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A DEVOTED FRIEND By Oscar Wilde |
Trustworthiness
& Tolerance |
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I HAVE A DREAM: A Speech By
Martin Luther King |
Contribution
Of World Leaders |
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A Passage from CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS By Bertrand Russell |
Managing
Stress, Anger and People |
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ICARUS AND DAEDALUS By Josephine
Preston Peabody |
Self-
Discipline |
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HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? By Leo
Tolstoy |
Character
Building |
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THE DAY THE DAM BROKE by James
Thurber |
Civic
Responsibilities |
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CLIMATE CHANGE: ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS |
Effect
of Climate Change on The Society |
UNIT ONE: "THE DEVOTED FRIEND"
BY: OSCAR WILDE
MCQs:
1. “The Devoted Friend” is written by:
● James Thurber ● Oscar Wilde ● Liaquat Ali Khan ● Frank Arthur
2. Oscar Wilde was born in the year:
● 1854 ● 1853 ● 1867 ● 1851
3. Oscar Wilde died in the year:
● 1954 ● 1800 ● 1900 ● 1905
4. Oscar Wilde was born in:
● Edinburg ● Yorkshire ● Dublin ● Ireland
5. “The Devoted Friend” is more than an exquisitely told little fairy:
● fiction ● novel ● poem ● tale
6. “The Devoted Friend” shows comically _______ friendship.
● many sided ● three sided ● one sided ● two sided
7. The story of Hans and Miller is narrated by _______ to:
● duck, the linnet ● linnet, water-rat ● Hans, The Miller ● water-rat, duck
8. Everybody went to the little Hans’ funeral, as he was so popular and the chief mourner was.
● Blacksmith ● the miller ● the Miller’s son ● water-rat
9. Oscar Wilde was a strong supporter of the doctrine of: art of art’s sake
10. “You are certainly very thoughtful about others, very thoughtful indeed.” This sentence is spoken by: The Miller’s wife
11. “How well you talk. Really I feel quite drowsy. It is just like being in Church”. The speaker is: The Miller’s Wife
12. “The Devoted Friend” is a story of: one-sided friendship
13. The Miller refused to give Hans his: Wheel-barrow
14. According to the Miller, real friends should have everything in: common
15. Every good story teller nowadays starts with the end, and goes on to the beginning and concluded with the: middle
MCQS OF BOARD PAPERS:
Oscar Wilde was a strong supporter of the doctrine of: art of art’s sake
“You are certainly very thoughtful about others, very thoughtful indeed.” This sentence is spoken by: The Miller’s wife
“How well you talk. Really I feel quite drowsy. It is just like being in Church”. The speaker is: The Miller’s Wife
“The Devoted Friend” is based upon comically one-sided: friendship
“The Devoted Friend” is a story of: one-sided friendship
One-sided friendship is the theme of: The Devoted Friend
The Miller refused to give Hans his: Wheel-barrow
According to the Miller, real friends should have everything in: common
Every good story teller nowadays starts with the end, and goes on to the beginning and concluded with the: middle
SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS:
Q: 01.
Q: 02. When do we first suspect that the Miller was not really a very good friend to Hans?
Ans: When we read that the neighbours think that the rich Miller never gave little Hans anything while he took as much of flowers from Hans’s garden. We first suspect that the Miller was not really a very good friend to Hans.
Q: 03. How did the Miller justify his not asking Hans to share some of his good things during the winter? OR
Q: What justification did the Miller give for not visiting Hans in winter?
Ans: The Miller justified his not asking Hans to share some of his good things during the winter because then others would have thought him to be very foolish to let others use his things. Moreover, in his opinion, the plenty and warmth of his house in cold weather could made Little Hans envious of his life style and he never wanted little Hans to suffer by any inferiority-complex or not to motivate him to be envied.
Q: 04. How did the Miller’s wife reveal that she too was ready to exploit the generosity of Hans?
Ans: The Miller’s wife revealed that she too was ready to exploit the generosity of little Hans when she handed over a quite big basket to Miller and asked him to get it filled with the flowers from Hans’s garden.
Q: 05. How did the Miller persuade Hans to carry the large sack of flour to market?
Ans: The Miller persuaded Hans to carry the large sack of flour to market by saying that he was going to give his broken Wheelbarrow to Hans. So, he must do what Miller has asked and refusing it will be quite unfriendly oh his account.
Q: 06. How did the Miller justify his rebuke to Hans for staying in bed a little later than usual after his tiring expedition to the market?
Ans: The Miller justified his rebuke to Hans for staying in bed a little later than usual after his tiring expedition to the market by saying that idleness is a great sin and he did not like any of his friends to be idle or sluggish. He told the Little Hans to not to mind his plainly speaking because he was a good friend and supposed to say unpleasant things rather flattering by speaking pleasant words.
Q: 07. Why was Hans unable to look after his garden? OR
Q: Why was Hans unable to look after his garden? What promise was the Miller constantly holding out before him?
