TS 9th Class English Important Questions 6th lesson Freedom

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TS 9th Class English 6th Lesson Questions and Answers Telangana – Freedom

Section – A: Reading Comprehension

Questions : 1 – 7, Marks : 10

A. Reading

Passage No. 1:

Read the following passage.

In life, every man has twin obligations — obligations to his family, to his parents, to his wife and children; and he has an obligation to his people, his community and his country. In a civil and humane society, each man is able to fulfil those obligations according to his own inclinations and abilities. But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man of my birth and colour to fulfil both of those obligations. In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated.

In South Africa, a man who tried to fulfil his duty to his people was inevitably ripped from his family and his home and was forced to live a life apart, a twilight existence of secrecy and rebellion. I did not in the beginning choose to place my people above my family, but in attempting to serve my people, I found that I was prevented from fulfilling my obligations as a son, a brother, a father and a husband.

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (4 × 1 = 4M)

Question 1.
How many obligations does a man have ?
A) Two
B) Three
C) One
D) Four
Answer:
A) Two

Question 2.
How can a man fulfil his obligations ?
A) According to his family
B) According to his parents
C) According to his wife and children
D) According to his own inclinations and abilities
Answer:
D) According to his own inclinations and abilities

Question 3.
What happened to a man in South Africa who tried to fulfil his duty to his people ?
A) was awarded
B) was applauded
C) was disappointed
D) was ripped from his family and his home
Answer:
D) was ripped from his family and his home

Question 4.
What is a twilight existence mentioned in the passage ?
A) secrecy and rebellion
B) community and country
C) civil and humane society
D) wife and children
Answer:
A) secrecy and rebellion

Answer the following questions in two or three sentences each. (3 × 2 = 6M)

Question 5.
Why is it difficult to fulfil the ‘twin obligations’ in a country like South Africa ?
Answer:
In South Africa coloured persons were not allowed to fulfil their twin obligations. If anyone tried to do so, he was punished and isolated. Blacks were not permitted to live like human beings.

Question 6.
Who is the speaker ? What did he not choose in the beginning ?
Answer:
The speaker is Nelson Mandela. He did not in the beginning choose to place his people above his family.

Question 7.
What did the speaker find when he attempted to serve his people ?
Answer:
He found that he was prevented from fulfilling his obligations as a son, a brother, a father and a husband.

Passage No. 2:

Read the following passage.

I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was bornfree — free in every way that I could know. Free to run in the fields near my mother’s hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls. As long as I obeyed my father and abided by the customs of my tribe, 1 was not troubled by the laws of man or God.

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (4 × 1 = 4M)

Question 1.
According to the context, how old could the speaker be ?
A) could be a boy
B) could be a young man
C) could be a middle-aged man
D) could be an old man
Answer:
A) could be a boy

Question 2.
What is the tribe he refers to ?
A) White people
B) Black people
C) Red Indians
D) Indians
Answer:
B) Black people

Question 3.
How can you say that the speaker was born free ?
A) Because he was not born with a hunger.
B) Because he was not born with anger.
C) Because he was not born with riches.
D) Because he was not born with poverty.
Answer:
A) Because he was not born with a hunger.

Question 4.
What type of text is this passage ?
A) Speech
B) Article
C) Narration
D) Story
Answer:
A) Speech

Answer the following questions in two or three sentences each. (3 × 2 = 6M)

Question 5.
What sort of freedom did Mandela enjoy as a boy ? Was it real ? Give your opinion.
Answer:
Free to run in the fields, to swim, to roast mealies, to ride. But it was not real because that freedom was limited and purely private. Later, it turned out to be an illusion.

Question 6.
Why was the speaker not troubled by the laws of the man or God ?
Answer:
Because he obeyed his father and abided by the customs of his tribe.

Question 7.
What type of social evil do you find in this passage ? What is the hidden reason behind that evil ?
Answer:
I found the evil ‘Racial discrimination’ in the above context. The hidden reason behind that evil is the supremacy of the white man.

Passage No. 3:

Read the following passage.

It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an illusion, when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already been taken from me, that I began to hunger for it. At first, as a student, I wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where 1 chose. Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving my potential, of earning my keep, of marrying and having a family — the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life.

