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Exercise based on Students’ Response (1)(3=3 marks each)
Read the extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1, 1 suddenly saw the photograph that went with the story, and gasped.
(i) Who is ‘I’?
(ii) Whose photograph did he see?
(iii) What do you mean by ‘gasp’?
Ans. (1) ‘I’ is the narrator, Michael.
(ii) He has seen Sebastian Shultz’s photograph in the newspaper.
(iii) It means short quick breath in surprise, shock and pain.
2. ‘Never mind her,’ came a voice, and a second knight appeared from the wardrobe. It’s me who needs rescuing!
(i) Who is the speaker?
(ii) Who is being spoken to?
(iii) What do you mean by ‘Knight’?
Ans. (i) Sebastian is the speaker.
(ii) Michael, the narrator is being spoken to.

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(iii) Here it means warrior.
3. Six weeks ago, Sebastian Shultz was badly injured in a motorway accident. His condition, on arrival at the General Hospital, was described as
critical though stable. Despite doctor’s hopes, the boy did not regain consciousness. His parents were informed that their son was in a coma.
(i) Why had Sebastian Shultzs gone into coma?
(ii) What do you mean by ‘Critical’?
(iii) Why was the narrator concerned about Shultz’s condition?
Ans. (i) He had been badly injured in a motorway accident.
(ii) Here ‘Critical’ means serious.
(iii) He had met him and he knew him.
4. I’d hit the jackpot. I’d nally cracked the game.
(i) Who is ‘I’?
(ii) What is the ‘jackpot’?
(iii) What do you mean by ‘Crack’ here?
Ans. (i) ‘I’ is the narrator.
(ii) jackpot’ is the perfect score of 40,00,000.
(iii) Here crack means to win.
5. “We came away with a virtual reality visor and glove and a handful of the latest interactive psycho-drive games. They’re terri c”.
(i) Who are ‘we’?
(ii) What are terri c and why?
(iii) What do you mean by ‘psycho-drive games’?
Ans. (i) Michael and his father are ‘we’.
(ii) The psycho-drive games are terri c because they can be driven by mental power.
(iii) Psycho-drive games means the games which can he played by mental power.
6. “The more futuristic they get the better you can understand the past”.
(i) Who is the speaker of the above line?
(ii) What are ‘they’?
(iii) What do you mean by ‘futuristic’?
Ans. (i) Michael
(ii) Computers.
(iii) Here it means very modern and unusual.
7. “He wasn’t like the other characters in the saloon. For a start, he was about my age and though he looked like a computer image, he somehow
didn’t move like one.”
(i) Who is ‘he’?
(ii) Why was he not looking like other characters in saloon?
(iii) What do you mean by ‘saloon’?
Ans. (i) Sebastian Shultz.
(ii) He was not looking like other characters because he was not a computer image. He was a real character.
(iii) A Saloon is a place where alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk.
8. “‘My hero!’ she squealed. ‘Take me away from all this’. ‘Behind me I could hear the dragon roaring’.
(i) Who is the speaker?
(ii) Who is the hero and where is ‘he’?
(iii) What is the meaning of the word ‘roar’?
Ans. (i) Princess Aurora in the game is the speaker.
(ii) Michael is the hero in the game.
(iii) Roar means to make a loud noise.
9. “The boy had slipped and was tumbling back through the air, down to the concrete below”.
(i) Who is the ‘boy’?
(ii) Where is ‘he’?
(iii) What do you mean by the phrase ‘tumbling back’?
Ans. (i) Sebastian.
(ii) ‘He’ is in the game ‘Jailbreak’.
(iii) back’ means to fall with a rolling or bouncing movement,
10. “Now that there are two advanced intelligences on earth, who can Say what is and what isn’t possible”.
(i) Who are the two advanced intelligences?
(ii) Why are they called so?
(iii) What do you mean by ‘advanced intelligence’?
Ans. (i) Michael and Sebastian.
(ii) They are called so because they can say what is virtual and what is real.

