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 1.'Romeo and Juliet Ans: night
15. When does Juliet expect Romeo to come ?
Ans. During night.
16. According to Juliet, who will come on the
wings of night ?
Ans. Romeo.
17. Who will lie upon the wings of night?
Ans: Romeo
18.That all the world will be in ______ with
night'.
Ans. C. love
19. What do you think the phrase, ‘face of
1. To which family did Romeo belong to? heaven' signifies ?
Ans: Montagues. Ans: The phrase 'face of heaven' signifies sky.
2. Juliet is the daughter of 20. When, according to Juliet, would all the
Ans: The Capulets world be in love with the night?
3.Where does Romeo see Juliet for the first time Ans. When Romeo is cut into pieces of little stars.
? 21.'Romeo and Juliet' is written by
Ans. In the grand supper hosted by Lord Capulet. Ans: William Shakespeare
4.Why does Romeo attend the grand supper ? 22. When according to Juliet would Romeo make
Ans. To see his beloved Rosaline. the face of heaven so fine
5.How does Romeo attend the Supper ? Ans: When Romeo would become star/when he is
Ans. In disguise cut into little stars.
6.The phrase, teach the torches to burn bright' 23. Who in 'Romeo and Juliet'is compared to a
suggests: 'Rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear
Ans: Her beauty surpasses the brightness of light. Ans: Juliet
7. What does Juliet teach the torches according to 24. Who in 'Romeo and Juliet' is compared to a
Romeo ? 'snowy dove'?
Ans. She teaches the torches to burn bright. Ans: Juliet
8.What does Romeo compare Juliet to ? 25. When according to Juliet would all the world
Ans. To a rich Jewel on the cheeks of an African. be in love with the night?
9. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear Ans: When Romeo is cut into stars/when Romeo
means.. makes the face of heaven so fine.
Ans. She is too beautiful in this world and too 26. Whom does Romeo address as Yonder Lady?
beautiful to die and to be buried. Ans: Romeo addresses Juliet as Yonder Lady.
10.Who does the Phrase'a snowy dove’ Refer to. 27. When according to Juliet would all the world
Ans: Juliet be in love with night?
11. "The measure done means.. Ans: When Romeo is cut into little stars/when he
Ans. The dance is over/after the dance. makes the face of heaven so fine
12.What does Romeo want to do, after the dance? 28.What does Juliet want Romeo to be after her
Ans. He wants to touch Juliet's hand. death?
13. Why does Romeo want to touch her hand Ans: Juliet wants Romeo to be cut out in little
after the dance? stars.
Ans. He wants his rough hands to get blessed. 29. Who will make the heaven 'so fine' according
14.For I ne'er saw true beauty till this to Juliet?

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Ans: Romeo. 46. Who is a rich jewel according to Romeo?
30. What had Romeo not seen before he met Ans: Juliet.
Juliet? 47. Who does an Ethiope stand for?
Ans: True beauty. Ans: An African/ black skinned race.
31. What does Juliet ask, black-browed night to 48. What is Romeo’s charm compared to?
bring? Ans: New snow on a ravens back.
Ans: She asks black browed night to bring Romeo 49. Whom does Juliet ask to give Romeo?
to her. Ans: Black browed night.
32. Why does Juliet call Romeo as day in night'? 50. When does Juliet want Romeo to be stars?
Ans: Because his presence will shine out against Ans: After her death.
the darkness 51. Why will the world be in love with night
33. What is Romeo and Juliet? according to Juliet?
Ans: It is a love tragedy Ans: Because the cut out pieces of Romeo’s body
34. Which story does Romeo and Juliet present? have brightened the face of the sky as stars.
Ans: It presents the tragic story of two young 52. When Romeo shines as stars in the
lovers Romeo and Juliet. face of heaven, the world will
35. Name the two rival noble families named in ____________ according to Juliet.
the play. Ans: fall in love with night
Ans: The Montagues and the Capulets.
36. Who belonged two rival noble families of
Verona? 2 "Too dear"
Ans: Romeo and Juliet.
37. Who is Romeo?
Ans: The only son of Old Lord Montague.
38. Who hosted a grand supper?
Ans: The old Lord Capulet
39. What kind of Supper did The old Lord
Capulet hosted?
Ans: A grand supper.
40. Why did Romeo attend the Supper hosted by
Old Lord Capulet?
Ans: To see Roseline
41. Who was Roseline?
1. How many inhabitants were there in the tiny
Ans: Romeo’s first love
little kingdom of Monaco?
42. Where did Romeo see Juliet for the first time?
Ans: About seven thousand in al.
Ans: On the dance floor at the capulets court.
2.What did the Prince of Monaco have to find to
43. What of Juliet made Romeo fall in love with
feed his courtiers and officials and to keep
her?
himself?
Ans: Juliets beauty
Ans: A new and special source of revenue.
44. 0, she doth teach the torches to burn bright
3.Name the special source of revenue in the
Here she refers to..
kingdom of Monaco.
Ans: Juliet
Ans. Gaming House.
45. Where does Juliet hang upon according to
4.What was the reason to stop the gaming
Romeo?
houses?
Ans: Upon the cheek of night.
OR Why were the gaming houses stopped?
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Ans: Because those gaming houses did much 17.Why did the soldiers refuse to kill the
harm. criminal?
5. Where do people go to play gaming house Ans. They said that they did not know how to kill
(gambling)? and they had not been taught that
Ans. To Monaco. 18. Why did the Prince and the ministers place a
6. Who had the monopoly of running gaming guard over the criminal?
houses? Ans: To watch him and to fetch his food from the
Ans: The King of Monaco. palace kitchen.
7.Mention one of the things that the Kinglet of 19. How much money was spent to keep off the
Monaco holds his court with that ofa real king. criminal in a year?
Ans: Coronation/levees / rewards/ sentences Ans: More than 600 francs.
and pardons.OR reviews/councils/laws/courts 20. What plan did the ministers suggest the
ofjustice- all on a smaller scale. Prince to make the expense cheaper?
8."Such a thing had not happened before" in the Ans: To dismiss the guard so that the criminal
kingdom of Monaco...what does such a thing' runs away.
mean? 21. Mention the thing that the eriminal did not
Ans. A murder show the least sign.
9. How did the judges try the case of murder? Ans: Running away from the prison.
Ans: In the most judicial manner. 22. What did the minister tell the criminal after
10. What was the one hitch in the matter of dismissing the guard ?
executing the criminal in the Kingdom of Ans. To run away wherever he wanted to go and
Monaco? the prince would not mind.
Ans: They had neither a guillotine for cutting 23. What, according to the council, was the only
heads off nor an executioner. way to get rid of the criminal?
11. 'a machine and an export could be supplied, Ans: To offer him a pension.
and the cost would be______ was the reply from 24. What was the sum fixed as the pension to the
the French. prisoner?
Ans: 16,000 francs. Ans: 600 francs.
12. How much did the Italian Government 25. How much did the criminal receive in
charge, for supplying both a machine and an advance, when he left the King's dominions?
expert ? Ans: One-third of his annuity
Ans. 12000 Francs. 26. What was the journey time by rail from
13. Who was a brother Monarch to the king of Monaco Kingdom to the frontier of the criminal
Monaco? settled?
Ans: The King of Italy. Ans: Aquarter of an hour.
14. Who, according to the council, had no proper 27. Where did the criminal settle after receiving
respect for the King? one third of his annuity ?
Ans: The republican French Government. Ans. Just across the frontier.
15.The rascal was not worth the money. The 28. What did the criminal do with his annuity ?
underlined words refer to_ Ans. He bought a bit of land and started market-
Ans: the Criminal gardening.
16.In war they don't mind killing people'. Here 29. Mention one of the taxes imposed by the
'they' refers to king of Monaco?
Ans: b. Soldiers Ans: Tax on tobacco/tax on wine and spirit/ poll
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30. What business does the king of Monaco Ans: The reason they were stopped was because
monopolise in "Too dear"? these gaming houses did so muchharm.
Ans: Gambling business 44. What would a man do if he risk money that
31. How many soldiers were there in the did not belong to him and lose that to in gaming
Kingdom of Monaco in "Too Dear " house?
Ans: Only sixty men in all/Sixty. Ans: He would drown or shoot himself.
32.Mention one of the reasons for the soldiers' 45. What is not a nice thing for the prince of
refusal to execute the criminal in Too Dear'. Monaco?
Ans: The soldiers didn't know how to do it/ it Ans: To draw a revenue from drink and from
was not taught to them tobacco is not a nice thing for the prince of
33. Where does the tiny little kingdom, Monaco Monaco.
lie? 46. How are the people of Monaco?
Ans: Near the borders of France and Italy, on the Ans: They are peaceable.
shore of the Mediterranean Sea. 47. Who assembled with much ceremony and
34. What do the people play in the gaming tried the case in the most judicial manner?
houses? Ans: Judges, prosecutors, jurymen and baristers.
Ans: They play roulette. 48. Whom did the judges submit the sentence to?
35. Who used to keep gaming houses of the same Ans: To the Prince.
kind earlier to Monaco ? 49. What was only one hitch in the matter related
Ans: Some of the little German Sovereigns. to execution of the culprit?
36. Who gains profit from the gaming houses ? Ans: They had neither a guillotine for cutting
Ans: The prince of Monaco. heads off, nor an executioner.
37. How long had the criminal been kept in the 50. What was the reply From the French
prison? Government?
Ans: For one year. Ans: A machine and an expert could be supplied,
38. Why was the death sentence altered to life and the cost would be 16,000 francs.
time imprisonment? 51. The wretch is not worth the money, Whom
Ans: Because they could not find a guillotinenor does the wretch refer in the above line?
an executioner Ans: c) the person who committed a murder in
39. If all the land in Monaco were divided there the Prince’s domain.
would not_for each 52. Whom did the council decide to send a
Ans: An acre similar enquiry?
40. What is a real kinglet has in his kingdom? Ans: To the King of Italy.
Ans: A kinglet has a palace, and courtiers, and 53. Who wrote that they would have pleasure in
ministers and a bishop, and generals supplying both a machine and
41. Whom does the keeper pay a large sum out of Ans: Italian government.
his profit to? 54. What did the ministers, a commission, a
Ans: The Prince of Monaco committee and sub committee decide at last?
42. Why does the keeper of gaming house pay so Ans: They decided that the best thing would be to
much to the prince? alter the death sentence to one of the
Ans: It is the only such gambling establishment imprisonment for life.
left in Europe 55. What was the only hitch after altering the
43. Why were the gaming houses forbidden in death sentence to one of the imprisonment for
German Sovereigns? life.

