Question

1.Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow. “Some twenty-thirty – years later She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they Dressed us for the beach.” The sea holiday Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry With the laboured ease of loss.” i.Why did ‘she’ laugh? (a) Because of the funny dresses that they were wearing at the sea holiday (b) Because one of them cracked a joke (c) Because of the funny dresses they were wearing at the party (d) Because of the funny man they saw at the sea holiday ii. Who are Betty and Dolly? (a) They are poet’s cousins (b) They are poet’s friends (c) They are poet’s mother’s friends (d) They are poet’s mother’s cousins iii. …………. in the extract is the synonym of ‘photograph’. (a) Snapshot (b) Picture (c) Mine (d) Laboured​

Answer 1

Answer:

i) a,,ii) d,, ii) b photograph

Answer 2

Answer:

Question and answers

Explanation:

i.Why did ‘she’ laugh? (a) Because of the funny dresses that they were wearing at the sea holiday (b) Because one of them cracked a joke (c) Because of the funny dresses they were wearing at the party (d) Because of the funny man they saw at the sea holiday

Ans: The correct answer would be option

(c)Because of the funny dresses they were wearing at the party

Other options are not suitable because it is clearly wriiten in the extract that the speaker finds Betty and Dolly's dresses very funny.

ii. Who are Betty and Dolly? (a) They are poet’s cousins (b) They are poet’s friends (c) They are poet’s mother’s friends (d) They are poet’s mother’s cousins

Ans: It is not mentioned in the extract whether Betty and Dolly were Poet's friends or cousins or any relative.

iii. …………. in the extract is the synonym of ‘photograph’. (a) Snapshot (b) Picture (c) Mine (d) Laboured​

Ans:-(a) Snapshot