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

(I) “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 the speaker? Why did she come there?


(ii) What suggestion was given by the speaker to the narrator?


(II) Could I survive within me


Her symphony and song,


To such a deep delight, twould win me,


That with music loud and long,


I would build that dome in air,


That sunny dome! those caves of ice!


(i) What does the poet wish about the song?


(ii) What can the poet achieve through music and how?


(III) Prakriti "There has been a curse upon me all my life. Poison kills poison, they say-so one curse another. Not another word".


i. Name the other character Prakriti is talking to and Why?


ii. What curse she has faced throughout her life?


(I) (i) The speaker is Frau Frieda who was from Colombia and came to Austria. She came there to tell him about her dream that she had last night.


(ii) The speaker suggested the narrator that he should leave the play right then and not come back to that place i.e. Vienna for the next five years. To this, the narrator got alert as her conviction was so real and he left for Rome that same night.


(II) (i) In the latter half of the poem, the poet starts describing himself. Then he deviated from his thoughts and started narrating about a vision that he had. He saw a woman who was playing an instrument and singing. Then the memory of the song filled him with longing and then he imagined his own song and wished that he could sing and using it to create a vision of Xanadu.


(ii) Singing his own song, he wished that he could build a dome in the air. He further wished the dome to be sunny with caves of ice.


(III) (i) Prakriti is talking to her mom. She has been debating about religion. Prakriti said that a religion that insults is a false religion. She further said that she is not afraid of anything now. To which her mother said that isn’t she afraid of bringing the curse upon herself.


(ii) She had faced a curse throughout her life. She further said that poison kills poison and so one curse another. Thus, she said that now she is not afraid of anything.


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Priest: Will you promise not to steal again?


Man: Certainly I will never steal again.


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Answer the following questions in 80-100 words each.

(i) Tao Ying always tried to save money. What were her reasons for buying two tickets?


(ii) The poem is replete with shadows giving different shades to it. What is the idea behind this?


(iii) The presence of Manjula's sister could be felt everywhere although she never appears. Build Malini’s character on the basis of the comments and references.


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Answer the following questions in 80-100 words each.

(i) Who was Frank? Why did Eveline’s father quarrel with him?


(ii) An account of reflection is more important than description of reality, according to Virginia Woolf. Why?


(iii) How does the novel reflect the wholeness of a human being?