(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?

(a) (i) The bees attacked the policeman in the aim of taking revenge of the humans who have attacked them. The author justified it by describing the fact whether the bees are comparatively gentle than other insects but they exhibit a wild passion for revenge. If they are attacked by some human or animals, they take their revenge by attacking someone else, in fact anyone who’s their sight catches first. Whether a mad dog or any innocent people, bees never forgive and attack the very first species they see if they are bothered or being stolen.

(ii) In the story ‘What’s your Dream’ the author Ruskin Bond describes a story of an old man and a boy in which he tells the world about dreams by going philosophical. Freedom brings with it responsibility is surely a moral of this story as in the last the old man says to the boy to not to own anyone’s dream and desire as much as you don’t regret losing. Human wills are unlimited and definitely his freedom of desires is the cause of his grief because the irresponsibility he has when he achieves everything he wants leads to his own loss. Human wants to grow within his freedom of comfort and want more and more after he gets something without thinking of anyone’s needs. Human should have a dream of his own but with its responsibilities and consequences otherwise he also results in the state of beggar as the old man does in the story.

(iii) As Rakesh was a devoted son towards their family in his way so he always wanted his children to grow up with such dedication towards their parents. When his father bribed Rakesh’s son to buy him sweets and not to tell about the incident to Rakesh, he caught his son for doing a secretive job for his father and even lied about it. He was furious to see the way his father made a liar out of his son. Also, Rakesh was a very particular for maintaining cleanliness and in his medical records he had seen many deaths due to unhygienic food consumption so he banned the sweets in his home which were loved by his father. Being a doctor his intensions were noble towards the health of the family as he changed his entire father’s diet on seeing the decline in his health. His father was used to proud of his son for becoming a well nourished doctor and an obedient son but as he restricted his father to eat, sleep, and think according to him , the father had lost all his freedom to live according to his wishes and just wanted a son to take care of him in his old age rather than a doctor’s order to follow.

(b)

Quinquart and Robichon both were the most loved comedians of Paris. Both actors loved the same girl, Suzanne who also loved both of them. Both of them were talented actors and devoted for their performance on the stage. Quinquart was chubby in health whose presence on the stage left the audiences in huge laughter whereas Robichon was skinny whose silence did the same. For the judgment they are given serious roles to perform on the stage and were enacted brilliantly. The sight of wickedness in Robichon was seen when he offered the serious to Quinquart to do as he thought that audience would not going to praise him as his only presence make them laugh so hard. But Quinquart played the role brilliantly and also was selected to get marry with his co-star Suzanne. Robichon was also played his role greatly but wasn’t got succeeded in impressing the audiences as much as Quinquart did.

OR

According to Einstein, an ideal school demands from the teacher that he/she be a kind of artist in the student’s province and such teachers are only found which are grown up in such schools where every student grows up as loving to what he or she learns in the school instead of being forced to learn. An ideal school should provide liberty of teachers who can select the materials of education and imply their own methods of teaching in the easiest way a student can able to understand. Teachers should stress less on the language and technical education and encourages students to create his/her mental and manual skills. Students should not be scared of the teachers in any way in fact every teacher must be respected from students by their teaching gestures and their intellectual qualities of teaching.