Question

1)Question.- Read the following poem- Interpret and analyse the poem in your own
words.( 400- 500 word limit)
My Cottage Door
You came down from your throne and stood at my cottage door.
I was singing all alone in a corner, and the melody caught your ear. You came down
and stood at my cottage door.
Masters are many in your hall, and songs are sung at there at all hours. But the simple
carol of this novice struck at your love.
One plaintive little strain mingled with the great music of the world, and with a flower
for a prize you came down and stopped at my cottage door.
2) Discuss the following topic in the dialogue form (there must be ten dialogues from
both the speakers).
Impact and Importance of attending Foundation Course of English.
3) Read the passage below and then answer the questions which follow it.
The Voice had to be listened to, not only on account of its form but for the matter
which it delivered. It gave a message to the country that it needed greatly. It brought
to the common people a realization of their duty to concern themselves with their
affairs. The common people were made to take an interest in the manner in which
they were governed, in the taxes they paid, in the return they got from those taxes.
This interest in public affair-politics as you my call it- was to be the concern no longer
of the highly educated few but of the many-the poor, the property less, the working
men in town and country. Politics was not to be the concern of the small aristocracy
of intellect or property of the masses. And with the change in the subjects of politics
that Voice brought about also a change in the objects of politics. Till then politics had
busied itself mainly with the machinery of Government towards making it personnel
more and more native, with proposals for a better distribution of political power, with
protests against the sins of omission and of commission of the administration. This
voice switched politics on to concern for the needs of the common people. The
improvement of the lot of the poor was to be the main concern of politics and the
politician. The improvement, especially of the lives of the people of the neglected
villages, was to be placed before Governments and political organizations as the goal
of all political endeavour. The raising of the standard of living of the people of the
villages, the finding of subsidiary occupations which would give the agricultural poor
work for their enforced leisure during the off season and an addition to their exiguous
income, the improvement of the housing of the poor. The sanitation of the villagesthese were to be the objectives to be kept in view. In the towns, the slums and cheries
were to receive especial attention. There was especially a class of the poor for which
that compassionate Voice pleaded and protested this was for the so-called depressed
class, the outcastes of Hindu society. The denial of elementary human rights to this
class of people is considered the greatest blot on Hindu society and history. It raised
itself in passionate protest against the age-old wrongs of this class and forced those
that listened to it to endeavour to remove the most outrageous of them like
untouchability. It caused a revolution in Hindu religious practice by having Hindu
temples thrown open to these people. It made the care of them a religious duty of the
Hindus by re-naming them Harijans.
-Mr. Ruthnasami
Questions- 2x5=10
1) Why had people to listen to “The Voice” of Mahatma Gandhi?
2) Why had people to take an interest in politics?
3) What was the change brought about in the objects of politics?
4) What improvements were made for the common man?
5) Explain:-
a) Sins of omission and of commission of the administration.
b) No longer the monopoly of the classes, but the property of the masses

Answer 1

Explanation:

according to the parents of the author the bananas were stolen by

the author

the servants

the elephant

the monkey

both a and b