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Ans: The only hitch now was that there was no 3.On Children
suitable prison for a man sentenced for
56. What was not there in the kingdom of
Monaco?
Ans: There was no strong prison fit for permanent
use.
57. What was the duty of the guard appointed by
the Prince?
Ans: The guard had to watch the criminal and had 1.Where did a woman hold a baby?
to fetch his food from the palace kitchen. Ans: Against her blosom.
58. Where did the guard fetch food for the 2.What did the woman ask the prophet?
criminal? Ans: 'Speak to us of Children'.
Ans: From the palace kitchen." 3. What did the Prophet say to her at first?
59. What had the kinglet looked after the Ans: 'Your children are not your children'
prisoner had passed a year? 4. They come through you but not from you...
Ans: The kinglet looked over the account of his what do the words "they" and "you" refer to ?
income and expenditure. Ans. They refers to children,you refers to parents
60. What did the kinglet notice one day? 5.You may give them your love but not your
Ans: A new item of expenditure in his income. Ans: a. thoughts.
61. What is the annual expenditure of the 6. According to the prophet, what may be given
criminal? OR How much did the king spend on to the children ?
the criminal annually? Ans. Love.
Ans: More than 600 francs 7. Where, according to the speaker, our children
62. What did the criminal do when he did not dwell?
find the guard? Ans: In the house of tomorrow.
Ans: The criminal came out and fetch his own 8. Who dwells in the house of tomorrow?
food and returned to the prison, shut the door on Ans. Children dwell in the house of tomorrow
himself and stayed inside. 9. Their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow'
63. Who had the criminal brought before him? means.
Ans: The minister of Justice Ans. Children have a different vision of life.
64. What did the criminal buy after receiving the 10. Whom does the bows and the arrows and also
advance? the archer refer to in the poem 'On Children ?
Ans: The criminal bought a bit of land. Ans: The bow refers to parents and the arrow
65. What is good thing for the criminal? refers to children.The archer refers to God
Ans: The good thing is that he did not commit his Almighty.
crime in a country where they can head off, or to 11.How does the archer (God) want his arrows to
keep him in prison for life. go ?
Ans. Swift and far.
12.Why does the archer (God) want to bend the

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Ans. For gladness and to test the stability of the
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13. Where according to the speaker of * On
Children' do the souls of children dwell?
Ans: In the house of tomorrow

