Q.13. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write each answer in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Remember to number the answer correctly. (4 marks)
Now the frog puffed up with rage.
“Brainless bird—You’re on the stage-
Use your wits and follow fashion.”
(a) What made the frog get angry? (2)
(b) How does it show its anger? (1)
(c) What does the frog ask the nightingale to do immediately after this? (1)
Ans. (a) The frog got angry because the nightingale’s uninspired song could not attract a huge audience and he was not able to make good money.
(b) The frog starts shouting at the nightingale. He starts rebuking her and calls her ‘Brainless’. He scolds her angrily and criticises her strongly and loudly.
(c) Immediately after this, the frog orders the nightingale to puff up her lungs and sing with passion.
Q. 14. In what way does the poet, P.B. Shelley establish a link between his own personality and the personality of the West Wind? Answer in 75–100 words. (5 marks)
Ans. The poet establishes a link between his own personality and the personality of the West Wind. In his childhood the poet was tameless, swift and proud like the West Wind. He compares his early life with the West Wind when he too was swift and uncontrollable. At that time he could not only wander with the West Wind but would also have outstripped it in every way in its might and display of power. The poet identifies his own personality with that of the West Wind so he wants to be a mouth-piece for the West Wind and spread his thoughts to awaken a sleeping mankind.
Q. 15. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write the answers in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Remember to number the answers correctly. (5 marks)
Antony : O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
(a) Who/ What is Antony talking to? (1)
(b) Who does he refer to as ‘these butchers’ and why? (2)
(c) How had he behaved with them and why? (2)
Ans. (a) Antony is talking to Caesar’s corpse.
(b) He refers to the conspirators who have killed Caesar as ‘these butchers’ because they had slain Caesar, a noble man, as unfeelingly and brutally as a butcher slays a beast.
(c) He behaved meekly and gently with them because he wanted to cleverly befriend them and then instigate the people against them to avenge Caesar’s death.
Q. 16. Give two incidents from the story ‘The Tribute’ to show that Babuli felt guilty of being ungrateful to his elder brother. Answer in 50–75 words. (4 marks)
Ans. See Q. 16, 2003 (I Outside Delhi).
Q.17. Imagine you are Cutie Pie. You reach home and recount what you saw on Earth and your experiences there. Write a diary entry in 150–175 words. (8 marks)
Ans. See Q. 17, 2005 (III Delhi).
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