Unit 1 - 1.1 Where the mind is Without fear — English STD 10 — Question

After reading the extract, complete the following table. What happens?

Lines	What is happening
34-48

What should the words we speak reflect?

The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age also cheerful and happy?

Why did God withhold the gift of 'Rest' from man?

After reading the extract, complete the following table. What happens?

Lines	What is happening
18-33

Explain: the impact of a beautiful thing on us.

I remember the night my mother
was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack of rice.
Parting with his poison - flash
of diabolic tail in the dark room-
he risked the rain again
The peasants came like swarms of flies
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil One.
With candles and with lanterns
throwing glant scorpion shadows
on the mud-baked walls
They searched for him : he was not found.
they clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made his poison
moved in Mother's blood, they said.

After reading the extract, complete the following table. What happens?

Lines	What is happening
1-17

Who are the mighty dead? Why are they attributed with grandeur?

From the extract provide evidence for the following:

Stages	Evidence (lines from the extract)
(a) the attempts by the peasants to help alleviate the mother's pain
(b) the action of these same peasants to kill the scorpion.
(c) evil versus good

From the extract provide evidence for the following:

Stages	Evidence (lines from the extract)
(a) the attempts by the peasants to help alleviate the mother's pain
(b) evil versus good