Ans: Little Hans was simple and innocent and The Miller was a clever and selfish person. The friendship of Miller was certainly much costly to poor Hans. Clever Miller had disturbed his daily routine badly and he was unable to look after his garden properly. Every now and then Miller was coming around and sending him off on long errands or assigning him some private jobs. The Miller was constantly holding out the promise of giving his useless wheelbarrow before poor Hans.
Q: 08. What was the supreme manifestation of the Miller’s selfishness which caused Hans to lose his life? OR
Q: Which act of selfishness of the miller caused Hans to lose his life?
Ans: The Miller’s greatest indication of selfishness was to not to give his lantern to Hans when it was too dark, stormy, raining cats and dogs and way dangerous to go out to fetch a doctor. Miller’s son had fallen off a ladder and had hurt himself and he wanted Hans to go to the doctor. He refused to lend his lantern by saying that it was his new lantern and he couldn’t afford anything happening to it and causing his friendship ruined for little thing. Hans on his way back, fell into a ditch, drowned and lost his life as the result of Miller’s selfishness.
Q: 09. Comment briefly on the Miller’s claim to have been Hans’s best friend.
Ans: In fact the Miller was Hans’s most selfish friend or a fair-weather friend as he kept getting service from Hans all the time but didn’t do anything for Hans. The Miller and Hans were friends but it was a one-sided friendship. He exploited the innocence and devotedness of poor Hans in a nut shell, one can conclude that Miller’s claim to have been Hans’s best friend was a lie and false.
Q: 10. Compare the characters of the Miller and Little Hans. OR
Q: Make a comparison between the characters of the Miller and Hans.
Ans: The Miller was extremely selfish person who believed in getting help from friends without helping them at all. He had a good theory of friendship but he never acted upon what he said. He often used to say that a friend should serve his friend and by saying this, he got a lot of work from Hans without ever working for him. He made false promises of giving his wheelbarrow to Hans which he never gave. On Little Hans’s death he wept outwardly shedding crocodile tears.
Little Hans on the other hand was not selfish at all and he served his friends without any interest. He didn’t talk about friendship and served his friends silently. Little Hans always spoke the truth and kept his promises. He even gave his life while brining the doctor to the Miller for his son. In fact, Hans was much too simple and honest as compared to the Miller.
Q: 11. The Devoted Friend is a story of one-sided friendship. Discuss. OR
Q: The Miller was a fair-weather friend. Discuss OR
Q: Who is the fair weather friend Hans or Miller? State with reasons.OR
Q: Why do we say that Hugh the Miller is a selfish friend to little Hans?OR
Q: Do you agree that the Miller was a fair-weather friend?
Ans: This story has been told by a song bird (Linnet) to water rat and a duck. The water rat was very selfish and friendship wasn’t a matter of give and take for him but only to take and to keep taking. So the Miller was just like the water rat. This story tells us about one-sided friendship in which Hans was the real devoted friend and Miller though claimed to be best friend, was a selfish and fair-weather friend. He believed that a friend should get all the help without giving any help to others.
Q: 12. How does Hugh, the Miller, deceive little Hans in the lesson “Devoted Friend”? OR
Q: How does the Miller deceive Little Hans?
Ans: The Miller was a fair-weather friend as he always turned up in good times (Spring) to collect a basket-full flowers from the garden of Hans, sometimes to keep him busy in his own work and to take away his things for his own purposes. He used to claim that he is the best friend of Hans and it is the duty of Hans to share everything with him. On the other hand he never visited Hans in bad times when Hans had no money or flowers that he could sale and buy his bread and butter.
Q: 13. Give a sketch of Hans, the gardener?
Ans: Little Hans was a selfless and devoted friend who served his friends without any interest. He didn’t talk about friendship and served others silently. Little Hans always spoke the truth and kept his promises. He even gave his life while bringing the doctor to the miller’s son. In fact, Hans was much too simple and honest as compared to the Miller.
I HAD A DREAM
BY MATRIN LOTHER KING
CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS
BY: BERTRAND RUSSELL
1. Lesson “Reflections on the Re-Awakening East” is written by:
* Bertrand Russel * John Galsworthy * Frank Arthur * James Thurber
2. Bertrand Russell began to write books with his famous book:
* Principia Mathematica * Principia Sociologica
* Principia Biologica * Sociological aid
3.
SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS:
Q: 01.
THE DAY THE DAM BROKE
By: JAMES THURBER
MCQs:
- “The Day the Dam Broke” is written by:
* James Jones * James Thurber * James Joyce * Liaquat Ali Khan
- James Thurber was a/an ______ writer.
* British * American * Japanese * Pakistani
- “The Day the Dam Broke” is a good example of Thurber’s ______ view of human behavior.
* farcical * astonishing * sardonic * fascinating
- The rumour of the broken dam was spread on:
* March 13, 1912 * March 13, 1914 * March 15, 1915 * March 12, 1913
- The rumour of the broken dam was spread in the city of:
* Beirut * Amsterdam * Columbus * Karachi
- The West side at the time of the dame rumour was under ______ feet of water during spring floods.
* twenty * forty * thirty * twelve
- Author’s ______ turned out all the fires.
