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1.   The Tiger King Long Answer-type Qs. Q1. How did the Maharaja come in the danger of losing his throne and how did he avert this danger?    2010 The king did not allow a British officer to kill a tiger because he did not want to open the way for other British officers to reach his forests and kill the tigers. He wanted to kill them himself to falsify the astrologer’s prediction. The Maharaja and the Dewan held a meeting. They thought seriously on the issue of the danger on the throne. It was because the king had refused a British officer to fulfil his desire. So they decided to please the officer. They arranged for fifty expensive samples of diamond rings of different designs from a famous British company of jewellery in Calcutta. As the samples of the rings arrived, the king sent them all to the British officer’s good lady. The king had expected that the good lady would select a few of the samples and return the rest of them. The officer’s wife kept all t...

Letter writing 1.    Letters to Editor ............................] ............................] self Address .............................] Date...................... The Editor ........................{name of the newspaper) .........................{Place of  publication] Subject:……………………………………………………………………. Sir/Madam, Through the columns of your esteemed paper, I would like to draw the attention of the common people to the problem of ................. (rising  prices/ environmental pollution/ noise created by the use of loud speakers......). .................................................................................... With regards, Yours faithfully, .........................(name) 2.    Job letter Self address ............ ................................. ........................... Date..................... The Manager/The Principal/The General Manager Name of Company .................

The Age of Chaucer Mostly the age of Chaucer was medieval-unscientific, superstitious, chivalrous, religious-minded and “backward” in most respects. But still it was an age of transition. It implies a shift from the medieval to modern times and the emergence of the English nation from the “dark ages” to the age of enlightenment. In fact Chaucer’s age was moving towards the dawn of the Renaissance and the Reformation , which were a couple of centuries ahead. ·          What was the Renaissance? ·          What was the Reformation? ·          What was the Hundred Years’ War? Ans. It was the period between 1337 to 1443, in which there were several skirmishes (small fights) between England and France. The whole period taken together is known as ‘the Hundred Years’ War’. ·          The Black Death: In Chaucer’s ti...

Important facts about Griffin (the Invisible Man), the protagonist of the novel ‘The Invisible Man’ written by H. G. Wells. I Griffin was a scholar student of the University College, junior to Dr. Kemp. He had also won gold medal in chemistry, but he shifted his interest to physics as the topic of light attracted him very much. He was a boy of 22 at that time full of enthusiasm to devote his whole life in his aim to discover the theory of invisibility. He was strongly built person of six feet in height, an albino with pink and white face having red eyes. Griffin was a man of strong will power, and he devoted several years of hard work and exasperation in his research work. His craziness to achieve his invisibility formula makes him emotionless person and eccentric also. It makes him the most selfish person. It is due to the lack of emotions that he robbed his old father of the money that belonged to some other person. As a result his father shoots himself to save his honour....

 Good Bye, Mr. Chips! Simplied Detailed Summary Brookfield School was very famous in the middle of the nineteenth century. When Mr. Chips joined it, there were 500 odd students who were notorious for their mischievous behavior. They enjoyed much by teasing the new masters when they entered the class for the first time. It was an exciting sport for them and it had also become a tradition for them. Individually they were decent boys, but as a mob they were at their worst in behavior and creating troubles for their teacher. As Mr. Chips took his seat at the desk on the dais, he assumed a frown on his eyebrows just to show that he was very serious and he also wanted to hide his nervousness. Suddenly someone dropped a desk lid on the floor in the classroom. It was the time for Mr. Chips to react strongly to establish his authority on them. He said loudly: ‘You there in the fifth row, you with the red hair-----what’s your name?’ “Colley,  sir!” “Very well, Colley, you ...