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QUESTION 4:

Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions (a), (b) and (c) that follow:

(The passage is about Mrs. and Mr. Robert Quick, and their daughters, Jenny and Kate)

(1) Kate and Jenny were sent to was and change their dirty frocks. The committee was coming to tea. And, at tea,

the two girls, dressed in smart clean frocks, handed round cakes, bread and butter with demure and reserved

looks. They knew how to behave at the party. They were enjoying the dignity of their own performance. Their

eyes passed over their father as if he existed only as another guest, to be waited on.(2) And now, seeking as it were never new, if lower level of security, of resignation, he said to himself, “Heavens,

but what did I expect? In a year or two more, I can’t count all. Young men will come prowling, like the dogs

after snort. I shall be an old buffer, useful only to pay bills.

(3) The ladies were talking about a case, ---the case of a boy of fourteen, a nice person, a nice respectable boy,

most regular at Sunday school, who had suddenly robbed his mother’s till and gone off in a stolen car. Jenny

seated at her mother’s feet, was listening intently. Kate was feeding chocolate roll to snort, and tickling her

chin.

(4) Quick felt at once a sense of stuffiness. He wanted urgently to get away, to escape. Yes, he needed some male

society. He wanted to go to the club. Probably no one could be there but the card room crowd, and he could

not bear cards. But he might find old Wilkins in the billiard room. Wilkins, at seventy, was a crashing dreary

bore who spent half his life at the club, who was always telling you how he had foreseen the slump, and how

clever he was at investing at money. But what good was money to old Wilkins? But quick thought, he could get

up a game with Wilkins, pass an hour or two with him, till dinner time, even dine with him. He could phone his

wife. She would not mind. She rather likes a free evening for her various accounts. And he need not go till the

children were in bed.

(5) And when, after tea, the committee members pulled their agenda, he stole away. Suddenly as he turned by the

corner house, skirting its front garden wall, he heard running steps and breathless call. He turned, it was Jenny.

She arrived panting, holding, herself by the chest ‘oh, I couldn’t catch you’.

(6) ‘What is it now Jenny?’

(7) ‘I want to look at the---cut

(8) Robert began to stoop. But she cried, ‘No I’ll get on the wall. Put me up’

(9) He lifted her on the garden wall which made her about a foot taller than him. Having reached this superior

position, she poked the plaster

(10)‘I just wanted to make sure it was sticking. Yes it’s all right.’

(11)She looked down at him with an expression he did not recognize. What was the game- medial….material? Was

she going laugh? But the child frowned. She was also struck by something new and unexpected.

(12)Then she tossed back her hair. ‘Good bye’. She jumped down and ran off. The man walked slowly towards the

club. “No”, he thought, “not quite a game-not for half a second. She’s growing up, and so am I.

(a)

(i) Given below are words/phrases. Find words having similar meanings in the passage: (3)

(1) Reserved

(2) Stepping Down

(3) Reputable

(ii) For each of the words given below, write a sentence, using the same word unchanged in form, but with a

different meaning from that which it carries in the passage (3)

(1) Change (line 1)

(2) Roll (line 13)

(3) Room (line 17)

(b) Answer the following questions in your own words as briefly as possible:

(i) What did Kate and Jenny wear at the party and how did they behave? (2)(ii) After seeing the two girls, what did quick say to him, seeking a new level of security?(2)

(iii) In the last paragraph after Jenny’s run off. What did quick do? (2)​

Answer 1

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