SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER-2 (TERM 1) 2021-22

SUBJECT: ENGLISH
CLASS : XII
Time 90 Min
Marks: 40

General Instructions:

1 The Question Paper contains THREE

sections
2. Section A-READING has 18 questions. Attempt a total of 14
questions, as per specificC. Instructions for each questio
3. Section B-WRITING SKILLS has 12 questions. Attempt a total
of 10 questions, as per Specific instructions for each
question.

44. Section C-LITERATURE has 300 questions. Attempt 26

questions, as per specific instructions for each question.

5. All questions carry equal marks i.e. 0.8 marks.

6 There is no negative marking.

SECTION -A READING SKILLS

Read the passage given below.

1. The newest stress buster is paper yoga. Adults are now changing
over from their smartphones to colouring books to beat anxiety
and relax. They spend hours hunched over the drawing of
mandalas filling in their words into the circle, with colours. These
adult colouring books are classified in the adult category and are
becoming fast selling items as people reach out to them to relax
their minds, And it is not just mandala drawings that are in vogue.
Others settle for elaborate landscapes, cultural tableaux, brimming
with images of dancers, singers and concerts. Involutes of various

shapes also make up this list.

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 Just as the demand has kept growing, there are also authors Who
are much in demand for their relaxing creations. Leading in this
field is Johanna Basford, who has sold 1.4 million copies of her
books 'Secret Garden', 'Enchanted Forest' and 'Lost Ocean', in a
matter of just two years. More bookstores have now started
stocking such books as customers are asking for them. Publishers
now contend that it is not just celebrity authors in this category but
any book with the tag-line 'de-stress' has a
readymade market for it.
3 Another reason for the success of these books is
that they are
multilingual in the way that they speak to adults of all age groups,
cultures and dispositions. Even
nursery teachers are fast
becoming customers of these books not because
overworked but because of the fun that even they are
having with these colouring books, five-year olds are
The new trend has been
dubbed 'Paper Yoga'. While the
versions of these books hold junior
simple generously proportioned
patterns, that allow for a child's broad strokes, the
adult variants
typically have tight kaleidoscopes that require a fine
staunch eye. As they do not pen and a
require special skills to execute
publishers are marketing it with the tag-line that their
customer is anyone who can draw target
satisfaction from something
beautiful. The skills of drawing and
essentials for the art of
colouring or
conceptualization,
drawing, are not in this list of
requirements. Thus, the phobia of being an expert or amateur is
not a deterrent.

5. So far, publishers have had to import their stock as there are not
sufficient titles available. But illustrators are
fast catching
up with
this trend and some have even
ventured into
line. Others are self-publishing in this
innovating stil more meaningful inputs into thiss
work by asking customers to
bring their own experiences to the
book.
6 Individual stories of success are
Illustrator Indu Harikumar started her making
an
appearance to00.
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English
 Beauty Needs Space, on
social
artworks at rs.1500 each and media. She pried a copy o
2
sold 155 of the 200 she had
printed People have written to
printed
say that they connected witn tne
book as they worked on it.
While adults are
discovering
their inner selves through this creatuve
pursuit. art-based therapeutics warn against expecting to0 mucn
from these books for
saving lives or minds. At best, they calm tne
mind and are
temporary diversion, for the mind
a
and cut oft the
noise of clamouring thoughts. These books they claim can offer
therapeuticreturns only when used in
conjunction with a therapist s
counsel. As yet the entire
process is undergoing a testing time
but whatever little of it has emerged, is being hailed as a step in
the positive direction
On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer
any eight questions by choosing the most appropriate option.
Adults spend hours over their mandalas.. ...

(0) Colouring them

(ii)
(i) filling in the words into them

(u) filling in messages into them

(IV) writing their life history in them

Johanna Basford named her colouring books...

