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

It is true that he needed money very badly, but what were twenty rupees when measured against the intense satisfaction of a small job done with perfection and dedication?

(a) Why was Patol Babu badly in need of money?

(b) What was the small job which gave him intense satisfaction?

(c) What does the word ‘measured’ mean in the above context?

Write a short story in 150-200 words on the basis of the hints provided.

It was Saturday. Veena got up late. Her parents had gone to office. Veena remembered that she had planned

On reaching back home the old lady opened the door and realized that her house had been burgled. She immediately called the police

This was the unkindest cut of all;

For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,

Ingratitude, stronger than traitors’ arms,

Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;

(a) Who speaks these words?

(b) Whose ingratitude was he referring to?

(c) Why did it break Caesar’s heart?

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

(a) What were the conflicting thoughts in the poet’s mind on seeing the snake?

(b) Why did Michael arid his father go to the computer fair?

(c) How were the Mariners saved from the land of ice and snow?

(d) What did the traveler see in the desert?

(e) How did Antony prove that Caesar was not ambitious?