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1) The generals thought that Puru was a proud king because Puru was talking and behaving like a king with self respect and sovereignty though he was in captivity. 

2) Puru was a noble king with sovereignty and self respect. He was courageous and brave . man. Such kings live like kings and like to die as kings. They don’t like to be as slaves, vassals and subjects of any other kings. 

3) Puru wanted to be treated as a sovereign king by Alexander. 

4) If his kingdom was allowed to remain independent and he was treated as equal to Alexander he would make friends with his equal. 

5) If I were Alexander, I would also treat Puru as Alexander treated him). I would respect his kingship. I would respect his sovereignty. I would be a friend to him and I would allow him to rule his kingdom independently.

1) on the banks of die Jhelum 

2) Two Greek Soldiers 

3) his generals 

4) Four generals 

5) ‘general’

Option C) Wherever

Correct option is C) Wherever

1) Three persons 

2) that Puru should be his vassal 

3) a brave man

4) Puru 

5) as a king

Correct option is D) prescription

Correct option is C) unhappy

Correct option is A) a big enough van

(i) They praised the dead warrior in the hope that it might bring his wife to tears.

(ii) He was praised and called a true friend and a noble foe.

(iii) He was considered to have been worthy of love.

(iii) She neither spoke nor moved.

(i) A nurse.

(ii) Ninety years old.

(iii) Her child was set upon her knee.

(iii) Tears came like summer tempest.

(iv) The sight of her little child made her cry.

(v) For her child.

1) A warrior was brought dead. 

2) While fighting with his enemy soldiers he was killed in a war. 

3) ‘She’ was the warrior’s wife. 

4) When her husband was brought dead she neither fainted nor cried. She was in shock. She stood stock still and she did not she$ even a single tear. 

5) All the women who surrounded her said that she had to cry otherwise she would die. 

6) She was in a shock. She stood stock still. So she did not shed even a single tear. 

7) They believed that all the pain that the widow was keeping pent up inside her would finally have an adverse effect on her health and she would not surprise from the misery. 

8) The word ‘swooned’ means unconscious. 

9) dead – said – cry – die 

10) The rhyming scheme followed in the poem is ABAB.

Correct option is C) serious

Correct option is C) angrily

(i) A maiden.

(ii) She went to the side of the dead warrior.

(iii) She wanted the wife to see the face of her dead husband. She hoped that this would make her cry.

(iv) She neither moved nor wept.

Correct option is B) nearest

1) “They” here refer to her women who surrounded her. 

2) They praised her husband. 

3) They praised her dead husband to remind the widow of her nobility and dignity her husband enjoyed from the large. They praised him before her to evoke an emotional reaction from him. 

4) They praised him worthy to be loved, They said that he was the truest friend and a noblest foe. 

5) None of their words did not have any effect on the wife. She stood motionless and silent. 

6) The rhyming words in this stanza are; low – foe; loved – moved;

Correct option is C) small

Correct option is A) write

Correct option is A) better

Correct option is D) most popular

1) The maiden walked up slowly and quietly to the dead body of the warrior and removed the face-cloth that covered his face. 

2) The maiden removed the face-cloth supposing the sight of her husband’s lifeless face would move her and she would cry. 

3) Lightly here means slowly and quietly. 

4) The sight of her husband’s lifeless face did not have any effect on the widow. Still she did not cry. 

5) The rhyming words in the stanza are; place – face; stepped – wept;

Correct option is C) wide

Correct option is A) badly

Correct option is C) what

1) The nurse was ninety years of age. 

2) The nurse placed the widows child on woman’s knee. 

3) Tears came out like the summer tempest. 

4) The summer season 

5) years – tears; knee – thee

Additional Answer: 

1) When she saw her child the woman at once cried. The tears came down with the force of a storm. 

2) The figure of speech ‘simile’ is used in the above line because the tears are compared to a storm. 

3) The tempest is compared to the tears that came down her face with a force. 

4) The ninety nine year old nurse succeeded in making her weep. 

5) The widow that she would live for her daughter. 

6) I would not die with your dead father. I would live for you. 

7) Years – tears ; knee – thee. 

8) All the while the widow had been thinking of her child. She was thinking who would have to live like without a father. These thoughts made her cry when she saw her child.

Control the temperature of the refrigerator.

Correct option is D) stop

Correct option is D) stop

1) The story took place in China. 

2) The story was about a woman and her daughter Siew-Mei. 

3) Her husband was killed by a tiger some years ago. 

4) The woman lost her husband. She was old and weak. They were poor. So life was difficult for the woman and her daughter. 

5) Siew Mei used to look after the silkworms, collect the thread from the silkworms, make beautiful silk and sell the silk in the market and earn enough money to buy food and other things.

Correct option is nuts

Correct option is D) which

Correct option is B) steward

1. People believe that these strange lights are really spaceships from other planets.

2. These UFOs are really aeroplanes, weather balloons or meteors.

3. b) Unidentified Flying Object

4. c) planets

5. a) UFOs are make-believe.

Correct option is D) continue

1) One day when Siew Mei was returning home it rained heavily. 

2) In the rain she took shelter in a hut. 

3) The floor inside the hut was dirty. Bowls and pots were left unwashed. 

4) Siew Mei swept the floor, washed all the bowls and pots. She cleaned the hut to look as a new one. 

5) When she had finished cleaning, the hut was as clean as a new one.

Correct option is neighbor

Correct option is B) whom

Comparative- Ravi Varma was more creative artist than any other artist in India

(a) could they

Correct option is C) was the matter with

1) It was very, late in the night. And there was a heavy rain. In spite of the rain and the darkness her daughter was able to reach home safely. So she was glad to see her daughter. 

2) Siew Mei showed her mother the white man’s white beard. 

3) When they opened the bundle they did not see the old man’s white beard but they saw the finest silk thread. It made them surprised. 

4) They wove the finest silk cloth with the silk. 

5) They noticed that the silk thread remained exactly the same size even after they wove the cloth using it. 

6) News of their wonderful silk spread far and wide. 

7) The old woman and her daughter became famous for the finest silk they produced. 

8) The turning of the beard into silk can be described as a miracle. 

9) Yes. I believe in. it because I’ve so many such things. After a dreadful earthquake, though thousands of people lost their lives, a girl was saved alive after a week from the rumblings. Was it not a miracle? So many miracles happened in the human history. 

10) I’d be very glad if I were Siew Mei.

Correct option is B) who

Correct option is A) who lives next door

(c) creative differences

A wrong man in workers paradise by Rabindranath tagore  

Correct option is D) which caused the accident

(a) understand

(b) matter of great concern

(c) understand

(b) in deep waters

(a) is correct answer 

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