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Answer the following question by ticking the correct option:
"Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal sigri to wait."
The Post Master was waiting for____________________________.
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Answer the following question by ticking the correct option:
The Post Office is referred to as Ali's "place of pilgrimage" as he__________.
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Answer the following question briefly.
Who was Ali? Where did he go daily?
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"Ali displays qualities of love and patience". Give evidence from the story to
support the statement.
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Answer the following question briefly.
How do you know Ali was a familiar figure at the post office?
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Why did Ali give up hunting?
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What impression do you form of the postmaster after reading the story 'The
Letter'?
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The postmaster says to Ali, "What a pest you are, brother!" Do you agree with the
statement? Give reasons for your answer.
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Answer the following question briefly.
"Ali came out very slowly, turning after every few steps to gaze at the post office. His eyes were filled with tears of helplessness, for his patience was exhausted, even though he still had faith." Why were Ali's eyes filled with tears of helplessness? What had exhausted his patience but not his faith?
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Answer the following question briefly.
"Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal sigri to
wait." Who is tortured by doubt and remorse? Why? What is he waiting for?
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The writer carefully builds up an atmosphere of loneliness and grief in the story. Working in groups, pick out words/ phrases from the story that build up the atmosphere. Copy the following table in your notebook and complete it.
| Loneliness | Grief |
| • An old man was walking through the town, now and again drawing his tattered clothes tighter to shield his body from the cold and biting wind • his lonely way |
• the whole town was wrapped in deathly silence |
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Complete the table by explaining the following phrases/ sentences in your own
words:
| Phrases | Meanings |
| happy memories light up a life that is nearing its close |
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| the sounds helped him along his lonely way | |
| the cold used sleep to extend its sway over all things even as a false friend lulls his chosen victim with caressing smiles |
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| when the evening of his life was drawing in, he left his old ways and suddenly took a new turn |
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| the whole universe is built up through love and that the grief of separation is inescapable |
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| the post-master, a man with a face as sad and as inexpressive as a pumpkin, would be seen sitting on his chair inside |
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| And so the clerk, like a worshipper of Lord Vishnu, repeated his customary thousand names |
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| The haughty temper of the official had quite left him in his sorrow and anxiety, and had laid bare his human heart |
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Now you are going to listen to your teacher read out from page no. 191, an article
about the Joint Family system in India.
As you listen to the passage, complete the boxes given below.
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Copy and complete the following table, using information from the boxes below. (Draw a X if there is no information to put in certain boxes.)
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Tortured by doubt and remorse, the postmaster sits in the glow of a charcoal sigri that night, waiting for news of his daughter. As he sits, he writes his diary. As the postmaster, write a diary entry in about 150 words outlining your feelings about the day's events.
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The postmaster believes that he had seen Ali. What do you think? Discuss with your partner and present your views in front of the class.
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
Some people are so ________ to their work that they have no time for their family. (para-2)
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The postmaster was anxiously waiting for his ailing daughter's news. On not getting any news, he visits his daughter's town. Now create a dialogue between the postmaster and his daughter and enact it.
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
Harshad’s corrupt practices soon gained him ________ in the city. (para-2)
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Find word in the passage from the paragraph indicated within bracket and complete the following sentence. Use only one word, in its appropriate form, in each blank.
When a person is dehydrated, he should be given ________ amounts of fluid. (para-6)
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