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (4 × 1 = 4M)

Question 1.
What did the speaker learn about his boyhood freedom ?
A) He learnt that his boyhood freedom was real.
B) He learnt that his boyhood freedom was an illusion.
C) He learnt that his boyhood freedom was already taken from him.
D) He learnt that his boyhood freedom was potential.
Answer:
B) He learnt that his boyhood freedom was an illusion.

Question 2.
What are the transitory freedoms mentioned in the above speech ?
A) being able to stay out at night
B) read what he pleased
C) go where he chose
D) all the above
Answer:
D) all the above

Question 3.
When did the speaker want freedom only for himself ?
A) as a boy
B) as a student
C) as a young man
D) as an adult
Answer:
B) as a student

Question 4.
What are the freedoms that are not obstructed in a lawful life ? (Or)
What are the basic and honourable freedoms ?
A) read what he pleased
B) being able to stay out at night
C) pleased and go where he chose
D) earning his keep and marrying and having a family
Answer:
D) earning his keep and marrying and having a family

Answer the following questions in two or three sentences each. (3 × 2 = 6M)

Question 5.
What did the speaker discover as a young man ?
Answer:
As a young man he discovered that his freedom had already been taken from him.

Question 6.
As a student what type of freedom did the speaker enjoy ?
Answer:
He read what he pleased and went where he chose.

Question 7.
How did Mandela’s understanding of freedom change with age and experience ?
Answer:
As a boy Mandela thought he was free. As a student, he knew he did not have freedom. Later, he realized that ‘all blacks were deprived of their freedom, dignity and self-respect. Finally, he understood that he could not enjoy his limited freedom as long as his people were not free. He felt that freedom was indivisible.

Passage No. 4:

Read the following passage.

But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free. 1 saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did. That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people.

It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect that animated my life, that transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk. I am no more virtuous or self-sacrificing than the next man, but I found that I could not even enjoy the poor and limited freedoms I was allowed when I knew my people were not free. Freedom is indivisible; the chains on anyone of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if 1 am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (4 × 1 = 4M)

Question 1.
What is the way the oppressor must be liberated ?
A) Just as a frightened young man into a bold man
B) Just as a law-abiding attorney into a criminal
C) Just as a family-loving husband into a man without home
D) Just as surely as the oppressed
Answer:
D) Just as surely as the oppressed

Question 2.
Who is a prisoner of hatred ?
A) A man who takes away another man’s freedom
B) A man who takes away another man’s property
C) A man who takes away another man’s honour
D) A man who takes away another man’s self-dignity
Answer:
A) A man who takes away another man’s freedom

Question 3.
Where is the prisoner of hatred locked ?
A) in the prison
B) in the court
C) behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness
D) behind the bars of freedom
Answer:
C) behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness

Question 4.
Why was the speaker not really free ?
A) Because his freedom was already taken from him.
B) Because he was engrossed in responsibilities.
C) Because his freedom was not taken from him.
D) Because he was robbed off his property.
Answer:
A) Because his freedom was already taken from him

Answer the following questions in two or three sentences each. (3 × 2 = 6M)

Question 5.
‘It was this desire …. that animated my life.’ Which desire is the speaker referring to?
Answer:
The desire refers to the great hunger for the freedom of his people.

Question 6.
What does the line ‘the oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed off their humanity’ suggest ?
Answer:
For an ordinary person, only the oppressed appears to be the sufferer. But the oppressor also suffers from hatred. Hence all are losers. Freedom to everyone alone is the solution.

Question 7.
Why couldn’t the speaker enjoy and the poor and limited freedoms he was al¬lowed? The speaker said that his freedom had already been taken away from him.’ Who has taken away his freedom ?
Answer:
The speaker could not even enjoy the poor and limited freedom he was allowed because he found that his people were not free. The white people have taken away his freedom.

