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Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:

In one’s approach to life, one should be practical and not live in a world of dreams. How is Jansie’s attitude different from that of Sophie?


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Fear is something that we must learn to overcome if we want to succeed in life. How did Douglas get over his fear of water?


Sophie and Jansie were poles apart from each other. Sophie was dreamy as compared to Jansie who was more practical. Sophie was an escapist who escaped from reality into her world of dreams wand won’t come out of it. Sophie wanted to open a boutique which would be the most amazing shop that city had ever seen. Alternatively, she would become an actress and have the boutique as a side business. She also thought of being a fashion designer. Jansie wanted Sophie to be sensible and drop her dreamy plans. Jansie knew that things required money which they did not have. Due to this, Sophie considers Jansie ‘nosey’ and does not want to confide in her.


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Douglas had a fear of water after his misadventure at YMCA. It deprived him of the joy of canoeing, boating, and swimming. Douglas used every way he knew to overcome this fear he had developed since childhood. Even as an adult, it held him firmly in its grip. He was determined to get an instructor and learn swimming to get over this fear of water.


His instructor taught him to swim which led him to swim tirelessly up and down the length of the pool, but he was not sure that all the terror had left. So he went to Lake Wentworth, in New Hampshire, and swam two miles across the lake to Stamp Act Island. Only once did he feel the fear, when he was in the middle of the lake, but he confronted it and swam on. To ascertain that he had overcome it completely, he went up to Meade Glacier and dived into the Warm Lake. This assured him that he had accomplished his desire to overcome his fear of watery.


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

... and clear rills


That for themselves a cooling covert make


‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,


Rich with the sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms;


(a) Identify the poem and the poet.


(b) What is the role of the clear rills?


(c) How has the mid forest brake become rich?


(d) Name the figure of speech in ‘cooling covert.’


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...... On their slag heap, these children


Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel


With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.


(a) Name the poem and the poet.


(b) Explain: ‘slag heap.’


(c) What future awaits these children?


(d) Name the figure of speech used in the third line.


 9

Answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each :

(a) What does the poet’s smile in the poem, ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’ show?


(b) ‘‘Listening to them, I see two distinct worlds....’’ In the context of Mukesh, the bangle maker’s son, which two worlds is Anees Jung referring to?


(c) Though the sharecroppers of Champaran received only one-fourth of the compensation, how can the Champaran struggle still be termed a huge success and victory?


(d) Which article in McLeery’s suitcase played perhaps the most significant role in Evans’ escape and how?


(e) Why does Derry’s mother not want him to go back to visit Mr. Lamb?


(f) What considerations influenced the Tiger King to get married?


 11

Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words:

At the end of the storytelling session, why does Jack consider himself ‘caught in an ugly middle position’?


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It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. How did Zitkala-Sa face oppression as a child and how did she overcome it?


 12

Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words :

How does the perception and attitude of the villagers of Raveloe towards Silas Marner change from the beginning to the end of the novel?


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How do you perceive Dr. Kemp based on his interaction with Griffin? (The Invisible Man) How do you perceive Dr. Kemp based on his interaction with Griffin? (The Invisible Man)