Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write the answer in your answer sheet in one or two lines only.
(a) "We do many things, sir”, Nicola answered seriously. He glanced at us hopefully.
i. What does the speaker mean by “We do many things”, sir?
ii. Whom is he addressing to?
iii. Why was Nicola serious?
iv. Find the synonym of “looked”.
OR
CAESAR: Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard. It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
i. Whom does Caesar console and why?
ii. Which quality of the speaker is revealed here?
iii. Explain: Cowards die many times before their deaths.
iv. Give the synonym of „Gallant‟.
(i) The speakers meaning when he says ‘we do many things’ is that apart from selling fruits they were engaged in a lot of other things like shining shoes to earn a living.
(ii) The speaker is addressing Nicola in the given extract.
(iii) Nicola was serious because they thought that the narrator would ask for their services and in return they would earn some good money.
(iv) Glanced.
OR
(i) Caeser spoke these words to his wife Calpurnia. He speaks these words in response to Calpurnia’s pleadings that he should not go out of the house as his life might be in danger.
(ii) Caeser’s wisdom is consumed in confidence. Caeser had become overconfident and because of this he couldn’t understand there was a threat to his life.
(iii) A coward person fears facing consequences in life and has an assumption that he cannot do anything. This makes him die every time he encounters a struggle or battle. On the contrary a brave person faces whatever comes to him throughout his life and dies only once when he is destined to.
(iv) valiant
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