Revision Term 2 Examination English language and literature (Important Questions)

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Glimpses of India Extra Questions and Answers Class 10 English First Flight

Question Read the extract then give answer
We kids would be pushed aside with a mild rebuke and the loaves would be delivered to the servant. But we would not give up. We would climb a bench or the parapet and peep into the basket, somehow. I can still recall the typical fragrance of those loaves. Loaves for the elders and the bangles for the children. [CBSE2014 ]
(a) Who are ‘we’ in the extract?
(b) Why were the children pushed aside?
(c) The word ‘rebuke’ from the extract means ‘an expression of disapproval/a scolding’.

(d) What was there in the basket?

Model Answers

(a) ‘We’ in the extract refers to the narrator and his friends.

(b) The kids were pushed aside so that the breads can be delivered to the servants.

(c) The word ‘rebuke’ from the extract means ‘an expression of disapproval/a scolding’.

(d) There were some loaves for the elders and some bangles for the children.

question 2
Marriage gifts are meaningless without the sweet bread known as the bol, just as a party or a feast loses its charm without bread. Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village. The lady of the house must prepare sandwiches on the occasion of her daughter’s engagement. Cakes and bolinhas are a must for Christmas as well as other festivals. Thus, the presence of the baker’s furnace in the village is absolutely essential.
(a) What are compulsorily prepared during Christmas in Goa?
(b) Why is a baker necessary in a village?
(c) Find the word in the extract which means ‘celebration meal’.
(d) What is must to be prepared on a daughter’s engagement by a lady?

 



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