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14.What according to the speaker can parents not 29. What does not traverse backward according
visit in 'On Children'? to the prophet?
Ans: The house of tomorrow Ans: Life
15.In'On Children', God loves the arrow that 30. What are not the two characteristics of life
flies as well as the bow that is ______ according to the prophet?
Ans: is stable. Ans: Going backed and tarrying with yesterday.
16.What does "Your children are not your 31 What does the phrase living arrows refer to in
children" mean? on children?
Ans: Children are independent and allow them to Ans: Ambitious children.
grow freely 4. Everything I need to Know i Learned in
17. What does the archer see in the poem 'on the Forest
children'?
Ans: The mark upon the path of the infinite.
18. Where does the archer see the mark upon?
Ans: The path of the infinite.
19.According to the speaker in ‘On Children’,
life does not go ________ .
Ans: backward
20.Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for
___________ . The right word from ‘On Children’
to
Ans: gladness .
21.The house of tomorrow in ‘On Children’ 1. What was Vandana Shiva's father?
cannot be visited even in _________ . Ans: A forest conservator.
Ans: dreams 2. Where did Vandana Shiva's ecological journey
22. Who is narrator of the poem? start in?
Ans: The prophet. Ans: In the forest of Himalayas.
23. Whom is the narrator speaking to? 3. When did Vandana Shiva's mother become a
Ans: A woman/ All the parents is general. farmer?
24. Whose sons and daughters are the children Ans: After fleeing the tragic partition of India and
according to prophet? Pakistan.
Ans: Of lifes longing for itself. 4. What were the songs and poems composed by
25. What should the parents not impose on their her mother tell about?
children? Ans. About trees, forests and India's forest
Ans: parents thoughts. civilizations.
26. Why should not the parents impose their 5.Vandana Shiva's involvement in the
own thoughts on their children ? contemporary ecology movement began
Ans: Because children have their own thoughts. with________
27. Why can not the parents house the souls of Ans: The Chipko Movement.
their children? 6. What was the 'Chipko' movement?
Ans: Because the souls of the children dwell in the Ans. A nonviolent response to the large-scale
house of tomorrow. deforestation that was taking place in the
28. What may the parents strive to be? Himalayan region.
Ans: To be like a children. 7. Logging had led to .
Ans. Landslides and floods, scarity of water,
fodder and fuel.
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8. What did the women of the Himalayan region Ans: In 1994.
declare? 21. Where was 'Navdanya Farm' started?
Ans. That they would hug the trees and the Ans: In the Doon Valley.
loggers would have to kill them before killing the 22. When did Vandana Shiva start the movement
trees. for biodiversity conservation and organic
9. Where did Vandana Shiva do her Ph.D.? farming?
Ans. In Canada. Ans: In 1987.
10 What surprising thing did Vandana notice in 23. What was Navdanya movement ?
her favourite forest before leaving for Canada ? Ans. The movement for biodiversity conservation
Ans. The forests were gone and the streams were and organic farming.
reduced to a trickle. 24. What do they practice and promote in
11.Mention one of the intentions of Vandana Navadanya Farm?
Shiva doing Pad Yatras (walking, pilgrimages) Ans. A biodiversity intensive form of farming that
during produces more food and nutrition per acre.
vacation. 25. How do they help the farmers?
Ans: Documenting the deforestation/ Ans They help farmers to make a transition from
documenting the work of the forest activists / fossil fuel and chemical based monocultures to
spreading the message of Chipko. bio-diversity ecological system nourished by the
12. What dramatic chipko action took place in sun and the soil.
the Himalayan village of Adwani in 1977? 26._______ has been my teacher of abundance
Ans. A woman named Bachni Devi led her and freedom, of co-operation and mutual giving,
resistance against her own husband, who had says Vandana Shiva.
obtained a contract to cut trees. Ans: Biodiversity.
13.Name the woman who led resistance against 27. What has Ecuador recognized in its
her own husband who had obtaineda contract to constitution?
cut trees ? Ans: The 'rights of nature'.
Ans. Bachni Devi 28.What did the United Nations General
14. How did the women protest against cutting Assembly organize in April 2011?
trees ? Ans: A conference on harmony with nature.
Ans. By holding lighted lamps during broad 29. What prompted the United Nations General
daylight. Assembly to organise a Conference on 'harmony
15. What did the women tell the forester, when with nature?
he asked them to explain about their protest? Ans. The Constitution of Ecuador and the
Ans. That they had come to teach them forestry. Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother
16. What do the forests bear? (Mention any one) Earth initiated by Bolivia
Ans: Soil /water/ pure air. 30. Why did the United Nations General
17. What does the Earth bear? Assembly organise a conference on 'Harmony
Ans: All she bears/ she bears all / all. with Nature'?
18. What did Vandana Shiva learn from 'Chipko' Ans. As a part of Earth Day Celebration.
movement? 31. What did the UN Secretary general's report
Ans. About biodiversity and biodiversity based on the conference organize on 'Harmony with
living economy. Nature reveal?
19. The author of "Monocultures of the Mind' is Ans. The importance of reconnecting with nature.
Ans: Vandana Shiva 32. Who is the prominent South African
20. When was 'Navdanya Farm' started? environmentalist?

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Ans. Comac Cullinan. Ans: To take inspiration from nature and to create
33. Apartheid was practised in. an Indian cultural renaissance.
Ans. South Africa. 48. Which is one of the most famous centres of
34. Apartheid' means. learning in India?
Ans. Separatism Ans. Shantiniketan in West Bengal.
35.______is indeed at the root of disharmony 49. When did the school become a university?
with nature and violence against teacher and Ans: In 1921.
people. 50. What do we need today just as in Tagore's
Ans: separatism time?
36.Terra Madre means Ans: We need to turn to nature and the forest for
Ans: Mother Earth lessons in freedom.
37.Terra Nullius means 51. What does Tagore quote from the ancient
Ans: the empty land ready for occupation texts written in the forest?.
38. Who is called as the father of modern Ans: Know all that moves in this moving world as
science? enveloped by God; and find enjoyment through
Ans. Francis Bacon. renunciation, not through greed of possession.
39. Who is the best teacher to move to an 52.Every species sustains itself in
ecological paradigm? Ans: co-operation
Ans: Nature herself. 53. Mention any one conflict that Tagore wrote.
40. Earth democracy is a shift from Ans. Conflict between greed and compassion./
anthropocentrism to_ Conflict between conquest and co-operation./
Ans: Ecocentrism.OR Earth democracy is a shift Conflict between violence and harmony
from to ecocentrism to Anthropocentrism. 54. And it is______ that can show us the way
41. What does the Earth University teach? beyond this conflict.
Ans: Earth Democracy. Ans: the forest.
42. What is Earth Democracy? 55. The end of consumerism and accumalation
Ans: It is the freedom for all species to evolve is............
within the web of life /the freedom and Ans. The begining of the joy of living
responsibility of humans / the freedom to 56."Rights of Nature" means..
recognize, protect and respect the rights of other Ans. The duty of human beings to conserve
species. (Any one or all the three). nature
43. Where is the Earth University located? 57. Name the author of Tapovan' as mentioned
Ans. at Navdanya. in 'Everything I need to know I Learned in the
44. Name one of the participants of the Earth Forest'.
University located at Navdanya. Ans: Rabindranath Tagore.
Ans: famers/school children/ people from across 58. According to women of Garhwal, "the real
the world. value of forests' was
45. Mention one of the most popular courses at Ans: Springs and streams,
Navdanya. 59. How many community seed banks did
Ans: "The A-Z of Organic Farming and Agro- Navadanya farm set up?
ecology"/ Gandhi and Globalization. Ans: It set up more than 100.
46. The Earth University is inspired by . 60. How many rice varities have they saved?
Ans. Rabindranatha' Tagore. Ans: They have saved more than 3000 rice
47. Why did Tagore start a learning center in varieties.
Shantiniketan?

