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11-ENG - 09 Aug
11-ENG - 09 Aug
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2. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow: 2×2=4
(a) “……A sweet face,
My mother’s that was before I was born.
And the sea, which appears to have changed less,
Washed their terribly transient feet.”
(i) What does the poet mean by ‘the sea, which appears to have changed less’?
(ii) Whose ‘sweet face’ is referred to and why?
(b) The farmer looked into the mouth of the horse. Tooth for tooth, he said. I would swear it is my
horse if I didn’t know your parents. The fame of your family for honesty is well known to me.
Yet the horse is the twin of my horse. A suspicious man would believe his eyes instead of his
heart. Good day, my young friends.
(i) “I would swear it is my horse if I didn’t know your parents”. What is the irony here?
(ii) Why does John Byro let the boys go?
4. Imagine you are Mrs. Dorling. You are filled with guilt at what you have done. You are
uncomfortable with what had happened. Write a paragraph, in about 80 to 120 words, expressing
your feelings and your desire to make amends. 5
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