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Answer any four of the following questions:

(i) Did she repent her hasty action? How does she show her repentance?

(ii) What do you think the man said to his friend who waited at the door?

(iii) "Very well, my lord, but give me time to prepare myself." Who wanted to prepare, and for what?

(iv) Describe briefly in the class an improbable dream that you have seen.

(v) Why did Vijay Singh want to take the ghost as a prisoner to his village?

Answer:

(i) Yes, she repented her hasty action and showed her repentance by touching his dead and still body.

(ii) Perhaps the man had said to his friend that the shopkeeper was deaf and dumb and could not shout.

(iii) Tansen had requested Emperor Akbar to give him time to prepare. He wanted time to train his daughter Saraswati and her friend Rupwati to sing Raga Megh which would bring rain and extinguish the fire caused after singing Raga Deepak. Thus, Tansen would be saved from burning to ashes.

(iv) Once I had a strange dream. I saw I was going from one hill to another by train. There is a long bridge. Soon as the train reached the centre of the bridge it collapsed and the train waved down and I could see my dead body.

(v) Vijay Singh wanted to take the ghost as a prisoner to his village because he wanted to show the people that he has returned victorious after capturing the ghost.