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“Please don’t shout! You can shout yourself hoarse in your own house but here I must ask you to restrain yourself!”

A. Who is speaking and to whom?


B. What is the dispute over?


C. What does the word, ‘restrain’ mean?

A. Natalya is speaking to Lomov.

B. The dispute is over the ownership of the Oxen Meadows.


C. The word ‘restrain’ means to hold something back, to stop something.


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7

Rearrange the words / phrases given below to form meaningful sentences.

A. beautiful / Masha / dog / is a / young.


B. praised / she / be / to / likes.


C. policemen / group / works / of / with a / she

 8

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

“But I can get a hair-dye


And set such colour there,


Brown, or black, or carrot,


That young men in despair


May love me for myself alone


And not my yellow hair.”


A. Who is speaking these lines?


B. Why are young men in despair?


C. What is the antonym of the word, ‘despair’?

 9

Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each:

A. What do the elders in Goa still love to remember?


B. What are the three things that can’t happen in a treeless forest?


C. Why was Mathilda always unhappy after her marriage?


D. How did Richard Ebright’s mother help him?

 10

Answer the following question in 80-100 words:

Whenever we want to achieve something difficulties always come in our way. What did Valli have to do to go and ride a bus?