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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?

A. Tschubukov is speaking to Lomov in the play The Proposal.


B. The person spoken to is in an evening dress because he wanted to ask the speaker for the hand of his daughter Natalia in marriage.


C. The word 'ball' here, means extravagant social gathering for New Year's celebration.


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Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:

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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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?

 9

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?

 10

Once we decide to achieve something, so many difficulties come in our way. With focused attention we can make that achievement. How did Valli succeed in fulfilling her desire of riding a bus?