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Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual. Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realised she hadn’t heard,” says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven, her marks had deteriorated, and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist. It was then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage. They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school for the deaf. “Everything suddenly looked black,” says Evelyn.
Q. Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was ___________ to play the piano.
  • a)
    wait
  • b)
    waiting
  • c)
    siting
  • d)
    watching
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Let's Tute answered
The paragraph mentions that Evelyn's mother noticed something was wrong "when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano."

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
“Ain’t you going to put the boots in?” said Harris. And I looked round, and found I had forgotten them. That’s just like Harris. He couldn’t have said a word until I’d got the bag shut and strapped, of course. And George laughed — one of those irritating, senseless laughs of his. They do make me so wild. I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea occurred to me. Had I packed my toothbrush? I don’t know how it is, but I never do know whether I’ve packed my toothbrush. My toothbrush is a thing that haunts me when I’m travelling and makes my life a misery. I dream that I haven’t packed it, and wake up in a cold perspiration, and get out of bed and hunt for it. And, in the morning, I pack it before I have used it, and have to unpack again to get it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag; and then I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my pocket-handkerchief.
Q. Who do make author so wild?
  • a)
    George
  • b)
    Harris
  • c)
    Both (a) & (b)
  • d)
    None of these
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Rohit Sharma answered
Harris did not tell him about the boots till he had shut the bag and strapped it. George laughed at the narrator as he had forgotten to pack his boots before strapping the bag.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
On Sunday afternoons Grandmother sent her down to the drawing-room to have a “nice talk with Father and Mother”. But the little girl always found Mother reading and Father stretched out on the sofa, his handkerchief on his face, his feet on one of the best cushions, sleeping soundly and snoring. She sat on a stool, gravely watched him until he woke and stretched, and asked the time — then looked at her. “Don’t stare so, Kezia. You look like a little brown owl.” One day, when she was kept indoors with a cold, her grandmother told her that father’s birthday was next week and suggested she should make him a pin-cushion for a gift out of a beautiful piece of yellow silk.
Q. Find a word that means ‘undisturbed’.
  • a)
    stretched
  • b)
    soundly
  • c)
    snoring
  • d)
    handkerchief
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Not interrupted or changed in any way

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
The previous year, Albert’s parents had moved to Milan, and left their son with relatives. After prolonged discussion, Einstein got his wish to continue his education in German-speaking Switzerland, in a city which was more liberal than Munich. Einstein was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in physics, and after finishing school, he decided to study at a university in Zurich. But science wasn’t the only thing that appealed to the dashing young man with the walrus moustache.
Q. Why did Einstein decide to continue his study in Switzerland?
  • a)
    It was a good city.
  • b)
    It was more liberal than Munich.
  • c)
    He liked the place.
  • d)
    All
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Einstein preferred studying in Switzerland rather than Germany because the strict discipline of the school was not in accordance with the free spirit of Einstein. He chose to complete his studies in Switzerland where the environment was more liberal.

Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Q. What is the dilemma of the poet?
  • a)
     whether he will be able to come back to the second road or not
  • b)
    whether he will get time for himself
  • c)
    whether he will be successful
  • d)
    which road he had to choose when the road split into two
Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Explanation:

  • The dilemma of the poet is which road he had to choose when the road split into two.
  • He is faced with a decision to take either the well-travelled road or the less travelled road.
  • He is unsure of the outcome of his decision and reflects on it with a sigh, knowing that it will have a significant impact on his life.
  • The poet ultimately chooses the road less travelled by, believing that it will make a difference in his life.
  • This decision represents the broader theme of choices and their consequences in life.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
Margie was scornful. “School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school.” Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in Geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the Country Inspector.
Q. Who had been giving her test?
  • a)
    mechanical teacher
  • b)
    math teacher
  • c)
    history teacher
  • d)
    geography teacher
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
Santosh’s parents were affluent landowners who could afford to send their children to the best schools, even to the country’s capital, New Delhi, which was quite close by. But, in line with the prevailing custom in the family, Santosh had to make do with the local village school. So, she decided to fight the system in her own quiet way when the right moment arrived. And the right moment came when she turned sixteen. At sixteen, most of the girls in her village used to get married. Santosh was also under pressure from her parents to do the same.
Q. Why was Santosh sent to a local school?
  • a)
    they were rich
  • b)
    because of the prevailing trend
  • c)
    they were poor
  • d)
    were not able to afford to send to a good school
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Nilofar Patel answered
B

