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Answer the following question in about 100-120 words:--

What is Anne's advice when one is reeling under melancholy?


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The people inside the annexe were always terrified. Describe their condition when they feared being discovered.

Anne’s was a very different girl. She was sensible enough and was quite intelligent in all the terms. She was good at making decisions as she was mature enough to take it on her own. She was a girl who was once a victim of tension, stress, and troubles of life. She deeply observes others and feels their troubles. She advises her near and dear ones to go outside, visit places, meet peoples and think about their conditions and sufferings. She is asking all human beings to go outside and feel the beauty of nature. She wants everyone to enjoy the natural beauty and think about the same deeply. She wants everyone to go outside the country and recapture the happiness.

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The people inside the annexe were always terrified. They feared being discovered. This is because they were afraid of the consequences of getting discovered. In the concentration camp, peoples were tortured and the people inside the annexe got the news of the same. On hearing all this they became very nervous. They had to be hidden and some of them even fall ill thinking about all this. They were shattered were fear and their teeth’s chattered. They were so frightened that they slept in the corner. This became very unfortunate for the people of annexe and they were more concerned about their safety.


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8

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

The leaves strain towards the glass


Small twigs stiff with exertion


Long cramped boughs shuffling under the roof


Like newly discharged patients


Half dazed, moving


To the clinic doors


Questions:


a. Why are leaves and boughs tired?


b. Why the poet does compare the boughs with the patients?


c. Identify the figures of speech used in these lines.


OR


An elderly woman came and sat beside her


.”Are you all alone dear?” she asked Valli as the bus started again.


Valli found the woman absolutely repulsive-such big holes in her ear lobes, and such ugly earrings in them! And she could smell the betel nut the woman was chewing and see the betel juice that was threatening to spill over her lips at any moment


Ugh!-who could be sociable with such a person?


“Yes I am travelling alone, “she answered curtly, “and I’ve got a ticket too.”


“Yes, she’s on her way to town.” said the conductor. “With a thirty paise ticket”


“Oh, why don't you mind your own business?”


Questions:


i. Why did the elderly woman come to sit near Valli?


ii. Valli’s dislike the elderly woman? Briefly explain.


iii. Conductor makes fun of Valli. Give reason

 9

Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each.

i. Why did Kisa go to Gautam Buddha?


ii. What was Lomov’s opinion about Squeezer?


iii. How was Ebright an all-rounder?


iv. Why did the children make fun of Bholi at school?

 10

Attempt the following questions in about 80-100 words.

What was the main cause of Matilda's ruin? How could you help her save herself if you were her friend?


OR


Describe the narrator’s meeting with Lutkin’s mother

 11

Answer the following question in about 100-120 words:--

Why was Helen withdrawn from the Gilman School and how did she further pursue her education?


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What happened as a result of the plagiarizing incident for Helen? What was the effect of this event in her life?