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 Ans: For the spryest/ for the gluttons/ for little
5 .A Sunny Morning ones.
14. Who is the least timid?
Ans: The little fellow.
15. He is a philosopher, Who is He'?
Ans: The little pigeon.
16. Who is Don Gonzalo?
Ans: Don Gonzalo is an old gentleman of seventy,
gouty and impatient.
17. Name the servant of Don Gonzalo.
Ans: Juanito.
18. What does Don Gonzalo want himself in the
park?
Ans: A bench.
1.Who is Dona Laura?
19. Who had occupied on Don Gonzalo's bench?
Ans: A handsome, white-haired old lady of about
Ans: Three priests.
seventy.
20. Where do Don Gonzalo and Juanito walk?
2. Where does the action of the play A Sunny
Ans: Toward the birds.
Morning' take place ?
21. Who, according to Dona Laura is an ill-
Ans. In aretired corner of a park in Madrid.
natured man?
3. What gives evidence that her mental faculties
Ans: Don Gonzalo
are unimpaired despite her age?
22. Why did Dona Laura call the old man Don
Ans: Her bright eyes and entire manner
Gonzalo as an ill natured man?
4. Who is Dona Laura's maid?
Ans. Because he scared away the birds.
Ans: Petra
23. He is wiping the dust from his face.
5. What does Dona Laura carry in her free hand?
Ans: perspiration.
Ans: A parasol.
24.What according to don Gonzalo should the
6. Parasol serves also as a
authorities place in the park for sunny
Ans: Cane
mornings?
7. What did Dona Laura fear about?
Ans: More benches.
Ans. Her seat would be occupied in the park.
25. What for should the authorities place more
8. How old is Petra?
benches in the park?
Ans: She is twenty.
Ans: For sunny mornings.
9. How much time does Dona Laura permit Petra
26.Where does Don Gonzalo sit on the bench in
to remain with the guard?
the park in 'A Sunny Morning’ ?
Ans: Not more than ten minutes.
Ans: At the extreme end of Dona Laura's bench.
10. What did Dona Laura feed pigeons with ?
27. How does Don Gonzalo look at Dona Laura?
Ans. Breadcrumbs.
Ans: He looks at her indignantly.
11. What does a small bag contain which Petra
28. What does Don Gonzalo touch as he greets
hands Dona Laura?
Laura?
Ans: The breadcrumbs.
Ans: His hat.
12. They know just when to expect me, Here
29.The benches here are____ property.
'they' refers to
Ans: a. Public
Ans: Pigeons
30. Senile old lady' refers to
13. Mention one of the three birds for which
Ans: Dona Laura
bread crumbs meant for.
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31. What, according to Don Gonzalo, ought Dona Ans: eye sight
Laura to be doing at home? 47.Mention one of the names with whom Don
Ans: Knitting and counting her beads. Gonzalo was a great friend.
32. How does Don Gonzalo brush the dust from Ans: Espronceda/ Zorilla/ Becquer.
his shoes? 48. Where did Don Gonzalo first meet Zorilla?
Ans: With his hand kerchief Ans: In America.
33. What comment does Dona Laura make on his 49. How old was Don Gonzalo when he went to
action? America the first time?
Ans: She asks if he uses a shoe brush as a hand Ans: Only six years old.
kerchief. 50. Where did Don Gonzalo mee Campaomor,
34. Who hands the book to Don Gonzalo? his friend?
Ans: Juanito Ans: Valencia.
35. What does Don Gonzalo put on, casting 51.I am a native of that city', Here I refers to
indignant glances at Dona Laura? Ans: Don Gonzalo
Ans: An enormous pair of glasses. 52. What did they call a villa, near the sea,
36. What comment did Laura make while hidden away among lemon and orange trees?
Gonzalo adjusted both glasses to suit him? Ans: Maricela.
Ans: She had thought that he was taking out a 53. What was the name of the beautiful woman
telescope. who lived in Maricela?
37. When does Don Gonzalo go for hunt? Ans: Laura Llorente
Ans: Every Sunday. 54.Laura Llorente was called
38. What does Don Gonzalo take to hunt? Ans: The Silver Maiden.
Ans: His gun and dog. 55. Where according to Don Gonzalo, does the
39. Where does Don Gonzalo go to hunt? silver maiden wait for her lover ?
Ans: To one of his estates near Aravaca. Ans. At the window of her room with red roses.
40. What does Don Gonzalo offer Dona Laura 56. How does Don Gonzalo present himself in
after enough conversation? the story of sad love affair?
Ans: Snuff. Ans: As a cousin.
41. What, according to Dona Laura, clears her 57. How does Dona Laura present herself as soon
head? as Gonzalo utters Laura Llorente?
Ans: Pinch of snuff. Ans: He reminded her of her best friend/ as laura
42. How many times did both Don Gonzalo and Llorente's best friend.
Dona Laura sneeze after taking the snuff? 58. The duel took place between______
Ans: They sneeze alternately three times each Ans. The young gallant lover and the merchant.
43.________has made peace between us', says
Dona Laura. 59. Who did the parents of the silver maiden
want their daughter to marry?
Ans: the snuff Ans. The Merchant.
44. The snuff has made______ between us', says
Dona Laura. 60. What does the gallant lover toss up everday
Ans: peace. to the silver maiden to her balcony?
45. All love is sad, but sad as it is, it is the best Ans. A bouquet of flowers.
thing that we know, That is from________
Ans: Campoamor. 61. Where did the gallant lover go according to
46.Don Gonzalo says 'I envy your wonderful ___ Don Ganzolo after the duel ?

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Ans. He first went to Sevilla and came to Madrid Ans: The guard.
and joined the army. 74. Thank him for me. Here "him' refers to
62. What lie did Dona Laura tell Don Gonzalo Ans: The guard
about the Silver Maiden after the duel? 75. Why does Gonzalo stoop?
Ans. Near the beach she was sitting and wrote his Ans: To pick up the violets Laura dropped.
name on the sand, later she was killed by a big 76. Who sees Gonzalo picking up the flowers?
wave. Ans: Laura
63. What does Dona Laura not wish to tell Don 77. It is he! It is she, and no mistake'. What made
Gonzalo? Laura and Gonzalo to say this?
Ans: That she married two years later Ans: the violets/ the flowers on the ground and
64. Whom did Don Gonzalo run off to Paris picking them up, seeing it as well.
with, in three months? 78. They smile once more. When did Laura and
Ans: In three months, he ran off to Paris with a Gonzalo smile before this?
ballet dancer. /with a ballet dancer. Ans: When she was at the window and when he
65._________is curious', says Dona Laura. was below in the rose garden.
Ans: fate 79. Who are known as "Golden Boys of Madrid
66.What did Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo Theatre' ?
discuss when they met by chance? Ans: Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero.
Ans: The romance of old friends of long ago. 80.In the play 'A Sunny Morning', the sliver
67. Why did Don Gonzalo scare away the birds? maiden refers to ____
Ans: He was unreasonable, perhaps. Ans: (5) Dona Laura.
68. What does Don Gonzalo say about his going 6. WHEN YOU ARE OLD
again to the public park the next day?

OR.
On what condition does Don Gonzalo agree to
meet Dona Laura the next day?
Ans: He is certain to go there, if it is a sunny
morning
69. What does Don Gonzalo promise Dona Laura
if he goes to the park again? 1.When does the speaker tell his beloved to take
Ans: He will not scare away the birds, but he will down the book of memories?
bring a few crumbs also. Ans: When his beloved is old/ gray /full of sleep
70. What, according to Laura, are grateful and / nodding by the fire.
repay attention? 2.How does the speaker suggest to read this
Ans: Birds book'?
71. How does Don Gonzalo want Dona Laura to Ans: Slowly
recall him? 3.Who, according to the lover loved his beloved's
Ans: As the gallant horseman who passed daily physical beauty and grace?
beneath her window tossing flowers. Ans: The others.
72. How does Dona Laura want Dona Gonzalo to 4.What did the speaker love in his beloved?
remember her? Ans: The pilgrim soul/ the sorrows of her
Ans: As the black eyed girl tossing flowers as he changing face.
passed among the roses in the garden. 5.Your changing face' in the poem suggests
73. Who gave Petra the violets? Ans: her soul's search for something meaningful

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6.What does the speaker ask his beloved to 21. What does the poet ask his beloved to make
murmur,a little sadly ? down when she is old?
Ans: How love fled. Ans: the book of memories.
7. Where did the love pace upon? 22. What according to Yeats, should his beloved
Ans: The mountains overhead. dream of?
8.. Why will the speaker's beloved feel sad? Ans: The soft look in her eyes that once she had.
Ans: That love also vanished. 23. What does the phrase shadows deep mean?
9.Mention anyone of the aspects that the speaker Ans: The sorrows and changing mood.
loved in his beloved in "When You Are Old". 24. What does the phrase moments of glad grace
Ans: Her pilgrim soul/the sorrows of her mean?
changing face. Ans: The youthful charm of young age.
10. What does the speaker want his beloved to 7. The Gardener
dream of in "When You Are Old'?
Ans: The soft look in her eyes.
11. What does the speaker want his beloved to
do sitting by the fire in "When you Are Old"?
Ans: To slowly read the book/ to dream about the
soft look.
12.Where, according to the speaker, had love
hidden his face in 'When You Are Old'?(Q.No.6,
July
Ans: According to the speaker love had hidden
his face amid a crowd of stars. 1.Where has the story its genesis?
13.What does the speaker want his beloved to do Ans: In narrator's chance encounter with an old
when she is old in "When You Are Old'? man.
Ans: To take down the book and slowly read/ 2. Where was the old man standing?
remember her past Ans: In a coconut grove near Chennarayapatna.
14.What does the speaker want his beloved to do 3. How were the old man's eyes suffused with?
sitting by the fire in, 'When You are Old'? Ans: With strange memories and native
Ans: To take down the book and slowly read it intelligence.
15. Your changing face' refers to.. 4.What does the old man carry in one hand ?
Ans: Her soul's search for something meaningful Ans. A spade.
and her beauty will fade away. 5. Why does the old man carry a spade ?
16. What does the pilgrim soul' mean? Ans. To tend coconut trees.
Ans: The questing soul. 6.What did the old man tuck under his arm?
17. Who wrote the When you are Old? Ans. A Newspaper
Ans: W.B.yeats 7. What was the old man well-versed in?
18.. The poet is addressing? Ans. Agriculture.
Ans: A young woman the poet has loved. 8. What dramatic improvement took place after
19. When does the young woman take down this the arrival of the old man, at the plantation ?
book according to speakers? Ans. The petty thefts stopped and the income
Ans: When she was old and gray and full of sleep improved dramatically
20. When is a person full of sleep and nodding 9. What did the owner's wife find it hard to
by the fire? decide ?
Ans: When he Or she is old.

