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Q1) In 'Romeo and Juliet', ______ is described as 'gentle....
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b) night
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Q2) In 'Too Dear!', ______ was the initial punishment to the criminal.
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c) death sentence
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Q3) According to the speaker in 'On Children', 'life does not tarry ______'.
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d) yesterday
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Q4) Match the items in Column A with Column B....
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b) A-iii, B-i, C-ii
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Q5) In ‘The Gardener’, ______ bedecked himself....
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c) Basavaiah
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Q6) In the interview, Borges does not make this statement about books:
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c) Modern developments would replace books with more dynamic things
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Q7) The life of ______
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a) pedestrians
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Q8) In the story ‘The Voter’, ______
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b) Maduka
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Q9) The secondary school teacher mentioned in the essay, ‘Where There Is A Wheel’ is ______.
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d) Fatima
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Q10) According to the poem ‘water’, ______ is a witness to the centuries of social injustice.
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c) Water
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Q11) Fill in the blanks with the passive form of the verbs given in the brackets:
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1. was supported 2. was opposed 3. were composed
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Q12) Fill in the blanks with appropriate expressions:
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1. swept across 2. brain child
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Q13) Match the pronouns in column A with the nouns/noun phrases in column B...
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a - iii (Dr. Goldsmith) b - v (House) c - ii (poor woman) d - i (poor woman's husband) e - iv (a small box)
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Q14) Name any two images that Romeo uses to describe Juliet’s beauty in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
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1. A rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear 2. A snowy dove trooping with crows
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Q15) According to the prophet in ‘On Children’, who bends the bow and why?
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God (the Archer) bends the bow so that His arrows (children) may go swift and far.
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Q16) According to Vandana Shiva, what had logging led to in the Himalayan region?
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Logging led to landslides, floods, and scarcity of water, fodder, and fuel.
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Q17) Which is the mighty movement mentioned in the poem ‘water’? Where did it happen?
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The Chundur March (Dalit movement); it happened in Chundur (Andhra Pradesh).
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Q18) Note on Vandana Shiva’s Navdanya Farm
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Started in 1987 in Doon Valley, it is a sanctuary for biodiversity and organic farming. It has conserved over 3,000 rice varieties and promotes "Earth Democracy."
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Q19) Why Don Gonzalo’s cousin left Valencia
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He fled after a duel with a merchant (a suitor to Laura). He hid for a while, then joined the army in Africa, where he supposedly died.
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Q20) How the poet’s love is different in ‘When You Are Old’
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Unlike others who loved her "glad grace" or beauty, the poet loved her "pilgrim soul" and the sorrows of her changing face as she grew old.
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Q21) Life of the foot in the shoe
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The foot loses its childhood dreams of being a butterfly; it becomes a "blind reptile," grows calloused, and is imprisoned in a shoe until death.
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Q22) Heaven lies all over!' illustration
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The poet Kuvempu argues heaven exists on earth through nature: the roaring stream, the sun-drenched forests, and the gentle moonlight.
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Q23) Why Japanese are 'well-mannered'
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George Mikes notes their "mania for bowing." They show deep respect through constant, disciplined bowing, even in crowded public spaces.
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Q24) Criminal's arguments for staying in prison
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He argued his character was ruined, no one would hire him, and the government broke their deal by removing his guard; he demanded a pension.
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Q25) How Dona Laura "decorates" her funeral
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She claims she sat on a rock by the sea, wrote her lover's name in the sand with a cane, and let the rising tide sweep her away.
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Q26) How Tammanna avenged himself
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He composed ballads to make Basavaiah feel small, then "died" to his old life and walked away, leaving Basavaiah with no rival to compete against.
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Q27) Irreplaceable function of books
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Borges states books are an extension of imagination and memory. Unlike the phone or sword, they are sacred, magical, and cannot be replaced.
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Q28) Why Umuofians underrated the ballot
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They initially saw voting as a favor for friends; they only realized its "market value" and power when politicians began offering money for it.
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Q29) Role of Arivoli Iyakkam in Pudukkottai
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This literacy movement gave women the "metaphor for freedom" by teaching them cycling, which provided mobility, independence, and confidence.
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Q30) Passage: V.S. Naipaul (9 Questions)
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a) Trinidad b) BBC c) 1971 d) 'A House for Mr. Biswas' e) His father f) Disintegration of tradition g) insensitives/disconnect h) Darker/pessimistic i) Nobel Prize
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Q31) A) Preposition / Rearrange B) Linkers
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A: i) on foot ii) I came and shut the door of my home / and shut my daughter in. B: and, but, At last.
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Q32) A) Question Tag / 'Wh' Question B) Rectify Errors
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A: i) do I? ii) What was the policeman clearing? B: i) Children like sweets. ii) The sun rises in the east.
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Q33) Note Making: The Phantom
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1. Lee Falk 2. Mr. Walker (The Ghost who walks) 3. American 4. Mandrake the magician.
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Q34) Reported Speech (Roof/Ezenwa)
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Roof said he had given them 3 shillings and asked what else they expected. Ezenwa said they wouldn't have asked more if Marcus was/were poor.
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Q35) Dialogue Completion
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Mayura: Hi, you look stunning today. Madhura: Thank you so much! Madhura: Yes, it is my birthday.
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