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question_answer1) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it: 'Anyone who had seen me reading would have compared me to a man dying of thirst who was gulping down some fresh, pure water ... Lighting my lamp with extraordinary caution, I threw myself hungrily into the reading. An easy eloquence, effortless and animated, carried me from one page to the next without my noticing it. A clock struck off the hours in the silence of the shadows, and I heard nothing. My lamp began to run out of oil and produced only a pale light, but still I read on. I could not even take out time to raise the wick for fear of interrupting my pleasure. How those new ideas rushed into my brain I How my intelligence adopted them!? [Delhi 2008] (a) Name the writer of this paragraph. (b) How one finds the writer when he is reading? (c) Analyse the message given by the writer to the readers.
question_answer2) "The sale of books in general has increased prodigiously within the last twenty years. The poor sort of farmers and even the poor country people in general who before that period spent their winter evening in relating stories of ghosts, hobgoblin...now shorten the winter nights by hearing their sons and daughters read them tales, romances etc". Read the above passage and answer the following questions: (a) Give the reason for increased interest in books. (b) How did the books bring change even in the life of farmers and common people? (c) What kind of stories did they like to hear now?
question_answer3) "A clock struck off the hours in silence of the shadows, and I heard nothing. My lamp began to run out of oil and produced only a pale light, but I still read on. I could not even take out time to raise the wick for fear of interrupting my pleasure". Read the above passage and answer the following questions: (a) What impression do you get about the reader from this passage? What is he trying to tell? (b) Why could he not take out time to raise the wick?
question_answer4) "Thomas Wood, a Yorkshire mechanic, narrated how he would rent old newspapers and read them by firelight in the evenings as he could not afford candles. Autobiographies of poor people narrated their struggle to read against grim obstacles". Read the expert given above and answer the following questions: (a) What does this passage indicate? (b) What kind of obstacles did poor people face in reading newspapers?
question_answer5) "The colonial government kept continuous track on all books and newspapers published in India and passed numerous laws to control the press". Read the passage given above and answer the following questions: (a) Why did the colonial government keep continuous track of all books and newspapers? (b) How did they try to control the press? Name an act passed in this regard.
question_answer6) Read the following extract from the textbook and answer the questions given below: 'To what comer of the world do they not fly, these swarms of new books' It may be that one here and there contributes something worth knowing, but the very multitude of them is hurtful to scholarship. (a) Why was Erasmus apprehensive about the printed books? (b) How was Manocchio affected by religious literature?
question_answer7) Read the following extract from the textbook and answer the questions given below: This is how Mercier describes the impact of the printed word, and the power of reading in one of his books: 'Anyone who had seen me reading would have compared me to a man dying of thirst who was gulping down some fresh, pure water ... Lighting my lamp with extraordinary caution, I threw myself hungrily into the reading. (a) How were the characters in Mercier's novel affected by reading books? (b) How did Print technology contribute to the Reformation?
question_answer8) Read the following extract from the text book and answer the questions given below: The task of the native newspapers and political associations is identical to the role of the Opposition in the House of Commons in Parliament in England. That is of critically examining government policy to suggest improvements, by removing the parts that will not be to the benefit of the people, and also by ensuring speedy implementation. These associations ought to carefully study the particular issues, gather diverse relevant information on the nation as well as on what are the possible and desirable improvements, and this will surely earn it considerable influence. Native Opinion, 3 April 1870. (a) To which British institution is the role of native newspapers compared? (b) Examine the role of native newspapers as explained in this passage. (c) What impact did vernacular newspapers have on the Indian people? (d) Name two newspapers published during this time?
question_answer9) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: Gandhi said in 1922: Liberty of speech ... liberty of the press... freedom of association. The Government of India is now seeking to crush the three power vehicles of expressing and cultivating public opinion. The fight for Swaraj, for Khilafat means a fight for this threatened freedom before all else ...' (a) Which are the three essential components of Swaraj according to Gandhi? (b) Which act of the British endangered these components and what did Gandhi do as a result?
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