B. Reading:

Questions : (8 – 12), Marks : 5

1. Read the following stanza.

WHERE the mind is without fear and the
head is held high;
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth,
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Now answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3 × 1 = 3M)

Question 8.
What are the things that break up the world into fragments ?
A) Narrow communal feelings
B) Narrow religious feelings
C) Narrow regional feelings
D) All the above
Answer:
D) All the above

Question 9.
How should the words be, according to Tagore ?
A) truthful
B) powerful
C) untruthful
D) courageous
Answer:
A) truthful

Question 10.
When can one attain perfection ?
A) by working hard
B) by earning money
C) by idleness
D) by laziness
Answer:
A) by working hard

Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (2 × 1 = 2M)

Question 11.
When is the head held high ?
Answer:
The head is held high when the mind is free from all types of worries.

Question 12.
What are the domestic walls ? What harm do they do ?
Answer:
Communal and religious feelings are the domestic walls. They spoil the unity among the people.

2. Read the following stanza.

Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
into ever-widening thought and action
Into that Heaven of freedom
My Father, let my country awake.

Now answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3 × 1 = 3M)

Question 8.
“………….. dreary desert sand of dead habit.” What do these words mean ?
A) sand in the desert
B) dry desert
C) age-old dead customs
D) dreary desert
Answer:
C) age-old dead customs

Question 9.
What happens if reason is lost ?
A) People will be in troubles .
B) People will be in progress
C) People will follow superstitions and outdated habits
D) People will follow customs and traditions
Answer:
C) People will follow superstitions and outdated habits

Question 10.
When does our country become a heaven of freedom ?
A) When people are honest
B) When people live without any fear
C) When people are truthful
D) All the above
Answer:
D) All the above

Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (2 × 1 = 2M)

Question 11.
What kind of a world or place does Tagore wish to have ?
Answer:
Tagore wishes to have a world where there are no disputes, and where there are peace, truthfulness and honesty.

Question 12.
Why is dead habit compared to dreary desert sand ?
Answer:
Our reasoning power goes a waste if we follow dead habits. Similarly a stream that flows into a desert wastes its water.

C. Reading:

Questions : (8 – 12), Marks : 5

Passage No. 1:

Read the following passage.

I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice. I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death.

I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered. And only yesterday more than 40 houses of worship in the state of Mississippi alone were bombed or burned because they offered a sanctuary to those who would not accept segregation. I am mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts my people and chains them to the lowest rung of the economic ladder.

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3 × 1 = 3M)

Question 8.
Who accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace in the above passage ?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Mother Teresa
Answer:
C) Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 9.
What are the Negroes engaged in ?
A) In a creative battle
B) In a civil rights movement
C) In a freedom movement
D) In a human rights movement
Answer:
A) In a creative battle

Question 10.
What is the movement the speaker is talking about ?
A) Civil rights movement
B) Freedom movement
C) Natural resources movement
D) Human rights movement
Answer:
A) Civil rights movement

Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (2 × 1 = 2M)

Question 11.
Which award is referred in the passage ?
Answer:
Nobel Prize for Peace.

Question 12.
What happened to the young people in Philadelphia ?
Answer:
Brutalized and murdered.

Passage No. 2:

Read the following passage.

After contemplation, I conclude that this award which I receive on behalf of that movement is a profound recognition that non-violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time – the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that non-violence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. The tortuous road which has led from Montgomery, Alabama to Oslo bears witness to this truth.

This is a road over which millions of Negroes are travelling to find a new sense of dignity. This same road has opened for all Americans a new era of progress and hope. It has led to a new Civil Rights Bill, and it will, I am convinced, be widened and lengthened into a super highway of justice as Negro and white men in increasing numbers create alliances to overcome their common problems.

Now answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3 × 1 = 3M)

Question 8.
Two concepts are opposite to each other. What are they ?
A) Civilization
B) Violence
C) Non-violence
D) Both A & B
Answer:
D) Both A & B

Question 9.
What can non-violence do ?
A) Non-violence can bring about social transformation.
B) Non-violence can bring freedom.
C) Non-violence can bring security.
D) Non-violence can bring solutions to problems.
Answer:
A) Non-violence can bring about social transformation.

Question 10.
Who did the Negroes of the United States follow
A) The people of America
B) The people of India
C) The people of England
D) The people of Australia
Answer:
B) The people of India

Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (2 × 1 = 2M)

Question 11.
What is the award King recognises ?
Answer:
Martin Luther King thinks that non-violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time.

