Question

Q. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

As a novelist and storyteller, I have always drawn upon my memories places that I have known and lived in over the years. More than most writers, perhaps, I find myself drawing inspiration from the past - my childhood,adolescence, youth, early manhood But to talk of my early inspiration I must go back to my very beginnings, to the then small princely state of Jamnagar, tucked away in the Gulf of Kutch. Here father started a small palace school for the princesses. I was there at the age of six, and I still treasure vivid memories of Jamnagabeautiful palaces and sandy beaches.

Some of these landmarks are preserved for me in photographs taken
my father, which I have to this day. An old palace with pretty window of coloured glass remained fixed in my memory and many years 1 gave me the story, "The Room of Many Colours", which also inspired episode in a TV serial called Ek Tha Rusty. I spent a memorable years and a half with him in New Delhi, then still a very new city -just
capital area designed by Edwin Lutyens and Connaught Place, with gleaming new shops and restaurants and cinemas. I saw Laurel and Hardy films and devoured milkshakes at the Milk Bar, even as the quit India Movement gathered momentum.

When I was seventeen, I was shipped off to the UK to "bette
prospects" as my mother put it. Out of a longing for India and t
friends I had made in Dehra came my first novel -The Room on
Roof featuring the life and loves of Rusty, my alter ego. In the 195
everyone travelled by sea, as air services were still in their infancy
passenger liner took about three weeks from Southampton to Bomb
now Mumbai). After docking in Bombay, I took a train to Dehra, whe
I stepped onto the platform of the small railway station and embark
on the hazardous journey of a freelance writer. Railway stations! Trains!
Platforms! I knew as long as these were there I would never run out of

4 I also looked for inspiration in tombs and monuments and the
ever-expanding city, but did not find it, and my productivity dropped.
Escape from Delhi had become a priority for me. I felt drawn to the hills
above Dehra. On the outskirts of mussoorie i found a small cottage
surrounded by oak and maple trees where the rent, thankfully, was
nominal.
5 I'm of the opinion that every writer needs a window. Preferably two. Is
the house, the room, the situation important for a writer ? A good
wordsmith should be able to work anywhere. But to me, the room vou
live in day after day is all-important. The stories and the poems float in
through my window, float in from the magic mountains, and the words
ge without much effort on my part. Planet Earth
belongs to me. And at night, the stars are almost within reach.

2.1 on the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer
any four of the following questions in 30- 40 words each
(a) What does the writer remember about Jamnagar?
(b) How did he spend time in Delhi?
(c) What was the inspiration for the first novel and why?
(d) What was the importance of trains and railway stations in his life?
(e)What was the importance of a window in the writer's life?

.2.2 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, fill in any
two of the following blanks with appropriate words/phrases
(a) He was shipped off to UK for
(b) Everyone travelled by sea because
(c) The productivity dropped because

2.3 Find out words/phrases from the passage that mean the same as the
following. Attempt any two.
(a) gulped down / swallowed (para 2)
(b) early stage (para 3)
(c) attracted to (para 4)

Answer 1

Answer:

cxnedujfnamsnifesa awqetry tyuopi tyutryu

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

what was the writer remember about jamnanagar