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Answer the following question in 100-120 words :

In life, people who easily trust others are sometimes made to look foolish. One should


not be too trusting. Describe how Oliver Lutkins made a fool of the young lawyer.


OR


What lesson on death and suffering did the Buddha teach Gotami in the chapter, ‘The


Sermon at Benaras’ ?

Oliver Lutkins was indeed good at making up convincing stories and using his presence of mind to deceive others in believing every lie that he told them. As soon as Lutkins came to know that a Lawyer has arrived in town and had been making enquiries about him, he met the Lawyer himself while portraying himself as a hack Driver. He also told the Lawyer that Lutkins owed him some money over a game of Poker and therefore managed to display a harmless and genuine image. To the lawyer, the hack driver seemed to be a simple country man ready to help. He took him to many places like Beincke’s, Gustaff’s barber shop, Grey’s barber shop, poolroom and his mother’s farmyard, in search of Lutkins. At every place they went, people told the lawyer that he just missed Lutkins by merely five minutes. Thus Lutkins, very cleverly, fooled the lawyer.

 OR

Kisa Ghotami was very worried about her deceased son as she was wandering door to door in search for help but however couldn’t find any. She was directed by someone to Sakyamuni, the Buddha, who asked her to bring a handful of mustard seeds which provided Ghotami that her son could be saved. However, The Buddha kept a strange condition that the mustard seeds must be from a house whose family must not have lost anyone to death. After her futile search for such house, she sat weary and sad along a wayside outside the city and saw the flickering city-lights. Sitting there she realized the nature of death and how is it impossible to escape from the cycle of life. She also realized that how her attempts to intervene the processes of nature are just indications of her selfishness and how she can only be happy if she just accepts the sad demise of her son.

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Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences. Do any four.

(i) work and play / things / different / parents see / as two


(ii) is a / of time / they / waste / think / that playing


(iii) important / games / studies / are as / as


(iv) a student / to both / proper / should / attention / pay


(v) can / life / only / succeed / he / in / then

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

“But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, how can they be yours ? Do be a reasonable man ! My aunt’s grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather’s peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that ........


(a) Who is the speaker of the above lines ?


(b) Why did his aunt’s grandmother give the meadows ?


(c) Why did the peasants treat the land as their own ?


(d) What light do these lines throw on the speaker’s character ?


OR


Belinda tickled him, she ticked him unmerciful,


Ink, Blink and Mustard, they rudely called him Percival,


They all sat laughing in the little red wagon


At the realio, trulio, cowardly dragon.


(a) Who was tickled by Belinda ?


(b) Why did she tickle ‘him’ ?


(c) Who are Ink, Blink and Mustard ?


(d) Why did they all laugh at ‘him’

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Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each :

(a) What excited Rajvir ? Why did Pranjol not share his excitement ?


(b) ‘He senses first responsibility’ – What responsibility is referred to here ? (The Ball Poem)


(c) What was Horace Danby’s hobby ? How did he manage to fulfill it ?


(d) Why did Matilda (Mme Loisel) leave the ball in a hurry ? What does it show about her character ?


(e) In which queer way did Anil make a living ? (The Thief’s Story)

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Answer the following question in 200-250 words :

Describe the importance of diary in Anne Frank’s life.


OR


What problems do Margot and Anne face with regard to the way their parents treat them ?


OR


Helen Keller’s determination to study and compete with the normal children helps her to


enter Radcliffe College. What does this show about her personality ?


OR


Describe how Miss Sullivan succeeds in helping Helen Keller achieve her aim in life.