Question 12.
Which road has opened for all Americans a new era of progress and hope ?
Answer:
The tortuous road which has led from Montgomery, Alabama to Oslo has opened for all Americans a new era of progress and hope.

Passage No. 3:

Read the following passage.

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why ‘right’ temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. I believe that even amid today’s mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and non-violent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land. “And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid.” I still believe that We Shall overcome!

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3 × 1 = 3M)

Question 8.
What will have the final word ?
A) Unarmed truth
B) Wounded justice
C) Unconditional love
D) Both A & C
Answer:

Question 9.
What will people have according to the speaker ?
A) Three meals a day
B) Education
C) Equality and freedom
D) All the above
Answer:
D) All the above

Question 10.
What can other centred men do ?
A) can build up the nation
B) can build up the race
C) can build up the culture
D) can build up what the self-centred have torn down
Answer:
D) can build up what the self-centred have torn down

Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (2 × 1 = 2M)

Question 11.
What is the ’cynical notion’ that the speaker refers to ?
Answer:
Every nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.

Question 12.
What does the speaker believe about wounded justice ?
Answer:
The wounded justice can be lifted from the dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men.

Passage No. 4:

Read the following passage.

This faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired and with renewed dedication to humanity. I accept this prize on behalf of all men who love peace and brotherhood. I say I come as a trustee, for in the depths of my heart I am aware that this prize is much more than an honor to me personally.

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3 × 1 = 3M)

Question 8.
Which faith is the speaker talking of ?
A) He is talking of his strong faith in the future of mankind.
B) He is talking of his strong faith in his religion.
C) He is talking of his strong faith on his race.
D) He is talking of his strong faith on his achievements.
Answer:
A) He is talking of his strong faith in the future of mankind.

Question 9.
Which freedom is he talking of ?
A) freedom from racial injustice
B) freedom to vote
C) A and B
D) None of the above
Answer:
C) A and B

Question 10.
Which civilization is he talking of ?
A) urban civilization
B) rural civilization
C) genuine civilization
D) false civilization
Answer:
C) genuine civilization

Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (2 × 1 = 2M)

Question 11.
Whose tired feet is he talking of ?
Answer:
He is talking of the tired feet of the twenty-two million Negroes in America who are engaged in a creative battle against the racial seggregation.

Question 12.
How did he come to Oslo and in which way did he accept the prize ?
Answer:
He came to Oslo as a trustee, inspired and with renewed dedication to humanity. He accepted that prize on behalf of all men who love peace and brotherhood.

Section – B : Vocabulary and Grammar

Questions : (13 – 17), Marks : 5

Editing A Passage:

Reading : A. B & C

Read the passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered (13 – 17) at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct and rewrite them in the answer booklet. (5 × 1 = 5 M)

Question 1.
(13) In South Africa, a man of colour which attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated. (14) In South Africa, a man who tried for fulfil his duty to his people was inevitably ripped from his family and his home and was forced to live a life apart, a twilight existence of secrecy and rebellion. (15) I do not in the beginning choose to place my people above my family; but in attempting to serve my people, 06)1 found that I am prevented from fulfilling my obligations as a son, a brother, a father and a husband. (17)1 was not born in a hunger to be free.
Answer:
13) In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated.
14) In South Africa, a man who tried to fulfil his duty to his people was inevitably ripped from his family and his home and was forced to live a life apart, a twilight existence of secrecy and rebellion.
15) I did not in the beginning choose to place my people above my family, but in attempting to serve my people,
16) I found that I was prevented from fulfilling my obligations as a son, a brother, a father and a husband.
17) I was not born with a hunger to be free.

Question 2.
(13) It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was a illusion, (14) when I discover as a young man that my freedom had already been taken from me, (15) that 1 began to hunger in it. (16) At first as a student, I wanted freedom only for me, the transitory freedoms being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where I chose. (17) Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, I earned for basic and honourable freedoms of achieving my potential, of earning my keep, of marrying and having a family – the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life.
Answer:
13) It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an illusion,
14) when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already been taken from me,
15) that I began to hunger for it.
16) At first, as a student, I wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms . of being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where I chose.
17) Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving my potential, of earning my keep, of marrying and having a family — the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life.

