Q8 of 18 Page 1

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

I had to go to dirty and shadowy corners of the city to seek out my victims. Some of the larger and more self – confident ones even beat me up.


A. Who is ‘I’?


B. Why was ‘I’ beaten up?


C. What does the word, ‘victim’ mean?

A. Sinclair Lewis

B. Sometimes he was beaten up because the people whom he went to summon upon turned out to be rigid and powerful.


C. a person who has come to feel helpless and passive in the face of misfortune or ill-treatment.


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6

In the following paragraph one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along the word before and the word after against the correct blank number.

Before Missing word After


A large part India’s population is (a) ___ ___ ___


Illiterate. Illiteracy is biggest evil (b) ___ ___ ___


of the Indian society. Removal illiteracy (c) __ ___ ___


is necessary an all-round development of (d) __ ___ ___


the country.

 7

Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences as given in the example.

Example :


curse / a / illiteracy / is / .


Illiteracy is a curse.


A. illiterate / remain / the / and / backward / poor / people /.


B. easily / by / they / cheated / are / others.


C. our / it is / to help / moral duty / to become / literate / everyone /

 8

At about the age of twenty-five, the Prince, heretofore shielded from sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funceral procession and finally a monk begging for alms.

A. Name the Prince.


B. What are the sights of suffering that the Prince saw? (Any 2)


C. Give the meaning of the word, ‘shielded’.

 9

Answer the following questions in 30 – 40 words each:

A. What game did Mij invent?


B. Why does Chubukov suspect Lomov when he comes to his house?


C. Why was Mme Loisel always unhappy?


D. Why was Sulekha nicknamed Bholi?