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

A real message from the real Sebastian Shultz. We both knew that by reliving the accident, something wonderful had happened.


(a) Who is the narrator?


(b) What accident is he referring to?


(c) Write the antonym for the word, ‘wonderful’

(a) Michael is the narrator here.


(b) Michael here is making a reference to the motorway accident that caused the loss of memory of Sebastian Shultz. But the narrator is relieved by the fact that even though Sebastian has gone into a coma, his memory is still safe and sound in the computer’s disk.


(c) Antonym for ‘Wonderful’: Awful, Dreadful


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The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the error and its correction as shown in the example.

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Rearrange the following words and phrases into meaningful sentences. The first one

has been done as an example.


e.g., came/months/me/for eight/to teach/he


For eight months he came to teach me.


(a) algebra and/a week/me/geometry/twice/he taught


(b) very poor/subjects/I was/in these/earlier


(c) very/ now / proficient/ have become/ in them/I

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And immediately I regretted it.

I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!


I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.


(a) What does the poet regret?


(b) Why does the poet curse his human education?


(c) What is meant by the word, ‘despised’?

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

(a) What were the blessings the albatross brought with it?


(b) How does Brutus interpret Calpurnia’s dream?


(c) Why does Patol Babu’s wife tell him that he is counting his ‘chickens before they’re hatched’?


(d) What made the writer believe that he was good at writing ghost stories?


(e) Why did the narrator allow the snake to quench his thirst first?