Q7.

What ideals does Mandela (ii) Black Aeroplane

set for South Africa?
Equality, justice, liberty, Q15. “I’ll take the risk.” What
Class 10 English – Most peace, and no racial
Important Questions & is the risk?
discrimination. Flying into storm clouds with
Answers in very short for
little fuel.
students(65 Q–A) Q8. What ‘twin obligations’
does Mandela mention? Q16. Why did the woman at
FIRST FLIGHT (Prose) Obligation to family and the control centre look
obligation to people/country. strangely at the narrator?
1. A Letter to God Because there was no other
Q9. Does Mandela think the plane in the sky.
Q1. Who or what did Lencho oppressor is free? Why/Why
have faith in? What did he not?
do? No. The oppressor is also a
Lencho had complete faith in prisoner of hatred.
God. He wrote a letter to God 4. From the Diary of Anne
asking for 100 pesos after the Frank
Q10. How did Mandela’s
hailstorm ruined his crops. hunger for freedom change
his life? Q17. Why does Anne think
Q2. What happened to It transformed him into a she could confide more in her
Lencho’s field after the rain? bold leader, ready to sacrifice diary than in people?
Hailstones destroyed all the everything. She had no real friend. Paper
crops in Lencho’s field. has more patience.
Q11. What did “being free”
Q3. Who read the letter? mean to Mandela as a boy and Q18. How did Anne regard her
What did the postmaster do as a student? diary and what name did she
then? As a boy: play and run. As a give to it?
The postmaster and postman student: eat, study, travel She regarded it as her best
read Lencho’s letter. Touched freely. friend and named it Kitty.
by his faith, the postmaster
collected money and sent it to Q19. “Paper has more
Lencho. patience than people.”
Elaborate.
3. Two Stories about Flying Paper listens silently and
Q4. Was Lencho surprised to
find a letter with money in never judges.
(i) His First Flight
it?
No, Lencho was not Q20. What made Mr. Keesing
surprised. He had complete Q12. What did the young allow Anne to talk in class?
faith in God. seagull do to attract his Anne wrote a witty poem
mother’s attention? which impressed him.
Q5. Why does the postmaster He pretended to sleep, tapped
sign the letter ‘God’? the rock, and cried hungrily.
To keep Lencho’s faith alive,
he signed it as ‘God’. Q13. Why was the young 5. Glimpses of India
seagull afraid to fly?
He feared his wings would
Q21. Is bread an important
not support him.
part of Goan life?
2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk Yes, it is used in marriages,
Q14. Why did the seagull’s feasts, and festivals.
to Freedom
parents cajole him?
To encourage him to fly and
Q6. Why were two national Q22. What do you know about
overcome fear.
anthems sung on 10th May in the people of Coorg? What is
South Africa? its main crop?
To symbolize the end of Brave, hospitable, martial
apartheid and to show respect traditions. Main crop: coffee.
for both white and black races.
Q23. Why was Rajvir excited 8. The Proposal Q39. What does the boy learn
to see the tea garden? from loss of the ball?
It was his first visit; he was Q31. What does Lomov think Loss is part of life; money
fascinated by acres of tea about Natalya? can’t replace everything.
bushes. She is educated, a good
housekeeper, and not bad- Q40. Why does the poet say,
looking. “I would not intrude on
him”?
6. Madam Rides the Bus He does not want to disturb
the boy’s sorrow.
Q24. What was Valli’s FIRST FLIGHT (Poetry)
favourite pastime? 6. Amanda!
Standing at the doorway and 1. Dust of Snow
watching the bus and street. Q41. What could Amanda do
if she were a mermaid?
Q32. What is a hemlock tree?
Q25. How did Valli save She would drift happily and
Why did the poet choose it?
money for her first journey? live peacefully.
It is poisonous, symbol of
She saved every coin sorrow. Even unpleasant things
carefully, avoided toys and can bring change. Q42. Why does Amanda want
sweets. to be Rapunzel?
To live alone in a tower, free
Q33. What do the crow and
Q26. Why does the conductor from restrictions.
hemlock represent? What
call Valli ‘Madam’? about dust of snow?
Because she behaved proudly Crow & Hemlock = sorrow. 7. The Trees
like a grown-up passenger. Dust of snow = positivity.
Q43. Where are the trees in
Q27. Why didn’t Valli want to 2. Fire and Ice the poem?
talk to the elderly woman? Inside the house, roots and
The woman looked leaves struggling to break free.
Q34. For Frost, what do fire
unattractive, with big earrings and ice stand for?
and stained teeth. Fire = desire. Ice = hatred. Q44. Why doesn’t the poet
Both can destroy the world. mention departure of the
forest?
Because it is a silent
3. A Tiger in the Zoo
revolution.
7. The Sermon at Benares
Q35. What would happen if
8. The Tale of Custard the
Q28. What did Kisa Gotami the sun burst or grew colder?
Dragon
ask for when her son died? Burst = destruction by fire.
Mustard seeds from a house Colder = life would freeze.
where no one had died. Q45. Why did Custard cry for
a safe cage? Why cowardly?
4. How to Tell Wild Animals
He was timid and afraid of
Q29. What did Buddha do
fights.
after enlightenment? Q36. How to identify lion and
He began teaching about tiger?
suffering and truth of life. Q46. Do you find the poem
Lion = roar. Tiger = stripes,
serious or light-hearted?
hunts at night.
Light-hearted, humorous,
Q30. What did Kisa Gotami
with irony.
finally understand? Q37. How to identify a bear?
That death is universal and Bear = by its tight hug.
inevitable. 9. For Anne Gregory

5. The Ball Poem

Q47. What colour is the
young woman’s hair? What
Q38. What does “world of can she change it to?
possessions” mean? Golden hair; she could
Materialistic world based on change it to brown or black.
possessions.
Q48. What does “honey- Q57. Why was Griffin
coloured Ramparts” mean? wandering streets?
Her golden hair that attracts He set fire to landlord’s house
men to outer beauty. and became invisible.

Q58. How would you assess

Griffin?
FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT Brilliant but selfish and
FEET irresponsible scientist.

1. A Triumph of Surgery 6. The Making of a Scientist

Q49. Why was the doctor Q59. Why was 20th century
tempted to keep Tricki? called Era of books?
Tricki had lots of food and Books shaped knowledge of
comforts. people like Ebright.

Q50. Why does Mrs. Q60. Which book changed

Pumphrey call it a ‘triumph of Ebright’s life?
surgery’? The Travels of Monarch X.
She thought surgery cured
Tricki, but it was diet and 7. The Necklace
exercise.
Q61. What kind of woman was
2. The Thief’s Story Mme Loisel?
Dreamy, dissatisfied,
Q51. What is the narrator unhappy with simple life.
good at?
Stealing, lying, cheating. Q62. How did Loisels replace
the necklace?
Q52. Why does Hari return to Took loan, worked 10 years in
Anil? poverty.
Guilt and desire for
education. Q63. How did necklace
change their life?
3. The Midnight Visitor They suffered 10 years; later
learnt it was fake.
Q53. How did Max get in?
Through the balcony. 8. Bholi

Q54. Who is Fowler? What Q64. Why was Bholi’s father

was his thrill? worried?
A writer; thrill was seeing She stammered, had
Max’s pistol. pockmarks, not intelligent.

4. A Question of Trust Q65. How did Bholi’s teacher

change her life?
Gave her confidence and
Q55. Why did Horace falter?
courage to speak boldly.
He trusted a young woman
pretending to be owner’s wife.

Q56. Who was the real

culprit?
The lady thief.

5. Footprints without Feet