Lesson -9

Thinking about the text

Q1,2,3,6,7

-Describe Valli's bus ride in your own words.

-Bus conductor was a gentle person.Comment

The Tale Of Custard The Dragon.

Short Answer Questions

1.Where did Belinda live and with whom?

2.What did Custard look like?

3.Did Custard match his physical appearance?

4.Was everyone really as brave as they claimed?

5.What did everyone do when the pirate came?

Long Answer Question

1-The dragon, custard was considered a coward. The humble dragon proved his bravery in adversity.
Analyse that certain qualities like bravery and courage are situational and spontaneous. Express your
views with reference to the poem.

Lesson 8 The hack driver

Think about it

Q-2 to 5

-What did the hack driver tell the narrator about Lutkins’mother?

Extract-

I was sent, not to prepare legal briefs, but to serve summons, like a cheap detective.

(a) At what post was T working?

(b) Why was he not given legal briefs to prepare?

(c) Find a word meaning ‘court order’ from the given extract.

(d) What is the present tense of ‘sent’?*

L-9

Bholi

Read the lesson thorouhghly.

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Q-1 ,2,3

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Q1

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Q1,2

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Q2

Sermon at Benares

Extracts:

He wandered for seven years and finally sat down under a peepal tree, where he vowed to stay until
enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree the Bodhi Tree and began to
teach and to share his new understandings. At that point he became known as the Buddha.

(a) What was the name of the peepal tree under which Buddha sat?

(b) What did Buddha do while sitting under the tree?

(c) Find the exact word from the extract which means ‘solemnly promise to do a specified thing’.

(d) After how many days Gautam Buddha got enlightenment?

The Buddha preached his first sermon at the city of Benares, most holy of the dipping places on the
River Ganges; that sermon has been preserved and is given here. It reflects the Buddha’s wisdom about
one inscrutable kind of suffering. [CBSE 2014]

(a) Where did Buddha preach his first sermon?

(b) What does the sermon preached by Buddha reflect?

(c) ‘Find the exact word from the extract which means impossible to understand’.

(d) How Benares is described in the lesson?

Answers

(a) Buddha preached his first sermon at Benares.

(b) It reflects Buddha’s wisdom about one inscrutable kind of suffering.

(c) ‘Inscrutable’ from the extract means ‘impossible to understand’.

(d) Benares is described in the lesson as the most holy of the dipping places on the river Ganges.

Short Answer

1.Why did Prince Siddhartha leave the palace and become a beggar? [CBSE 2012]

2. How did Kisa Gotami realise that life and death is a process?

Long answer

1.Personal losses are a part and parcel of life. Instead of wailing on them, we should move on in life. This
message of Gautama Buddha has become more relevant in modern times. Do you agree ? Why /why
not? [CBSE2015]

Answer:

Yes, I agree with the message that Gautama Buddha has given about life. In the modem times, people
have a lot to explore and move with the world at the same pace. If people don’t understand the
practicality of life, they will be under stress which would in turn affects, their personal and professional
lives. People need to understand that everyone who is born will have to die one day. There is no use
being sad or crying over the loss. People should remain calm and composed in such situations. They
should face the truth and move on in life.

The proposal

CLASS X

Extracts:

1.You may take it that I know whether I have the right or not. Because, young man, I’m not used to
being spoken to in that tone of voice, and so on. I, young man, am twice your age, and ask you to speak
to me without agitating yourself, and all that.

(a) Who is the speaker here?

(b) How did the speaker wanted Lomov to talk to him?

(c) Find the word from the extract which means ‘to disturb, excite or anger someone’.

Answer:

(a) Chubukov is the speaker here.

(b) Chubukov wanted Lomov to speak to him without agitating himself.

(c) ‘agitating’-from the extract means ‘to disturb, excite or anger someone’.

2.NATALYA : What proposal?

CHUBUKOV : Why, he came here to propose to you.

NATALYA : To propose? To me? Why didn’t you tell me so before?

CHUBUKOV : So he dresses up in evening clothes. The stuffed sausage!

The wizen-faced frump! [CBSE 2014]

(a) Who is being referred to as ‘he’?

(b) Why did he meet Chubukov?

(c) Find the word from the extract which means ‘Make an offer of marriage to someone’.
(d) Who was dressed in as a stuffed sausage?

Answer:

(a) Lomov is being referred to as ‘he’ in the extract.

(b) Lomov met Chubukov’s to ask for Natalya’s hand.

(c) ‘Propose’ from the extract means ‘make an offer of marriage to someone’.

(d) Lomov was dressed as a stuffed sausage.

Short Answer:

1.Why did Lomov want to get married?

2.What happens to Lomov when he is in an excited state?

3.How does Natalya react when she comes to know that Lomov had come to propose?