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Answer the following question in 120-150 words.
How does "A Tiger for Malgudi" explore the theme of the relationship between humans and animals?
Concept: A Tiger for Malgudi
Why do you think Eveline let go of the opportunity to escape?
Concept: Eveline
What type of relationship does Eveline have with Frank?
Concept: Eveline
Discuss the character of Brinda in the novel ‘The Financial Expert’.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Give an account of Balu the pampered son.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Margayya’s rise and fall in life makes the readers introspect on various notions of ethics and integrity. Elaborate.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Margayya, the hero of ‘The Financial Expert’ is probably Narayan’s greatest single comic creation. Justify.
Concept: The Financial Expert
In what way is Margayya ruined through his own son? Trace the path of their relationship and discuss.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Answer the following question in 30-40 words.
Explain the meaning of the name ‘Margayya’ in the novel ‘The Financial Expert’.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Answer the following question in 30-40 words.
Describe No 14 D Vinayaka Street.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Answer the following question in 40-50 words.
Comment on the father-son relationship in the novel ‘The Financial Expert.’
Concept: The Financial Expert
What were the personality traits that endeared Dr. Margolin to others in his community?
Concept: A Wedding in Brownsville
Why did Dr. Margolin not particularly want his wife to accompany him to the wedding?
Concept: A Wedding in Brownsville
What were the thoughts racing in Dr. Margolin’s mind, when he sat at the back of a taxi?
Concept: A Wedding in Brownsville
Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.
Why did Dr. Margolin not want to attend the wedding at Brownsville?
Concept: A Wedding in Brownsville
| As the first were made to blind Others, these which come behind Will work upon ourselves, and blind our eyes. If our loves faint, and westwardly decline, To me thou, falsely, thine, And I to thee mine actions shall disguise. The morning shadowes wear away, But these grow longer all the day; But oh, love's day is short, if love decay. Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noone, is night. |
- What does the poet mean by ‘the first’?
- How are the first different from others that follow?
- What is meant by love declining westward?
- What does morning shadows represent?
- What is the night symbolic of?
- Which word is an apt synonym for ‘thine’
- Ours
- yours
- hers
- theirs
Concept: A Lecture Upon the Shadow
Read the extract given below and answer the questions which follow:
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Stand still, and I will read to thee These three hours that we have spent, So whilst our infant loves did grow, |
- What is the central message of the poem?
- What is the significance of the shadows in the poem?
- What is the meaning of the phrase "Love's philosophy" in the poem?
- In what ways does the poem reflect Milton's view of love and relationships?
- How does the poem use imagery and figurative language to convey its message?
- Pick out the word from the extract which is an apt synonym of ‘conscientious'.
Concept: A Lecture Upon the Shadow
Read the extract given below and answer the questions which follow:
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To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Then every man, of every clime, |
- What is the central message of the poem?
- What is the significance of the repetition of "Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love" throughout the poem?
- What is the meaning of the phrase "the human form divine" in the poem?
- In what ways does the poem reflect Blake's religious beliefs and philosophy?
- How does the poem address the themes of compassion and unity across cultures and religions?
- Pick out the word from the stanza which is an antonym of ‘earthly’.
Concept: The Human Abstract
| But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! |
- How is the chasm described in these lines?
- What did Kubla Khan hear from afar?
- Which sacred river is being referred to in the lines above?
- What are bursts of water compared to?
- What does the phrase By woman wailing for demon-lover mean?
- An apt antonym for the word ‘savage’ is ______.
- civilized
- vagabond
- severe
- ferocious
Concept: Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream: a Fragment
Answer the following question in 120-150 words.
Comment on the significance of the river Alph in "Kubla Khan"?
Concept: Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream: a Fragment