(0) Basford Gardens. Secret Garden

() Paper Yoga, Beauty Needs Space
(1)
(1) Enchanted Forest, Paper Boats
Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest, Lost Ocean
started her colouring
book
indu Harikumar

media
on the social

)) i n public spaces

t h e school classrooms
(in)
) i n international meets
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Colouring books can serve best if combined with...
() a
temporary diversion of the mind
(i) working on social media
(il) a therapist's counsel

(iv) without a
therapist's advice
5.
People wrote to Harikumar
(i)
saying that they..
could not connect with
her books
(i) found the price of the
books steep
(ii) connected with the books as
they worked on them
(iv) lost their interest
while going
6
'through the b0oks
The
new-stress-buster that is very much in
Yoga is... vogue these days in
(i) Power Yoga
(i) Paper Yoga
(ii) Facial Yoga
(iv) Hatha Yoga
7 Author Johana Basford sold
1.4 million
copies of her books in
just
(i) three years
(i) one year
(ii) two years
(iv) five years
8 The following special skills as
per the marketing
not required to learn publishers are
and master this kind
of yoga....
(i) skills of drawing
(ii) skills of
colouring
(ii) conceptualization (iv) all of these
9. "Catching up" in the
paragraph 5 means
i. lagging behind
. to try to reach the level as others after you have
ii. trying to restore faith
fallen behind
V. revamping a place
 Therapeutics warn
10 against
) keeping
calm their
mind with the
() expecting too much from help of Yoga
these books
expecting a positive direction
iv) all of the above

Read the passage given

below.
The National Policy on states
that a large
students currently enrolled in proportion of the
foundational literacy and elementary school have not attained
numeracy (the to read and
understand the basic text, and carry out ability
basic addition and
subtraction). It recommends that every child should attain
foundational literacy and numeracy by grade three. The table
highlights the results of the National Achievement Survey 2017 on
the learning levels of students at Grade 3 in language and
mathematics. The results of the survey suggest that only 57% of
students in Grade 3 are able to solve basic numeracy skills
related to addition and subtraction.
Table: NAS results on the learning level of Grade-3 students

Learning level (Grade 3) Percentage of students

Ability to read small texts with

68%
comprehension (Language)
on
Ability to read printed scripts
Classroom walls such as poems,
65%
posters (Language)
life addition and
olving simple daily
with 3 digits
Subtraction problems
57%
(Mathematics)
the appropriate
a l y s e s and applies
situation
operation
in a
dmber of 59%
English
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 Survey (2017)
To achieu
achie
Achievement
Sources : National the Polic
Poli
numeracy,
universal foundational literacy and
National Mission on Foundation=
recommends setting up a
state governmen
and Numeracy under the MHRD. All
Literacy
must prepare implementation plans to achieve these goals b
resources Om
2025. A national repository of high-quality
foundational literacy and numeracy will be made available on the
government's e-learning platform (DIKSHA). Other measures to
be taken in this regard include: (i) filling teacher vacancies at the
earliest, (i) ensuring a pupil to teacher ratio of 30:1 for effective
teaching, and (ii) training teachers to impart foundational literacy
and numeracy. Comparison of R&D expenditure in India with other
countries (2017).
5.06 4.6% 456
4.0%
3.2' 30% 28%
3.0%
2.1%
2.0% 19% 1.7%
14% 1.3%
1.0% 1.1%
0.8% 0.7%
0.0%
'outhKorea /s
rae JapanGermany Austral a Malaysia
China uK
Brazil Russia
SouthAfrica India
0.2%
Pakistan
Sources S&T Indicators Table
:
2019-20,
Technology, March 2020 To boost research,Ministry
the NEP
of Science and
setting up an independent National recommends
for funding and Research Foundation
facilitating quality research in India. The (NRF)
will act as a liaison Foundation
between researchers and
of
government as well as
relevant branches
industry. Specialised
currently fund research, such as the
institutions that
Technology, and the Department of Science
Indian Council of and
continue to fund Medical Research,
independent projects. The Foundation will
will
collaborate with such
agencies
to Foundation
avoid will
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duplication.
Fnalia
11 Which
Which of
o the
following statement
information from the
passage:
is NOT
substantiatedDy
OT substantiated by any
a. Pakistan has a
higher R & D
b. South Korea has expenditure than India.
the highest R & D
C. India and the U.S
have the
expenditure
same R & D
d. Japan has the expenditure.
third-highest R& D expenditure.
A national
12. repository of high-quality resources on foundational
literacy and numeracy will
a. Contain study resources for students from Grade 6 ahead.
b. Help students to solve
problems easily.
C. Allow international teachers to access
learning materials.
d. Help the country to achieve higher foundational literacy and
numeracy.
13. Arrange the order of the countries based on their R & D
expenditure
A. South Korea
B. India

