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Answer any two of the following questions in 80 – 120 words each:

(a) What is your opinion of Margolin as a doctor?


(b) What are Milton’s arguments against building a monument for Shakespeare?


(c) What, according to Shaw, will happen if we allow a person to have control over us?


(a) Dr. Solomon Margolin is a skilled and principled Jewish doctor in New York. He is through an atheist but he treats the members of his community free of charge and is also involved in various Jewish activities. Dr Margolin has treated rabbis, refugees, and Jewish writers without charge and also, he supplies them medicines and other essential vaccines in case of any emergency and also provides hospital bed if necessary. All these traits show that Dr. Margolin is a kind and conscientious doctor who is very successful in his profession.


(b) According to John Milton, there is no artificial (made by human) monument which can be suitable to give a tribute to Shakespeare’s achievements. He described that Shakespeare himself has created the most durable or enduring monument which is indeed appropriate to his wittiness and generosity i.e. the readers of his plays. People who have been reading and seeking his plays from a very period of time who are filled with wonders and amazement surely become the living monuments for him which can be renowned over a long time.


(c) According to Shaw, if we allow a person to have a control over us we will end up being his slaves and this will end our natural freedom of living. The person will control us according to his own will and make us to do his work by force or by fraud or any other tricks. They will regulate our slavery, feed the greed of us within limitations and among this democratic world we will not live as freer than we were before. Slavery under humans is oppressive, exploitive and demeaning. The controller has the ability to create a sense of false comfort in the minds of slaver which leads to poor man to do his slavery forever and leave himself to suffer alone. So, one must not let any person to get control over his freedom of natural living and should live according to his on wishes.


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3

Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that follows:

Mohan: I am a stranger in this town. Could you suggest a reasonably priced hotel?


Old Man: Ashok Hotel will suit you the most.


Mohan: How can I get there?


Old Man: Take a rickshaw.


Mohan: Thank you.


Mohan met an old man and told him that ____(i) ____ and asked him ____(ii) ____. The old man replied that Ashok Hotel ____(iii) ____. When Mohan asked him ____(iv) ____, he replied that he should take a rickshaw. Mohan ____(v) ____.


4

Choose any two of the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow in 50 – 60 words each:

(a) ‘‘I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night.’’ she said, ‘‘you must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years.’’


(i) Who is speaking and to whom?


(ii) How do you know that the speaker’s advice was followed?


(b) When I grow old, I said, And very rich


I shall rebuild the fallen walls and make new this ancient house.


(i) Who is ‘I’? What promise does ‘I’ make?


(ii) Does the poet fulfil his promise or not? How do you know?


(c) No matter where he goes, you must bring him back. Distance is nothing for you. He showed no pity to me. I shall show none to him.


(i) What does the speaker ask ‘you’ to do?


(ii) What is the speaker’s attitude to ‘he’?


4

Answer any two of the following questions in 120 – 150 words:

a) What traits of her character does Tao Ying’s request to the Chinese officials reveal?


b) Why do people respect science and scientists?


c) What delusion does Captain Hagberd suffer from? How does it affect his life?


5

Note: Attempt either question no. 5 or 6.

(a) Answer the following questions in 80 – 120 words each:


(i) How did the killing of his family change Raja’s life?


(ii) How did the people react when they saw Raja in the market?