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Suppose, the price of one UK Pound (£) has increased from ₹ 70 to ₹ 80, owing to market forces.
This means that value of Indian Currency (₹) has ______.
Concept: Determination of the Exchange Rate
Suppose, Country X, has more inflation than Country Y. Which of the following is most likely situation to happen in such a case, assuming other factors being constant?
Concept: Concept of Balance of Payments >> Balance of Payments Surplus and Deficit
The entire classroom, M. Hamel as well as those present in the class, is full of regret. For what and why?
Concept: The Last Lesson
Read the given extract and answer the questions.
| The clerk figured the fare – he glanced at my fancy hat band, but he figured the fare – and I had enough for two coach tickets, one way. But when I counted out the money and looked up, the clerk was staring at me. He nodded at the bills. ‘‘That ain’t money, mister,’’ he said, ‘‘and if you’re trying to skin me, you won’t get very far,’’ and he glanced at the cash drawer beside him. Of course the money was old-style bills, half again as big as the money we use nowadays, and different-looking. |
- Why did Charley ask for two tickets? (1)
- Complete the sentence by choosing the correct option: (1)
When Charley offered money to the booking clerk, the latter stared at Charley because the booking clerk ______.
- thought it wasn't money
- did not trust Charley
- thought Charley was trying to tease him
- thought that Charley had given him less money
- Select the option that best describes Charley in this extract. (1)
He is ______.- a cheat
- gullible
- an opportunist
- an escapist
- 'If you're trying to skin me' suggests ______. (1)
Concept: The Third Level
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
When do the residents of Alsace realise how precious their language is to them?
Concept: The Last Lesson
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What were Franz's feelings as he set out for school and why?
Concept: The Last Lesson
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
(b) What is their slag heap?
(c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?
Concept: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
Even today so many among us believe in superstitions. An astrologer predicted about 'the Tiger King' that he would be killed by a tiger. He 'killed' one hundred tigers yet was himself 'killed' by a tiger. How did the superstitious belief 'prevail'?
Concept: The Tiger King
Read the given extract and answer the questions.
| And in dark hutments, next to lines of flames of flickering oil lamps, sit boys and girls with their fathers and mothers, welding pieces of coloured glass into circles of bangles. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is why they often end up losing their eyesight before they become adults. |
- Complete the sentence with reference to the extract: (1)
Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside because ______. - Which of the following would NOT be true? (1)
- The hutments were shining and inviting.
- The children's lives were as bleak as their surroundings.
- There were no electricity connections.
- The boys and girls had got used to the dark.
- The bangle workers lose their eyesight before they become adults because ______. (1)
- they already have poor eyesight
- they work in dim light
- they are married in childhood
- they are malnourished
- Which of the following most nearly means 'adjusted' in the context of the extract? (1)
- conditioned
- favoured
- accepted
- reconciled
- 'Flickering oil lamps' suggests ______. (1)
- What is the antonym from the extract of the word 'rarely'? (1)
Concept: Lost Spring
Answer the following in about 120-150 words.
'Lost Spring' and 'Indigo' bring out how the common man is a victim of exploitation. Explain.
Concept: Lost Spring
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What vicious circle are the bangle-makers trapped in?
Concept: Lost Spring
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
In case of a difference of opinion it is generally the adult who has his way. Comment on how Jack justifies the mother Skunk's action?
Concept: Should Wizard Hit Mommy?
How did Evans manage to smear himself with blood? What effect did it have on the officers?
Concept: Evans Tries an O-level
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What were Douglas's initial thoughts when he was pushed into the pool?
Concept: Deep Water
Answer the following in about 120-150 words.
How has human civilization impacted our environment? Comment with reference to the lesson "Journey to the End of the Earth".
Concept: Journey to the End of the Earth
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
After coming to Raveloe, for fifteen years, earning and hoarding money remained a passion for Silas. Comment.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
Attempt a character sketch of Squire Cass.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Describe how Silas Marner is betrayed by his friend, William Dane.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
'Evil begets evil.' In the light of this remark, describe the character of Dunstan Cass.
Concept: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:
After robbing the Vicar, Griffin came back to find the Halls in his room. How did he manage to turn them out?
Concept: The Invisible Man by HG Wells
