Ans. (a) to give him his phone number.
(b) him it was in his father’s name
(c) Pal what his father’s name was.
(d) that was also in the directory.
SECTION D (LITERATURE) (30 marks)
Q. 12. 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 answers correctly. (4 marks)
The peasants came like swarms of flies
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyze the Evil One.
(a) Who is referred to as the Evil One? Why? (2)
(b) Why did the peasants wish that he might be paralysed? (1)
(c) What do these lines tell us about the peasants? (1)
Ans. (a) The Scorpion is referred to as the Evil One because his sting had resulted in poison being spread in the mother‘s blood.
(b) The peasants wished that he might be paralysed because they felt that with every movement the Scorpion made, his poison moved in the mother’s blood.
(c) Through these lines we come to know that the peasants were a group of superstitious people.
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 answers correctly. (4 marks)
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
(a) Who is ‘I’ in the above passage? (1)
(b) What makes the mirror say it has no preconceptions? (1)
(c) In what way is the mirror ‘unmisted’ (2)
Ans. (a) ‘I’ in the above passage refers to the mirror.
(b) The mirror has no preconceptions because whatever it sees, it reflects it back instantly without any distortion.
(c) The mirror is ‘unmisted’ because it has no feelings. It is devoid of any kind of love or hatred for anyone.
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 give 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)
“Let me see some tenderness connected with a death”.
(a) Who is the speaker? (1)
(b) When did he make this comment? (2)
(c) What realization dawned on ‘him’ after the visit of the third ghost? (2)
Ans. (a) Scrooge is the speaker.
(b) He makes this comment after the Third Ghost shows him his dead body lying unclaimed.
(c) After the Third Ghost’s visit Scrooge realised his mistakes and learnt his lesson. He promised to value relations and be a transformed person.
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 yourself to be the little girl in “The Ultimate Safari”. Make a diary entry on how you reached the refugee camp and mention your hopes for future. Write your answer in 150 – 175 words. (8 marks)
Ans. See Q. 17, 2006 (Comptt. III Delhi).
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