C South Africa

D. Germanyy
b.
b. A, D, C, B
a. B, D, C, A
d. C, D, A, B
D
C. A, C, B,
one of the measures to be taken for
14. According to the passage, rate is:
foundational literacy and numeracy
increasing
to impart
foundational literacy and numeracu

a. Training teachers
vacancies gradually
teacher
b. Filling centres
students at special
C. Training
teacher ratio of 60:1 for effectivetearhi
teaching
to
d. Ensuring a pupil
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 statements that
are NOT TRU
15. Pick the options that list the

according to the passage

the NEP recommends setting up an
To boost research,
independent National Research Foundation (NRF).
ii. All state governments do not need to prepare implementation
plans to achieve these goals.
ii. To achieve universal foundational literacy and numeracy, the
Policy recommends setting up a National Mission on
Foundational Literacy and Numeracy under the MHRD.
iv. The National Policy on states that a large proportion of the
students currently enrolled in elementary school have
attained foundational
literacy and numeracy
a. A and C b. A and B
C. Only A d. B and DD
16 The word foundational literacy from the passage means
as the samme
a. The ability to read and understand
the basic text
b. The ability to solve
mathematical
C. The problems
ability
to learn new
ideas
d. The inability to read
and write
17. Based on the
passage choose the option
the learning level and the that correctly represents
Unability
percentage of pupil
Able to
to
solve Unability
read daily Reading to Able to
68% maths Poems solve daily read
655% 5.9% Maths poems Able to
64% 65% read
Image A 59%
Able to
Able to
Image B
read Able to
solve
64% daily Unability
to read
read
basic Able to
maths read
65% poems text Able to
5.9% 68% poems
65% Solve
Image C maths
59%
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English
 a. Image A
C. Image B b. Image D
d. Image C
18.
..a large proportion of the
elementary students currently
elementary school have not attained currently enrolle
enrolled in

numeracy. what does the statement foundational literacy and

a Several children in represent?
elementary schools are below the
average age accepted.
b Several children in
beyond their age.
elementary schools are solving proDies
C. Several children enrolled in
to access
elementary schools are unable
educational materials.
d. Several children enrolled in
elementary schools do not have
basic educational abilities.
SECTION-B (WRITING SKILLS)

Answer any four out of the five questions given, with reference to
the context below.
Jyotsana is moving out to USA and has put up her house for
ale. Draft an advertisement to be published in an English Daily
giving necessary details.
is
T h e suitable title for this advertisement
sells his house
B) House for sale
A) Jyotsana
USA D) For Sale
C) Jyotsana goes to
is
20. The phrase apt for
the advertisement

Second floor.
A) House on
Second floor.
house on
B) Two Bedroom

Second
floor.
C) Two BHK,
kitchen on second floor
hall &
D) Two bedrooms,

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 can
you
you fit
Tit into your
your
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21. Which one of the following phrases
advertisement perfectly?
A) East facing with Sea view

B) East facing with view of Sea

C) East facing with Sea front

D) East facing with Sea side

22. Choose the right answer
A) Facilities include lift, uninterrupted domestic gas.

B) A number of facilities like lift, domestic gas which is

continuous.
C) Facilities are available like lift and gas supply.
D) Also some facilities like lift facility and uninterrupted gas
supply are applicable.