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
One of the famous papers of 1905 was Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, according to which time and distance are not absolute. Indeed, two perfectly accurate clocks will not continue to show the same time if they come together again after a journey if one of them has been moving very fast relative to the other. From this followed the world’s most famous formula which describes the relationship between mass and energy:
E = mc2
While Einstein was solving the most difficult problems in physics, his private life was unravelling. Albert had wanted to marry Mileva right after finishing his studies, but his mother was against it. She thought Mileva, who was three years older than her son, was too old for him. She was also bothered by Mileva’s intelligence. “She is a book like you,” his mother said. Einstein put the wedding off.
Q. Before securing a job what did Einstein do and which theory did he give to the world?
  • a)
    sat at home
  • b)
    worked
  • c)
    \He gave the theory of mass and energy.
  • d)
    He gave the theory of mass and energy.
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
E = mc2, an equation in German-born physicist Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity that expresses the fact that mass and energy are the same physical entity and can be changed into each other.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
As for music, she explains, “It pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair.” When she plays the xylophone, she can sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she can feel the resonances flowing into her body. On a wooden platform she removes her shoes so that the vibrations pass through her bare feet and up her legs.
Q. What does she feel flowing into her body?
  • a)
    echo
  • b)
    resonance
  • c)
    buzzing
  • d)
    none of these
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
By leaning against the drums, she can feel the resonances flowing into her body. On a wooden platform, she removes her shoes so that the vibrations pass through her bare feet and up her legs. She says that music pours in through every part of her body. It tingles in the skin, her cheekbones and even in her hair.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
But Evelyn was not going to give up. She was determined to lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music. One day she noticed a girl playing a xylophone and decided that she wanted to play it too. Most of the teachers discouraged her but percussionist Ron Forbes spotted her potential. He began by tuning two large drums to different notes. “Don’t listen through your ears,” he would say, “try to sense it some other way.” Says Evelyn, “Suddenly I realised I could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down.” Forbes repeated the exercise, and soon Evelyn discovered that she could sense certain notes in different parts of her body. “I had learnt to open my mind and body to sounds and vibrations.” The rest was sheer determination and hard work.
Q. How did Evelyn hear music?
  • a)
    through drums
  • b)
    through fingers
  • c)
    through sticks
  • d)
    by feeling vibrations through her different parts of body- fingers, hair, feet
Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

Avinash Patel answered
Evelyn learned to hear music by sensing vibrations through different parts of her body. The passage describes how she felt the higher drum vibrations from the waist up and the lower drum vibrations from the waist down, and eventually, she discovered she could sense certain notes in various parts of her body. This indicates that she used multiple parts of her body to feel the vibrations of the music.
Therefore, the correct option is: by feeling vibrations through her different parts of body - fingers, hair, feet

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
He also felt a special interest in a fellow student, Mileva Maric, whom he found to be a “clever creature.” This young Serb had come to Switzerland because the University in Zurich was one of the few in Europe where women could get degrees. Einstein saw in her an ally against the “philistines”— those people in his family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds. The couple fell in love. Letters survive in which they put their affection into words, mixing science with tenderness. Wrote Einstein: “How happy and proud I shall be when we both have brought our work on relativity to a victorious conclusion.” In 1900, at the age of 21, Albert Einstein was a university graduate and unemployed. He worked as a teaching assistant, gave private lessons and finally secured a job in 1902 as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. While he was supposed to be assessing other people’s inventions, Einstein was actually developing his own ideas in secret. He is said to have jokingly called his desk drawer at work the “bureau of theoretical physics.”
Q. At what age did Einstein do his graduation?
  • a)
    at 21 years of age
  • b)
    at 22 years of age
  • c)
    at 23 years of age
  • d)
    at 24 years of age
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
He passed his graduation in 1900 at the age of 21.

Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
So she made a very little cake,
But as it baking lay,
She looked at it, and thought it seemed
Too large to give away.
Therefore she kneaded another,
And still a smaller one;
But it looked, when she turned it over,
As large as the first had done.
Q. The little woman baked a cake for Saint Peter. Then why did she not give him?
  • a)
    She thought it was too big to give away.
  • b)
    She thought it was too small for the holy man.
  • c)
    She thought the holy man won’t like it.
  • d)
    She thought the cake was not tasty.
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
She didn't give the little cake to saint peter because she was a very greedy lady who thought that the cake would be great for saint peter.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other
Q. What does ‘condemn’ means?
  • a)
    express complete disapproval
  • b)
    agreed
  • c)
    criticise
  • d)
    rebuke
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Rohit Sharma answered
Explanation of "condemn":
  • Definition: 'Condemn' means to express strong disapproval or criticism of someone or something, usually in a public context.
  • Usage: The word 'condemn' is often used in relation to moral or ethical judgments, where someone's actions or decisions are considered unacceptable or harmful.
  • Example: The government's decision to cut funding for education was widely condemned by teachers, parents, and students alike.
  • Synonyms: Some synonyms for 'condemn' include denounce, censure, criticize, and rebuke. While these words have similar meanings, they can have slightly different connotations and may be used in different contexts.
  • In the extract: In the given extract, the author is urging people to remember that when they are told to hate others, they are essentially condemning themselves. This means that by giving in to hatred, they are expressing disapproval and criticism of themselves and their own actions.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starved.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.
Q.  'Their hands are ours". How?
  • a)
    They have the same type of hands as we do.
  • b)
    The people of other countries labour with their hands just as we do.
  • c)
    They make the same use of their hands as we do. 
  • d)
    None of the above.
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Arizona Academy answered
In this poem, the poet uses the device of metaphor in the 3rd line as he compares his fellow human beings with his own brothers. He again uses it in the 6th line when he compares war with winter since reduced resources are available at both those sides.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
I rather pride myself on my packing. Packing is one of those many things that I feel I know more about than any other person living. (It surprises me myself, sometimes, how many such things there are.) I impressed the fact upon George and Harris and told them that they had better leave the whole matter entirely to me. They fell into the suggestion with a readiness that had something uncanny about it. George spread himself over the easy-chair, and Harris cocked his legs on the table. This was hardly what I intended. What I had meant, of course, was that I should boss the job, and that Harris and George should potter about under my directions, I pushing them aside every now and then with, “Oh, you!” “Here, let me do it.” “There you are, simple enough!” — really teaching them, as you might say. Their taking it in the way they did irritated me. There is nothing that irritate me more than seeing other people sitting about doing nothing when I’m working.
Q. What does uncanny mean?
  • a)
    strange
  • b)
    mysterious
  • c)
    difficult to explain
  • d)
    all
Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