* aunty * sister * brother * mother
- According to James Thurber, about ______ people took an abrupt full flight.
* two hundred * forty thousand * two thousand * twelve hundred
- Order was restored and fear dispelled finally by means of:
* policemen * fire fighters * rescue fighters * militiamen
- Thurber’s grandfather was taller than ______ feet.
* two * four * six * twelve
- Thurber’s grandfather weighed almost ______ pounds.
* fifty * a hundred and sixty * a hundred * a hundred and seventy
- The cry that Dam had broken spread like:
* fire * water * grass-fire * wind
- The name of Thurber’s aunt was:
* James Taylor * Jimmy Taylor * James Taylor * Edith Taylor
- Edith Taylor was in a ______ on High Street.
* car parking * factory * movie theatre * computer lab
- Dr. Mallory resembled with:
* Robert Lynd * Robert Browning * Franklin * James Thurber
- Dr. Mallory mistook the swishing of the ______ for the sound of rushing water.
* skates * water cistern * car * wheel barrow
- There was a ______ on roller-skates behind Dr. Mallory.
* woman * old lady * boy * bandit
- The afternoon of March 12, 1913 is also known in Columbus Ohio as:
* the march past * old feast * the great rain * the Great Run
- Most of the runners gave up exhausted or climbed trees in ______ park.
* Hyde * Franklin * Jurassic * Safari
- “The Great Run” of Columbus started from:
* a theatre * High Street * Reynoldsburg * Hyde Park
- When the rumour of broken dam spread everyone was as safe as ______ in fact.
* dogs * kittens * dinosaurs * elephants
- The Author stuns his grandfather with a/an:
* hammer * stone * punch * iron board
- Marie Celeste was the name of a/ an:
* giant * stage show * ship * thunder storm
- People like Dr. Mallory still do not respond to the “Great Run” even after:
* 5 years * 25 years * 10 years * 20 years
- Dr. Mallory collapsed at/on:
* High Street * State street * Memorial Hall * Columbus School for Girls
SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS:
Q: 01. How accurate is the title of Thurber’s essay?
Ans: The title is accurate because the essay is about the false news of breaking of the dam in Columbus America. Title raises some questions in our minds like what happened after the news spread around and the situation of the writer, his family and people of the area.
Q: 02. What can we gather about grand father’s age, physique and mental condition?
Ans: The writer’s grandfather was old in his late seventies, more than six feet in height and weighed about seventy ponds. For his age he was quite active and strong but mentally he wasn’t much ready to understand others easily.
Q: 03. How does the panic appear to be started?
Ans: The panic started at the busy trade center on High street where somebody started to run perhaps to meet his wife waiting for him somewhere. Another person started to run for some reason followed by everyone as the word damn altered to dam and then dam has broken spread like a fire.
Q: 04. How did Thurber’s mother cope with the situation?
Ans: Thurber’s mother coped very wisely with the situation. She had planned to take refuge in the top of Memorial Hall which was two blocks away. She put out all the fires in the house, took a few eggs and two loaves of bread with her and ran towards the Memorial Hall but the mob outdoes her plans and she too was dragged along with the stampedes towards East.
Q: 05. What caused the lieutenant colonel of infantry to lead ‘a fleeing company of three hundred persons’?
Ans: It was the cry of a little child “Go east”, that set the lieutenant colonel of infantry running and leading a company of three hundred eastwards. He was taking rest in the porch when he heard the running and shouting, he woke up and behaved in the same way as he had been trained in army to follow orders or commands without asking questions. It was when a fat man intercepted him and asked the reason that he stopped and asked the child.
Q: 06. How long the panic did last and how was order restored?
Ans: The panic lasted for about two hours and at last, order was restored by the militiamen who announced from Lorries through mega phones that the dam had not been broken. First People mistook it as “The Dam has now broken” but later on they understood and went back home sheepishly.
Q: 07. How did the panic start in the cinema on High street?
Ans: Thurber’s Aunt Edith Taylor was watching a show at the cinema on High street when she and others heard the tramping feet of running and shouts of Go East. The panic in the cinema on High Street started when one man got out of his seat and ran towards isle followed by a woman who yelled “Fire” and then everyone was running to get out of the Cinema.
Q: 08. Why did Dr. Mallory think that flood waters were about to engulf him?
Ans: A Kid was on roller-skates behind Dr. Mallory and his skates were making swishing sound that made Dr. Mallory to think that flood waters were about to engulf him and that was the sound of rushing water. At last he fell down and boy swirled passed him. He came to know that there was no water behind him but he began to jog towards East again.
Q: 09. How did Thurber obtain the description of the events in the cinema and the experience of Dr. Mallory?
Ans: Thurber got all this information from his aunt Edith Taylor and her letter. She had gone to the cinema on the High street to watch the show and witnessed the panic by herself.
Q: 10. Why did the citizens of Columbus not care to talk about the events of the 12th March, 1913?
Ans: The citizens of Columbus did not care to talk about these events because they were ashamed of becoming panicky about something which never actually had happened.
Q: 11. How can we say that “The Day the Dam Broke” is an interesting and humorous story?
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