23. The format for Classified Advertisements include

A) Headline, Dateline, Byline

B) Picture, date, Headline, Byline
C) Date, Headline, Content
D) Headline, Content
Answer any six of the seven questions given, with reference to
the context below

You are Ranjeet/ Ranjeeta of ABC Sr. Sec. School, Chandigarh.

You feel impressed at the improved performance of India at
Olympics but feel that facilities need to be improved. Write a
letter to the Editor, The Tribune expressing your views on how
the standard of performances in sports can be improved in India.

24. The letter should reflect a

a. Comparison, analysis and conclusion of the topic

b. Comparison, deduction and suggestive
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 C. Deduction, description, conclusion
d. Explanation, deduction, conclusion
25. The subject of the letter be
a. Needs improvement in facilities in sports
b. Needs improvement in sports periods in school

C. Needs to improve incentives for sports person

d. Needs improved mindset of people about sport
be
26. One of the features of writing a letter to the editor should

a. Highly filled with jargon

b Highly respectable language
Highly submissive address
language conventions
d. Highly flattering as

an
A writer should not be one of these, when he is highlighting
27.
issue
Short and brief
a.
approach
b. To the point with pragmatic
and appreciative too
C Be less criticising
the bush attitude
d. Too beating about
which attracts the
features in the letter,
28. Pick one of the following
attention of the editor.
and practical
solutions
His presentation
a. solution.
but void of any
illustrious language,
b. His suggestions and further
with
the situation
His projecting
improvement
but
but only finding
about the topic, only fault finding
knowledge
d. His
His
statements.
to m a k e it a model letter are
in mind
keep
he should
29. The features
expression,
relevance

content, English
a. Format, 35
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 b. Format, content, expression, coherence
C.
Format, content, expression, fluency
d. Format, content, expression, presentation
30. What should
comprise a subscription note
a.
Signature and name of the writer,
b.
Complementary note, signature, name of the writer
C. Note of well
being, signature, name of the writer
d Signature, name of the writer and
complementary note.
SECTION-C (LITERATURE)
This section has
total of 30 sub-sections: V, VI, VIl, Vi, iX.
questions in the section. There are
are a
a
from the sub-sections
V
Attempt any 26 questions
to IX.
Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow
"M. Hamel went on
to talk of the
was the most French language, saying
beautiful language in the that it
most logical; that we
must world-the clearest, the
because when guard among us and never
it
to their
a
people are enslaved, as forget it,
language it is as if long they hold fast as
he opened a they
had the key to
their prison. Then
grammar book and read us
amazed to see how well I our lesson. I
was
easy, so easy!"
understood it. All he said
seemed so

31. Which of the following can be

characteristic
declaration about the French to M.
Hamel's
()
language?
subject, expertise
i) nostalgic, pride
factual, accuracy
(iv) patriotic, magnification

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English
 Choose the option that
32 expressed in the extractmight best describe M. Hamel's viewpo int
i) Those who know
of their own
nothing of foreign languages know notny

i) Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where

its people come from and where
they are going
) A poor man is like a
foreigner in his own country.
iv) Language forms the perceptions
of being superior.
3. Why did M. Hamel say Franz was not the worst? (Choose the
correct statement)
1. French people keep putting off the things till tomorrow.
The children's parents were to blame.
2. Yes, it is true to some extent but they love their language
and culture.
) Option-1 (i) Option-I & i
(ii) Option-ii only (iv) None of these

34 M. Hamel' words were a thunderclap for Franz because

) He regretted not learning his language
(i) He would miss his teacher

(m) They were most unexpected

(iv) All of the above

Match the following

language 1. Our mother tongue
a) the most beautiful
2. When they don't
b) that we must guard
respect their language
and culture

