SECTION –C (Literature)

Read the extract carefully and answer the questions by choosing the most appropriate option

Now she’s been dead nearly as many years

As that girl lived. And of this circumstance

There is nothing to say at all.

Its silence silences.

a. Who has been dead years ago? 1.

b. What do you understand by ‘that girl’ 1
c. Why there is silence? Explain 2

Answer any four the following in not more than 80 words:

a) Why did Aram find it hard to believe that Maurad had stolen the horse?
b) Why did Einstein find the school a hateful place?
c) What is the poet trying to discover in the poem ‘Childhood’?
d) There is a parallel drawn between ran and music in the poem ‘The Voice of the Rain’.
Elucidate.
e) What impression do you form of Mr.Crocker Harris on the basis of the reading of the
play ‘The Browning Version”.
f) How did the narrator realise that she has come to the right address?

Answer the following questions in about 120-150 words

How does the story “We are not afraid to die......., suggest that optimism help us to endure the
direst stress?

OR

Justify the title of the story ‘The Birth’?

Answer the following questions in about 120-150 words

School system often curbs individual talents. Discuss with reference to the chapter, Albert
Einstein at School?

How does Oscar Wilde picturise the Americans in his novel?

How was Virginia different from the rest of her family members? Attempt a character sketch of
the girl