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The document contains a reading comprehension passage and questions about the passage. It tests understanding of vocabulary, identifying incorrect words, reordering sentences, answering questions about a quoted excerpt, identifying poetic devices, and answering short-form and long-form questions. The passage is about care, concern and helping an old doll maker by selling his dolls to earn money.

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The document contains a reading comprehension passage and questions about the passage. It tests understanding of vocabulary, identifying incorrect words, reordering sentences, answering questions about a quoted excerpt, identifying poetic devices, and answering short-form and long-form questions. The passage is about care, concern and helping an old doll maker by selling his dolls to earn money.

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Unit-1 – Care and concern

Q.1. Find a word which means the same as: (from the passage)

a) rudeness – impudence

b) an exhibition showing a succession of events – pageant

Q.2. Find a word which is opposite of: (from the passage)

a) discourage x courage

b) frequently x occasionally

Q.3. There is an error in each line. Write the incorrect and the correct word
in the space provided :

Sitting under an tree, as the old man guarded


vegetable patch, often dozing off, her granddaughter
would came and put her arms around his neck
from behind. This make the old man very happy.

Incorrect Correct

a) an a

b) her his

c) came come

d) make made

Q.4. Reorder the words and make a meaningful sentence:

a) work/was/and/of/out/old man/the/heartbroken/became/soon
The old man became heartbroken and was soon out of work.
b) close/night/midnight/again/me/on/at/permanent/would
At midnight permanent night would close on me again.

Q.5. Read the extract and answer the following questions:

1. “I will remember what I was. I am sick of rope and chain-


I will remember my old strength and all my forest –affairs.
I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugarcane.
I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.”

a) Name the poem and the poet.


The name of the poem is ‘Toomai of the Elephant’ and the poet is
Rudyard Kipling.
b) Who is the speaker?
The elephant is the speaker.
c) Where do you think this elephant is? Where does it wish to go?

The elephant is in captivity where it is made to work for food and


tortured to obey. It wishes to escape to its home in the wild.

2. ”Eat hearty, rest well, and keep an eye on our vegetable patch to chase away the
cattle try to enter it.”

a) Who is the speaker and to whom is he speaking?

The son-in-law of the doll maker is the speaker. He is speaking to the old,
master craftsman who was the doll maker.

b) Who is the author of this story?

Rabindranath Tagore is the author of this story.

Q.6. Find the poetic device used:

‘Out to the winds’ untainted kiss, the waters’ clean caress’

The poetic device used in the above lines is personification.

Q.7. Answer the following questions briefly (30-40 words each):


a) How did the old artisan’s son-in-law earn his living?

The old artisan’s son-in-law earned his living by making earthen lamps,
which he ferried to the town.

b) Why was Subhadra’s mother angry with Subhadra’s grandfather?

Subhadra’s mother was angry with Subhadra’s grandfather because he spent


his entire day playing with Subhadra, neglecting his duties. He was making dolls
instead of watching the vegetable patch.

c) What did Helen’s friend see during her long walk in the woods? What was
Helen’s reaction?
Helen’s friend said that she saw ‘nothing in particular’ during her long walk in
the woods. Helen was surprised by her friend’s reply. Though she was blind,
she could feel so many things through mere touch but her friend, who was able
to see, couldn’t find anything worthy of note.

d) Name the places Helen would visit on the second day?

Helen would like to visit the museum, to see the pageant of man’s progress
and in the evening she would like to spend at the theatre or at the movies.

Q.8. Answer the following in detail (100-150 words):

a) Imagine you are Kishanlaal. One day you see Subhadra at the palace trying to
sell the old artist’s dolls. You recognise the dolls and decide to sell to help the old
man. You write a page in your diary that night. Write the diary entry. (Sec-A)

23 July 2020

In the palace courtyard today, I had an unexpected encounter. I met Subhadra, the
charming granddaughter of the old doll maker. She was a sweet little girl when I saw
her last with her grandfather. In fact, I recognised her because of the dolls she was
carrying.
I introduced myself to her and told her that I knew and respected her grandfather.
She told me that she had come to the palace to sell her grandfather’s dolls. I knew
that it would not be easy. The old man had himself tried to sell them to the palace
children but was unsuccessful. I decided to help the old man.
I asked her to give those dolls to me and that I would sell them for her. She agreed
and gave them to me happily.
b) Mind Map (Sec-B)

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