3. French
(c) and never forget
enslaved
4. Our motherland, language
(d) a people
are
and culture
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 i) 1,3, 4,2 ) 2,1,3,4
i) 3,2,1,4 iv) 3, 4,1,2
Kead the given extract to attempt questions that tollow

went to the pool when no one else was there. The place
was
quiet, The water was still, and the tiled bottom was as witte
and
clean as a bathtub. I
was timid about going in alone, so I sat
on
the side of the
pool to wait for others. I had not been there for
long when in came a big bruiser of a
years old. He had thick hair boy, probably eighteen
on his chest. He was a beautiful
physical specimen, with
legs and arms that showed
muscles. He yelled, 'Hi, Skinny! How'd you like to be rippling
ducked?"
36. The author said that
he was timid about
think because of
some past
going in alone. Do you
)
experience, he was suffered from..
xenophobia (i) acrophobia
Gii) heliophobia
(iv) hydrophobia
37. Why was
Douglas
timid to go into the
(i) Because he was scared swimming pool?
of
(ii) Because he was scared ophidiophobia
of an
(ii) Because his past eighteen-year-old boy
experience California beach
at
(iv) Because his past
experience at YMCA beach
38. He was a beautiful physical
specimen means
) he was a
specimen worth that...
i) he was handsome keeping in a
museum
(ii) he had a fine
healthy beautiful body
(iv) He was wrestler
29"How would you like to be
boy intending to do? ducked? What was that bruiser of
a
i) thinking of
helping him in his
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swimming
English
 (ii) planning to toss
him into the
(ii) play a
joke on
pool
him
(iv) just trying to
show his
40. Why did the author wait
authority
1. for others ?
Because he was
from his past scared and suffered from hydrophobia
experience at
hydrophooia
2 He and his California beach
father were swept over
father felt happy by the wave and the

i) statements -1 & 2 ii) only statement 1

ii) only statement- 2 iv) None of the above
Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow
This map becomes their window and
these windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs,
Break O Break open till they break the town
And show the children to green fields, and
Make their world
Run as azure on gold sands and let their tongues
Run naked into books the white and green leaves open

History theirs whose language is the sun

Not True according to this extract.

41. Pick the option that is
be allowed to read books and form
i) The children should
their opinions.
without breaking the shackles or poverty is
Education
i)
meaningless
show tne realty of the real world to the
makers
ii) The policy
children
or pOverty and misery throuah
wOria
see the
iv) The children
their window

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42. Pick
Pick the
the option
option that matches best with the phrase "Break O Break Break
open".
(1) break free (2) break silence

(3) break out 4) break even

(5) break through (6) break ground

i)(1). (3) &(5) (2). (3) &(6)

ii) (1), (4) & (6) iv) (2). (3) & (5)
43. What are "catacombs"?
i) underground cemetery i) the caterpillars
il) the mushrooms iv) edible plants
44 What does the poet show
through expressions 'so blot their maps
with slums as big as doom'?
(a) his clot the street
(b) enjoy the maps
(c) big maps
(d) poet's protest against social injustice and inequalities
45 Poetic devices NOT Used in the first two lines
of the stanza.
i) metaphor i) simile
ii) repetition iv) alliteration
But I've never again found the corridor that leads to the
third level
at Grand Central Station, although I've tried often
was pretty worried when I told her all this, and didn't
enough. Louisa
want me to
look for the third level any more, and after a while I stopped; I went
back to my stamps. But now we're both looking,
every weekend
46.
46 Which corridor is the speaker looking?

) The corridor leading to the third level.

ii) The corridor which was under construction.

il) The corridor that took him to the tunnel.

None of the above.
iv)
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47. What made Louisa
i) She knew that worried?
the
ii) She speaker was
il) She
was
concerned about the hallucinating
thought Charley wellbeing of rley.
Charly
was
iv) All of the
above. fantasizing
48 Why did the
speaker stop
time? looking for the third level after
some
a) He was not
well.
b) He went to his
hobby of
c) All his efforts
couldn't locate
stamp-collection.
the third level.
d) He realized he
was
fantasizing.
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49 Now we both are
looking 'who are WE' here?
i) Charley and Louisa.
i) Charley and Sam.
ii) Charley and his boss.
iv All of the above.

