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COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD" Q1. Name the authors and the story. Ans:- The authors are Zitkala-Sa and Bama, the story is ‘Memories of Childhood’. Q2. Who is Zitkala-Sa in the story? Ans:- Zitkala-Sa is an author and native American women. Q3. Who is Bama? Ans:- Bama is an author and a Tamil Dalit woman from a Roman Catholic family. Q4. What made Zitkala-Sa weep in the dining hall? Ans:- Even first day, Zitkala was feeling uncomfortable in her new dress when she entered the dining hall. A small bell was rang, Zitkala thought bell was for sitting, so she pulled out a chair and sat on it. But to her surprise everybody kept standing. She was getting up when the second bell rang and finally all were seated. Even Zitkala couldn’t use her knife and fork for eating while she started weeping bitterly to her embarrassment. Q5. Why was Zitkala-Sa terrified when Judewin told her that her hair would be cut short? Ans:- Zitkala-Sa was afr

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "EVANS TRIES AN O-LEVEL" Q1. Name the story and the author. Ans:- The story is ‘Evans Tries An O-Level’ and the author is Colin Dexter. Q2. What is the mean by ‘An O-Level’? Ans:- An O-Level is a German examination which is held for the under of fourteen years children. Q3. Who is Evans in the story? Ans:- In the story Evans is a notorious criminal who has escaped many times from the prison (Jail). Q4. Does Evans get success escaping from the Jail? Ans:- Yes, he does. Q5. What kind of a person was Evans? Ans:- Evans was a young prisoner at the Oxford prison. He had famous for escaping from the jail. He was suffering from kleptomania, but there was no record of violence indulged in by him. He was actually a pleasant person, but very clever and cunning. Q6. Did the exam go as scheduled? Ans:- No, the exam didn’t go as scheduled. At first, there was a delay (late) in conducting the exam, which was about to start at 9:

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "ON THE FACE OF IT"  Q1. Name the play and the author. Ans:- The play is ‘On The Face Of It’ and the author is Susan Hill. Q2. Who are the chief characters of the play? Ans:- Mr Lamb and a young boy Derry are the chief character of the play. Q3. Who is Mr Lamb in the Play? Ans:- Mr Lamb is a handicapped fellow who has his own garden where he spends his all the daylong by sitting on the wooden bench. Q4. Why does Mr Lamb leave his gate always open? Ans:- Mr Lamb doesn’t mind leaving his gate always open because he likes to meet people who come in his garden. He likes to talk to them and learn different things from them. He farther says that everything that belongs to him also belongs to everybody else. Q5. In what sense is the friendship between Mr Lamb and Derry fruitful? Ans:- The friendship between Mr Lamb and Derry helped the latter get over his baseless fears. Derry was inspired by Mr Lamb’s positive attitude toward

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "SHOULD WIZARD HIT MOMMY" Q1. Name the story and the author? Ans:- The story is ‘should wizard hit mommy’ and the author is John Updike. Q2. Who are Jack and Jo? Ans:- Jack is father of Jo and Jo is daughter of Jack. Q3. What does Jack do every evening with her daughter Jo? Ans:- Jack tells his daughter Jo a story every evening by making its own. Q4. What is ‘Roger Skunk’ in the story? Ans:- Roger Skunk is an animal that smells very bad. Q5. Why didn’t other animals of the forest want to play with Roger Skunk? Ans:- Other animals didn’t want to play with Roger Skunk because it smelled very bad and that’s why when Skunk went to play with other animals of the forest, they would make distance from Skunk. Q6. Why did Roger Skunk go to visit the owl? Ans:- Roger Skunk smelt very bad. Everybody teased (vex) him by calling him ‘Stinky Skunk’. He had no friends and nobody wanted to play with him or even go near him. So, f

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "THE ENEMY" Q1. Name the story and the author. Ans:- The story is ‘The Enemy’ and the author is Pearl S. Buck. Q2. Who are Dr Sadao and Hana? Ans:- Dr Sadao is an expert Japanese surgeon and Hana is his wife . Q3. At what age did Sadao go to America to learn about surgery and medicines? Ans:- At twenty two Sadao went to America to learn about surgery and medicines. Q4. Whom did Sadao marry? Ans:- Sadao married an American lady called Hana whom he loved so much. Q5. What did Sadao see near the sea shore? Ans:- Sadao saw an wounded American prisoner washed away near the sea shore. Q6. Should Dr Sadao save the life of that American prisoner as being a Dr or he should hand him over to the soldiers of Japan as a patriot? Ans:- Though it is quite tough to choose one way to judge himself whether should be played a role of a Dr or a patriot. But it is often heard that saving life of anyone is above all. So, Dr Sadao must s

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH" Q1. Name the author and the story? Ans:- The author is Tishani Doshi and the story is ‘Journey to the end of the Earth’. Q2.   What is Antarctica? Ans:- Antarctica is one of the coldest, driest, windiest continent in the world. Q3. What is mean by Gondwana? Ans:- Six hundred and fifty million years ago, Gondwana was ever the part of the Earth, a giant amalgamated southern supercontinent on the Earth. Q4. How was ‘Gondwana’ six hundred fifty million years ago? Ans:- Six hundred fifty years ago, things were quite different then; humans hadn’t arrived on the global scene, and the climate was much warmer, hosting a huge variety of flora and fauna kingdom . Q5. Since how many years has Gondwana been thriving? Ans:- For 500 million years, Gondwana has been thriving. Q6. How do geological phenomena help us to know about the history of humankind? Ans:- Geological phenomena help us to know

      COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "THE TIGER KING" Q1. Name the author and the story? Ans:- The author is Kalki and the story is ‘The Tiger King’. Q2. Who is the hero of the story? Ans:- The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram is the hero of the story? Q3. By which name the Maharaja of Pratibandapuram may be identified? Ans:- The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram may be identified as Jamedar-General, Khiledar-Major, Sata Vyaghra Samhari, Maharajadhiraaja Visva Bhuvana Samrat, Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur. But this name is often shortened to the Tiger King. Q4. What had the astrologer foretold about the Tiger King as soon as he was born? Ans:- The astrologer had predicted that the child will grow up to become the warrior of warriors, hero of heroes, champion of champions but one day the Tiger King would actually have to die due to tiger. Because the Tiger King was born in the hour of the Bull, the Bull and the Tiger are enemies, therefore, death comes from the Tiger.