Aditi Sharma answered
Uncanny means strange, mysterious and difficult to explain.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
Laboriously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed table she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side.
That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father’s great speech for the Port Authority had been lost. Rooms were searched; servants questioned. Finally Mother came into Kezia’s room. “Kezia, I suppose you didn’t see some papers on a table in our room?” “Oh yes,” she said, “I tore them up for my surprise.”“What!” screamed Mother. “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.”
Q. Who made hue and cry in the house?
  • a)
    Kezia’s father
  • b)
    Kezia’s mother
  • c)
    Kezia’s grandmother
  • d)
    None of these
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
There was a hue and cry in the house because Kezia had torn her father's beautifully written great speech to be delivered at the Port Authority. She had done this just to fill the cushion made for his father.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
Evelyn also gives free concerts in prisons and hospitals. She also gives high priority to classes for young musicians. Ann Richlin of the Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children says, “She is a shining inspiration for deaf children. They see that there is nowhere that they cannot go.” Evelyn Glennie has already accomplished more than most people twice her age. She has brought percussion to the front of the orchestra and demonstrated that it can be very moving. She has given inspiration to those who are handicapped, people who look to her and say, ‘If she can do it, I can.’ And, not the least, she has given enormous pleasure to millions.
Q. To whom has Evelyn given inspiration?
  • a)
    handicapped people
  • b)
    poor children
  • c)
    prisoners
  • d)
    none of these
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Evelyn has brought percussion to the front of the orchestra. She has given inspiration to those who are handicapped.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
As for music, she explains, “It pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair.” When she plays the xylophone, she can sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she can feel the resonances flowing into her body. On a wooden platform she removes her shoes so that the vibrations pass through her bare feet and up her legs.
Q. Who explains about the music?
  • a)
    Ron Forbes
  • b)
    Evelyn
  • c)
    Isabel
  • d)
    None of these
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Vivek Rana answered
So here Evelyn explains how she identifies music. It creates sensation in her skin, in her cheekbones and even in her hair. So, every part of Evelyn's body responds to music. When she plays the xylophone, she can sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
To the little girl he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss, to which she responded with “Goodbye, Father”. And oh, there was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter and fainter down the long road! In the evening when he came home, she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice in the hall. “Bring my tea into the drawing-room... Hasn’t the paper come yet? Mother, go and see if my paper’s out there — and bring me my slippers.”“Kezia,” Mother would call to her, “if you’re a good girl you can come down and take off father’s boots.” Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs, more slowly still across the hall, and push open the drawing-room door. By that time, he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying to the little girl. “Well, Kezia, hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside. Have you been a good girl today?” “I d-d-don’t know, Father.”
Q. What is this story about?
  • a)
    children
  • b)
    fears of children
  • c)
    childhood fears
  • d)
    a little girl and her feelings for her father
Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
'The Little Girl' is the story of a little girl, Kezia who misunderstood her father's strictness and usually remained scared of him. She kept a distance from him, whenever he would be at home. She considered him to be as big as a giant.

Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
One day when I was in the fifth standard at the Rameshwaram Elementary School, a new teacher came to our class. I used to wear a cap which marked me as a Muslim, and I always sat in the front row next to Ramanadha Shastri, who wore the sacred thread. The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest’s son sitting with a Muslim boy. In accordance with our social ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go and sit on the back bench. I felt very sad, and so did Ramanadha Shastri. He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row. The image of him weeping when I shifted to the last row left a lasting impression on me.
Q. In which class was the writer studying at that time?
  • a)
    third standard
  • b)
    fourth standard
  • c)
    fifth standard
  • d)
    sixth standard
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Garv Bokariya answered
FIFTH STANDARD

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
No,
The root is to be pulled out —
Out of the anchoring earth.
It is to be roped, tied,
And pulled out — snapped out
Or pulled out entirely,
Out from the earth-cave,
And the strength of the tree exposed
The source, white and wet,
The most sensitive, hidden
For years inside the earth.
Q. The root of a tree is said to be its -
  • a)
    most sensitive part
  • b)
    most hidden part
  • c)
    most secret part
  • d)
    most prized part
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
The tree's roots are firmly fixed in the anchoring earth and, in order to kill a tree, it must be uprooted (most sensitive part). It is to be roped, tied and pulled out from the earth-cave. After uprooting, the root is to be exposed to sunlight, and air for scorching and choking.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
A marriage as early as that was the last thing on her mind. She threatened her parents that she would never marry if she did not get a proper education. She left home and got herself enrolled in a school in Delhi. When her parents refused to pay for her education, she politely informed them of her plans to earn money by working part time to pay her school fees. Her parents then agreed to pay for her education.
Q. What was the last thing on her mind?
  • a)
    study
  • b)
    sports
  • c)
    marriage
  • d)
    none of the above
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Dont Memorise answered
A marriage as early as that was the last thing on her mind. She threatened her parents that she would never marry if she did not get a proper education. She left home and got herself enrolled in a school in Delhi.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
Margie was scornful. “School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school.” Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in Geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the Country Inspector.
Q. Why did Margie’s mother send for the country inspector?
  • a)
    due to poor performance in Geography
  • b)
    due to poor performance in History
  • c)
    due to poor performance in English
  • d)
    due to poor performance in Hindi
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Atharva Kumar answered
Answer:

Introduction:
Margie's mother sent for the country inspector due to Margie's poor performance in Geography. Margie had been doing worse and worse in her Geography tests, which led her mother to take this action.

