the lines given below: 6
(a) “They do not sweat and whine about their condition?
Who are ‘they’? What are the things that they don’t do? 3
(b) “Some say the world will end in fi re, Some say in ice.
” What do ‘fi re’ and ‘ice’ stand for? 3
(c) (There is a languid, emerald sea
where the sole inhabitant is me
a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)
What could Amanda do, if she were a mermaid? 3
Ans. (a) ‘They’ refers to the animals. They do not complain about their condition and they also do not lose their sleep and weep for their sins. They are satisfi ed creatures.
(b) For Robert Frost ‘fi re’ stands for hatred, lust, cruelty, fury and avarice and ‘ice’ stands for insensitivity, coldness, indifference and intolerance.
(c) If she were a mermaid, Amanda would live happily in the sea. She would drift along blissfully without having to follow instructions from anyone.
Q.16. Answer the following question in about 100 words: 8 Describe the role of his mother in making Ebright a scientist.
Or
Describe the scene in which Jaffers tries to arrest the man without a head.
Ans. See Q.16, 2001 (I Outside Delhi). [Page 51 Also See
Q.16, 2008 (III Outside Delhi). [Page 224
Or
See Q.16, 2002 (I Delhi).
Q.17. Answer the following question in 30-40 words: 4
Why did Fowler want to meet Ausable and why was he disillusioned?
Or
How, according to Hari Singh, would the greedy man, the rich man and the poor man react when they had lost their goods?
Ans. See Q.18, 2000 (I Outside Delhi).
Or
According to Hari Singh on losing their goods—a greedy man’s face would show fear, the rich man’s face would show anger and the poor man’s face would show acceptance.
Q.18. Answer the following question in 20-30 words : 3
Why was Matilda Loisel always unhappy?
Or
Why did the household dogs at the surgery reject Tricki as ‘an uninteresting object’?
Ans. Madam Loisel was always unhappy because she suffered incessantly for want of luxuries and from her poverty. She felt she was born for luxuries which she could not dream of indulging in because of her meagre means.
Or
See Q.18 (a), Sample Paper I. [Page (xiv)