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Ans. Whether the oldman's arrival was for the 23. The rivalry between Tammanna and
better or for the worse. Basavaiah started moving away from things that
10. What did the owner's wife become were visible towards an invisible,_____domain.
apprehensive about her husband? Ans: Abstract.
Ans. About his adultery and umpteen other vices, 24. How did Basavaiah perform his agricultural
cultivated lately. tasks?
11. What did the old man bring down when the Ans: More diligently
owner's wife was in a fix? 25. What did Tammanna's songs start making a
Ans: An offering of tender coconuts from a nearby mention about Basavaiah?
tree. Ans: Basavaiah's cruelty and his meanness.
12. Where did the old man and the owner's wife 26. Who were after Tammanna?
sit? Ans: Scholars of folklore.
Ans: On the embankment of the well. 27. started analysing and translating
13. Name one of the trees through which the Tammanna's songs
sun's rays were reaching the walls of the wel Ans: critics
Ans: The foliage of coconut/ mango/jackfruit 28. Who encroached more and more into
trees. Tammanna's land?
14.What did the old man begin by sitting on the Ans: Basavaiah.
embanknment of the well? 29. Who was felicitated as the best poet of his
Ans: His narrative (ಕಕಕ ಕಕಕಕಕಕಕಕ ಕಕಕಕಕ). times?
15. How many acres of wet land did Tammanna Ans: Tammanna
have? 30. Art had become the______of his life.
Ans: Ten acres. Ans: Raison-d'etre. (the most important reason)
16. What was the most important possession of 31. Atwhat point did Basavaiah find the means
Tammanna? of surpassing Tammanna?
Ans: His rival Sangoji or Basavaiah. Ans: At the point that Tammanna was ill.
17. To what pitch did the competition rise
between Tammanna and Basavaiah? 32._______is wealth.
Ans: That there was no land left in the village for Ans: Health
them to buy. 33. Tammanna's_______ was Basavaiah's health.
18.Tammanna had one thousand acres of land Ans: disease
and Basavaiah owned. 34. Mention the second method that Tammanna
Ans: eight hundred. had thought of punishing Basavaiah.
19. What word did Basavaiah send to Ans: By his death.
Tammanna? 35. When did Tammanna forget all his songs and
Ans: Asking him to sell two hundred acres. ballads?
20. How did Basavaiah acquire two hundred Ans. After the death of Basavaiah.
acres of Tammanna's land? 36. Mention one of the thoughts that went in
Ans: He acquired it forcibly. Tammanna.
21. Tammanna could not tolerate this Ans: If he continued at the level of the body,
Ans: invasion Basavaiah would go on offering a stiff
22. What idea did Tammanna get to annihilate competition. OR If this song was separated from
Basavaiah completely? his body. or If there was no relation between the
Ans: Idea of composing all his experiences in the songs and his own body.
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Ans. The young child of Lokya.
38.What became the main reason of Tammanna's
Life in "The Gardener"?
Ans: Art
39. Mention one of the means suggested to
Tammanna through which he would get back
his land from Basavaiah.
Ans: To go to the court of Law/take recourse to
the police/attack on Basavaiah
40.Tammanna's disease was Basavaiah's ____
Ans: health
41. When, according to the narrator, does man
lose his name in "The Gardener"?
Ans: After a particular age.
42. Who did the old man narrate his story to?
Ans: To the plantation owner's wife.
43. Which country had been the sworn enemy
ofAmerica?
Ans: Russia
44. Who hired the old man in 'the Gardener?
Ans: Owner of the plantation.
45. Who was the reason for the owner's lethargy Ans. When it comes to know that it cannot fly and
in 'the Gardener'?
Ans: The Old man.
46. What was the old man?
Ans: He was a labourer, overseer and Philosopher 7. Condemn to live in a shoe' "here 'shoe' refers
47. How many miles did the old man walk to
reach the garden?
Ans: Hundreds of miles.
48. What did in the garden come to end when the the dark in its own way?
old man came to garden ?
Ans: The petty thefts came to end.
49. Tamanna forgets his songs and ballads
because--
Ans: He finds them futile
50. What is the name of the old man ?
Ans: Tamanna
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8. To The Footh From Its Child
1. What would the child's foot like to be?
Ans: A butterfly or an apple.
2.What do stones and bits of glass, streets,
ladders and the paths in the rough earth go on
teaching the foot?
Ans: That it cannot fly/it cannot be a fruit bulging
on the branch.
3. Who is a prisoner condemned to live in a
shoe?
Ans: The child's foot.
4. What is defeated, falls in the battle?
Ans: The child's foot.
5. Why is the child's foot defeated?
cannot become a fruit.
6.Where did the foot condemn to live?
Ans In a shoe.
to..
Ans. Society.
8.________ grows to know the world bit by bit in
Ans: The childs' foot.
9. How does the child's foot grow feeling out life
like?
Ans: Like a blind man.
10. What grows hard and change themselves into
opaque substance
Ans: Soft nails of quartz/ foot.
11. How hard are these soft nails?
Ans: They are as horn as that of horns.
12. Which form does the tiny petaled toes of the
child take?.
Ans: They are in the form of eyeless reptiles.
13. Mention the appearance of soft nails' heads?
Ans: They are triangular.
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14. How do the petaled toes of the child look
like?
Ans: They look like worms.
15. How do the petaled toes grow later?
Ans: They grow callused.
16.The petaled toes are covered with the faint .
Ans: volcanoes
17. How does the child's foot walk?
Ans: It walks without respite.
18. Mention one of the things that the child's, the
man's, the woman's feet walk through.
Ans:
fields/mines/markets/ministries/backwards/
inward/ forward.
19. Where does the foot toil in?
Ans: in its shoe.
20.The foot scarcely taking time to bare itself in Ans: Grimm's Fairy tales.
Ans: love or sleep
21.How long does the child's, man's, woman's
foot walk?
Ans: Until the whole man chooses to stop.
22.Name one of the things that the child's foot
never knew.
Ans: It had ceased to be a foot/ifthey were
burying it so that it could fly or that it could
become an apple.
23. What is the child's foot not aware of?
Ans: That it is a child.
24. What does 'until the whole man chooses to
stop' suggest?
Ans: It means the end of life for man.
25. When does everything seem dark to the foot Ans: The gods wrought and spin the skein of ruin
in "To the foot from its child'?
Ans: When it dies and is buried.
26. What is the childs foot unaware of in the
beginning?
Ans: That its a child.
27. What does the foot stand for?
Ans: A child.
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Disappear
1.The interview with Jorge Luis Borges are
excerpts from
Ans: Twenty four conversations with Borges.
2. What was first literary reading of Borges?
3. Where was Borges educated?
Ans: In his father's library
4. Who was Borges' mother?
Ans: Dona Leonor
5. What according to Borges, is a resource?
Ans. Whatever that happens to him or her in a life
is a resource.
6. Mention any one thing that happens in our
life that becomes a raw material to shape our art?
Ans. Humiliations/our misfortunes/our
embarrassments.
7. Who wrote "The Odyssey'?
Ans: Homer
8. What did Homer write in 'The Odyssey'?
for men, that there might be a song for those yet to
be born.
9.Name one thing that human beings may
transmute.
Ans: Humiliation / misfortune/ discard.
10. What, according to Borges, is the result of
transmitting humiliation, misfortune and
discord?
Ans: Human beings may make eternal works or
works that aspire to be so from the miserable
circumstances of their life.
11. What translation is given for "Alles Nahe
Werd Fern"?
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Ans: All that is near becomes far. 26.When according to Borges, does the poetie act
12. Who, composed the verse "Alles Nahe Werd happen?
Fern"? Ans.When the poet writes it and the reader reads
Ans. Goethe. it.
13."All that is near becomes for". Goethe, in this 27. "This quiet dust was gentleman and ladies"
verse, refers not only to the sunset, but also to this line is from...
……… Ans. A poem by Emily Dickinson.
Ans: life 28. What is the most astounding invention of
14. What has moved away from Borges eyes? man?
Ans: The visible world Ans. Book
15."I still continue pretending that I am not 29………… is an extension of our imagination
____"says Borges. and memory.
Ans: blind Ans. Book
16.What does Borges still go on filling his house 30. What, according to Borges, would happen if
with? books disappear?
Ans: Books Ans. Surely history and man too would disappear.
17. How old was Borges at the time of giving this 31. Which is the most astounding invention
interview? ofman according to Borges?
Ans: Eighty three year old. Ans: Invention of books.
18. What did Borges experience the previous 32. Which library does Borges visualise in his
night of this interview? dream?
Ans: A very strange dream. Ans: Library of Alexandria
19. What did Borges dream in a very strange 33. According to Borges the telescope is the
dream? extension of our..
Ans: He dreamed of the burning of a great library. Ans: sight
20. Agreat library that he dreamed of the 34. Which library does Borges visualize in his
burning was dream?
Ans: library of Alexandria Ans: Library of Alexandria
21. What according to Borges, would be 35.Borges looks upon blindness as a
wonderful to write? Ans: way of life
Ans: A history of book. 36.Whom does Borges look upon as an
22. Whom does Borges remember who writes 'intelligent and gracious woman ?
remarkable comments on books in his decline of Ans: His mother
the west? 37.Mention any one of the things that Borges
Ans: Spengler continued to do even after becoming blind.
23"Decline of the West" is by Ans: He continued to bring books/fill his house
Ans: Spengler with books / to speak about the theme of books.
24. What does Spengler write in his "Decline of 38. When accroding to Borges would history and
the West"? man disappear?
Ans. Predates Borges' attempts and he writes Ans: When books disappear
remarkable comments on books. 39. What according to Borges is an extension of
25. Whose words did Borges quote in one of his our voice?
essays? Ans: Telephone
Ans. George Bernard Shaw's words. 40.The microscope is an extension of our ……
Ans: Sight.

