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Naga Nandhini
Subject: English
, asked on 28/2/18
Explain from 'the invoking' till end!
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Kanishk Sharma
Subject: English
, asked on 28/2/18
Why. The. Ghost. Told. His. Grief. To. Virgina. Although. He. Had. To scare. The. Otis. Family??and. When. Virigina. Opened. Her. Eyes. Wht. Did. She. Saw?
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Naga Nandhini
Subject: English
, asked on 28/2/18
Ain't this lady canterville the ghost? I'm not understanding this line? How can she request Umney if she's dead? Explain me! "This was Mrs. Umney, the housekeeper, whom Mrs. Otis, at Lady Canterville's earnest request, had consented to keep in her former position"
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Naga Nandhini
Subject: English
, asked on 28/2/18
What does this mean? "saw, deep in the rustling fern, the burnished breast of the pheasant"
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Naga Nandhini
Subject: English
, asked on 28/2/18
Explain this : Virgina,a little girl of fifteen,lithe and lovely as a fawn, and with a fine freedom in her large blue eyes. She was a wonderful Amazon, and had once raced old Lord Bilton on her pony twice round the park, winning by a length and a half, just in front of the Achilles statue, to the huge delight of the young Duke of Cheshire, who proposed for her on the spot, and was sent back to Eton that very night by his guardians, in floods of tears
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Naga Nandhini
Subject: English
, asked on 27/2/18
What does this mean? " Many American ladies on leaving their native land adopt an appearance of chronic ill-health, under the impression that it is a form of European refinement,"
Novel:Canterville Ghost
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Yayati
Subject: English
, asked on 14/2/18
Q 8. "At her age one could never tell”. What could one not tell? About whom? Why?
Q 9. How did the grandmother react to the author’s decision to join a university?
Q 10. Which lifetime habit did the grandmother break on the day of the author’s arrival from abroad? How did she make amends for it?
Q 11. “We protested. But she ignored our protests.” Who protested and why? What was the result?
Q 12. Describe the last moments of Khushwant Singh’s grandmother.
Q13. How can you say that the grandmother could foresee her death?
Q14. Do you think grandmother was happier in village than in the city? How can you say so?
Q15. In what way(s) does Khushwant Singh’s grandmother deserve to be called a lady?
Q16. “Next morning the sweeper swept the bread crumbs into the dustbin.” How does the line contribute to the mystic aura in the end of the story?
Long Answer Questions
Q1. What different qualities and values of Khushwant Singh’s grandmother impress you the most? Why?
Q2. Emotions should never be allowed to stand in the way of an individual’s progress. Comment with reference to “The Portrait of a Lady”.
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Yayati
Subject: English
, asked on 14/2/18
"At her age one could never tell ".What could one not tell? About whom? Why?
(Ch:potrait of a lady)
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Yayati
Subject: English
, asked on 14/2/18
Why did the grandmother recite her prayers audibly while bathing her grandson in the morning ? Was it of any help ?
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Jahanvi Bajaj
Subject: English
, asked on 7/2/18
Why did the Ghost reveal his secret of death to Virginia only
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Divya Mahesh
Subject: English
, asked on 2/1/18
What did the Otis family do when the ghost could not be seen anywhere?
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Rahul Patel
Subject: English
, asked on 21/12/17
Write chapter wise summary of the novel Canterville ghost?
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Tulsi Mehta
Subject: English
, asked on 22/11/17
POST-READING RESPONSE (PRR)
(Understanding the text/narrative, reference to the context, interpretation, drawing inference, characterisation, analysis of the theme, plot and title, and extrapolation i.e. going beyond the text)
1. Initially Mr. Otis did not believe in the existence of ghost. Later on what made him suspect that he had been too dogmatic in the denial of the existence of ghosts? What trait of his character is highlighted by this suspicion of his?
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Devesh
Subject: English
, asked on 7/11/17
Who was waiting for the ghost with the big garden syring? And hoe did the ghost save himself? In chapter 4
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Manish Tulsiani
Subject: English
, asked on 26/9/17
Discuss the comic incidences of the novel- The canterville ghost
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Novel:Canterville Ghost
Q 9. How did the grandmother react to the author’s decision to join a university?
Q 10. Which lifetime habit did the grandmother break on the day of the author’s arrival from abroad? How did she make amends for it?
Q 11. “We protested. But she ignored our protests.” Who protested and why? What was the result?
Q 12. Describe the last moments of Khushwant Singh’s grandmother.
Q13. How can you say that the grandmother could foresee her death?
Q14. Do you think grandmother was happier in village than in the city? How can you say so?
Q15. In what way(s) does Khushwant Singh’s grandmother deserve to be called a lady?
Q16. “Next morning the sweeper swept the bread crumbs into the dustbin.” How does the line contribute to the mystic aura in the end of the story?
Long Answer Questions
Q1. What different qualities and values of Khushwant Singh’s grandmother impress you the most? Why?
Q2. Emotions should never be allowed to stand in the way of an individual’s progress. Comment with reference to “The Portrait of a Lady”.
(Ch:potrait of a lady)
(Understanding the text/narrative, reference to the context, interpretation, drawing inference, characterisation, analysis of the theme, plot and title, and extrapolation i.e. going beyond the text)
1. Initially Mr. Otis did not believe in the existence of ghost. Later on what made him suspect that he had been too dogmatic in the denial of the existence of ghosts? What trait of his character is highlighted by this suspicion of his?