Question 3.
(13) But then me slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free. (14) I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtail, (15) but the freedom of each who looked like I did. (16) That is where I joined the African National Congress, (17) and that is when the hungry for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people.
Answer:
13) But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free.
14) I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed.
15) but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did.
16) That is when I joined the African National Congress,
17) and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people.

Question 4.
(13) It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives in dignity and self-respect that animated my life, (14) that transformed a frightening young man into a bold one, (15) that drive a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, (16) that turned a family-loving huband to a man without a home, (17) that forced a life-loving man to live as a monk.
Answer:
13) It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect that animated my life,
14) that transformed a frightened young man into a bold one,
15) that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal,
16) that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home,
17) that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.

Question 5.
(13) I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as a oppressed. (14) A man which takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; (15) he is locked behind the bars of prejudice or narrow-mindedness. (16) I am not true free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, (17) just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is took from me.
Answer:
13) I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
14) A man who takes away another plan’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred;
15) he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
16) I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom,
17) just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me.

Question 6.
(13) I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at the moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. (14) 1 accepted this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice. (15) l am mindfull that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, (16) are answered with fire houses, snarling dogs and even death. (17) I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized or murdered.
Answer:
13) I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice.
14) I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice.
15) I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood,
16) were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death.
17) I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered.

Question 7.
(13) Therefore, I will ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleagured and committed to unrelenting struggle; (14) for a movement which has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize. (15) After contemplation, I concluded that this award which 1 receive on behalf of that movement is a profound recognition that non-violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time- (16) the need for man to overcame oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. (17) Civilization or violence are antithetical concepts.
Answer:
13) Therefore, I must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed to unrelenting struggle;
14) to a movement which has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize.
15) After contemplation, I conclude that this award which I receive on behalf of that movement is a profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time.
16) the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.
17) Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

Question 8.
(13) I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and a audacious faith in the future of mankind. (14) I refuse to accept despair as the final respsonse for the ambiguities of history. (15) I refused to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him. (16) I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsame and jestam in the river of life, (17) unable to influence the unfolding events who surround him.
Answer:
13) I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind.
14) I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.
15) I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.
16) I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life,
17) unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Question 9.
(13) This faith can give them courage to face the uncertainties of the future. (14) It will give our tired foot new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. (15) When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darkest than a thousand midnights, (16) we will knew that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born. (17) Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired and with renewed dedication with humanity.
Answer:
13) This faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
14) It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom.
15) When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights,
16) we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.
17) Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired and with renewed dedication to humanity.

Question 10.
(13) Every time I take a flight, l am always mindful of the many people which make a successful journey possible – (14) the knew piolts and the unknown ground crew. (15) So you honour the dedicated pilots of our struggle who have sat at the controls as a freedom movement soared into orbit. (16) You honor, once again, Chief Lutuli of South Africa, whose struggles with and for his people, are still met with the more brutal expression of man’s inhumanity to man. (17) You honor the ground crew without which labour and sacrifices the jet flights to freedom could never have left the earth.
Answer:
13) Every time I take a flight, I am always mindful of the many people who make a successful journey possible.
14) the known pilots and the unknown ground crew.
15) So you honour the dedicated pilots of our struggle who have sat at the controls as the freedom movement soared into orbit.
16) You honor, once again, Chief Lutuli of South Africa, whose struggles with and for his people, are still met with the most brutal expression of man’s inhumanity to man.
17) You honor the ground crew without whose labour and sacrifices the jet flights to freedom could never have left the earth.

Questions : (18 – 22), Marks : 2 1/2

Choose The Right Word:

Complete the passage choosing the right words from the box given below. Each blank is numbered. Write the correct words in your answer booklet. (5 × 1/2 = 2 1/2 Marks)

Question 1.

own, obligations, or, humane, and, those, these

In life, every man has twin obligations (18) – obligations to his family, to his parents, to his wife and children; and (19) he has an obligation to his people, his community and his country. In a civil and humane (20) society, each man is able to fulfil those (21) obligations according to his own (22) inclinations and abilities.

