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Correct option is B) 4

According to the speaker in ‘When You are Old’, many suitors were mesmerized by her beauty and elegance.

(b) the fleeing of her lover to the mountains

The sorrows of your changing face’ refer to the changes seen in her face as she grows older. Her face will have shrunk and wrinkles will have appeared on her forehead and face depicting the difficulties and sorrows faced by her over the years.

Correct option is C) Aves

While many suitors loved her beauty and elegance, he alone loved her pilgrim soul as well as the sorrows of her changing face.

The narrator/speaker asks his lady love to presume that she has grown old and grey and is sitting by the fire nodding. Then he asks her to read from her book of memories and reminisce her past when she was in her prime youth. While she is thus engaged in recalling her past, the poet reminds her that though she undoubtedly had a great many suitors who admired her beauty and elegance and professed ‘love’ which may be true or false, he alone loved her unconditionally.

He says that he loved her inner beauty and even the fading away of her youth and beauty. The phrase ‘how many’ in the first line (second stanza) stands in contrast to ‘But one man’, in the third line (second stanza). While many suitors loved her beauty and elegance, he alone loved her pilgrim soul as well as the sorrows of her changing face.

Correct option is A) Dolphin

Plant cell do not contain centrosomes, they are only found in animal cells. Their main function is to form the microtubules in the nucleus which attach to chromosomes for their equal distributions during cell division. While other organelles are found in plant cells with their specific functions: 

• Chloroplast performs photosynthesis.
• Vacuoles are store house of food and nutrients. They are of larger size in plant cells.
• Mitochondria help in generating energy for the cell by producing ATP. 
• Nucleus contains the genetic material and assists protein synthesis.
• Cell wall provides mechanical strength to the plant cell.

Animal cell do not contain cell wall and chloroplast, they are only found in plant cells. Chloroplast carries out photosynthesis which id required for food generation. Cell wall provides mechanical strength to the plant cell thus protecting it from the harsh environmental conditions. While other organelles are found in both plant and animal cells with their specific functions:

• Vacuoles are store house of food and nutrients. They are of larger size in plant cells.
• Mitochondria help in generating energy for the cell by producing ATP.
• Nucleus contains the genetic material and assists protein synthesis.

‘Raw materials’/ ‘dead matter’ has replaced vibrant earth.

‘When You Are Old’ is a short love poem in which the poet uses a time frame in which the speaker addresses his lady love in the present, takes her to an unreal condition in the future, and asks her to recall her past memories. He does so, in order to persuade her or warn her not to ignore him and make a wrong decision.

The poet’s point of view is the most compelling point of the poem. The narrator is calling upon a woman that is not yet through with youth to, once past her prime, recall the days he was in her life and very much in love with her. Obviously, he wants her to remember him for his unique and unconditional love for her, and how she is choosing to ignore it in the present. By writing this poem in this fashion, the woman, when the poet hopes that she grows old, will remember the days when she was young with happiness but will grow regretful that she did not take advantage of his love.

Alternatively, the woman, in the present will see what an opportunity she is missing by ignoring his love for her and leaving him to fade into the past. The speaker fears that his lady love will not act upon his love for her and that she will only remember him in the book of memories. He hopes that if, once old, she puts down the book of memories, she will grow chilly and sorrowful that she did not foresee how steadfast his love was but how foolish she was for taking no notice of it. He is already fearful that she will grow old without him, and this can be seen as he requests that she remember him a ‘little sadly’ and as a missed chance to have a happy future.

It is the time frame that the poet has used in this poem that facilitates the poet to write this sad and reminiscent poem which is not designed primarily to make an old woman regretful, but to keep a young woman from ignoring the narrator and making the wrong decision.

‘Forest of purity’.

Madrasas included comprehensive study of the Quran.

‘When You Are Old’ was written to show the true and unforgettable love from the writer. The theme is a painful one of unrequited love, which the poet manipulates in an interesting manner. Instead of focusing upon the present or the past, Yeats looks to the future, a future in which the two people in the poem are destined to be forever apart. The poet visualizes an unreal condition that the woman he loved became old and felt regret for refusing his true love.

To depict such a theme, the poet deploys elegant and quiet words and builds pictures of contrasts: In the first stanza, there is a contrast between her elegant youth and her depressing old age. In the second stanza, there is a contrast between her many suitors who professed superficial love and the speaker or the lover who promises true love for her. In the third stanza, there is a contrast between the fleeting or transient love represented by her many suitors and the personified love of the poet.

