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Answer any four of the following questions

(a) What advice was given to the king regarding the second question?

(b) The slippers of the music master attracted Mridu's attention. Why?

(c) What did Maya think about Mr. Nath's scars?

(d) Why a newspaper of stock lying in the open does not catch fire on its own?

(e) The friend has two qualities (--) he knows what he is doing and is absolutely sure it is good. Find the two phrases in the texts, A Bicycle in Good Repair which mean the same.

(f) Why does the poet say "he liked to tease and play"?

Answer:

(a) As an answer to the second question, the king got varied answers. Some people said the councilors would be the most important ones while some others suggested the priests or the doctors. Some even chose the soldiers.

(b) Mridu felt pity for the poor beggar. She, along with other children, decided to give him a pair of chappals. While searching the house/ Mridu/s eyes fell on the old looking chappak. They were big and dirty. Therefore, they attracted Mriduh attention.

(c) Mr. Nath's scars made her even more sure that he was a crook and that he might have got them during a shootout with the police or something like that.

(d) A fuel in presence of oxygen alone can't start burning. Heat is required for a fuel to catch fire. That is the reason why a newspaper or stick lying in the open doesn't catch fire.

(e) The two phrases are:

(i) Cheery confidence.

(ii) Inexplicable hopefulness,

(f) The squirrel likes to play. It is a fun-loving creature. He likes to play with human beings and when someone ran towards him, he would run away in the opposite direction.