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  Questions & answers on Panch-light Long Answer-type Questions (150-200 Words each) Q1. What image of the rural society do you get from the story ‘Panchlight’? Ans. Panchlight presents a true picture of the rural society with local culture and traditions in the Bihar state of India. We come to know several characters in this story. They behave in their typical manner. Their reactions to the common situations of rural life are quite funny and interesting. They are quite natural in their behaviour. We find that the village society is divided into several castes. So there are eight Panchayats or ‘Tolis’ for each caste or community in the village. We also find that each community is very sensitive to its honour. Presently, the Mahto Toli does not have its own ‘dury’ and a ‘Panchlight’. So they think of themselves as inferior to other communities of the village. For this, they collect money and bring a ‘Pachlight’ from a nearby city. Even in dealing with Godhan, it become...

                          The Blind Dog by R. K. Narayana :                    Questions & Answers Ex. 3. I. Short Answer-type Questions Write short answers in almost five lines to each of the following questions: Q1. What happened to the dog once it became the blind man’s companion? Ans. The dog started sitting near the old beggar. The old blind beggar used to feed the dog. So it became his companion. In the beginning, all was well. But the dog’s misery started when a ribbon vendor tied a string to it to help the blind man. After that, he held the string of the dog tightly. He started walking with the help of the dog by keeping the string in his hand. Thus more coins started falling into the bowl. It made the person greedier than before. He kept walking throughout the day. The dog’s freedom was lost. It became the ...

  The Canterville Ghost: Question & Answers on Incidents Chapter 1 Q1. Why did Mr. Hiran B. Otis purchase the Canterville Chase from Lord Canterville even if he was told beforehand about the truth of the haunted house? Ans. Lord Canterville told every thing which he knew about the Canterville Chase to Mr. Hiran B. Otis. But he was adamant (firm) on purchansing the villa. He told Lord Canterville that he belonged to a modern country, America. So he did not believe in ghosts. Rather he suggested to him to value the ghost while valuing all the furniture of the house. He also told Lord Canterville that if there had been such a thing as a ghost in Europe, they would allow them to live in their public museums or keep them on roads for shows. Q2. What truth about the Canterville Chase was revealed to Mr. Otis by Lord Canterville? Ans. Lord Canterville told Mr. Otis that the members of his family had not cared to live in the palace since his granddaughter, the Duchess of Bol...

    3. The Midnight Visitor by Robert Arthur (notes prepared by Shish Pal Chauhan) Q1. How is Ausable different from other secret agents? Ans. Ausable is very fat. He looks like an ordinary person. Normally secret agents have a very smart look. They carry a pistol. Ausable does not carry any pistol. Thus he looks different from other secret agents. Q2. Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?   Ans. Fowler is a writer. He wants some exciting material to write a story on the life of secret agents. He had his first thrill of the day. He found another person with a pistol in Ausable’s room. Q3. How has Max got into Ausable’s room? Ans. Max got into Ausable’s room through the door. He used a pass key to open the door. Q4. Why did Fowler want to meet Ausable? Why was he disappointed? Ans. Fowler wanted to meet Ausable. He had a plan to write a story on the life of a secret agent. He had expected Ausable to be a mysterious type of person,...

  Words & Phrases Used in Deep Water by William Douglas 1.          Treacherous: unfaithful, false: Yakima river was treacherous. 2.          Shallow: not deep: The pool was two or three feet deep at the shallow end. 3.          Skinny: thin: I hated to walk naked into it and show my skinny legs. 4.          Subdue: to tame, to put under control or check, restrain: But I subdued my pride and walked into the pool naked. 5.          Aversion: strong dislike, loathing, hatred: From the beginning, I had an aversion to the deep water of a pond or a river. 6.          Surf: waves, foam of the waves: My father and I stood in the surf. 7.          Aping (to ape): imitating, copying: I paddled wate...