Question 2.

slow-moving, born, fields, stream, that, clear, transparent

I was not born (18) with a hunger to be free. I was born free — free in every way that (19) I could know. Free to run in the fields (20) near my mother’s hut, free to swim in the clear stream (21) that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving (22) bulls.

Question 3.

an, a, boyhood, be, been, as, transitory

It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood (18) freedom was an (19) illusion, when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already been (20) taken from me, that I began to hunger for it. At first, as (21) a student, I wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory (22) freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where 1 chose.

Question 4.

everyone, joined, curtailed, slowly, but, and, briskly

But then slowly (18) saw that not only was I not free, but (19) my brothers and sisters were not free. I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed (20), but the freedom of everyone (21) who looked like I did. That is when I joined (22) the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people.

Question 5.

found, find, virtuous, when, where, limited, free

I am no more virtuous (18) or self-sacrificing than the next man, but I found (19) that I could not even enjoy the poor and limited (20) freedoms I was allowed when (21) I knew my people were not free (22).

Question 6.

honour, majesty, acceptance, at, on, is, are, racial injustice

Martin Luther King’s acceptance (18) Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964. Your majesty (19), Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at (20) a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are (21) engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice (22).

Question 7.

which, what, debilitating, movement, lowest, lower, committed

I am mindful that debilitating (18) and grinding poverty afflicts my people and chains them to the lowest (19) rung of the economic ladder. Therefore, I must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement (20) which is beleaguered and committed (21) to unrelenting struggle; to a movement which (22) has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize.

Question 8.

dignity, love, tortuous, travelling, truth, sorrow, travelled

The foundation of such a method is love (18). The tortuous (19) road which has led from Montgomery, Alabama Lo Oslo bears witness to this truth (20). This is a road over which millions of Negroes are travelling (21) to find a new sense of dignify (22).

Question 9.

to, audacious, oughtness, isness, ambiguities, alliances, with

I accept this award today with (18) an abiding faith in America and an audacious (19) faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities (20) of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the isness (21) of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal oughtness (22) that forever confronts him.

Question 10.

freedom, slavery, us, them, tired, stride, the

This faith can give us (18) courage to face the (19) uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired (20) feet new strength as we continue our forward stride (21) toward the city of freedom (22).

Questions : 23 – 27, Marks : 2 1/2

Rewrite As Directed:

Some words in the given passage are underlined. Rewrite the underlined words in your answer booklet as directed. (5 x 1/2 = 2 1/2 M)

1. In a civil and humane (23) society, every (24) man is able to fulfil those obligations according to his own inclinations and abilities. But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible (25) for a man with (26) my birth and colour to fulfilled (27) both of those obligations.

Question 23.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
humanity

Question 24.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
each

Question 25.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
possible

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
of

Question 27.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
fulfil

2. I was not born (23) with a hunger (24) to be free. I was born free — free in every way that I could knew (25). Free to run in the fields near my mother’s hut, free to swim in the transparent (26) stream that ran in (27) my village.

Question 23.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
dead

Question 24.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
hungry

Question 25.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
know

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
dear

Question 27.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
through

3. It was only when I begin (23) to learn that my boyhood (24) freedom was a (25) illusion, when I invented (26) as a young man that my freedom (27) had already been taken from me, that I began to hunger for it.

Question 23.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
began

Question 24.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
boy

Question 25.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
an

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
discovered

Question 27.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
slavery

4. After (23) as a young man in Johannesburg, I yearn (24) for the basic and honourable (25) freedoms of achieving my potential, with (26) earning my keep, of marrying and having a family — the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful (27) life.

Question 23.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
Later

Question 24.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
yearned

Question 25.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
honour

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
of

Question 27.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
lawless

5. I knew that the oppressor must be liberate (23) just as surely (24) as the oppressed (25). A man which (26) takes away another man’s freedom is an (27) prisoner of hatred.

Question 23.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
liberated

Question 24.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
doubtfully

Question 25.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
oppressor

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
who

Question 27.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
a

6. I accept (23) the Nobel Prize for Peace in (24) a moment which (25) 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged (26) in a creative battle to ended (27) the long night of racial injustice.

