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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What extraordinary experience did Charley have when he went to the Grand station?
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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What did Charley find in his collection of first-day covers?
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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
Why did Charley buy old-style currency?
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Answer the following in about 100‒125 words.
Has Sophie met Danny Casey? What details of her meeting with Danny Casey did she narrate to her brother?
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Describe the precautions taken by the prison officers to prevent Evans from escaping.
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Read the following and answer the question that follows:
The story "Deep Water" has made you realize that with determination and perseverance one can accomplish the impossible. Write a paragraph in about 100 words words on how a positive attitude and courage will aid you to achieve success in life
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A flowery band to bind us to the Earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o’er-darkened ways
Made for our searching:
(i) What are we doing everyday? (1)
(ii) Which evil thing do we possess and suffer from? (1)
(iii) What are the circumstances that contribute towards making humans unhappy and disillusioned with life? (1)
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Answer the following in 125-150 words:
What made the American publisher think that the novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’ won’t sell well in America? What actually happened? What was the secret of its success?
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How did the peddler feel after robbing the crofter? What course did he adopt and how did he react to the new situation? What does his reaction reveal?
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Exploitation is a universal phenomenon. The poor indigo farmers were exploited by the British landlords to which Gandhiji objected. Even after our independence we find exploitation of unorganized labour. What values do we learn from Gandhiji’s campaign to counter the present day problems of exploitation?
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Answer the following in 125-150 words:
What is the bond that unites the two − the old Mr. Lamb and Derry, the small boy? How does the old man inspire the small boy?
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Do you think Dr. Sadao’s final decision was the best possible one in the circumstances? Why/ Why not? Explain with reference to the story, ‘The Enemy’.
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Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words :
At the end of the storytelling session, why does Jack consider himself ‘caught in an ugly middle position’?
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Answer the following question in 120-150 words:
Lammeter sisters have money but not class or education. What do you think about them?
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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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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
(a) Whom does the word ‘those’ refer to?
(b) What does the poet mean by : ‘put on clean clothes’?
(c) Describe the irony in the third line.
(d) When can a person walk about with ‘their’ brothers?
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness; but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
(a) Which two qualities of beauty are mentioned here?
(b) How does it give calm to a troubled mind?
(c) What does the word ‘bower’ mean?
(d) How does beauty lead to ‘a sleep full of sweet dreams’?
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Why did Aunt Jennifer decide to create animals so different from her own character ?
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What change did Saheb feel working at the tea shop ?
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