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Read the extract and answer questions that follow:

‘‘Never shall a young man,


Thrown into despair


By those great honey-coloured


Ramparts at your ear,


Love you for yourself alone


And not your yellow hair.’’


A. Whom are these lines addressed to?


B. What would throw a young man into despair?


C. What does the word, ‘ramparts’ here mean?

A. These lines are addressed to young Anne Gregory, the granddaughter of Lady Augusta Gregory, a poet.


B. The young men fall in love with Anne because of her honey-gold hair which falls over her ear, covering it with strands. Thus, the men love her outward appearance alone and do not love her for whom she is. They feel despair because she rejects their proposals.


C. Ramparts mean walls surrounding a castle to protect it from outside hair. Here, it refers to the golden strands of Anne's hair that cover her ear completely like a wall.


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Error Correction


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A. accept / his pupil / Swami / Sethu as / did not /


B. only 14 / very / years old / he was / young /


C. heart / not / but / did / lose / Sethu /

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‘‘Why, you’re in evening dress! Well, I never! Are you going to a ball or what? Though I must say you look better ....’’

A. Who is speaking and to whom?


B. Why is the person spoken to in an evening dress?


C. What does the word, ‘ball’ mean here?

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Answer the following questions in 30 – 40 words each:

A. What do we learn about the financial condition of the bakers of Goa?


B. In the poem ‘Trees’, where are the trees? What are their roots, twigs, etc. trying to do?


C. Which book did Ebright’s mother get for him? How did it change his life?


D. How did M. Loisel try to make his wife happy?