There is a contrast between ‘the sorrows of your changing face’ in the second stanza and ‘murmur a little sadly’ of the third stanza. ‘The sorrows’ indicate passion or strong emotion is seen in young people and ‘little sadly’ reflects the listlessness of old people. There is a contrast between the ‘beauty and elegance’ sans her soul sought after by the suitors and the ‘pilgrim soul’ in the same lady cherished by the speaker. The many suitors who wanted to court her were attracted by her superficial beauty whereas this lover/speaker was attracted by her pilgrim soul, which symbolizes her inner self. These contrasts serve to build a strong argument to persuade the young lady not to ignore him now and regret later.

Dr. B.R Ambedkar

The poet asks his beloved to reflect upon the bygone days and the present moment because he seems to be apprehensive that she will continue to ignore him, her beauty will vanish soon and she will be alone in her old age. That is why he is asking her to presume that she has grown old and grey and try to foresee her predicament in the future. He does so because he intends to persuade her to pay attention to his ‘value’ as a lover before it is too late.

‘Terra Madre’ means Mother Earth.

To a young lady with whom the speaker is deeply in love.

Correct option is (d) All of these

(a) Lord Macaulay

Elementary education was imparted in Maktab during the medieval period.

The tall/short and round/wrinkled seed trait are independently inherited.

The speaker wants his beloved to sit by the fire and reminisce her memories of the past.

Correct answer is (a) Scroll Ball

The lines of the ninth stanza reflect the irony of the situation. The poet uses the ‘alliteration’ and ‘repetition’ very effectively. ‘Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.’ Really the condition of the mariners was very pathetic. Ironically, water was all around but they had not even a drop of water that they could drink and wet their throats. Naturally, they couldn’t drink the sea water which was not suitable for drinking.

S.T. Coleridge’s ballad ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is based on the theme of sin, revenge and repentance. The killing of the innocent albatross-‘a Christian Soul’ brings sufferings to the old Mariner and other sailors. The message is quite clear. Any sin, even if it is committed in a fit of anger or rush of blood, brings woes and despair to the man who commits it. The sin hangs around constantly around our neck like the albatross hanging around the Mariner’s neck.

All the mariners ‘old and young’ were assured in their dreams that the spirit of the killed albatross plagued and troubled them. The spirit was following them from the land of mist and snow. It was nine fathom deep in the sea. It was responsible for all their troubles and woes. It was the spirit of the albatross who was killed by the ancient Mariner in a senseless fit of madness.

In the tenth stanza, the poet is presenting a picture of decay and rot. This decay and rot was not confined to the surface only but went to the ‘very deep’ of the ocean. Slimy thing at crawled upon the muddy and sticky sea. In the eleventh stanza, the poet introduces the supernatural in the poem. ‘The death fires danced at night’. The water burnt green, blue and white ‘like a witch’s oils’.

Correct option is (c) Arabian

1. If you had enough money, you would buy a car. 

2. I will come if you invite me. 

3. If you had informed me, I would have come in time. 

4. If she comes, I will be happy. 

5. If he had known about it, he would not have said such things. 

6. If they tried, they would succeed.

1. Hardly had I reached the station when the train left. 

2. Scarcely had we heard the sound when we rushed to the shot. 

3. Hardly had she finished the project when she started a new one.

4. Scarcely had I received her call when I left the house.

Adichie’s roommate was shocked because Adichie spoke English quite well.

He said like that because her characters were like him, educated and middle class. Her characters drove cars and they were not starving. The professor thought that such things are not authentically African.

The letter ‘S’ represents “scholarship”.

They helped in stirring her imagination and opened up new worlds before her.

Her characters were, white and blue eyed. They played in the snow. They ate apples. They talked a lot about the weather and how lively it was that the sun had come out.

The tradition followed in the small Texas school was that a beautiful gold and green jacket was awarded to the student who had maintained the highest grades for eight years. The award was given during the passing out function (in the USA they call it graduation) of the 8th graders.

1. As soon as I reached the station, the train left. 

2. As soon as we heard the sound, we rushed to the spot.

3. As soon as she finished the project she started a new one. 

4. As soon as I received her call I left the house

She had thought that poor people could hardly do anything. But when she visited Fide’s village, Fide’s mother showed her a beautifully patterned basket made from dyed raffia that Fide’s brother had made. Adichie was surprised that a poor boy could make such a beautiful thing.

