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Once Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura realize that they are the same old young lovers of Maricela who were separated in life by fate, they make up fictitious stories and conceal their identity.

If they had revealed their identity, both of them would have been utterly shocked and would have accused each other of deceiving the other. They know that both of them had held the other in high esteem and both of them had fallen deeply in love.

That is why, when they realize that they are the same old lovers of Maricela, they are shocked to realize how much both of them had changed. Dona Laura after listening to Don Gonzalo’s praise of her beauty as The Silver Maiden’ now feels ashamed to confess that she is the old silver maiden of Maricela because she too is sadly changed.

Similarly, Don Gonzalo knows that he is grotesque and so wishes her to keep his image as a gallant horseman who tossed flowers to her every day.

Gonzalo ran off to Paris with a ballet dancer.

According to Gonzalo, he met Campoamor in Valencia.

Don Gonzalo tells Dona Laura that his cousin took refuge in his house fearful of the consequences of a duel with a person highly regarded in that locality. From his home, he later went to Seville and then to Madrid. Since his letters to Laura were intercepted by her parents, Gonzalo did not get any reply from her. He became desperate. In despair, believing that he had lost his love forever, he joined the army.went to Africa, and met a glorious death in a trench, grasping the flag of Spain and whispering the name of his beloved Laura.

During the conversation with Dona Laura, Don Gonzalo gives a romantic description of the silver maiden. Dona Laura realizes that the old man is none other than her former lover Gonzalo. Then, both of them together recount their romantic affair until they come to the end of their story. Don Gonzalo rounds it off telling her that his cousin had to hide for a few days and later to fly. At this point, Dona tells him that he seems to know the story well. Don Gonzalo also tells her the same. Dona Laura tells him that she heard the story from her friend.

Don Gonzalo picks up the same lie and tells her that he heard the story from his cousin. Both of them are now convinced that they were the former lovers of the romantic affair they had just reconstructed. Dona Laura wants to probe further into the affair. Therefore she demands an explanation about Gonzalo’s vanishing from Valencia.

In reply, Don Gonzalo tells her that after staying hidden indoors in Valencia for some time, his cousin went to Seville and then came to Madrid, where he wrote letters to Laura. But, since the letters were intercepted by her parents, she did not get his letters at all and so she did not write back to him. He tells her that Gonzalo, then in despair, believing that he had lost his love forever, joined the army, went to Africa and there is a trench met a glorious death grasping the flag of Spain and whispering the name of his beloved Laura. Immediately, Dona also concocts a story.

She tells him that after waiting for a year for Gonzalo, she went to the beach after sunset one evening. She wrote his name on the sand and then sat down on a rock, her gaze fixed upon the horizon. Then the waves slowly crept up to the rock where the maiden was sitting and the high rising tide rose with a boom and swept her out to sea. Thus ended the sad love affair.

After a long time, Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura meet in a retired corner of a park in Madrid.

According to Gonzalo, Laura ought to be at home, knitting and counting her beads.

In   Aravaca.

Laura’s name.

His handkerchief.

Three priests.

Correct option is C) Germany

Correct option is C) Economist

Answer is (C) Lawyers

C) Ken Saro Wiwa – Nigeria

(D) Agriculture

(i) No 

(ii) No 

(iii) Yes 

(iv) Yes

(v) No

(vi) No

(vii) Yes

1. Whenever the writer planned to go abroad, he was always asked to buy something or the other like a vaccine for a course, a special brand of ceramic paint, Cartier lighter refills and so on.

2. Gilson wanted the writer to bring a tie with a small embroidered G on it.

3. something for Mr. Gilson only on Tuesday when it was time to leave.

4. The other passengers in the flight gazed at the writer since the flight was delayed because of him.

5. The humour element in the above accident is that after all the frantic search for the tie and purchasing ten of them to avoid the trouble of getting back the change, the writer had left it – behind in the taxi for which he had also paid double the fare.

Answer is (B) 1959

1. (a) tragedy

2. (c) silence

3. (b) departure

4. (b) culminated

5. (c) awake

6. (c) forget

7. (d) leisurely

8. (b) irregular

9. (b) earlier

10. (c) begun

11. (a) dampened

12. (d) upstairs

13. (b) serious

14. (b) outrageously

15. (c) many

16. (a) light

17. (b) advance

18. (c) keen

19. (a) victory

20. (d) substantial

The narrator’s grandfather is an old- timer of the Union army of the Civil War, which terminated about fifty-two years ago. His bedroom is in the attic. When the police come to the house to search for the burglar, the grandfather thinks that they are militaries who are abandoning because they are losing to the South. The grandfather calls them “cowardly dog” and “lily-livered cattle” and then fetches a policeman’s holster and shoots a man with his own gun.

The police retreat, terrified of the irrational old man but at the breakfast table the next morning, Grandfather seems impeccably conscious of the previous night’s situation, asking why so many police had been “tanyhootin” around the house. On the contrary, the narrator’s mother, Mrs Thurber is a highly excitable woman, scatter brained yet practical at times.

