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Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1)  Who is livon Lomov and why does he visit Chubukov? Ans1) Lvon Lomov was a land owner. He wanted to marry daughter, Natalya, of his neighbour chubuknov. So he dressed himself very finely and visited chubukov to propose Natalya. Q2) How does chubuknov react on hearing Lomov ? Ans2) Chubuknov was very happy. He embraced and kissed Lomov. He calling him his darling and angel. Actually he also wanted to marry her daughter to Lomovo. Q3) How do the peasants of chubukov consider Oxen Meadows? Ans3) The peasants of chubukov had been using Oxen Meadows for the last forty years. They consider it as their own. But actually it belonged to the Lomov. Q4) Why does Natalya think the Behavior of Lomov ‘strange’? Ans4) Natalya thought the behavior of Lomov ‘strange’ because she considered the Oxen Meadows as her own land and Lomov was presenting this land to Chubukov. She told him that they have considered him as a good n...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1)Who was the Gautama Buddha? Ans1) Gautama Buddha was a prince wose full name was Siddhartha Gautama. He started his schooling at the age of twelve and returned after four years. He was married to yashdodhara. They had a son and lived a happy, royal life. Q2) While going for hunting what did Gautama see? Write down its effect? Ans2) Gautama saw a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk begging for alms. These sights shocked him deeply and he realized that the world is full of sorrows. He left the house and went out to seek enlightenment. Q3) Why was Kisa Gotami wandering? Ans3) Kisa Gostami was a lady who lost her only son. She was wandering in grief. She rushed from one house to another in search of medicines. But people called her insane. Q4) What did the Buddha ask the lady to do? Ans4) The Buddha asked the lady to bring a handful of mustard seed. But he warned her she must bring them from a hou...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) Why does the conductor call Valli ‘madam’? Ans1)   The conductor called Valli ‘madam’ because she was bold and was traveling alone. She needed no assistant from anyone. Salutation ‘madam’ suited her personality. Moreover conductor was a jolly fellow. Q2)  why does Valli stand up on the seat? What does he see now? Ans2) Valli arranged money and information about this journey with great difficulties. She wanted to see everything with her own eyes. So she stood on the seat to look outside. She saw that the bus was going along the bank of a canal. The road was very narrow. Beyond it were the palm trees, mountains, and field etc. Q3) What does Valli tell the elderly man when he calls her a child? Ans3) Valli was not happy when elderly man called child. She was very smart and mature girl. She did not want to be called herself a child. She told the man that there was no child. She had paid thirty paise like e...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) When it came to author’s mind to have an otter? Ans1) Author had a pet dog named jonnie who died. The author felt some lonely. He visited southern Iraq in 1956. There this thought came to his mind that that he should have an otter rather than a dog. Q2) what is the most common characteristics of an otter? Ans2) The otter are very fond of water. They become wild on seeing it. . They do not like the water to be stored. They make it flow by rolling, jumping, and plunging in the water. Q3) what was done by mijbil after two days? Ans3) Initially otter was indifferent. After two days, he became aware of his surrounding. He escaped from the bedroom and was found in the bathroom. There he struggling with a chromium tap for water. He managed to open it to get full flow. Q4) What was the amusing scene of the otter in the plane? Ans4) Author placed mij in a box to hide him from airline staff. But mij escaped from the bo...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) What did Pranjol tell Rajvir about Assam ? Ans1) Pranjol told that Assam is heartland of tea cultivation in India . It is their commercial crop. Assam has the largest concentration of plantations in the world. It exports tea to other countries in the world. Q2) What is the Chinese legend about tea? Ans2) A Chinese emperor liked to drink boiled water. Once while boiling the water, some leaves fell into the pot. The boiled water gave a delicious flavor. They were tea- leaves. Since then these leaves are used as beverage. Q3) Write down the Buddhist legend about tea. Ans3) Once a buddhist ascetic was meditating. During his deep mediation he fell asleep. The monk became furious on himself. He cut his eyelids and threw them on to the ground. There grew ten tea plants. Their leaves can remove sleep. Q4) How are the tea leaves collected in Assam ? Ans4) Tea leaves collection is a labour intensive work. In Assam th...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) How one can reach coorg? Ans1) There were road, rail and air routes to reach the coorg. From banglore there are two roads, both were about 250-260 km. The route through Mysore is the most common. The other route was through Neelamangal kurigal and chanrayanapatna. Q2) Write down Alexander’s story about coorg descent? Ans2) There are many stories about Coorg’s decent. According to the one story they are the Greek descent. When Alexander’s army was retreating after a long war, a part ot it moved along the south coast. After a long and tiring journey when their return became impossible, they settled there and married the locals. Q3) What is the story of coorg for Arab origin? Ans3) There are many stories about Coorg’s decent. One of them linked their history to the Arab origin. They were long, black coat with an embroidered waist -belt known as ‘kuppia’, it resembles the dress ‘kuffia’ that is worn by the Arabs and th...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) What does the author tell about the baker when he was a child in Goa ? Ans1) The author told that during his childhood, the baker were the most important person of the society. He visited a house twice a day. The jingling sound indicated his arrival. Q2) How can one recognize a baker?  Ans2) A baker is recognize by his musical entry of jingling of the bamboo stick. He supported the basket on his head with one hand and  banged the bamboo on the ground with the other hand. Q3) How would the children behave on the arrival of a baker? Ans3) The children would rush towards the baker. They climbed on a bench to peep into the basket. Ladies f the house purchased loaves for the elders and the bangles for the children. Q4)What used to be the dress of a baker? Ans4)The baker wore a dress known as kabai. It was a peculiar dress. It consisted of a single piece frock down to the knees. Later in the childhood of th...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1)How did Maddie feel after listening to the note from Wanda’s father? Ans1) After listening to the note from Wanda’s father Maddie was deeply stirred. She was feeling guilty of becoming mute supporter of Peggie in teasing Wanda. She decided to write to peggy to stop making fun of Wanda anymore. Q2) What excuses does Peggy   think up for her behaviour? Why? Ans2) Peggy was much disturbed on listening letter of Wanda’s father. She was feeling bad. But she tried to pacify by thinking that she had never called her a foreigner and she had even not made fun of her name. She had only made fun of Wanda for her claim of having hundred dresses in her closet. She thought either Wanda was a liar or she was too dumb. Q3) What did Peggy and Maddie write in their letter to Wanda? Ans3) By writing a letter to Wanda Peggy and Maddie wanted to express their new feelings about her. They informed her that she had won the contest...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) Why did other girls see Wanda different from them? How did they treat her? Ans1) To other girls Wanda’s name was funny. It was different from the usual names in that area. Moreover Wanda lived on Boggins Heights and her clothes were not so clean. She was a laughing stock of other girls. They made fun of her hundred dresses. Q2) Who was peggy? Why and how did she make fun of Wanda? Ans2) Peggy was the most popular, pretty and rich girl in the school. Peggy made fun of Wanda because she always wore a faded blue dress. Peggy and her friend surrounded Wanda and asked her to tell how many dresses she had in her closet. Then they burst into laughter. Q3)  How can you estimate that Peggy was a soft girl? Ans3) Peggy was a soft girl. It was her habit to protect smaller children from bullies. On seeing an animal mistreated, she cried for hours together. She was cruel to Wanda only because she always claimed to have hun...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) Why did Anne keep a diary? Ans1) Anne had many ideas and views that she wanted to share. But she had no real friends. So she decided to keep a diary and tell all her secrets to it. Q2) Explain “teachers are the most unpredictable creatures”. Ans2) When result was about to be declared, Anne was thinking that there are so many dummies in the class that about a quarter of the class should be kept back. But she believed that no one can predict result as it depended on the moods of the teacher and teachers are the most unpredictable creatures. Q3) How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her first essay? Ans3) Anne tried to justify that talking is a student’s trait. She tried to control many times. But she failed because she had inherited this trait from her mother. She could do nothing about the inherited trait as her mother was more talkative than her. Q4) What was the last essay for Anne and write its result...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) What ideals does Mandela set out for the future of south Africa in his speech? Ans1) Nelson Mandela said we got political freedom but we should pledged to liberate all the people from poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discriminations. Q2)What is Mandela’s opinion regarding oppressor and oppressed? Ans2) In the eyes of Mandela both oppressor and oppressed are deprived of their humanity. Oppressor is a prisoner of hatred. And oppressed has no confidence in humanity. He is also in the similar manner. So, both needs to be liberated. Q3) Mandela had ‘hunger for freedom’. How did it change his life? Ans3) Mandela longed for freedom since his boyhood.  He desperately wanted freedom. But as a student he wished freedom only for himself. Gradually his hunger for freedom increased many fold. It became the greater hunger for the freedom of his people. This changed him and he joined the African National cong...

