Mother's Day, Grade 11, CBSE English Core, Short Answers and Long Answer

 

MOTHER'S DAY

Grade 11, English (CBSE)

Short Answers and Long Answer.

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1. How did the changed Mrs. Pearson behave with Doris?
Ans: The changed Mrs. Pearson used sharp wordings. She said that she didn't prepare tea for her. She also refused to iron her yellow silk. She pitiably  laughed at her boy friend, Charlie Spence.

2. How did Mrs. Fitzgerald try to help Mrs. Pearson?
Ans: Mrs. Fitzgerald magically changed her own personality with Mrs. Pearson. Then  Mrs. Fitzgerald acted in a tough manner with Mr. George Pearson and his children. She made them to understand the importance of a mother in the family. Rather, she inspired Mrs. Pearson to be the boss of her house and order them standing in her own leg. She also taught her not to be a servant in the family.

3. Do you agree with Mrs. Fitzgerald when she says that a house wife must be the boss of her family?

Ans: Yes. Mrs. Pearson is a poor house wife. She only knows to love her husband and children. Whether they are right or wrong she loves them. But Mrs. Fitzgerald tells her that her husband and children must share her work. They have to understand the difficulty of the household work. Mr. Pearson must stop going to the club at night. She tells her to put her foot down and be the boss of her family.

4. Mrs.  Pearson said that she would work only forty hours a week. How did Doris react on it?
Ans: Doris couldn't believe her ears. She asked her mother whether she would go out and enjoy for a weekend. She also thought that her mother became crazy due to some accident or some unknown hit on her head. She believed that her mother would never get a company to go out.

5. How was Mr. George  treated at the club according to Mrs. Fitzgerald?
Ans: According to Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mr. George was a laughing stock in the club. They would mock at him as he would never take his wife to the club. His wife sat alone at his home. They called him Pompy Ompy Pearson. They thought that he was very slow as well as pompous and showy.

6. How does Mrs. Fitzgerald express her disapproval of Charlie Spence?
Ans: Mrs. Fitzgerald says that Charlie Spence has buck teeth and he is half-witted. She also asks her why she doesn't get a better boy than Charlie Spence.

7. George, Doris and Cyril were all ungrateful. How can you prove?
Ans: George, Doris and Cyril thought that household duties were not a work as the work in the office. They didn't acknowledge the work done by Mrs. Pearson at home. They even bullied her. They considered her as a servant. When they ordered Mrs. Pearson obeyed. They didn't respect her. 

8. How does the Pearson family enjoy finally?
Ans: They enjoyed well in the end of the play. Doris and Cyril were ready to prepare their supper. Mrs. Pearson and Mr. George played a game of rummy. She chit chatted with her husband. Mr. George didn't go to the club. Doris didn't go with Charlie Spence.

9. How does Mrs. Fitzgerald bring about a change in Mrs. Pearson's personality?
Ans: Mrs. Annie Pearson was a quiet and submissive person. She thought that her important duty was to look after the  needs of her husband and children. As a result of that her husband, son and daughter were spoilt. They bullied her and ordered as the boss of the family. Mrs. Fitzgerald thought that Mrs. Pearson should not bear it as a home maker. Mrs. Fitzgerald exchanged personalities with Mrs. Pearson. Then Mrs. Pearson became bold, and even rude. They soon came to understood that they should not burden her with their work. They understood their duties.

10. What is the moral of the play?
Ans: The moral of the play is that a mother has certain rights in her family. Household work is considered to be a work. The husband and children should share household work. They must value the household work and it should be recognized.

Long Answer

1. Show the difference between Mrs. Pearson's and Mrs. Fitzgerald's attitudes and personalities.
Ans: Mrs. Pearson and Mrs. Fitzgerald were entirely different characters. Mrs. Pearson is simple and humble  as well as timid and fearful, where as Mrs. Fitzgerald is bold , confident, courageous and dominating character.

Mrs. Pearson obeys the order of her family. She does all the work for them. She never questions them. She is highly contented. She works in her own house as a servant. She never cares when she is bullied by her husband or children.  

But Mrs. Fitzgerald is entirely different from Mrs. Pearson. She is in Asia for many years. She is a dominating character. She knows many tricks from abroad. She is well acquainted with her rights, she demands respect.  Her character is suitable for a modern lady. In the play she establishes an identity of a mother in the family. She is the best example of the present women.

