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1. Write the answer to the questions in a sentence:                 1X5

a. Why did the father tear the letter up?

b. What did Swami do after the last period? 

c. How did Swami describe Samuel before his father?

d. What did the father ask Swami to do with the letter?

e. What wrong, according to himself,  did Swami do regarding Samuel?

2. Read the Unseen to do the following tasks: 

       “If I were asked”, Pandit Nehru has said, “What is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Sanskrit language and literature and all that it contains.”

        This is indeed true. Because, if we think the wonderful thought which our ancestors put down in the early books at a time when the people of Europe were in their infancy, we can be justly proud of our heritage. What is this heritage?

        It is in the lovely lyric poetry of the Vedas. It is in the wise saying in the Upanisads. It is in the grand sweep of the epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. It is in the portrayal of the emotion and mood and character in the classical dramas of Kalidas, Bana, Harsha and Shudraka.

A. Answer the following questions:                                            1X3

a) What are the three questions asked in the passage? 

b) Is the passage contained the answers to those questions?

c) Why are we proud of our heritage?

3. Do the following grammar as directed:                                 1x5

a. He entered the school gate. An idea occurred to him. (Simple)

b. I have your secret here inside my little bag. (Split)

c. It happened. I’m not sure of it. (Complex)

d. And I think it no disgrace. (Voice Change)

e. People always pitied us for our lonesome state. (Noun)

4. Write the following writings:                                                 1x7

Write a biography with the help of the following points :

POINTS: born on 11 Nov. 1888---composed poetry in Urdu---worked as a journalist, protested against the British raj---supporter of Gandhiji’s ideals---Books like-“India Wins Freedom, Ghubar-e-Khatir etc.---1st Education Minister of Independent India---birthday celebrated as National Education Day---died on 22 February 1958.

Sujit Chakraborty   email:sujit.hallucinate@gmail.com   #961436757