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10. Heaven If You Are Not Here On 13. According to the speaker of "Heaven, if you
are not on Earth' heaven is
Earth
Ans: on earth.

1.Who is the author of the verse, "Heaven If You

Are Not Here On Earth
Ans: Kuvempu/K.V. Puttappa
2.Where according to the poet, is 'heaven"?
.Ans: On Earth
.3.Who creates 'heaven' on earth?
Ans: We ourselves
4.Gods and heavenly nymphs are
Ans: We ourselves
5. Mention one of the things that make this
earth, heaven.
Ans: The gentle sun / roaring stream/rolling surf
of waves.
6.Where does Heaven lie?
Ans: In the splendour of harvest and of moon
light/on earth.
7. Who can create heaven on earth in "Heaven if
you are not on Earth'?
Ans: The poet/We/ Ourselves/ Man
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8. What does heaven imbide and spill?
Ans: The song of nectar
9. How does The poet create heaven on earth ?
Ans: The poet creates heaven by imbibing the
beauty of nature and spilling the nectar of heaven
on the earth
10. According to the poet, what makes this earth,
heaven?
Ans. The roaring stream, rolling surfof waves and
the tender sun shine on verdant gardens and the
gentle sun.
11. When according to the speaker can there be no
Gods in 'Heaven, If you are not on Earth'?
Ans: If we ourselves cannot be gods

