Question

1.Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. One of the most popular literary figures in American literature is a woman who spent almost half of her long life in China, a country on a continent thousands of miles from the United States. In her lifetime she earned this country's most highly acclaimed literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, and also the most prestigious form of literary recognition in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pearl S. Buck was almost a household name throughout much of her lifetime because of her prolific literary output, which consisted of some eighty - five published works, including several dozen novels, six collections of short stories, fourteen books for children, and more than a dozen works of nonfiction. When she was eighty years old, some twenty five volumes were awaiting publication. Many of those books were set in China, the land in which she spent a great part of her life. Her books and her life served as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West. As the product of those two cultures she became (as she described herself), "mentally bifocal." Her unique background made her an unusually interesting and versatile human being. As we examine the life of Pearl Buck, we cannot help but be aware that we are in fact meeting three separate people: a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer and a humanitarian and philanthropist. One cannot really get to know Pearl Buck without learning about each of the three. Though honoured in her lifetime with the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in addition to the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Pearl Buck as a total human being (not only a famous author) is a captivating subject of study. Answer the following questions : (a) Do as directed (4 marks) (i) Which word in this passage mean ‘celebrated’? (1) (ii) Give the synonym of ‘prestigious’, ‘Prolific’. (1) (iii) Give the antonym of famous, versatile. (1) (iv) Which word in the passage mean ‘a person who helps the poor by giving money’? (1) (b) What are the two prizes awarded to Pearl. S Buck? (1) (c) How did Pearl S. Buck become mentally bifocal? (2) (d) What makes Pearl S. Buck an unusually interesting and versatile human being? (1) (e) State whether the statements are True or False and explain why? (2) (i) Pearl S. Buck was honoured William Dean Howel Medal after her death. (ii) Pearl S. Buck was an American Writer.​

Answer 1

which word in this passage mean celebrates

Answer 2

Answer:

(i) Pearl S. Buck was honoured William

Dean Howel Medal after her death.