Part-2 Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) What did Frederick Forsyth think when he called Paris control? Ans1) When Frederick Forsyth called Paris control; he was confident and happy to be in time for his breakfast. He thought to enjoy a good English breakfast. Q2) Why did the writer decide to go back to Paris ? Ans2) As instructed b Paris control the writer turned his aero plane Dakota west towards England . Suddenly he saw the storm of cloud. They looked like black mountains. It was impossible to cross them. And he did not have enough fuel to fly around them. So he decided to go back to Paris . Q3) Who rescued the first pilot in Dakota and how? Ans3) When the writer’s aero plane Dakota was lost in the storm he saw another aero plane that came for his rescue. It had no light on its wings. Dakota followed the mysterious plane that guided him through the mountains of black clouds and took the writer safely across the clouds.  Q4) What pr...

Part-1 Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) How did the young seagull’s parents treat him initially when he did not fly? Ans1) Initially when the young seagull afraid to fly his parents called to him shrilly. They scolding him and threatened to let him starve. The whole family taunted him coward. Q2) What did young seagull do to attract his mother‘s attention? Ans2) Young seagull was alone as his whole family had flown away. He was hungry and tried to attract the attention of his mother. He stood on the brink of the ledge, on one leg with other leg hidden under his wing. He closed one eye and pretended to be falling asleep. Q3) What trick did the young seagull’s mother play to make him fly from his ledge? Ans3) The young seagull’s mother was much worried about the young seagull who could not mustered courage to fly along with his broth and sister.  She played a trick to overcome this problem. She tore a piece of fish and fly towards young seagull...

Answer following questions in about 40 words. Q1) How did Lencho express his happiness when rains come and how did he explained the raindrops? Why did his happiness turned into sorrow? A ns1) Lencho field were ready with corn crop. He was waiting for the rain. When the rain came he became very happy. He explained these rain drops as coins. But his happiness turned into sorrow, when the large hailstones started to fall. All of his crop destroyed. Q2) How did hailstones affect Lencho‘s life? Ans1) Lencho, a simple farmer, grew corn in his field and he wanted only a downpour. Rain came. He was very happy. But his happiness was short lived. Rain turned into hailstones. Not a leaf remained on the field. The crop was totally destroyed. There was nobody to help him. His life filled with sorrow. Q3) What kind of a person was the postmaster? What did the postmaster do so as not to shake Lencho’s faith in god? Ans3) The postmaster was a very kind and fun-loving man. He was ...