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Answer the following in 50- 60 words:

A proud and conceited person may create difficulties for himself. How did Mr. Weston react to the ‘death warrant’ he found in his pocket and had to cut a sorry figure?


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Greed is a curse. It does no one any good. Describe how the tragedy of Herbert’s death could have been averted but for the greed of Mr. White.


Mr. Weston was a self-important and a prominent judge who was used to get threats by so many his enemies. One morning when he was smoking his pipe he noticed a scrap of paper in a crushed state in his pocket. He opened and tried to read it which was found to be a threat message of his death. The message was ‘Remember Ceaser’. He wondered about it and concluded that it was a warning for him as he was going to be killed by one of his enemies same just like the Ceaser. In fact the message said the date of killing him which was the same date when Ceaser was assassinated by the conspirators. He considered himself too important and proud in the country and wanted to be saved so he ordered his assistant Roger to close all the doors and shut all the entries and asked to take every possible precaution to save his life from the enemies.

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Greed is indeed a curse which has done no good in the lives of people. Because of the greed of Mr. White when he uses the monkey’s paw to wish for two hundred pounds to pay off their mortgage, the same moment he and his wife receive the tragic news of their son Herbert death due to an unfortunate accident at his work place. The scenario cannot remain unnoticed that probably their son would have died because of the wish they made from the monkey’s paw. Although, the couple has gone through many hardships in their life and Herbert was the only child who has left with them but because of the greed of Mr. White, they lost their last child also which was a very hard time for them.


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(a) Rearrange the following sentences sequentially to make complete sense:

(i) Pour some water in a pan and set it to boil.


(ii) Cover the pan with a lid and let the tea brew.


(iii) After a few minutes pour the tea into the teapot.


(iv) Making a cup of tea is not a difficult task.


(v) Next add tea leaves to the boiling water.


(vi) Do not forget to add sugar and milk according to taste.


(b) As a student of class 12, you have to complete an economics project. In this regard you have to interview a leading businessman on his struggles and successes. Frame 6 questions you would like to ask him.


You may use the following clues:


(i) Childhood


(ii) Education


(iii) Inspiration/benefactor


(iv) Challenges


(v) Rise to the top


(vi) Service to the community


(c) The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the error and the correction in your answer book against the correct blank number. The first one has been done as an example.



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Choose any two of the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

a) Their dreams that drip with murder; and they’ll be proud


Of glorious war that shatter’d all their pride...


Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;


Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.


(i) Name the poem and the poet.


(ii) Whose dreams is the poet referring to?


(iii) How did the war shatter their pride?


(iv) Explain the phrase ‘grim and glad’.


(v) Why are the men referred to as children in the last line?


(b) Heads bow, trunks bend, hands fumble towards the black


Mother. Processional stooping through the turf


Turns work to ritual. Centuries


Of fear and homage to the famine god


Toughen the muscles behind their humbled knees,


Make a seasonal altar of the sod.


(i) Who are the people described in these lines?


(ii) What does the ‘Black Mother’ refer to?


(iii) Why does the poet describe the ‘work’ as a ‘ritual’?


(iv) What is their fear?


(v) Why does the poet use religious references in these lines?


(c) Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,


While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,


And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;


Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn


Among the river sallows, borne aloft


Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;


(i) What are ‘them’?


(ii) Name the figure of speech used in line 2.


(iii) What are stubble-plains?


(iv) Who are singing in the wailful choir?


(v) What raises and lowers the music of the choir?


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(a) Answer any two of the following in 80-100 words each:

(i) Why did the bee attack the policeman? How did Lynd justify it?


(ii) Freedom brings with it responsibility. How does Ruskin Bond explain this through the story, ‘What’s Your Dream’?


(iii) Though his intentions were noble, Rakesh’s actions went against his father’s wishes. How did his father react to this change? Why?


(b) Answer any one of the following in 120- 150 words:


Compare and contrast the characters of Quinquart and Robichon in ‘The Judgement of Paris’.


OR


Based on Einstein’s views, what kind of teachers should an ideal school have?


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Answer the following question in 150-200 words:

Kemp and Griffin both share a scientific temperament yet they are different. Compare and contrast their characters.


OR


Describe the meeting of Marvel and the Mariner. What did the Mariner later on realize?


OR


William Dane plays a significant role in the life of Silas Marner. Comment with evidence from the text.


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Why does Silas wish to visit Lantern Yard again? What does his visit accomplish?