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Solved Short Question and Answer for “The Little Girl” by Katherine Mansfield 1. Why was the little girl afraid of her father? To the little girl, her father was a figure representing power and dominance. She was scared of him and considered him a figure to be avoided and feared. She feared him to such… Continue reading Solved Question and Answer for “The Little Girl” by Katherine Mansfield: 2022

Solved Short Question and Answer for “The Fun They Had” 1. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have classmates? Margie’s schoolroom was right next to her bedroom, where she was taught by the mechanical teacher. She did not have any classmates because she attended virtual classes and learnt from a mechanical teacher who taught her… Continue reading Solved Question and Answer for “The Fun They Had”: 2022

Solved Short Questions and Answers for “The Bond of Love” 1. How did the narrator find Bruno? When the narrator was passing through the sugarcane fields near Mysore, people, over there, where shooting and driving away the wild pigs from the fields. Suddenly, they saw a black sloth bear emerging out from the field. One… Continue reading Solved Questions and Answers for “The Bond of Love”: 2022

Solved Short Questions ‘Reach for the Top’ 1. Why was the ‘holy man’ who gave Santosh’s mother his blessings surprised? Santosh was born in a society where the birth of a son was considered a blessing. Assuming that every family wished to have a son, the ‘holy man’ gave his blessing to Santosh’s mother but… Continue reading “Reach for the Top” Solved Questions and Answers: 2022

Solved Short Questions A Truly Beautiful Mind 1. Why did Einstein leave the school in Munich? Einstein used to hate the schooling system in Munich and he protested against it. He often clashed with the teachers. He felt suffocated by the school authorities and the entire system and, finally, at the age of 15, he decided… Continue reading “A Truly Beautiful Mind” Solved Questions and Answers: 2022

The musical instrument pungi was banned by Aurangazeb in the royal residence because of its high-pitched unpleasant sound. But a barber of a family of professional musicians, who had access to the royal palace, took it upon himself to improve the tonal quality of the pungi. He selected a pipe with a natural hollow stem… Continue reading Summary of “The Sound of Music” The Shehnai of Bismillah Khan: 2022

The little girl always considered her father a figure to be scared of. She used to be greatly relieved when her father left for work after kissing her goodbye. The noise of the carriage getting fainter and fainter pleased her. She stood near the staircase when her father returned home in the evening. Mother used… Continue reading Summary of “The Little Girl” by Katherine Mansfield: 2022

Santosh Yadav, being born in a society where the birth of a daughter was frowned upon, is the only woman in the world to have scaled Mt. Everest twice. In a society where the birth of a son was considered a blessing, Santosh’s grandmother told a ‘holy man’, who was giving Santosh’s mother his blessing… Continue reading Summary of “Reach for the Top” by Santosh Yadav: 2022

Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in the German city of Ulm. Without any prediction or recognition of his future endeavors, his mother thought that Einstein was a freak. She found Albert’s head too large. Einstein still was not talking when he reached the age of two-and-a-half years. But when he finally learned… Continue reading Summary of“A Truly Beautiful Mind”: 2022

This story reflects upon the arrogance of the colonizer to forcibly take away the rights of those who are colonized. “The last lesson” stresses the importance of education and the necessity to respect and learn one’s own language. This story draws our attention to the unfair practice of linguistic chauvinism. It refers to an unreasonable… Continue reading The Last Lesson Theme by Alphonse Daudet: 2022