Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follo

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1.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

And looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale as a late winter's moon and felt that
old familiar ache, … … …


(a) How can the trees sprint?

(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?

(c) What did she observe?

(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines. 


(a) When we look out of a moving vehicle, we see the objects moving in the opposite direction. This motion is referred to as 'sprinting' by the poetess, who when looked out of her moving car, felt as if the trees were running.

(b) The poetess looked at her mother again to reassure herself of her mother’s presence.

(c) The poetess observed that her mother looked pale and weak.

(d) The poetic device that is used in these lines is personification and simile.

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2.

On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones' and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.

(a) Who are these children?

(b) What is their slag heap?

(c) Why are their bones peeping through their skins?

(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean.

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3.

What did garbage mean to the children of Seemapuri and to their parents?

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4.

How did Rajkumar Shukla establish that he was resolute?

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5.

'Life is what it is all about; .... ‘How is keeping, quiet related to life?

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6.

Mention any four things of beauty that add joy to our life.

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7.

Everybody during the last lesson is filled with regret. Comment. (The Last Lesson)

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8.

Sophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realise. Comment.

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9.

The manner of his (the Tiger King's) death IS a matter of extraordinary interest. Comment .   

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10.

In what condition did Dr. Sadao find the American soldier at the seashore?

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