Question 23.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
reject

Question 24.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
at

Question 25.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
when

Question 26.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
engagement

Question 27.
Write the correct form of the underlined word. .
Answer:
end

7. I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights moment (23) who (24) is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger (25) to establish (26) a reign of freedom and a rule of justice. I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answer (27) with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death.

Question 23.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
movement

Question 24.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
which

Question 25.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
safety

Question 26.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
establishment

Question 27.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
answered

8. This is why ‘right’ temporarily (23) defeated is stronger than evil (24) triumphant. I believed (25) that even amid today’s mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope on (26) a brighter next day (27).

Question 23.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
temporary

Question 24.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
good

Question 25.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
believe

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
for

Question 27.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
tomorrow

9. This faith (23) can give us courage (24) to face the uncertainties in (25) the future. It will give our weary (26) feet new strength as we continue our forward stride to (27) the city of freedom.

Question 23.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
faithful

Question 24.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
timidity

Question 25.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
of

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
tired

Question 27.
Replace the underlined word with the correct one.
Answer:
toward

10. Every time I take a flight, I am always (23) mindful in (24) the many people who made (25) a successful journey possible (26) – the known pilots and the unknown ground staff (27).

Question 23.
Write the opposite word to the underlined word.
Answer:
never

Question 24.
Replace the underlined word with’the correct one.
Answer:
of

Question 25.
Write the correct form of the underlined word.
Answer:
make

Question 26.
Write the right form of the underlined word.
Answer:
possibility

Question 27.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one.
Answer:
crew

Section – C: Creative Writing (Discourses)

Question : 28, Marks : 10

Major Discourses:

Question 1.
You have read the lesson ‘A Long Walk to Freedom’ through which you have witnessed racial discrimination. In such a way you. have come across several instances of discrimination in the world around you.
If you have such an experience, narrate that incident.
Answer:
Pleasant are the ways of villagers. Sometimes the ways are mysterious too, particularly to a town boy as young as 12. Even after clear explanation by village elders, I find it difficult to understand the way the villagers behaved that day.

It was summer. As in every summer, I had been to my grandparents’ village. Born and growing in a small house in a crowded town, I always love to go to villages. And my love for my grandfather’s village is all the more as it is on a river bank with a range of hillocks on another side. I also cherish village games and countryside walks.

That particular day filled my heart with rather sad feelings. My grandfather and I were walking along a path beside the river. A man of about 25 was riding a bicycle towards the village. A young boy of below 10 years was sitting on the back seat of the cycle. He appeared to have been enjoying that ride as if it were for the first time he was riding a cycle!

Suddenly a group of 5 or 6 men stopped the cycle. They started scolding the man for allowing the boy to sit on his cycle. And as to the boy, they almost beat him. The boy’s eyes were filled with tears of fear. The trembling boy’s tender face left a deep impression on my mind. And the memory has been haunting me whenever I think of the village. Since then, though I have been going there, the feelings about the village have not been as pleasant as they used to be before that incident.

As I was at my wit’s end as to why the boy shouldn’t ride the bicycle, I asked my grandmother the reason for their behaviour. Grandmother said in a hushed voice that the boy belonged to a lower caste and the man was from a higher caste !

My mind failed to understand that and till today I see no point in that attitude ! May God bless us with the understanding that all men – nay, all living beings – are equal !

Question 2.
You have read about Martin Luther King Jr. who fought for the civil rights in the U.S. Describe any one of the great leaders of our country who have fought for independence.
Answer:

MAHATMA GANDHI

Mahatma Gandhi’s name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born on 2nd of October, 1869 AD. His place of birth is Porbundar in Kathiawar in Gujarat State. His father Karamchand Gandhi was the Diwan of erstwhile Porbundar State. His mother Putlibai was a pious lady and a devotee of Lord Rama.

He was an average student at school. He was a disciplined student and was influenced by his mother’s religious ideals. Even at an early age he was an adherent of truth. At the age of 13 he married Kasturba. After passing matriculation, he went to England for further studies. He lived a simple life in England. He was pure and not taken by Western civilization and ways of life. While in England he had the opportunity to meet friends like Madam Anne Besant. He was influenced by the works of great writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin Bentham, J.S. Mill, Herbert Spencer and others.