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(iii) Very knowledgeable.
Short Answer Type Questions
(30-40 words: 2×4=8 marks each)
I. Who was Sebastian Shultz? How did he meet with an accident?
Ans. Sebastian Shultz was a 14-year-old schoolboy from South London. He was badly injured in a motorway accident. His condition was critical. He was in
coma and only some miracle could save him.
2. What did Michael and his father buy at the computer fair?
Ans. At the computer fair Michael and his father bought a virtual reality visor and glove and a new latest interactive psycho-drive game.
3. When did the rst video game come to an end and with what?
Ans. Shultz appeared as the second sheri and they were being followed by men on horseback in the game `WildWest’. There was gunshot and the second
sheri slumped on horseback, groaning. Michael had failed.
4. How did Michael enter Sebastian’s memory?
Ans. When Michael played the game, he entered Sebastian’s memorY, which was already plugged in the game played by him earlier.
5. Why does Michael nd it di cult to believe newspaper report about Sebastian Shultz? veralas
Ans. He had got to know Sebastian Shultz very well and played se virtual games with him almost every day for almost a month, so it w impossible to believe
that he had been in coma for six weeks.
6. How did Michael hit the jackpot and nally cracked the game?
Ans. In the game `Warzone’, Michael succeeded in saving Sebastian Shul.i2: He managed to pull him up into the helicopter, which soared into the, sky.
Getting a score of 40,000,000 he had hit the jackpot and cracked the game.
7. Why did Michael feel bad at the close of ‘Jailbreak’ and how did he reconcile himself?
Ans. He could not save Sebastian Shultz. He had failed him and lost the game too. Later he reconciled to the fact that Sebastian was perhaps not real.
8. “We both knew that by reliving the accident, something wonderful has happened.” Why does narrator feel so?
Ans. Michael and Sebastian are two intelligent, like-minded beings who had got to know each other and had also helped each other. This is their hour of
need. This is true friendship. They had become friends forever.
9. What kind of computer fascinated Michael and his dad? Why?
Ans. He had Pentium 150 MHz processor complete with RAM, CD ROM, speakers, printers, modem and scanner. He had all the games: Tornado, MC Babash
Black Belt etc. He could not resist any of the new gadgets or gizmos that came to the market.
Long Answer Type Questions (80-100 words: 4 marks each)
1. What are psycho-drive games? Describe the four games played by Michael. Which one do you nd most interesting and why?
Ans. Psycho-drive games are played with the mental power. There is an interaction between the man who plays them and the computer with a virtual reality
visor and glove, we can bring about the change in what we see. Better still, the action can be controlled by our thoughts. They are immensely thrilling. In the
story, Michael plays four psycho-drive games, one after the other. We are taken to the imaginary world of the ‘Wildwest’ and get to see the dusty towns,
castles, dragons and dungeons. Plenty of action! Sebastian plays the second Sheri in Wildwest’, the second knight in ‘Dragonquest’ a prisoner in Jail-break’
and a victim in Warzone’. The last game is the most interesting, as the actions of the two Sebastian and Michael are more organized and in coordination with
each other. There is real thrill with the guns booming and the bombs exploding. They dodge everything unhurt and jump into a jeep parked by the side of
the road. The tank crushes into the jeep. In time, they make It to the waiting helicopter which soars into the sky. Both are unhurt. Michael gets his reward.
His score touches 40,000,000 and he wins the jackpot. He cracks the game saving Sebastian this time. In the end, they both communicate in reality and
become friends forever. Sebastian asks Michael to keep the games as a token of love and gratitude, moreover he had earned them.
2. Describe the whole episode as Michael to your friend in a letter. Also, tell how he must have entered the psycho-drive games.
Ans. 10, Baker Street London
Date…..
Dear William
How are you? I had a strange experience while playing these psycho-drive games and I wish to share it with you. Don’t you think it was strange that.
Sebastian from the real outside world was inside the game, as one of the characters. I am boggled, how he could inter the games like `Wildwesr, ‘Dragon-
quest’, Jail-break’ or ‘Warzone’. How could the real Sebastian play the role of the second Sheri in ‘Wild-west’ and the second knight in ‘Dragonquest’. It is
so puzzling that he met with an accident and remained in coma for such a long time. I have tried very hard to nd some solutions that now seem to satisfy
me. On checking my e-mail recently, I found a message from Sebastian, the real one. He has thanked me for saving his life and has asked me to meet him. He
has given all those wonderful games to me, he feels I have earned them. I think, Sebastian was playing one of the games at the time of his accident. His
memory was saved in the computer, he got plugged. The memory was probably stored on the discs, which were stolen from his house. They were later
bought by my father at the computer fair. This is how I got to play the same games as Sebastian had been playing. I hope to meet him soon and I am also
excited to think how interesting it would be. Do write to me.
Yours a ectionately
Michael
3. `Everything that I’ve described is true virtually! says the narrator._ Even the title of the story is ‘Virtually True’. Justify the statement of the narrator and
also the title of the Story.
Ans. Value Points:
• Science ction
• Interactive psycho-drive games—based on concept of virtual reality

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