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Read the lines from the poem and answer the following questions :

"When everybody says. Yes please,

When everybody says. No thank you/

The rebel says. Yes please.

It is very good that we have rebels.

You may not find it very good to be one.

Questions:

(a) Why does the poet say it is not good to be a rebel oneself?

(b) Who does not like the rebels?

(c) Why is it very good that we have rebels?

(d) What does the rebel do?

OR

Read the lines from the text below and answer the following questions:

Mridu crept up to the window. Lalli was sitting a little distance away, awkwardly holding her violin and bowstrings, her elbows jutting out and her eyes glazed with concentration. In front of her, with most of his back to the window, was the bony figure of the music master. He had a mostly bald head with a fringe of oiled black hair falling around his ears as an old fashioned tuft. A gold chain gleamed around his leathery neck, and a diamond ring glittered on his hand as it glided up and down the string of the violin. A large foot stuck out from beneath his gold bordered veshti edge, and he was beating time on the floor with his scrawny big toe.

Questions:

(a) Who was Lalli? What was she doing?

(b) What was the physical appearance of the music master?

(c) How can you say that the music teacher was fairly well off?

(d) Find a word from the above passage that means the same to glowed".

Answer:

(a) The poet says that it is not good to be a rebel oneself because one would not be accepted by the society.

(b) The society does not like rebels.

(c) It is good to have rebels because they are different and they teach us to be able to accept and tolerate the differences in the society.

(d) The rebel always, defies others.

OR

(a) Lalli was Mridu's cousin and the sister of Ravi and Meena. She was taking her music lesson learning to play the violin.

(b) The music teacher had a thin figure, with a mostly bald head and an old fashioned tuft.

(c) The music teacher wore a gold chain and a diamond ring and thus can be called fairly well off.

(d) Glazed.