Hearing a sound in her house and suspecting a burglar, she thinks of the clever plan of alerting Mrs and Mr. Bodwell the neighbours by throwing a shoe through his closed window. After he goes to alert the police, she considers throwing the matching shoe, a thrill and fanciful act. She is surprised to hear that Grandfather has shot a policeman, not because of the courageous ferocity of the act, but because the cop was such a nice looking young man.

“Great powers don’t get angry Nor do they act in haste!”

1. (d) instinctively

2. (a) absconder

3. (c) angrily

4. (d) rough

5. (a) retorted

6. (c) walked

7. (a) appeared

8. (d) delicate

9. (a) interfere

10. (c) oblique

11. (a) leaped

12. (d) splashes

13. (a) jingled

14. (c) obviously

15. (b) stared

16. (a) apprehension

17. (b) banged

18. (a) volunteered

19. (a) deceptive

20. (a) shredding

21. (b) feeble

22. (c) grasped

23. (b) prohibited

24. (d) doubted

25. (c) suddenly

1. The narrator searched for three days to buy ceramic paint. [False]

2. The author was going to New York. [True] 

3. Gilson asked the narrator to buy a tie. [True] 

4. The taxi driver took away the narrator’s suitcase. [False] 

5. Departure was delayed because of the author. [True] 

6. The author left the ties in the taxi. [True]

1. (b) Thailand

2. Chulong caught the bird in a bush in his garden.

3. Chulong caught the bird because it was strange and small and would surely fetch him good money.

4. The bird in imprisonment will lose its beauty and sweet voice.

5. The bird in exchange for its freedom suggested to Chulong three simple, yet useful rules.

6. No, he did not want to earn money honestly.

7. Chulong wanted to sell the bird and earn good money.

8. The bird is wise according to me.

9. No, the bird isn’t a crow.

10. The three rules given by the bird are:

1. Never believe everything others say. 

2. Never be sad about something you do not have. 

3. Never throw away what you have in your hand.

The narrator James Thurber, presents himself as acting judiciously, although his actions are uncommon to raise the uncertainties of the policemen. He is the first person in the household to hear the mysterious sound, as he is stepping out of the bathtub at 1:15 a.m. on November 17th. After waking his brother Herman, he is the one who resolves that the reason of the sound downstairs must be an apparition.

When his hasty mother decides that the sounds must be caused by intruders, the narrator thinks that she is past reasoning. Even when the cops arrive, he is still wrapped in a towel from his bath. Later, when the reporter comes around asking questions, the narrator puts on one of his mother’s blouses, explaining that it is the only thing that he can find at the moment.

He chooses to be honest with the reporter and tell him that the problem was caused by ghosts, but the reporter does not take him earnestly. Later, when the policeman who has been shot by Grandfather wants to challenge him and take his gun back, the narrator mediates with composed receptivity and offers to take the gun over to the police station in the morning.

“A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is a lifetime lesson.”

Mrs. Bodwell wanted to sell the house, as she wanted to go back to Peoria, due to the frequent mild attacks.

James, the author comes out of the bathroom, drying him she dining table. He wakes up his brother Herman. They both listen to the footsteps and gets scared. Their mother wakes up. When she comes to know lf. At that moment, he hears the footsteps of someone walking downstairs near the she alerts her neighbour to call the police. The police arrive with some reporters.

They search all over, upstairs and downstairs. When they find nothing, they rush to the attic. The narrator’s grandfather believes that he is still in the war. He thinks that the policemen are deserters. So he starts shooting at them. The policemen leave their house immediately, creating a lot of confusion everywhere.

The theme of the story, ‘The Night the Ghost got in’ by James Thurber is surely of a supernatural kind. This story asks readers to accept the existence of the ghost mentioned in the title as a believable one. Many a time, ghost stories offer readers a sign for a common explanation for the events that the characters themselves trust are triggered by the bizarre scenario.

Although it seems very unlikely that a real ghost would have generated a commotion in the house,Thurber gives readers distressing indication that the sounds that he heard were undeniably supernatural. For example, the police thoroughly investigate the house and say that all the doors and windows are locked from inside and nothing in the house is said to have been taken by burglars. The father and brother Roy, who are at first expected do have come home from Indianapolis early, do not feature in the play and are just characters mentioned during conversations.

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”

The police were on hand in a commendably short time. They began banging at the narrator’s front door. When nobody responded, they broke into the house. They searched downstairs and upstairs messing up everything. They opened all the doors and windows. They pulled the drawers and furniture. They began to ransack the floor, pulled beds away from the walls, tore clothes off the hooks in the closets.

They also pulled suitcases and boxes off the shelves. Later, they heard some creaking in the attic. They stepped into the attic. As his grandfather thought that they were the deserters from Meade’s army, so he started shooting at them. Then he went back to bed. The cops were unwilling to leave without getting their hand on somebody. They felt it was a defeat for them. They began to poke into things again and finally left the place.

One of the policemen who search through the house finds an old zither and strums it in curiosity. The story later refers to this officer as “Zither, ” as well as “the zither- cop.”

Zither was used by the guinea pig to sleep on it. It would never sleep anywhere except on the zither.