Explanation:
Margie's poor performance in Geography was the reason behind her mother's decision to send for the country inspector. The paragraph mentions that the mechanical teacher had been giving Margie test after test in Geography, and she had been performing poorly in these tests. This decline in her performance was a cause for concern for Margie's mother.

Key Points:
1. Margie's hatred for school and her dislike for the mechanical teacher.
2. Margie's declining performance in Geography tests.
3. Margie's mother's sorrowful reaction to her poor performance.
4. The decision to send for the country inspector.

Explanation of the Correct Answer:
The correct answer is option 'A' - due to poor performance in Geography. This is evident from the information provided in the paragraph that Margie's mother sent for the country inspector because Margie had been doing worse and worse in her Geography tests. The paragraph explicitly mentions the subject of Geography when it states that the mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in Geography. Margie's poor performance in this subject is the main cause for her mother's concern and subsequent decision to call for the country inspector.

Conclusion:
Margie's mother sent for the country inspector due to Margie's poor performance in Geography. This decision was prompted by Margie's declining performance in the subject, which had been a cause for concern for her mother.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He said to her mother, “It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory.” And he patted Margie’s head again.
Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely. So, she said to Tommy, “Why would anyone write about school?”
Q. Country inspector slowed the Geography sector up to an average __________ level.
  • a)
    ten year
  • b)
    eleven year
  • c)
    nine year
  • d)
    eight year
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Margie was doing badly in geography because the geography sector of the mechanical teacher had been adjusted at a higher level. In order to help her, the County Inspector slowed down the geography sector to an average ten-year level.

Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
He won’t do what you tell him.
So, come, let’s build strong homes, Let’s joint the doors firmly.
Practise to firm the body.
Make the heart steadfast.
Q. Which figure of speech has been used in the poem?
  • a)
    alliteration
  • b)
    All of these
  • c)
    personification
  • d)
    anaphore and metaphoric 
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
The figures of speech used in the extract are:
  1. Alliteration: The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of closely connected words, as in "build strong homes" and "Make the heart steadfast."
  2. Anaphora: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, as seen in "Let’s build... Let’s joint... Let’s firm..."
  3. Metaphor: Implicit comparison between different things, as in "Make the heart steadfast," which compares the heart to a steadfast, strong entity without using "like" or "as."
  4. Personification: Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities. Although it's not explicitly clear in the given lines, the context might suggest personification in other parts of the poem.
So, the correct answer is: All of these.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
“But it was for your birthday.” Down came the ruler on her little, pink palms. Hours later, when Grandmother had wrapped her in a shawl and rocked her in the rocking-chair, the child clung to her soft body.“ What did God make fathers for?” she sobbed. “Here’s a clean hanky, darling. Blow your nose. Go to sleep, pet; you’ll forget all about it in the morning. I tried to explain to Father but he was too upset to listen tonight.” But the child never forgot. Next time she saw him, she quickly put both hands behind her back and a red colour flew into her cheeks.
Q. She sobbed. Who is ‘She’?
  • a)
    Her mother
  • b)
    Kezia
  • c)
    Grandmother
  • d)
    Both ( b) and (c)
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Imk Pathshala answered
The pronoun "she" refers to Kezia, the child in the story, who is upset after being punished by her father. Hence, the correct answer is B: Kezia.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual. Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realised she hadn’t heard,” says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven, her marks had deteriorated, and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist. It was then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage. They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school for the deaf. “Everything suddenly looked black,” says Evelyn.
Q. When was her deafness confirmed?
  • a)
    at 6 years
  • b)
    at 8 years
  • c)
    at 11 years
  • d)
    at 13 years
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Her deafness was noticed when she was eight-year-old. It was confirmed by the time she was eleven.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
As for music, she explains, “It pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair.” When she plays the xylophone, she can sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she can feel the resonances flowing into her body. On a wooden platform she removes her shoes so that the vibrations pass through her bare feet and up her legs.
Q. How does Evelyn hear the sound of music?
  • a)
    by her ear
  • b)
    by hearing aids
  • c)
    parts of her body
  • d)
    none of these
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
Evelyn hears the sound of xylophone through her finger tips. 2. She removes her shoes on a wooden platform during her performance so that she can feel the vibrations of music through her feet to legs.

Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
They tell them a curious story —
I don’t believe ’tis true.
And yet you may learn a lesson
If I tell the tale to you.
Once, when the good Saint Peter
Lived in the world below,
And walked about it, preaching,
Just as he did, you know
Q. What does the poetess say about the story?
  • a)
    She believes the story to be true.
  • b)
    She does not believe the story to be true.
  • c)
    She was in dilemma.
  • d)
    None of these.
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Swati Verma answered
The poet says that she is going to tell a strange tale told by the people of Northlands. She admits that though the story may not be true, still she wants to tell the story because it contains a lesson in generosity and philanthropy. She wants the readers to learn a lesson from the poem.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.
Q. How do we humiliate the Mother Earth?
  • a)
    by polluting
  • b)
    by fighting
  • c)
    by killing one another
  • d)
    by hatred
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Meera Rana answered
We defile the earth by considering other human beings as our enemies, outsiders and foreigners; by dividing our earth into countries and by developing enmity against another group of people. We wage wars and the weapons of war pollute the air we breathe, by raising dust and smoke and by piling debris on earth.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
The girl was given the name ‘Santosh’, which means contentment. But Santosh was not always content with her place in a traditional way of life. She began living life on her own terms from the start. Where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses, Santosh preferred shorts. Looking back, she says now, “From the very beginning I was quite determined that if I choose a correct and a rational path, the others around me had to change, not me.”
Q. How was Santosh different from other girls?
  • a)
    She was prettier.
  • b)
    She was slim.
  • c)
    She didn’t like and do any traditional things rather always did things of her choice.
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Rohit Sharma answered
Unlike other girls of her village, Santosh was not content with the traditional way of life. She used to wear shorts and went on to study further at Delhi. She did not get married at sixteen as most of the girls of her village did.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
Santosh’s parents were affluent landowners who could afford to send their children to the best schools, even to the country’s capital, New Delhi, which was quite close by. But, in line with the prevailing custom in the family, Santosh had to make do with the local village school. So, she decided to fight the system in her own quiet way when the right moment arrived. And the right moment came when she turned sixteen. At sixteen, most of the girls in her village used to get married. Santosh was also under pressure from her parents to do the same.
Q. Most of the girls in her village used to get married at the age of __________.
  • a)
    12
  • b)
    14
  • c)
    16
  • d)
    18
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Ramantnath Dangi answered
Because santosh yadav said at that time most of the girls are merried after 16 years old

Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
Now in memory comes my mother,
As she used in years a gone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn:
O! I feel her fond look on me
As I list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain.
Q. Who comes in the poet’s memory?
  • a)
    the rain
  • b)
    his father
  • c)
    his mother
  • d)
    his friend
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Kaavya Chopra answered
Answer:

Introduction:

In the given extract, the poet reminisces about his mother who comes to his memory. He describes his mother's habit of looking after the dreamy children before leaving them till dawn.

Detailed Explanation:

The extract begins with the phrase "Now in memory comes my mother," which suggests that the poet is reminiscing about his mother. The use of the word "memory" indicates that the poet is thinking about his mother in the past.

The poet further describes how his mother used to care for the dreamy children before leaving them till dawn. This implies that the poet's mother would tuck the children in bed and watch over them until they fell asleep. This act of care and love is a fond memory for the poet.

