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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
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Perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with
death.
(a) How can we bring about a 'huge silence'?
(b) Why is silence called 'huge'?
(c) What do we do for lack of understanding?
(d) What does this lack ultimately lead to?
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions the follow :
I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realized with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away,.......
(a) What worried the poet when she looked at her mother ?
(b) Why was there pain in her realization ?
(c) Why did she put that thought away ?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
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Answer the following in 120-150 words:
Giving a bribe is an evil practice. How did the Tiger King bribe the British officer to save his kingdom ? How do you view this act of his ?
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Answer the following in 120-150 words:
Dr. Sadao was a patriotic Japanese as well as a dedicated surgeon. How could he honour both the values ?
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Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
Describe the circumstances which keep the workers in the bangle industry in poverty.
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Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
Edla proved to be much more persuasive than her father while dealing with peddler. Comment.
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Answer the following in 120-150 words :
Describe the ironical situation in which Silas Marner had to leave Lantern Yard.
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Answer the following in 120-150 words:
Describe Dolly Winthrop as the most lovable character in George Eliot's 'Silas Marner'.
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Attempt a character sketch of Marvel.
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, ......
(a) How can the trees sprint?
(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(c) What did she observe?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
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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?
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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'?
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Dr. Sadao faced a dilemma. Should he use his surgical skills to save the life of a wounded person or hand an escaped American P.O.W. over to the Japanese police? How did he resolve this clash of values?
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Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Everybody during the last lesson is filled with regret. Comment. (The Last Lesson)
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Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Sophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realise. Comment.
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Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Describe how Silas Marner is betrayed by his friend, William Dane.
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Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
Why and how did Griffin rob the Vicar's house?
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Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
'Evil begets evil.' In the light of this remark, describe the character of Dunstan Cass.
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Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
How different from usual was the atmosphere at school on the day of the last lesson? (The Last Lesson)
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Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words :
How different is Jansie from Sophie?
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