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II. Answer the following questions not exceeding 100 words. (5 marks each)

16 Do you think the treatment of the Dalit boy in the passage below is unjust ? Why ? Pick out at
least four words/phrases/sentences that will justify your answer.

The children of the Tyagis would tease me by calling me “Chuhre ka’. Sometimes they
would beat me without any reason. This was an absurd tormented life that made me
introverted and irritable. If 1 got thirsty in school, then I had to stand near the hand-
pump. The boys would beat me in any case, but the teachers also punished me.

All sorts of stratagems were tried so that I would run away from the school and take up
the kind of work for which I was born. According to these perpetrators, my attempts to
get schooling were unwarranted.

17 “Normsare not static entities, but incorporated and interpreted features of existence”. Explain.

` 18 Fill in the blanks with the right collocations. Choose from the words given in brackets.

(heavy, delicate, blissful, lasting, grainy, booming, grave, born, strong, good)

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He would lie to his own mother. He is a ‏لل‎ liar.

The secret to a ———————_ marriage is honesty on both sides.

There is ‏لل‎ danger that the situation may degenerate into war.

The ——————— economy in Singapore is the result of low interest rates and taxation

He has no idea what he wants to do for a job but seems satisfied living in-—
ignorance.

19 Imagine you are the victim of any social exclusion/ marginalization in the society. Write a
diary entry expressing your feelings in not more than hundred words.

20 What are the figures of speech in the poem below ? How does the poet convey his meaning
through the poem ?

No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.

Only the thick wall.

Only the shadow.

My hands !

Break through the wall !

Find my dream !
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