Bodwell thought that there were burglars in his house when they heard the mother shout.

His grandfather imagined that the cops were deserters from Meade’s army. He thought that they were trying to hide away in his attic.

Mr. Bodwell was shouting, frothing a little and shaking his fist. Mrs. Bodwell wanted to sell their house and go back to Peoria. For some years, he had been in a bad way and was subjected to mild attacks.

The narrator’s grandfather was wearing a long flannel nightgown over long woollen pants, a nightcap and a leather jacket around his chest.

Bodwell is Thurber family’s neighbour, a retired engineer. He is “subject to mild ‘attacks, ’” like most people whom the family knows.

The policemen were prevented from entering into grandfather’s room because the narrator realized that it would be bad if they do so. His grandfather was going through a phase, in which he believed that General Meade’s men were beginning to retreat. They were under the control of Stonewall Jackson.

The cops managed to enter the locked house by breaking the glass of the front door.

When the narrator’s mother throws a shoe through the Bodwells’ window and says there are burglars in the house, Bodwell is momentarily confused, thinking that the burglars are in his house, before understanding the truth and alerting the police.

The only policeman referred to by name is Joe. He examines an old zither with another policeman.

The slamming of the doors had awakened their mother.

When the policeman talks bravely about going to retrieve his gun from the grandfather, Joe mocks him because he feels it’s dangerous to approach an armed and unstable suspect.

His grandfather was going through fits where he believes he is in the war. He thinks that General Meade’s men are deserting under fire from Stonewall Jackson.

The author had put on one of his mother’s dress, as he couldn’t find anything else. The reporter looked at him with mingled suspicion and interest.

The imagination of the ghost getting into his house lead to a commotion. It caused his mother to throw a shoe through a window of the neighbouring house. It ended with his grandfather shooting a policeman. So the narrator was sorry to have paid attention to the footsteps.

Difference between Political Science and Sociology: 

There is a close relationship between Political Science and Sociology and it is not possible to draw a fixed line of difference between them. Yet, the differences between these two can be described as under.

1. Difference in Scope: 

Scope of Political Science is narrow, whereas scope of Sociology is wide. Political Science studies only political relations of man, state and its governance policy, whereas Sociology studies all the aspects of social life and all the social relations of man. Gilchrist, the political thinker, has considered Political Science as a specific science and Sociology as an extensive science.

2. Difference in Purpose: 

Political Science is an idealistic science, whereas Sociology is a descriptive science. Sociology studies only ‘what has happened’ and ‘what is happening’. Sociology does not study the ideal ‘what should be’, but Political Science discusses about ‘what should be’. One purpose of Political Science is to obtain an ideal structure of state and society.

3. Difference in Subject Matter: 

Political Science studies the political aspect of human life. The main topic of its study is the state, whereas Sociology studies all the aspects of human life. It searches about the reasons of origin and development of man and social institutions. Thus the subject matter of Sociology is man and society.

Political Science does not search about the social factors like Sociology does. It works on the assumption that man is a social animal. Political Science starts with the assumption of considering man as a political animal, whereas Sociology analyzes the situation prior to it and tells how and why man become a political creature. Political Science studies only the concrete activities of man, whereas Sociology studies all the activates – concrete and abstract.

4. Difference on basis of being prior: 

Sociology is prior to Political Science. Political Science originated after Sociology. Sociology studies unorganized communities also besides organised communities of the society, whereas Political Science is related only to organised society.

5. Difference in outlook and approach: 

In Political Science, only legal and practical relations of man are studied, whereas Sociology studies not only legal relations, but also the development of traditions, culture, behaviour, ethics, religious and economic life.

There is a close relationship between Geography and Political Science. Yet, these two subjects cannot be considered as one. 

The main differences between the two are:

1. Difference in Subject Matter: 

Natural conditions, climate, land, flora and fauna, etc. of different countries are studied under Geography, whereas Political Science is a social science. State, government and laws are studied under it. 

2. Difference in Nature: 

Geography is a science of facts. It is related to concrete facts, whereas Political Science is an ideological and descriptive science. It represents ideals along with the facts also. 

3. Difference in Certainty: 

Geography is a definite science. Rules under it remain fixed, whereas Political Science is an indefinite science. There is no certainty in its rules.

Differences between Political Science and Psychology: 

Political Science and Psychology are inter – related, but Political Science is not dependent on Psychology only. Political Science has social and economic aspects also. 

The basic differences between these two are as follows:

1. Difference in Scope: 

Political Science studies only external political activities, whereas Psychology studies all the mental activities of man from economic, social, religious and political points of view. 

2. Difference in Nature: 

Political Science is an idealistic science along with being realistic, whereas Psychology studies human behaviour and nature practically. Political Science studies ‘what was’, ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’ in context of political life, where as Psychology studies what was, and what is about mental traits of man. it does not discuss ‘what should be.’ Explaining the difference between the two, political thinker Catlin has rightly said, “Psychology is concerned with mental acts. Political Science is concerned with impulsive or willed acts”.

• Both the subjects are making efforts to study the basis and nature of their subject matter.
• Study of both the subjects is theoretical and intellectual.