(A) Read the extract given below and answer briey the questions that follow:
".................. its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.
(a) What do "lifeless things" refer to?
(b) How do we know that he was a good sculptor?
(c) How did the heart feed the passions?
(B) Read the extract given below and answer briey the questions that follow:
"I hadn't the shade of an idea, but at the time that didn't worry me in the least. You see, I had often been like that before...."
(i) Who is 'I' ? What did he not have an idea about?
(ii) Why was he not worried?
(iii) What had actually happened earlier to make things right for him?
(C) Read the extract given below and answer briey the questions that follow:
"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it."
(a) Who is the speaker? Who are 'you'?
(b) How did Caesar pay for being ambitious?
(c) What argument did the speaker give to show that Brutus was wrong in his judgement of Caesar?
Answers
(A)
a) ‘Lifeless things’ refers to the statue fragments in the desert.
b) We know that he was a good sculptor as he was able to bring out the true personality of the king through the sculpture. He was able to express the greed and pride of the king through his facial expressions.
c) The passions of the king are expressed by the sculptor’s heart in the statue.
(B)
i) ‘I’ refers to the narrator Hallock who is tasked with writing a ghost story even though he has no idea about it.
ii) He was not worried as the ideas about ghost stories came to him on its own.
iii) The first story which he wrote was a ghost story and at that time the idea just materialized within him.
(C)
a) Mark Antony is the speaker and ‘you’ refers to the Romans.
b) Caesar paid with his life for being ambitious.
c) Mark Antony had expressed how Caesar had refused the crown three times and also about his will wherein he made all the Romans as the heirs to his property to show the latter’s true nature. Thus, he showed that Brutus was wrong in his judgement of Caesar.