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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.


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


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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?


Kemp and Griffin both are scientists by profession but have a great contrast in their personalities towards their profession. Kemp is a responsible and sensitive person who always ready to help others. He is a skilled doctor who performs his experiments properly and is careful with any incidents. He even helped Griffin to perform his experiments in his home and after knowing the danger acts of him he also manages to save the city people from him.

On the other hand, Griffin is a very insensitive man who has no mercy and feelings towards mankind. He is a self-centered greedy person who always wishes for his comfort. In the sake of his own experiments, he never cares for people and animals lives and begins to do any dangerous tasks without any thoughts of its consequences. All his traits show how unsympathetic and ruthless he is by nature. When he attains invisibility, he does various bad deeds. He steals shops, fights with a policeman and even kills an old man. He has done every possible brutal act which can be done by a human or more appropriately by a monster being disguised as a human.


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When Marvel was resting on the beach in Port Stowe, the Mariner came beside him and sat down and started reading the newspaper. The Mariner started to read the news about the Invisible man in town who began to do various dangerous acts like robbing a shop and people. He recited that he recently killed a policeman too. Listening to him, Marvel revealed to him that he knew about the Invisible man too and was aware of some of his acts. He exclaimed that the Invisible man was a deceiver who plays tricks on people. On hearing this, he was attacked by some kind of pain by the Invisible man as he was not able to tolerate mean things about him. Marvel then stood up and went off saying nothing further to the Mariner which left the Mariner to feel insulted. He felt that the Marvel was making fun of him by telling fake stories about the Invisible Man.


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William Dane plays a significant role in the life of Silas Marner as William Dane is the reason that Silas has to leave the town with the false accusation of the theft happened in a night in town which is actually done by Dane. In the beginning both of them are showed to be very close friends in Lantern Yard who even nicknamed as “David and Jonathon”. William Dane is a self-confident and greedy person who not even felt guilt about the robbery of the money bag he has done in deacon’s room but also doesn’t feel shame to put the blame of the theft upon his best friend Silas Marner. When all the villagers throw Marner out of the town he never tries to bring him back and even gets married to the girl whom Silas is going to marry. All these traits show how insensitive and self-centered person William he is who always looks up for him and have made Silas’s life miserable.


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Due to the first theft incident in Lantern Yard he became all isolated and began to live in his solitude. He didn’t have any interaction with the people as he lost all his faith in religion and people kindness because he was so hurt when people of that society accused him of the robbery which he had no involvement. Whereas, after the second robbery in which all his gold and valuable possession were being stolen by someone, it was expected that he would aside with people and hide himself in somewhere in despair but actually that didn’t happen. He became dependent on the people as society began to see him as a needy person and helped him with food and verbal consolation. They cheered him up and gave him advice to live his life among people instead of surviving alone.


After this change in himself he wanted to go back and visit his Lantern Yard again to prove his innocence that he hadn’t stolen Deacon’s money. On his return, when he visited his town he was shocked by the fact that the town he used to live in is gone. The industrial revolution has taken place over his simple piece of land in the past thirty years and has been developed well also the past has been forgotten by everyone and Silas was now welcomed there with no accusation.


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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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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.


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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’.


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