Answer any one of the following questions in about 60 words:

1. Give a character sketch of Yudhishthira.

2. Who was Lencho? Why did he write a letter to God? Who received the letter and what did he
do?

3. How do you like the character of the postmaster in the story ‘A Letter to God’?

4. Give a character sketch of Lencho.

5. Why does Nehru call the Ganga ‘The river of India’? What did the Ganga remind Nehru of?

6. Why did Nehru want his ashes to be scattered over the field of India?

7. Who was Socrates? What did he teach the people? Why did he become famous?

8. Why was Socrates tried in the court and what happened at the trial?

9. Why was Socrates condemned to death? How did he react to the sentence of death?

10. What test did the old merchant give to his two sons to find out who was the cleverer of them?
Why did he want to judge them?

11. What are the different powers and abilities given to us? How can citizens use them to spread
light over all parts of our country?

12. How did the people of the villages treat Guru Nanak and Mardana? What did Guru Nanak
say about them?

13. How did Tansen prove that his teacher’s music was superior to his own? What reason did he
give for it?

14. How did Tansen make his Guru sing? Why do you think this ruse (trick) was so successful?

15. Who was Swami Hari Das? Why did Akbar want to hear him? Why could he not call Hari
Das to his court? What did he do then?

Prose

Answer any two of the following questions in about 25 words:

1. Where did Yudhishthira go and why?

2. How did Yudhishthira prove that he was impartial?

3. Why did Yudhishthira want Madai’s son Nakula revived in preference to his other brothers?

4. Why was Lencho sad?What was his only hope?

5. Why did Lencho write a writer a letter to God? Who received the letter and what did he do?

6. What did Lencho write in his letter to God? How did he place it in the mail?

7. When did Lancho write in his second letter to God?

8. Why does Nehru call the Ganga ‘the river of India’?

9. What does the Ganga symbolize?

10. Why did Nehru want the major portion of his ashes scattered over the fields of India?

11. What, according to Nehru, should India get rid of?

12. How can it be said that the Ganga at Allahabad was very dear to Pt. Nehru?

13. Who was Socrates? What were his teachings?

14. Why was Socrates condemned to death? What was his reaction to the death sentence?

15. Who was Crito? What did Socrates request Crito?

16. To whom did the man want to give all his money?

17. How did the second son prove that he was more intelligent than his elder brother?

18. What does a good citizen do?

19. Why were Guru Nanak and Mardana forced to spend the night in the open?

20. How did the people of the first village treat Guru NanaK and Mardana? What did Nanak say
about them?

21. How did the people of the other village treat their visitors?

22. Why was Brahma sad? Who helped Him and how?

23. Why did Akbar and Tansen go to the Himalayas?

24. What did Tansen do to make Hari Das sing for Akbar?

25. Why was Hari Das’s music soul-stirring?

Supplementary Reader

Answer any two of the following questions in about 25 words:

1. Who was Edison? Describe the invention that made him famous all over America?

2. Why was Edition taken out of School?

3. What made the teacher think Edison was stupid and naughty?

4. What was the promise that Edison made and kept to him countrymen?

5. Why did the guilty tremble before Vikramaditya?

6. What guess did the king of Ujjain make about the boy?

7. What did the king decide to do?

8. Why is Vikramaditya called ‘the greatest judge in history’? Why did the guilty tremble before
him?

9. Why was King Vikramaditya so famous?

10. Lez Long is said to be fine example of Coubertin’s ideal. What was Coubertin’s statement
about the Olympic Games?

11. What was expected of Jesse Owens and Why?

12. Why was Jesse Owens angry?

13. What was Jesse Owens’s greatest Olympic Prize? How could he achieve it?

14. Who was the founder of Modern Olympic Game?

15. Why was Edison dismissed from his job?

 Supplementary Reader

Answer any two of the following questions in about 25 words:

1. Who was Edison? Describe the invention that made him famous all over America?

2. Why was Edition taken out of School?

3. What made the teacher think Edison was stupid and naughty?

4. What was the promise that Edison made and kept to him countrymen?

5. Why did the guilty tremble before Vikramaditya?

6. What guess did the king of Ujjain make about the boy?

7. What did the king decide to do?

8. Why is Vikramaditya called ‘the greatest judge in history’? Why did the guilty tremble before
him?

9. Why was King Vikramaditya so famous?

10. Lez Long is said to be fine example of Coubertin’s ideal. What was Coubertin’s statement
about the Olympic Games?

11. What was expected of Jesse Owens and Why?

12. Why was Jesse Owens angry?

13. What was Jesse Owens’s greatest Olympic Prize? How could he achieve it?

14. Who was the founder of Modern Olympic Game?

15. Why was Edison dismissed from his job?

Important Applications

Class – X
1. Write the application to the Principal of your collage to grant you leave for 3 days as you have
to attend the marriage of your cousin sister.

To,

The Principle

………………school name……………

Sir,

     Respectfully I have to say that my cousin sister’s marriage is to take place on the coming …..
(date)…… at ………..(place) ……….. . I have to attend the marriage as my father is not in a
position to do so.

     Kindly grant me leave for three days from ……………….. to ……………… for which I shall
be highly obliged.

                                                                                                                 Your Faithfully

                                                                                                                 ……(name)…….

     Date: ………………….                                                                                 Class ………….

2. Write the application to the Principal of your collage requesting him to grant you free
studentship on the grounds of poverty and merit.

3. You have to look after your sick mother. So write an application to the Principal of your
collage requesting him to grant you 4 days’ leave.

4. You are very weak in English and can’t do well without extra coaching. Request your
Principal to arrange extra coaching in English. Also mention that your father also has sent his
consent and few other students also are eager to join the classes.

5. Write the application to the Librarian of your collage informing him that you have lost the
books issued to you last week.

To,

The Principle

………………school name……………

Sir,
           Most respectfully I beg to say that last week I got three books from the library issued on
my issued on my card. But I am sorry to inform you that somebody has stolen them from my bag
on the same say.

          I, therefore, request you to let me know the price of the books so that I may deposit the
money in the collage office.

                            Thanking you,

                                                                                             Yours Obediently

                                                                                                ……(name)…….

             Date: ………………….                                                       Class ………….

6. Write the application to the chairman of the Municipal of your city requesting him to improve
the sanitary conditions in the part of the city you live in.