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 11. JAPAN AND BRAZIL THROUGH A 16. How does everybody keep bowing to
TRAVELER’S EYE everybody else with?
Ans: With the ceremonious solemnity of a
courtier/ with a great deal of natural and
1.What is Travel writing?
inimitable grace.
Ans: Travel writing is about writing one's
17 Whom do the Japanese stores employ?
experiences of travelling and visiting alien places.
Ans. Bowing girls
2. How did the travellers to Greece record their
18. Bowing girls are compared to..
experiences as a genre of writing?
Ans. Our page boys
Ans: In the form of a diary.
19. What is special about babies carried in
3.When was the invention of new techniques of
Japanese style on their mothers?
navigation and sea voyages take place?
Ans. Whenever mothers bow, babies bowed too.
Ans: During the 9th and 10h centuries.
20. What did the writer notice in deer, in deer
4.When did travel writing become popular?
park?
Ans: When more number of people began to
Ans. It too bowed before it snatches the food from
explore new places on the globe.
the writer
5.What started getting royal patronage and
21. What is a sign of appreciation while eating
support ?
soup? or
Ans: Exploring new places.
What is the sign of appreciation in eating soup?
6.Travel writing is not just a description of a new
or
place born out of curiosity, it also gained
What according to George Mikes is a sign of
Ans: b. political overtones.
appreciation when eating soup in Japan?
7.What has this earth on modern media like TV
Ans: Making a fearful noise/sound.
and Internet ?
22. What will the hostess think ifa fearful noise
Ans: Immense viewership.
is not made when eating soup?
8. When has the travel writing come under
Ans: That he is an ill-mannered lout'.
serious scholarly study?
23. What will the hostess think if a fearful noise
Ans: In the past 50 years.
is made when eating soup?
9. Where has the travel writing become a part of
Ans: Not reasonably well brought up European
cultural studies programme?
makes such disgusting noise. He must be an ill-
Ans: In many universities.
mannered lout.
10. How is Travel writing viewed as?
24. What does not really matter in Brazil?
Ans: Telling comments on how a culture gets
Ans: Whether you reach your destination an hour
represented by another and upholding some
soon, a day late, or not at all / arriving at the
superior and universal cultural values.
destination.
11. What is Japanese mania?
25. What is a matter of grave importance for
Ans: Bowing
characters who get a steering wheel in their
12. "Exquisitely well-mannered people' refers to..
hands?
Ans. Japanese.
Ans: Gaining a tenth of a second.
13. What is a man's castle in Japan?
26. How are streets of Copacabana decorated in
Ans. A man's telephone receiver.
Brazil?
14. What is the one common thing that you
Ans. With beautiful black mosaics
notice when step into Japan?
27.__________are extremely expensive in Brazil..
Ans. 'Bowing'
Ans: a. Motor Cars
15. What seems infectious in Japan?
28. Why are motor cars expensive in Brazil?
Ans. Bowing in formal, more oriental manner,
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Ans. Because import duties are crippling and 12. The Voter
murderous.
29. What happens when leisurely people in
Brazil get a steering wheel in their hands ?
Ans. They drive their vehicles very fast.
30. Who looks-out for pedestrians in Brazil?
Ans: Drivers
31.As soon as a driver notices________ step off
the pavement, he regards him as fair game
Ans: a pedestrian.
32. Avenida Presidente Vargas is known as____
Ans. The worst place in Brazil for pedestrians.
1. How had Roof spent two years in Port
33. Why is pedestrian's life becoming more
Harcourt? Rufus Okeke's short name was ..........
hazardous everyday in Brazil?
Ans: As a bicycle repairer's apprentice. Roof.
Ans. Because the number of motor vehicles is
2. Name the village of Rufus Okeke or Roof
growing by leaps and bounds.
Ans. Umuofia
34. How many times do the drivers force other
3.Which party did Umuofia belong enmasse to?
drivers to commit heinous crimes every hour?
Ans: The People's Alliance Party.
Ans: Twenty times.
4.Why did Rufus Okeke give up his job as a
35._________is the worst place where the
bicycle repairer?
crawling traffie proceed at terrifying speed.
Ans. To return to his people and guide them in
Ans. The Avenida Presidente Vargas.
difficult times.
36. Who are the drivers in Brazil, on the look-out
5. Who was the most illustrious son of the PAP?
for?
Ans: Its Chief, the Honourable Marcus Ibe.
Ans: Pedestrians.
6. Who is the chief of the People's Alliance Party
37.Whose life is becoming more hazardous in
(PAP)?
Brazil every day according to George Mikes?
Ans. Marcus Ibe
Ans: Pedestrian's life
7. What was his portfolio in PAP led
38. What is called as man's castle in Japan
government?
according to Mikes?
Ans: Minister of Culture
Ans: A man's telephone receiver.
8. Opposition to Marcus Ibe was like proverbial..
39. What according to George Mikes do the
Ans. ......fly trying to move a dunghill.
driver and pedestrian finally do after the chase
9. Who was in the service of the Honourable
in Brazil?
Minister Marcus Ibe for the coming or ensuing
Ans: They smile amicably at each other
elections?
40. What does Mikes call, 'A man's castle', in
Ans: Roof/ Rufus Okeke.
Japan?
10. Mention one of the levels that Roof had
Ans: A man's telephone receiver.
become a real expert in election campaigning.
Ans: village/local government/ national.
11.Roof could tell the mood .................. of the
Competitive Class electorate at any given time.
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Ans: Wealth/ chieftaincy titles / doctorate 27. What did Roof say in the house of Ogbuefi
degrees/honours. Ezenwa about Marcus Ibe?
13. What was Marcus Ibe before entering into Ans: That they had a Minister from their village/
politics? that he was one of their own sons.
Ans: A mission school teacher. 28. How many elders were there in Ogbuefi
14. When was Marcus Ibe dismissed from the Ezenwa's room besides Roof and his assistant ?
mission school? Ans: Five
Ans.: When there was a complaint by a female 29. What did an old hurricane lamp give out?
teacher. Ans: Yellowish light.
15. As chief the Honourable, Marcus Ibe had two 30. Where did the elders sit in the house of
long cars and Ogbuefi?
Ans: the biggest house. Ans: On very low stools.
16. Marcus Ibe remained..................to his people. 31. On the floor, direetly in front of each elder,
Ans: devoted lay..............pieces.
17. What had Marcus christened or named his Ans: a. Two shilling pieces
new house in honour of his village? 32.’’Yes, two shillings is too...................... ", said
Ans: Umuofia Mansions. Ezenwa.
18. Who opened Marcus Ibe's house? Ans: shameful
Ans: Archbishop 33. “We have climbed................. today and would
19.Marcus Ibe had slaughtered............ the day his be foolish not to takedown all the firewood we
house was opened.bulls and countless goats to need".
entertain the people on Ans: the iroko tree
Ans: five 34.We have climbed the iroko tree today and
20. Who, according to an old man, was not like would be foolish not to takedown all the fire
the mortar? wood we need. Here the fire wood' refers to......
Ans: Marcus Ibe/ Their son. Ans.: Money
21. What had the villagers told themselves when 35. Who was the enemy that Roof had referred
the feast was over? to?
Ans: That they had underrated the power of the Ans: Progressive Organization Party (POP)
ballot paper before. 36. Who had formed POP?
22. How much money had Marcus Ibe drawn in Ans: The tribes down the coast.
advance for election? 37. Why had the tribes down the coast formed
Ans: Five months' salary. POP?
23.Who conducted 'whispering campaign' in the Ans: To save themselves.
election? 38. What did the tribes down the coast proclaim
Ans. Roof and other stalwarts as the founders of the party from?
24. How did Marcus Ibe arm his campaign boys Ans: From "total political, cultural, social and
with? religious annihilation".
Ans: With eloquent little jute bags. 39. Name one of the typical foolishness that the
25.Whowas the most trusted campaign boy? POP had plunged to go into a straight fight with
Ans: Roof PAP.
26...............was a man of high traditional title in Ans: Providing cars and loudspeakers to a few
the village. local rascals/ thugs to go around/make a lot of
Ans: Ogbuefi Ezenwa noise.

