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Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
Nancy Lammeter is a typical country girl. Comment.
Concept: Reading Skills
Answer any four of the following in 30–40 words each :
(a) Describe the irony in Saheb's name.
(b) Why was Gandhiji opposed to C.F. Andrews helping him in Champaran?
(c) Aunt Jennifer's efforts to get rid of her fear proved to be futile. Comment.
(d) What does Stephen Spender want to be done for the children of the school in a slum?
(e) When he was only ten days old, a prediction was made about the future of the Tiger King. What was ironic about it?
(f) What was his father's chief concern about Dr. Sadao?
Concept: Reading Skills
Answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each :
(a) After initial reluctance why did the lawyers tell Gandhiji that they were ready to follow him into jail?
(b) What is Mukesh's attitude towards the family business of making bangles?
(c) How does the poet show the futility of Aunt Jennifer's efforts?
(d) Stephen Spender in his poem, 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum' paints a dismal picture of poverty. Comment.
(e) Jackson went through the contents of Rev. McLeery's suitcase. Which object therein puzzled him sorely? What was his comment on that?
(f) How did the servants react when they realized that Dr. Sadao was going to save the life of an enemy?
Concept: Reading Skills
Read the passage given below :
(ii) he added a lot of grandeur to Mewar.
(iii) of his valour, sacrifice and patriotism.
(iv) both (ii) and (iii)
(b) Difficulties in the way of Mewar were :
(ii) ancient traditions of the kingdom.
(iii) its small area and small population.
(iv) the poverty of the subjects.
(ii) the flag of Mewar was hoisted high.
(iii) the people of Mewar showed gallantry.
(iv) most of the rulers heaved a sigh of relief.
(d) Mewar was lucky because :
(ii) most of its people were competent.
(iii) most of its rulers were competent.
(iv) only a few of its people were incompetent.
Answer the following questions briefly:
(h) How could art and literature flourish in Mewar?
(i) How did the rulers show that they cared for their subjects?
(j) What does the erection of Vijaya Stambha and Kirti Stambha in the same fort signify?
(k) Find words from the passage which mean the same as each of the following:
(ii) evidence (para 4)
Concept: Reading Skills
| During the morning nobody worried about the car encrusted in the wall, for people assumed it was one of those that had been parked on the pavement. But when the crane lifted it out of its setting, the body of a woman was found secured behind the steering wheel by a seat belt. The blow had been so brutal that not a single one of her bones was left whole. Her face was destroyed, her boots had been ripped apart and her clothes were in shreds. She wore a gold ring shaped like a serpent, with emerald eyes.” |
- Who wore a gold ring?
- How did she make her living?
- What state was ‘She’ discovered in?
- Why did the author mention the snake ring?
- Why did no one bother about the damaged car?
- Which word can be a good synonym for brutal?
- Brash
- ebullient
- cruel
- crass
Concept: I Sell My Dreams
| He was tall, slim, blond, blue eyed. His hair was thinning, had turned somewhat grey, but he managed to disguise these signs of age. He stooped a little, but in company was quick to straighten up. Years ago in Germany he had worn a monocle…” |
- Who does ‘he’ refer to?
- What signs of age were evident to him?
- ‘But in company was quick to straighten up….’ What does this phrase reflect about ‘him’?
- Pick out the word from the extract which means to conceal one’s appearance by using wigs/glasses etc.
- straighten
- disguise
- monocle
- stopped
- What had happened to his uncle?
- Give a brief description of him.
Concept: A Wedding in Brownsville
Lakshmi Holmstrom in “The Novels of R. K. Narayan” Calcutta: Writers Workshop Publication, 1973, comments “Different abilities and values are opposed and matched until Pal becomes a “nightmare to Margayya”. Keeping the above statement in mind, trace the evolution of Margayya and Mr. Pal’s relationship.
Concept: The Financial Expert
“A man whom the goddess of wealth favours need not worry much. He can buy all the knowledge he requires. He can afford to buy all gifts that Goddess Saraswathi holds in her palm” In the light of the above lines, elaborate on the relation of the human and divine realms in R.K. Narayan’s The Financial Expert.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Describe briefly Margayya’s new found career in the publishing house.
Concept: The Financial Expert
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
The old woman said to Arun, “Can you help me to cross the street?”
(Begin: The old woman asked Arun……………….)
Concept: Writing Skills
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
How cruel Shylock was to demand his pound of flesh!
(Begin: It was cruel………………….)
Concept: Writing Skills
You are the editor of your school magazine. You have recently attended a cultural program in your city. Write an account of this program (in approximately 300 words) using the points given below:
| Date and venue — occasion — Chief Guest — other invitees — inauguration — events —other important features — highlights — reaction of audience — conclusion. |
Concept: Writing Skills
State any two objectives of problem identification.
Concept: Problem Identification
How is 'Naturalisation of Humans' different from 'Humanisation of Nature'?
Concept: Nature of Human Geography
Given below are the steps to generate geothermal energy. Arrange the following in correct sequence:
- It is so hot that when it rises to the earth's surface, it turns into steam.
- Groundwater in such areas (where the geothermal gradient is high) absorbs heat from the rocks and becomes hot.
- This steam is used to drive turbines and generate electricity.
- Geothermal energy exists, because the earth grows progressively hotter with increasing depth.
Concept: Water Resources of India
Differentiate between retail trading and wholesale trading.
Concept: Types of Tertiary Activities
निम्नलिखित प्रश्न को ध्यानपूर्वक पढ़कर प्रश्न के लगभग 40 शब्दों में उत्तर दीजिए:
'उषा' कविता में 'भोर के नभ' की तुलना किससे और क्यों की गई है?
Concept: उषा
कवितावली में उद्धृत छंदों के आधार पर स्पष्ट करें कि तुलसीदास को अपने युग की आर्थिक विषमता की अच्छी समझ है।
Concept: कवितावली (उत्तर कांड से)
निम्नलिखित प्रश्न को ध्यानपूर्वक पढ़कर प्रश्न के लगभग 60 शब्दों में उत्तर दीजिए :-
भक्तिन अच्छी है, यह कहना कठिन होगा, क्योंकि उसमें दुर्गुणों का अभाव नहीं। लेखिका ने ऐसा क्यों कहा होगा?
Concept: भक्तिन
निम्नलिखित विषय पर 200 शब्दों में रचनात्मक लेखन लिखिए:
प्रातः काल योग करते लोग
Concept: निबंध लेखन