On his return with the degree of Barrister at Law, he started practice in Bombay High Court. He was not very successful, as he was not willing to take up false cases. Then he was invited by one Dadabhai Abdullah Sait to argue a case on his behalf in South Africa. He went to South Africa and saw how Indians were being ill-treated there by the whites. He was himself a victim of this racial policy when he was thrown out of a railway compartment for not being a white. As a protest he started Natal Indian Congress to improve the conditions of Indians there. It was here Gandhiji started his Satyagraha to fight for justice and truth without resorting to violence. As a result, the Indian Relief Act was passed in 1914. It benefited Indians to a great extent.

He returned to India. The struggle for Independence had already started by then. Gandhiji was not interested in practising law. Leaders like Gopalakrishna Gokhale, Lokamanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and Sardar Patel were there in the field. Gandhiji joined the movement. He toured all over India to know the facts for himself. He started the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad and started working for Independence. He launched Champaran Andolan, Non-cooperation Movement, Salt-Satyagraha Movement, etc. following principles of non-violence.

Gandhiji directed Congress affairs till we got independence. He represented India at the Round Table Conferences held at London. To understand Gandhiji, one has to understand his concepts of Truth and Non-violence. Earlier Gandhiji said that Love was God. Later by experiments he proved that Truth is God. He was a humanitarian in all respects. His writings in his paper Harijan reveals this approach. He was a secular man. He was greatly influenced by the Sermon on the Mount and also by the teachings of Prophet Mohammad.

Politically Gandhiji wanted a Ram Rajya, meaning a state where the good of the individual and good of all exist. He wanted people to get back to villages and wanted ‘Village Republics’ to function. He supported Swadeshi Movement. Satyagraha, according to Gandhi, is a passive resistance movement to attain truth and justice. ‘Swaraj, should be Poorna Swaraj or complete Independence’ said Gandhiji. He said that power and authority should be in the hands of all but not in the hands of a few. He was an optimist. In 1920 he said ‘Swaraj in one year’. In 1930 he said ‘now or never’ and in 1942, when he started the-Quit India Movement he said ‘Do or Die’. He was a fighter and a fighter all through.

Being secular, he experimented his concept of Non-violence at the village Navkhali to put down fights between Muslims and Hindus. He succeeded. But after attaining independence he was assassinated for propagating Hindu-Muslim unity by one Nathur&m Godse on 30th January 1948. Gandhiji, a great man, who freed India from the foreign yoke sacrificed his life for the unity of India. He is therefore rightly called the ‘Father of the Nation’. Gandhiji is dead but Gandhism lives.

Question 3.
Write the choreography of the poem ‘Where the Mind is without Fear.’
Answer:
Title : Where the Mind is without Fear
The script of the choreography
1. How we begin the poem ?

• Sing the poem three or four times to register the tune and rhythm.

2. Characters involved in the poem : poet, God

3. What is the theme of the poem ?

• Wish to have a disputeless, and worryless world.

4. What is the theme of each line (Instances of theme) ?

• Poet prays to God that the minds of people should be free from disputes and worries.
• Knowledge must be available to each person.
• Community, region, religion should not divide the world into fragments.
• People should develop the character traits such as truthfulness, honesty and hard working.
• Power of reasoning should be maintained stable.
• People should walk in such a way where broad minded thoughts and actions will be there.

5. Locations : Any place of worship

6. Presentation of choreography on the stage.

• The chorus team sings the poem.
• The characters perform their actions.
• The actions related to facial expressions and gestures.

Minor Discourses:

Question : 29, Marks : 5

Question 1.
You have read about Nelson Mandela in the, lesson ’A Long Walk to Freedom’. You have been inspired by his personality.
Write your feelings about Mandela in the form of a diary.
Answer:
Dear Diary,

What a great personality Nelson Mandela is ! I have been very much inspired by his story.

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding black leader of South Africa, who spent his life time fighting against racial segregation. He had to spend 30 years of imprisonment to achieve freedom of the coloured. Firtally he created history when he became the first black man as the President of independent Republic of South Africa. This great leader who has been a source of inspiration for millions of freedom lovers in the world was influenced by Mahathma Gandhi, the Father of our Nation!

I am very curious to know more about him.

Dinesh
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