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

What did the gift of the rat trap signify?


The gift signified the change that had overcome the rat trap seller as he gave a letter along with it, in which he thanked Edla for her help in helping him become a better man. It showed Edla that he was now a changed man.


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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.


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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?


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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.


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

What different images does the poet use to convey the idea of her mother's old age?