10th Class English The Letter by Dhumketu Question Bank

done 10th CBSE English The Letter by Dhumketu Total Questions - 26

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  Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                              (1x3=3) "An old man was walking through the town, now and again drawing his tattered clothes tighter to shield his body from the cold and biting wind." (a) Who was the old man? (b) What was the time? (c) Where was the old man going?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                    (1 x3 = 3) "Beholding the wooden arch of this building, the old man was filled with the joy that the pilgrim feels when  he first sees the goal of his journey." (a) Which 'building' is being referred to here? (b) Who is the 'old man'? (c) Why did he go to the building?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                              (1x3=3) "It's a mad man, sir, who worries us by calling everyday for letters that never come," said the clerk to the postmaster. (a) Who is referred to as a mad man? (b) Whose letter is expected by this, 'mad man'? (c) What is the attitude of the clerk and the postmaster towards the 'mad man'?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                              (1x3=3) "Ali came out very slowly, turning after every few steps to gaze at the post-office." (a) Where had Ali gone? (b) What was Ali feeling?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                             (1x3=3) "They will be useful to you, and they can never be to me. But will you do one thing?" (a) Who is speaking here? (b) Who is listener here? (c) What does They' refer to?  
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  'In the grey sky of early dawn, stars still glowed.........'. How does the author describe the early morning?                                 (HOTS)
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    Who was Ali? Where did he go daily?   (TBQ)  
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    'All displays qualities of love and patience." Give evidence from the story to support the statement.                                                  (TBQ)
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    How does the author describe the place near the post-office?
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    How do you know Ali was a familiar figure at the post-office?                                        (TBQ)
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    Why did All give up hunting?  (TBQ)  
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              What impression do you form of the postmaster after reading the story, The Letter'?                                                        (TBQ)
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    "The haughty temper of the official had quite left him in his sorrow and anxiety and had laid bare his human heart." In the lesson, The Letter' who is the official referred to? Give an example of his haughty behaviour. Why does Ali become sad and anxious?    (HOTS)
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    The postmaster says to Ali "What a pest you are, brother!" Do you agree with the statement? Give reasons for your answer.
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    What is the importance of the letter in the story?                                                          (HOTS)
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    "Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal sigri to wait." Who is tortured by doubt and remorse? Why? What is he waiting for?
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    Why was Ali impatient when he visited the post-office after many days?                 (HOTS)
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    How did the postmaster became a changed man?
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    "But where.........where am I supposed to send it ?" Explain these words.                (HOTS)
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    "Mad-men are strange people," the postmaster said. Comment.                (HOTS)                     
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  "For now the postmaster understood All's heart and his very soul. After spending but a single night in suspense, anxiously waiting for news of his daughter, his heart was brimming with sympathy for the poor old man who had spent his nights in the same suspense for the last five years." At the end of the story, the postmaster accepts his fault and shows sympathy to Alt. Imagine you are the postmaster. You have just realised what the pain of being away from your loved ones is. You and Lakshmi Das have just placed Miriam's letter on All's grave. Write a letter to Miriam telling her about her father's love for her and how he died. (VBQ)
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    Lakshmi Das, the clerk, to whom Alt had given the money, makes a diary entry regretting his misbehaviour towards Alt when he pestered him. Imagine you are Lakshmi Das and make the diary entry.                                                   (VBQ)
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    "But when the evening of his life was drawing in, he left his old ways and suddenly took a turn." What was the change in All's nature towards the end of his life? What was the reason for this transformation?            (HOTS)
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    You are Lakshmi Das. The night after you visit All's grave, you make a diary entry about this extraordinary man and your relationship with him.
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    Imagine you are All's daughter, Miriam. You have learnt the miserable condition of your father through your acquaintance. You decide to write a letter to your father at once. Write the letter.
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    Tortured by doubt and remorse, the postmaster sits in the glow of a charcoal sigri that night, waiting for news of his daughter. As he sits, he writes his diary. As the postmaster, write a diary entry outlining your feelings about the day's events.  
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