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Answer any four of the following in about 30 -40 words each:

How is the bangle industry of Firozabad a curse for the bangle makers?


The bangle makers in Firozabad like Mukesh are stuck in a vicious cycle which they are unable to get out of. Years of tradition has killed any hope for a better future. Mukesh’s grandfather went blind working in the bangle factory and that was to be the destiny of Mukesh as well, and then his children after him. Being born into a family of bangle makers, you have no choice but to join the business. If anyone tried to break out of this cycle, the middle - men, sahukars and police brought them back and it continued the same way. Justice was never served as the poor have lost their claim over it.


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7

On the occasion of Teachers‟ Day the Honourable PM of India had an interactive
session with students from all over the country through satellite link. Your school also
made special arrangements for the students to view the telecast. Write an article in about 150-200 words for your school magazine giving details of the talk and its impact

on you. You are Akshay/ Akshita of Brightland Public School.


OR


On the occasion of Earth Day you participated in various eco-friendly campaigns


initiated by your school. Write an article in about 150-200 words for your school


magazine giving details of these campaigns and the impact on you. You are Akshay/


Akshita of Brightland Public School.


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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

On sour cream walls, donations, Shakespeare’s head,


Cloudless at dawn, civilized dome riding all cities.


Belled, flowery, Tyrolese valley. Open-handed map


Awarding the world its world.


a) What is the condition of the classroom wall?


b) What are the two things that show a civilized race?


c) What is the specialty of the Tyrolese valley?


d) Explain: “Awarding the world its world”


OR


And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
An endless fountain of immortal drink
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink
a) Name the poem and the poet.


b) Who does “the mighty dead‟ refer to?


c) What is the “endless fountain‟ that the poet imagines?


d) Explain the figure of speech used in the third line of the stanza.


 9

Answer any four of the following in about 30 -40 words each:

What did the gift of the rat trap signify?


 9

Answer any four of the following in about 30 -40 words each:

The poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers‟ is replete with symbols. Interpret any 3 symbols


used in the poem.