BiharBoard Class 10 English Chapter 6 Question 2.
Is this folk lore prevalent in one culture or many?
Answer:
This folk lore is prevalent in many cultures.
Chapter 6 Class 10th English Bihar Board Question. 3.
Who is the father of that old woman?
Answer:
The father of the old woman is a black American Slave.
Once Upon A Time By Toni Morrison Bihar Board Class 10th Question 5.
How is her reputation for wisdom?
Answer:
Her reputation for wisdom is unquestionable and beyond any doubt.
Chapter 6 English Class 10 Bihar Board Question 6.
What is her position in the neighbourhood?
Answer:
The honour she is paid and the respect she commands and held reach beyond her neighbourhood, to places far away.
Bihar Board Class 10 English Chapter 6 Question Answer Question 9.
Who visited the old lady one day?
Answer:
One day some young people visited the old lady.
Bihar Board Once Upon A Time Questions And Answers Class 10 Question 10.
What was the purpose of visit of those people?
Answer:
The purpose of visit of those people was their inclination to prove wrong whatever they were seeing from their eyes, showing her up for the fraud they believed she was and to disclose her clairvoyance.
Once Upon A Time Meaning In Hindi Bihar Board Class 10 Question 11.
What was the plan of those people?
Answer:
There plan was simple. They entered her house and asked the answer of their question for which they had come.
Chapter 6 Class 10 English Bihar Board Question 12.
What is the difference between the old woman and those people? Ans. There is a difference between the old lady and those people (visitors). She has deep inability due to her blindness, whereas those people have eyesight and are young.
10th English Book Back Answers Bihar Board Question 13.
What was the reaction of the young people when woman was silent for long?
Answer:
When woman was silent for long, the young people felt trouble in holding their laughter. They laughed at her.
Question. 14.
What was the answer of the old woman?
Answer:
The old woman replied that she did not know whether the bird he (the young boy) was holding was dead or alive. She further said that she only knew that the bird was in his hands.
Bihar Board Solution Class 10 English Question 15.
The young visitors are reprimanded for which conduct of theirs?
Answer:
The young visitors are reprimanded (scolded severely) for parading their power and her helplessness.
Question 2.
According to the writer the future of language was in whose hands?
Answer:
According to the writer the future of language was in the hands of young visitors or the young generation.
Question 5.
How is language interpreted by the old woman?
Answer:
The old woman has interpreted the language to be the bird that is not in the hands of one of those young people.
Question.1.
Enumerate the traits of the old woman.
Answer:
The old woman is blind but wise, who is living alone in a small house, outside the town. She is the daughter of black American slaves. She is spending her life in a most simple way and her reputation is undisputedly far and wide for her wisdom. She had acquired undue honour, not only in her neighborhood but even in faraway city, she possesses extraordinary keen insight. She is a clairvoyant. The old woman does not feel irritated when some young people visit her and put some questions. Telling that one bird is in his hands he asks that whether it is living or dead.
The question was irrelevant as the old lady is blind. When he has repeated the same question, she calmly says that she does not know whether, the bird is dead or alive. The only thing what she can say is that it is in his hands. The young visitors even scold her for her such reply, but she does not react. Thus, the old lady has much tolerance and justification. She does not loose her temper. As such she commands the respect and sympathy of all, those come in her contact.
It was given delicious and nutrient food like Kaju, biscuits etc. During the course of her indisposition, he vould sit near her head and gently stroke her forehead by its bushy tail. She had so much affection for Gillu that it was most unbearable for her to lose its company. But unfortunately, Gillu died in about two years. It was great shock to her. But it was her belief that on some spring day she would find, Gillu in the guise of a tiny yellow flower. The story is the example of compassionate feeling of Mahadevi Verma and throw a light on the sense of humanity. Really, the art of story-telling is gradually going down.
Question 3.
Do you think that language is crucial to a writer ? Give any three reasons.
