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  Day 4: Super Seven-Super Eleven Qs Ans for Class XI Q8. What things were found in Tut’s burial chamber? Ans. By opening the first casket (box),  a shroud (a piece of cloth in which a dead body is wrapped) adorned (decorated) with garlands of willow (a kind of tree) and olive (a tree) leaves, wild (living and growing in natural conditions) celery (vegetables for salad), lotus petals and cornflowers were found. The base of the coffin was made up of gold and resins were spread to solidify the mummy to the Q9. What trouble did Howard Carter run into when Tut’s coffin was being opened? Ans. Howard Carter also ran into trouble when he finally reached the mummy. The raisins used for spreading on the bottom of the solid gold coffin to fix (cement) the mummy had hardened. Q10. What efforts did Howard make to separate Tut’s mummy from the coffin? Ans. First, he tried to melt or make the material that fixed the mummy soft by exposing it to the blazing heat of the su...

  Day 2 class XI Super seven/ Eleven Qs/ Ans. Hornbill- Snapshot- Poems-writing skills- Grammar Lesson 2. We’re Not Afraid to Die...if We Can All Be Together   By  Gordon Cook and Alan  East Short Answer-type Questions Q3/1. Describe the boat which the narrator and his wife prepare for sailing in the manner of the famous British explorer James Cook. Ans. Both of them prepared a large boat ‘Wave-walker’, which was 23 meters in length and 30 tons in weight. It was a very beautiful and professionally built boat. The narrator and his wife had to spend several months in making it suitable for the roughest weather in the sea. Q5/2. Who were the hired crewmen? Why were they hired? Ans. The narrator hired two crewmen from Plymouth in the United Kingdom. One was Larry Vigil, an American and the other was Herb Seigler, a Swiss. He hired them to tackle the southern Indian Ocean, the world’s roughest seas. Q7 /3. What dangers of the sea did the narr...

Know Then Thyself –Alexander Pope    Q1. What is a paradox? Find two instances of paradox in the poem. Ans. A paradox is a statement having two opposite ideas placed together. The statement seems very strange but it gives a deeper meaning. For example, man has been called ‘darkly wise’ and ‘rudely great’;   Q2. How is a man stuck between an angel and an animal? Ans. The poet says that man has been placed in a middle state on this earth. He is neither an angel nor is he an animal. He possesses both, divine and animal instincts. Sometimes he behaves like an angel showing kindness, sympathy, and compassion to others. But sometimes he is full of cruelty. He behaves like a wild animal. Q3. How is it that man cannot be stoic? Ans. A stoic is a person who is not disturbed by any type of emotion. He bears all pains silently but never complains about it. He remains silent in both joys and sorrows. But Pope says that a human being cannot be a stoic. He starts crying and complaining...