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40. How much did Roof's friend place on the
floor the previous night of the election?
Ans: Five pounds.
41. How was Roof's friend's visit the previous
night?
Ans: It was cold and business-like.
42."We want your vote", said...........................
Ans: b. Roof's friend.
43. What did Roof's eyes never leave as he
spoke?
Ans: The red notes on the floor.
44. "All right", said Roof in............................
Ans: a. English
45. What did Roof's companion bring forward?
Ans: An object covered with a red cloth.
46. What was the object in the red cloth?
Ans: It was a fearsome little affair contained in a
clay pot with feathers stuck into it.
OR
the lyi from Mbanta/ the native diety.
47. Where does iyi come from?
Ans: Mbanta
48.Who was the contestant from POP?
or
Who was the leader ofPOP?
Ans: Maduka
49.But he was a man of quick decision. Here 'he'
refers to...........................
Ans: Roof
50. What had Marcus Ibe hired from Umuru on
election day?
Ans: A high life band.
51. Where did chief the Honourable Marcus Ibe
sit, in his enormous green car?
Ans: He sat in the 'owner's corner.
52. Who came up to the car and greeted Marcus?
Ans: One enlightened villager.
53.What is the symbol of People's Alliance
Party?
Ans: Motor Car
54. Whose symbol was 'man's head'?
Ans: Maduka of POP.
55.What did the newspapers call of Marcus Ibe's
winning election?
Ans: "Landslide victory".
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56. What slogan did Roof shout?
Ans: Vote for the car and you will ride in it.
57. When did Marcus Ibe promptly ask his
campaign boys to put in their ballot papers?
Ans: As soon as the first rush of voters was over.
58.Why did a policeman at the entrance search
Roof?
OR
For what purpose did a policeman search Roof at
the entrance?
Ans: for illegal ballot papers.
59. How could he betray__________even in
secret?
Ans: Marcus
60.He knew at once it was impossible. Here 'it'
refers to
Ans: to go back to the other man and return his
five pounds. e a
61. What thought leapt into Roof's mind?
Ans: To tear the ballot paper in two along the
crease and put one half in each box.
62. To whose box did Roof put the first half into?
Ans: Maduka's box.
63. What did they mark his thumb with?
Ans: Indelible purple ink.
64. Why did they mark Roof's thumb with
indelible purple ink?
Ans: To prevent his return.
65. Who is the author of the short story "The
Voter?
Ans: Chinua Achebe.
66. How long had Roof been a bicycle repairer's
apprentice?
Ans: Two years
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 13. Where there is a Wheel Ans: Women agricultural workers/ quarry
labourers village health nurses/ balwadi and
anganawadi workers/gem cutters/school
teachers/gram sevikas / mid-day meal workers.
11. Name the Arivoli central coordinator and one
of the pioneers of the cycling movement.
Ans: N. Kannammal
12. What did cycling reduce, very importantly?
Ans: It reduced women's dependence on men.
13.________gave cycling social sanction.
Ans: Arivoli Iyakkam
14. Who came to help new learners of cycling?
Ans: Master trainers of Arivoli.
15. What was the widespread perception among
women in the village?
Ans. 'All women ought to learn cycling
1. For whom does cycling as a social movement 16. Who was the popular former district collector
not far fetched? of Pudukkottai district?
Ans: To (tens of thousands) a lakh of neo-literate Ans: Sheela Rani Chunkath
rural women in Pudukkottai district. 17. What was her idea in 1991?
2. Mention one of the curious ways that hold Ans: To train female activists.
them. 18. What was the purpose of Sheela Rani
Ans: Backwardness / expressing defiance/ Chunkath's idea?
hammering at the fetters. Ans: It was to train female activists so that literacy
3. Which seems the chosen medium for rural would reach rural women.
women in Pudukkottai? 19. Which did Sheela Rani Chunkath include as
Or a part of the literacy drive?
What has been a chosen medium for rural Ans: Mobility
women of Pudukkottai? 20. What did Sheela Rani Chunkath ask the
Ans: Cycling banks to provide the women?
4.How many rural women have taken to Ans. To give loans to buy bicycles.
bicycling as a symbolof independence, freedom 21. What played a big role in under mining
and mobility. women's confidence?
Ans: Over 100,000 rural women, most of them neo Ans: Lack of mobility.
literates. 22. What kind of cycles have an additional bar
5. Where have the rural women taken part to from the seat to the handle?
display their new skills? Ans: 'gents' cycles'
Ans: Inpublic 'exhibition cum contest. 23. How many female cyclists took part in the
6.“It’s my right, we can go anywhere…….”______ International Women's Day in 1992?
told the journalist. Ans. 1500 feiale cyclists.
Ans. a. Jameela Bibi 24. Who was the owner of Ram cycles?
7. How did the people of Pudukkottai react, Ans: S. Kannakarajan
when Jameela Bibi started cycling? 25.Who wrote the famous cycling song, that has
Ans. They made dirty remarks. become Arivoli's anthem?
8. What is Fatima? or
Ans: A secondary school teacher. Name the person who wrote the famous cycling
9. What is the cost of a bicycle as mentioned in song mentioned in 'Where There Is a Wheel'.
the essay? or
Ans: Over Rs. 1200/ Name the Arivoli activist who penned the
10. Mention any one who joined the cycling famous cycling song.
rush. Ans. Muthu Bhaskaran

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26. What did Kannakarajan know about P. 14.Water
Sainath? 1.Water is both preserver and__________
Ans: That he was an undercover agent of the sales Ans: destroyer
tax department. 2. What does water know between the village
27. Name the Quarry worker, who worked as and the Wada?
volunteer for Arivoli? Ans: The generations- old strife.
Ans. Manormani. 3. How does the generations - old strife never
28. How many women displayed their cycling dry like?
skills at the public "Exhibition cum Contests"? Ans: Like the dampness on the well's edge.
Ans. More than 70000 women. 4. Water knows that__________never disappears,
29. Who sanctioned fifty mopeds for Arivoli Ans: untouchability
women activities? 5.What knows the difference of race between the
Ans: UNICEF Samaria woman and Jesus the Jew?
30.Give one of the definite economic Ans: Water
implications that the cycling has had. 6.Who, according to the speaker do not have the
Ans: It boosts incomelit gives much more time to right to draw a pot of water from the well?
focus on selling the produce/it enlarges the area Ans: The Panchama
hoped to cover /it can increase the leisure time. 7. What is the agony of the Panchama?
31.______________cycling brings is vital. Ans. They do not have the right to draw a pot of
Ans: the sense of self-respect water on their own.
32. How had Fatima not seen cycling, before 8. How long does a panchama wait with his
rushing Pudukkottai? empty pot near the well?
Ans: As ametaphor for freedom. Ans: All day until a shudra arrives.
33. What is considered as "the humble vehicle" 9. When does the water know the humiliation of
in the lesson 'Where there is a Wheel"? the Wada girl?
Ans. Bicycle Ans: When a shudra poured the water from a
34. Why does Pudukkottai remain unique among distance and falls all over and touches her.
Indian districts? 10. What did the Kamma Landlords ask
Ans: for the stunning proportion of women who Karamchedu Suvarthamma?
have taken to cycling. Ans: Not to pollute the pond water with her pot.
35. Why did UNICEF sanction mopeds to Arivoli 11.Who opposed the Kamma Landlords ?
women activists? OR
Ans: In a single week in 1992, more than 70,000 Name the lady who opposed the Kamma
women displayed their cycling skills at the public Landlords in 'Water'
'exhibition- cum contests' run by Arivoli. Ans: Karamchedu Suvarthamma.
36.Whose brainchild is the cycling movement 12.The water is witness to____________.
according to P. Sainath as mentioned in 'Where Ans: centuries of social injustice.
There Is A Wheel'? 13. What does the speaker remember when he
or sees water?
Whose brain child is the cycling movement as Ans: He remembers how his Wada would thirst
mentioned in 'Where There Is A Wheel'? all day for glass of water.
Ans: The popular former District Collector, Sheela
Rani Chunkath 14. Write the chemical formula for water as
37. Name one of the women who have trained mentioned in the poem.
young women from their community in the art Ans: H2O
of cycling. 15. Water is the Mahad struggle at
Ans: Jameela/Fatima/Avakanni Ans: the Chadar tank
38. In which distriet of Tamil Nadu, according to 16._________embodies tears shed over several
P. Sainath, has cycling been a social movement? generations.
Ans: Pudukkottai Ans: A single drop of water
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wondrous festival?
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Ans: Weekly bath
18. What did the speaker and others carry?
Ans: Heavy pots
19. How are the heavy pots carried by the
speaker and others in the poem?
Ans: On their necks.
20.Whose thatehed roofs did a flame for want of
a pot of water?
or
Name the village that was burnt to ashes for
want of water.
Ans: Malapalle
21. Why is water not a simple thing?
Ans: It can give life but it can also devour lives.
22. What became the killer tsunami wave, that
swallowed the whole village after village?
Ans: The water that refused to quench parched
throats/ the water
23. Who are but play things in the vicious hands
of water?
Ans: The poor.
24. Where can water ignite many struggles and
stress ?
Ans: Between the village and the Wada
OR
Between one state and another
25. Where can water sit innocently?
Ans: In a Bisleri bottle.
26. What does the water from village well force
to do?
Ans: Many a circus feat
27. Where does water slowly, surreptitiously
dance its way into?
or
Where does water slowly move and sit finally?
Ans: The Pepsi man's bottle.
28.With what new name does water dance into
the Pepsi man's bottle?
Ans: Mineral water.
29. What according to the poet is water, now? Competitive Class
Ans: Now, water is a multinational market For All BA,B Sc, B Com
commodity. Mental Ability , Mathematics, English
30. As they say,water is__________
Ans: Omniscient.
31. According to the poor water contains
Ans. The world.
32.What according to the speaker of 'Water' is a
witness to social injustice?
Ans: Water

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