50. What is the

genre of the lesson "The Third Level"?
i) historical fiction i) tragedy
ii) science fiction iv) fantasy
Attempt the following questions on the basis of
understanding of
the lessons (Flamingo and Vistas)
never saw him look so tall.the Which of following best
captures M. Hamel on the last day of school?

cranky, miserable, dedicated, resigned

ii. patient, dignified, emotional, patriotic
i. calm, nostalgic, disappointed, courageous
iv. persistent, heroic
proud, reproachful,
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 52 onam has
phobia of heights and feels scared whenever anv
a
moment comes to
go to the height .He also feels that he can't
Vercome it. Choose the option that displays an advice.
12 3 4
G0 to the
swimming pool and jump in it from the highest
diving board that you see there.
i. If
were you, l'd begin small. Like spending 10 mins.
Looking down from my balcony, each day, for a week.
ii.
Unbelievable! What's the problem? I've done
jumping! It's bungee
a
piece of cake.
iv) Fear is a major issue if
you let it control you. I think it will
take a firm grip on
you if you don't address it soon.
53 That's why they left,
looking for gold in the big city.' Here 'gold'
indicates....
) misfortune of circumstances
ii) ample wealth
i) means of survival
iv) a sign of luxury
54. 1 will learn to drive a
car, he answers,
looking straight into my
eyes. This sentence highlights Mukesh was
1 determined 2 fearless
3 hopeful 4. valiant
5. ambitious 6. stern
i) 1& 5 ii) 2 & 4
ii) 2 & 5 iv) 3 & 6
55. ASSERTION (A): The whole school seemed
strange and solemn
to Franz.

REASON (R) The order had come from

Berlin to
in the schools of Alsace & Lorraine.
teach only
German That was their last
French class.

(i) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct

explanation of A
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 (i) Both,A and
R, are true
of A but R is not the correct explanati
correct s
i) A is true
but R is
false
(iv) A is false
but R is true
56. Spender's
Spender's useof
use of
in tree
imagery in 'His
eyes lines in, dream of
game, room, other than squi rrel
the
this', brings out.
i) similarity between the frail bodies of
children in the
classroom.
a squirrel and the

i) the contrast
between studying in the dreary classroom and
playing outside freely.
ii) the comparison of the
dingy home of the squirrel an the
dreary classroom
iv) the difference between the games of the squirrel and those
of the children

57 Study the two statements, in each question, labled as Assertion

(A) and Reason (R).
Assertion: The poet compares her mother to a winter moon

Reason: Winter moon doesn't shine well like in other seasons.

true and R is the correct explanation of A

) Both, A and R, are

true but R is not the correct explanation

(i) Both, A and R, are

of A
is false
(17) A is true but R
R is true
(iv) A is false but
Both A and
R are false
(v) describes these statements, with
that best
580 Choose the option

reference to the poem.

lls for
Quiet'calls for change.
change as mu
Keeping
poem
Statemer
Statement I: The society at
large.
human
individual as
n the

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English
 implies
that individual
individual
Quiet'
'Keeping
Statement II The poem
change.
societal
to bigger
change will lead come together
people
believes that when in each
Neruda transformation

otatement Il able to bring a

as a community, they will be

person. and Statement l||
Statement II is False,
i) Statement I is True,
cannot be inferred.
inferred,
Statement l is True
Statement I and II cannot be
ii) Ill cannot be inferred
S t a t e m e n t s II and
ii) Statement I is True,
Statement II cannot be
Statement I cannot be inferred,
iv)
inferred, Statement II is False.
statements which are true.
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59. Choose the option that correctly identify the
wanted to go to Galesburg llinois.
Assertion (A) : Charley
stories about
Reason (R): He has heard many wonderful
Galesburg from his grandfather.
of A
() Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation

(i) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation
of A

(ii) A is true but R is false

(iv) A is false but R is true.

60. Assertion Dr. Sadao, as a human being rose above narrowW

prejudices

Reason : Hatred against enemy race is justifiable, especially

time.
during the war

Both A & R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

i)
Both A & R are true but R is not the correct explanation of
i)
il) A is true but R is false
Both A and R are false
iv)
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