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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’?


Miss Edla Williamson is the eldest daughter of the owner of the Ramsjo Ironworks. She is not at all pretty, but she seems to be modest and quite shy. She possesses all the good qualities in human nature. Miss Williamson has great persuasive power. Even her father acknowledges it. Edla brings many changes in the paddler. Love and affection can change any type of person. Edla brings out man human goodness in the peddler. Life appeared very sad and monotonous to the paddler, and the world was very mean towards him. But Edla changes his character. He is a different man now. She persuaded the peddler to come to the manor house. She interceded for the peddler when her father threatened to call the sheriff. She insisted on keeping the guest. Her love and understanding left their marks on the peddler’s heart. He raised himself to a gentleman. He left 30 Kroners to their rightful owner. He even left a letter and a Christmas gift for Edla.


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Sophie and Jansie are class-fellows and friends. They belong to lower middle-class families. Jansie understands her limitations well. She knows that they both are unmarked for the biscuit factory. But Sophie is totally opposite of her. She is blind to the harsh realities of life. She dreams of big and beautiful things. She has big dreams. She wants to have a big boutique. She also has a dream of becoming an actress. She loves to be nice, grand and sophisticated. All her dreams are beyond reach. Sophie and Jansie are poles apart in thinking. Sophie is lost in herself and in her dream world. She is an incurable escapist. She adores the young Irish footballer Danny Casey.


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8

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.


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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?


 9

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?


 11

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?


 12

Answer the following in 120-150 words:

Attempt a character sketch of Dunstan Cass. (Silas Marner)


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What opinion do your form of the innkeeper, Mrs Hall? (The Invisible Man)