Answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each:
(a) How do symbols in the poem, ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ help us understand her plight?
(b) What is your impression of Sophie’s brother Geoff?
(c) What frantic efforts did Zitkala-Sa make to save her hair from being cut?
(d) How did the Tiger King’s marriage bring him closer to his target?
(e) Why were the old men of the village sitting in the classroom on the last day of the lesson?
(f) What precautions did the authorities take for the smooth conduct of the O-level examination?
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(b) Sophie's brother Geoff was a loving sibling who not only knew the emotions of his sister but also supported her when in need. He was out of school for three years, and a mechanic, yet for her he was no less than a hero. He was someone with great ideas and thoughts but never communicated it with others. He found Sophie too young to understand few things in life. Those attributes show just how much he cared for his sister.
(c) Once Zitkala-sa learned that the school authorities had decided to cut off the students long hair shorter. She was really trying to hide under her bed in a dimly lit room with dark curtains drawn on the window. She stayed huddled in the darkness even when they called her out. When she was finally dragged and tied to a chair for her hair cutting, she screamed loudly and shook her head with all the strength she had, yet to no avail.
(d) The Tiger King had sworn that he would kill hundred tigers to reverse the prophecy made by the hundredth tiger about his murder. He had already killed all in his kingdom, and in his quest to kill more and more tigers, he decided to marry the princess whose kingdom had more tigers. He married the princess of a kingdom, and in return he got the opportunity to go hunting for tigers every time he visited that territory. He thus brought himself closer to his goal of killing the hundredth tiger and reversing his doomed prophecy.
(e) For everyone in the town of Alsace and Lorraine the last day of the French class was really significant. People felt the substitution of studying in French, their mother tongue by German as determined by the government system, was depriving them of their fundamental rights. It would be the last day the school would be taking a lesson from their favourite teacher M.Hamel. This is why the village's students and even older men came to the classroom to see M.Hamel teaching the school's last French lecture.