Q. 14. Answer the following question in about 80 words: 6
What does Mandela mean by the boyhood freedom and the freedom he enjoyed as a young man?
Or
For what reasons was a baker in the Goan village considered very essential? What was the peculiar dress of the baker in the Portuguese days?
Ans. See Q.14, 2009 (Comptt. I Delhi). [Page 31
Or
See Q.14 (Or), 2009 (Comptt. I Delhi). [Page 31
Also Add: In the Portuguese days bakers had a peculiar dress known as the kabai. It was a single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.
Q. 15. Answer any two of the following questions in 30—40 words each: 4
(a) Chubukov says about Natalya—‘as if she won’t consent! She’s in love; egad, she’s like a lovesick cat, …’
Give two examples to show that she’s like a lovesick cat.
(b) What did the pilot of the Dakota experience?
(c) What is the Indian legend about the discovery of tea?
Ans. (a) Natalya is like a lovesick cat because she insists that her father, Chubukov, fetch Lomov back or she will be ill and she will also die. Moreover she quickly agrees later that the Oxen Meadows do actually belong to Lomov and his family.
(b) See Q.15 (b), 2009 (Comptt. I Delhi). [Page 32 (c) See Q.13
(b), Sample Question Paper I. [Page xii
Q. 16. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. 4
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfi ed, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
(a) Who are ‘they’? 1
(b) Mention two things which ‘they’ don’t do. 2
(c) Who, do you think, have the mania of owning things? 1
Ans. (a) ‘They’ are the animals.
(b) They do not whine about their condition and they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. (c) Humans have the mania of owning things.