Answer:
Yes, Language is crucial to a writer. It plays a dominant role in taking any decision by him. His course of action and tender sentiments are guided by the concept or general notion of the language. The three reasons behind its being crucial may be cited by the following facts :
Question 5.
Write a paragraph on a character, in the story that has impressed you.
Answer:
I liked the character of the old woman. I like her reputation for wisdom which was without peer and without questions among the people she was both the laws and its transgression. The honour she is paid and the awe in which, she is held is reached beyond her neighbourhood to places far away to city where intelligence of rural prophets is the source of much amusement.
1. Discuss any modern story which highlights recent cultural events and development.
Answer:
Mrs. Kumud was the victim of neglect and ill-treatment by her husband Mr. S. Sinha, her son Goel and her daughter Priya. She discussed her problem with her fortunes-telling neighbour Mrs. Riya. The bold and firm neighbour advised her to take a bold step and refuse to dance to their tune. Since Mrs. Kumud was too weak and docile to displease her family. She did let her neighbour to the same.
The story. An old aunty along with the three children was travelling by a train. A young man was sitting opposite to her. The aunt started telling a story. She was unable to satisfy the curiosity of the children. The young man intervened and told a different kind of story. It fed the curiosity and imagination of the children- The good girl in the story was devoured by g wolf but the children felt delighted it is thrilling.
I feel privileged to get an opportunity to speak on he. occasion of haying received a prize for writing a story. I am proud of getting this award. It is also a matter of pride for our school. It was an inter school competition. The headmaster of my school gave a grand tea party in honour of my brilliant success.
3. For parading their power and her helplessness, the young visitors are reprimanded, told they are responsible not only for the act of mockery but also for the small bundle of life sacrificed to achieve its aims. The blind woman shifts attention away from assertions of power to the instrument through which that power is exercised.
As someone who believes in economic cycles, I have become a believer in Bihar. If only for the negative thought that Bihar couldn't possibly get any worse. The news from the state is depressing indeed: caste wars, young men kidnapped and forcibly wed because of unreasonably high dowry demands, the clowning of Laloo Prasad Yadav (this generation's answer to the late lamented Raj Narain), highway robbery, you name it.
So much so that 'Bihari' has come to be seen in some circles as an insult. I was told by an acquaintance of the situation, he, a Malayali, experienced in college days in Bangalore. The Hindi folks would refer to him, without malice, as a 'Madrasi,' which irritated him. He just loved being reduced to a stereotype, especially when he had absolutely nothing to do with Madras. Then he hit upon an ingenious solution: he began referring to Northerners as 'Biharis.' They would get very upset, and would attempt to tell him they were... whatever else, but not Biharis.
My friend would feign ignorance, and launch into this whole speech: "I know in the North there are Punjabis and Biharis. You are not Punjabis, because you don't have turbans and beards. Therefore you must be Biharis, no?" He would beam, clearly proud of his watertight logic. Obviously, he never 'got it' about non Punjabi non Biharis. He must have made his point though, for they stopped calling him 'Madrasi.'
But what struck me is the disgust and disdain most people have for Bihar. This, I think, is unfair and disregards the illustrious history of the state. For after all, the very name 'Bihar' comes from the Buddha vihara; and Bihar, with Magadha and Pataliputra, was the very center of the glittering Buddhist civilisation of 2,000years ago.
The great university of Nalanda was there, too. So clearly, this land was one of the most civilised in the world for a thousand years, till roughly 1200 CE. And I personally see no reason why it cannot revive itself and reclaim its lost glory.
After the drying up of the Saraswati following an earthquake circa 1900 BCE, the people of the Indus Saraswati civilisation seem to have migrated eastwards to the Gangetic plain and re-established their culture there in the land around the Ganga and the Brahmaputra.
There must have been sufficient water, for this is perhaps the biggest requirement for agrarian civilisations: the ability to produce an agricultural surplus which can then be used for other activities like architecture, art, literature, trade, and, alas, warfare. See my old column The River Sutra.
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