When she read books authored by Achebe and Laye, Adichie felt that people like her with chocolate colour and kinky hair could also exist in literature.

Mr. John : Excuse me, doctor, I wonder if I might introduce myself,

Dr. Cronin : Of course, you may do so.

Mr. John : I am John whom you once helped.

I am afraid you may not remember me.

Dr. Cronin : Oh Yes, now I remember. That was long ago, isn’t it? How are you now?

Mr. John : By the way, may I take the privilege of introducing my wife?

Dr. Cronin : Pleased to meet you, Mrs. John.

Mr. John : Good morning doctor. John has always been speaking about you.

Dr. Cronin !t is good of him. I didn’t do anything great for him.

Mr. John : No, doctor. You did really something great for me. You changed my life entirely for the better.

The problem with single story is that it creates stereotypes. Stereotypes may not be untrue but they are not complete. Single story gives people a wrong picture of things.

She means that her roommate could never imagine that there was a possibility of people like her in Africa. Her roommate knew only the ‘single story’ of Africa that it is a dark continent.

Her reading of foreign books, especially American and British.

Her reading of Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye. The coming of Fide as the houseboy when she was 8.

Her mother telling her how poor Fide’s family is. Her visit to the village of Fide.

Her going to the USA when she was 19.

Her experiences with her roommate.

The comment about her characters by a professor who felt that her characters were not authentically African.

The tragedies she experienced – grandparents dying in refugee camps, her cousin Polle dying because of the lack of proper healthcare, her friend Okoloma dying in a plane crash as the fire trucks had no water and how the repressive military governments, which did not give priority to education, did not sometimes even pay salaries to her parents.

1. No sooner had I reached the station than the train left.

No sooner did I reach the station than the train left.

2. No sooner had we heard the sound than we rushed to the spot.

No sooner did we hear the sound than we rushed to the spot.

3. No sooner had she finished the project than she started a new one.

No sooner did she finish the project than she started a new one.

4. No sooner had I received her call than I left the house.

No sooner did I receive her call than I left the house.

The Danger of a Single Story A single story creates stereo types. The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but they are incomplete. The experience of Chimamanda Adichie, while she was a student in the USA, proves the point. Her American roommate was surprised to hear Adichie speak English so well and she liked the songs of Mariah Carey. The American roommate could never imagine that a girl from Nigeria would speak English or listen to singers like Mariah Carey. Many British, Canadians or Australians feel surprised when Indians speak fluent English because they think that Indians can’t speak English well.

misinform and misguide people. They had a servant, whose name was Fide. Her mother always talked about the poverty of Fide. Adichie once visited Fide’s home and found his brother was a fine craftsman who could make beautifully patterned baskets. But she knew only of their poverty and not their artistic skills. This is what happens to many of us. We hear just one thing about a person or about a country. We don’t hear other things about him or the country. And so our opinion about the person and the country remains prejudiced. In India there are many street magicians an snake charmers. Many people in Africa and Europe think that all Indians know magic and they can handle snakes like Vava Suresh.

We all have heard the story of six blind men going to ‘see’ the elephant. Each of them felt with their hands a different hart of the elephant. The person who felt the leg of the elephant said that an elephant is like a pillar. The one who felt the ear said that an elephant is like a hand-fan. To the one who felt the tail an elephant was like a stick! They all were right in their own limited way, but they were all wrong about their concept of the elephant.

So before coming to conclusions we should hear not a single story about something, but different stories about it. Otherwise we will remain prejudiced like the blind men in the story.

Kill the trapped rats by drowning in water and the interval between two trapping in the same location should not be less than 30 days. P.A.U. has developed double chambered multi-catch trap with tunnel type entrance. Many rats can be trapped at a time. Place 16 traps for an acre at runways and activity sites of rats in the fields, also place traps in homes, poultry farms, god owns, stores etc. Place one trap for 4 to 8 square metre along the walls, comers of rooms, grain storing places and behind the boxes.

In cold stores wrap the traps in newspapers before placing. For catching rats pre-baiting is done. For this purpose put in each cage/trap bait consisting of 10 to 15 grams of bajra or sorghum or cracked wheat, which contains 2% of powdered sugar and 2% of groundnut or sunflower oil. This should be done for 2-3 days. Thus by using traps crops can be saved from damage by rats.