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Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each:

A. How did Valli react when she saw the dead cow by the roadside?


B. What legends are associated with the origin of tea?


C. What does Noodle tell Think-Tank about the books?


D. Why did Matilda not want to see her rich friends?

A. Valli became very sad after seeing the dead cow. The beautiful creature that had been full of life on her way to the town now looked horrifying. It was covered with blood and its eyes were lifeless.


B. There is a Chinese legend where the Emperor boiled water before drinking. Once, some tea leaves fell into this water and gave an amazing flavor. An Indian legend says that Bodhidharma cut off his eyelids to prevent sleep during meditation. Ten tea plants grew out of those eyelids that remove sleep when added with hot water.


C. Noodle told Think-Tank that he had seen films about the books that the Earthlings used them for communication and not eating. Then Noodle added that they opened and watched the books.


D. Matilda didn’t want to see her rich friends because she got jealous of all the luxuries, dresses and jewels that they had. She felt miserable and hopeless because she couldn’t have any of it.


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

These meadows aren’t worth much to me. They only come to five dessiatins, and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can’t stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can’t stand unfairness.


A. Who speaks the above lines and to whom?


B. How much are the meadows worth?


C. Find a word in the extract that means ‘not based on what is just.’

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I even considered fleeing to my hometown, where I could have been a real lawyer right away, without going through this unpleasant training period.

A. Who is ‘I’?


B. How did ‘I’ suffer during the training period?


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

 10

Answer the following question in 80-100 words:

“The life of mortals in this world is troubled and brief and combined with pain.....” With this statement of the Buddha, find out the moral value that Kisa Gotami learnt after the death of her child.

 10

“Don’t you worry, Pitaji! In your old age I will serve you and mother”. Through this statement the narrator wants to highlight the moral values Bholi was imbued with. Based on the reading of the lesson, what made Bholi aware of her rights and how did she use them?