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

(a) Was Saheb happy working at the tea stall? State reasons.


(b) Why does the poet want to count to twelve? (Keeping Quiet)


(c) Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?


(d) Where had Dr Sadao first met his wife? What had been his initial reaction?


(e) What impression of Evan’s did the Governor give to the Secretary of the Examination Board?


(f) What will happen when Aunt Jennifer is dead?


(a) Saheb now works in a tea stall down the road. He is paid 800 rupees and three-time meal. But even then he doesn’t seem to be happy. The steel canister he carries now is heavier than the plastic bag he used to carry on his shoulders. Because now ‘he no longer is his own master’. He is a servant now.


(b) The poet wants to count to twelve because there are only twelve-hour signs on the clock to measure hours. Therefore, he asks us to count till the clock measures those hours.


(c) William Douglas tried every way to overcome his fear of water but with very little success. Then, one October, he decided to hire an instructor and learn swimming. He went to a pool and practiced five days a week, an hour each day. He got success in his mission after many efforts. The instructor made him an expert swimmer.


(d) Dr Sadao met his wife Hana in America at a Professor’s house. Hana was a beautiful Japanese. He waited to fall in love with her until he was sure she was Japanese. She was pure in her race. They were married as per the old Japanese way.


(e) The governor gives quite a satisfactory report about Evans to the Secretary of the Board. He told him that Evan had no record of violence. He said that Evan was a very nice boy. Evan was one of the stars at the Christmas concert. He suffered from weaknesses and that he was a congenital kleptomaniac.


(f) When Aunt Jennifer is dead, her tiger which was created by her will not die. They will survive her. They will go on prancing, proud and afraid. Aunt Jennifer will die, but her creation will survive.


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The recent rise in incidents of violent behaviour of students is a matter of concern for all. The problem can be curbed if students learn how to manage anger. Write a speech on the topic in 150-200 words to be delivered in the school morning assembly.

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

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


Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.


All of their time and space are a foggy slum.


So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.


(a) What does ‘slag heap’ refer to?


(b) What do these children wear on their eyes?


(c) What other example shows their poverty?


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


OR


I looked again at her, wan, pale as a late winter’s moon and felt that old familiar ache, my childhood’s fear, but all I said was, ‘See you soon, Amma’ all I did was smile and smile and smile........


(a) What was the poet’s childhood fear?


(b) Why is the mother compared to a late winter’s moon?


(c) What were the poets' parting words?


(d) What does her smile signify?


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Answer the following in 120-150 words:

How did Edla bring about a change in the peddler? (The Rattrap)


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What impression do you form of Sophie and Jansie after reading the story, ‘Going Places’?


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Answer the following in 120-150 words:

How does Jo show her independent thinking in the story, ‘Should Wizard Hit Mommy’?


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How did Tiger King succeed in killing ‘hundred’ tigers?