The poet then expresses how he feels his mother's fond look on him as he listens to the refrain. The refrain refers to the sound of rain falling on the shingles. The patter of the rain creates a soothing and comforting sound that reminds the poet of his mother's presence. It is as if his mother's fond gaze is present in the sound of the rain.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, the poet's mother comes in his memory in the given extract. The poet reminisces about his mother's habit of looking after the dreamy children before leaving them till dawn. The sound of the rain serves as a reminder of his mother's fond presence.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
“May be,” he said nonchalantly. He walked away whistling; the dusty old book tucked beneath his arm. Margie went into the schoolroom. It was right next to her bedroom, and the mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her. It was always on at the same time every day except Saturday and Sunday, because her mother said little girls learned better if they learned at regular hours. The screen was lit up, and it said: “Today’s arithmetic lesson is on the addition of proper fractions. Please insert yesterday’s homework in the proper slot.”
Q. Write the opposite of ‘regular ’.
  • a)
    arranged
  • b)
    unsteady
  • c)
    irregular
  • d)
    repetitive
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Pranali Patel answered
Opposite of Regular

  • Option A: Arranged - This word does not convey the opposite meaning of 'regular' as regularity can also be associated with being arranged.

  • Option B: Unsteady - This word is also not the opposite of 'regular' as it means lacking in stability or not firm.

  • Option C: Irregular - This is the correct opposite of 'regular' as it means not following a pattern or being unpredictable.

  • Option D: Repetitive - This word does not convey the opposite meaning of 'regular' as regularity does not necessarily mean repetition.



Therefore, the correct answer is option 'C' - Irregular.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :
A headmaster once told his father that what Einstein chose as a profession wouldn’t matter, because “he’ll never make a success at anything. ”Einstein began learning to play the violin at the age of six, because his mother wanted him to; he later became a gifted amateur violinist, maintaining this skill throughout his life. But Albert Einstein was not a bad pupil. He went to high school in Munich, where Einstein’s family had moved when he was 15 months old, and scored good marks in almost every subject. Einstein hated the school’s regimentation, and often clashed with his teachers. At the age of 15, Einstein felt so stifled there that he left the school for good.
Q. How long did he maintain his skill as a violinist?
  • a)
    2 years
  • b)
    long time
  • c)
    throughout his life
  • d)
    none of the above
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Subhankar Saini answered

Duration of Violin Skill Maintenance:

- Albert Einstein maintained his skill as a violinist throughout his life.

- He began learning to play the violin at the age of six, as his mother wanted him to, and later became a gifted amateur violinist.

- Despite pursuing a career in physics and making groundbreaking discoveries, Einstein continued to play the violin as a hobby.

- His love for music and the violin remained with him throughout his life, showcasing his passion and dedication to both science and the arts.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
Santosh’s parents were affluent landowners who could afford to send their children to the best schools, even to the country’s capital, New Delhi, which was quite close by. But, in line with the prevailing custom in the family, Santosh had to make do with the local village school. So, she decided to fight the system in her own quiet way when the right moment arrived. And the right moment came when she turned sixteen. At sixteen, most of the girls in her village used to get married. Santosh was also under pressure from her parents to do the same.
Q. Santosh's parents were very ______________.
  • a)
    affluent landowners
  • b)
    poor
  • c)
    royal
  • d)
    none of these
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Dont Memorise answered
Santosh's parents were affluent landowners who could afford to send their children to the best schools, even to the country's capital, New Delhi, which was quite close by. But, in line with the prevailing custom in the family, Santosh had to make do with the local village school.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
The girl was given the name ‘Santosh’, which means contentment. But Santosh was not always content with her place in a traditional way of life. She began living life on her own terms from the start. Where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses, Santosh preferred shorts. Looking back, she says now, “From the very beginning I was quite determined that if I choose a correct and a rational path, the others around me had to change, not me.”
Q. What was the speaker’s approach to make choice?
  • a)
    to choose the correct and rational path
  • b)
    to choose the traditional way
  • c)
    to choose the hard work
  • d)
    none of these
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Aditi Sharma answered
Santosh Yadav's approach was to choose the correct and rational path.

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