel devil’ punished at the end of the trial?
    How fair, in your opinion, is this punishment? Justify your response.   [4]

Do you agree with the view that Macbeth is fighting a lost battle against forces beyond his control? Justify your point of view in about 200- 250 words by referring to the Acts studied.


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