 

 

 

GRADE 11, ENGLISH CORE, DISCOVERING TUT (CBSE)

 

GRADE 11, CBSE, ENGLISH

DISCOVERING TUT, THE SAAGA CONTINUES

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ANSWERED BY M.K.CHANDRAN

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Short Answers:

1. Why did Tut change his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun?
Ans: There were two famous Gods in ancient Egypt during Tut's period. They were known as Aten (the Sun God) and Amun, another famous God. Amenhottep IV destroyed the images of Amun God and his temples. The king Tut didn't like it. He worshipped Amun God and he changed his name as Tutakhamun, which meant the servant of Amun God.

2 List some adornments on Tut’s body. Why did they keep the adornments along with the dead body?
Ans: Egyptians believed that there was life after death. So they buried different sorts of adornments along with the dead body. When Carter opened the mummy he found that many wonderful gold ornaments like necklaces, bracelets, rings, amulets and board games, linen undergarments, cases of food and drink. They believed that the deceased would use all those items in their afterlife.

3. Who was Howard Carter? What did he discover?
Ans: Howard Carter was a British Archaeologist.  He wanted to study about the death and the reason of death of the teenager king Tut.  He searched his tomb for many years. But it was fruitless. At last he discovered his tomb in 1922.

4. What did Howard Carter do to separate Tut's body from his coffin?
Ans: Howard Carter had no sophisticated tools to work. He was unable to open the coffin. The ritual resin was very strong and hard. So that he put the coffin in the scorching desert sun and heated it in 147 degree Fahrenheit. But it didn't work. He couldn't take out Tut's body from the coffin. At last he applied chisel and cut the body into pieces and took them out. 

5. Carter took a drastic decision regarding the mummy. What was it? How did he justify it?
Ans: Carter took a drastic decision that he chiseled  away the hardened resins from under Tut’s body. As a result of that the Skelton was damaged. The workers removed Tut’s head and almost all joints. Carter justified it by telling that  if he didn't cut the mummy, thieves would have ripped it in order to get the valuable trasure.

6. Why was Tut’s mummy scanned again after so many years?
Ans: Archaeologists were not satisfied with Howard Carter. He didn't use any advanced technology. In his group there had no radiologists, forensic experts and anatomy professors. Hence the modern archaeologists decided to find out the manner of Tut's death and the age at the time of his death. So they scanned Tut's mummy again.

7. What was the result of the CT Scanning?
Ans: The CT scan  showed a grey head of Tut. The technician spun and tilted it. It also showed the neck vertebrae, a hand and the rib cage. Moreover it also showed the cross section of his skull.

.8. What were the funerary treasures found in the tomb?
Ans: There was a shroud with a decorated garland of willow and olive leaves, wild celery, lotus petals and cornflowers. They calculated that the burial might have taken  place in the month of March or April because those things were easily available in March and April. Golden artifacts and things of every-day use were kept in the burial chamber.

9. How was Amenhotep IV described in ‘the history of ancient Egypt’?
Ans: Amenhotep IV did many  foolish activities. He asked the people to worship Aten, the Sun God, and later he attacked Amun, the major God of many people. He ordered his people to smash the images of Amun and destroy his temples. He also shifted the religious capital from the old city of Thebes to the new city of Akhnaten, which was later known as Amarna.

LONG ANSWER.

1. “The mummy was in very bad condition because of what Carter had done in  1920s,” said Zahi Hawaas. How far is the statement true?

Ans: The above statement was true. Carter easily opened two of the three nested coffins and announced the time of burial by seeing the presence of lotus petals, wild celery, olive leaves, willow leaves and dried cornflowers. They were easily available in the month of March or April in Egypt. In the third coffin where Tut's dead body was kept, the ritual resin was hardened. They fixed  the body to the bottom of the coffin using strong resins. He placed the coffin in 149 degrees temperature of the desert sun, but it didn't work. Thus Carter cut the mummy free.

To separate Tut from the ornaments he cut his body into piece by piece , Carter’s men cut his head and every major joints. They had reassembled them on a layer of sand and laid it back in the coffin, hiding the damage.

Carter said that he cut his body piece by piece to take away his valuable gold ornaments from his body, if not thieves would steal them. During those days archaeology lacked sophisticated tools. Thus we cannot justify Carter's action.