NIOS Class 10 English Chapter 17 Question Answer
INTEXT QUESTIONS 17.1
1. What kind of people did Mother Teresa take care of and why?
Ans: Mother Teresa took care of the old and the sick who were unwanted and abandoned by their relatives.
2. How did Mother Teresa force the hospital to take in the sick woman?
Ans: Mother Teresa refused to move away from the hospital until they admitted the sick woman.
3. Where did Mother Teresa set up the first home for the sick and the dying?
Ans: Mother Teresa set up her first home for the sick and the dying in a dharamshala near the Kali Temple.
4. How did she settle her patients when they were cured?
Ans: Mother Teresa found work for those who could work. She tried to send others to their homes.
5. Tick the correct answer to complete the given statement.
Malcolm Muggeridge interviewed Mother Teresa to
– know about her work and achievements
– know her opinions
– test her knowledge for a job
Ans: Malcolm Muggeridge interviewed Mother Teresa to know about her work and achievements.
6. Think of a sick, unhappy or helpless person in your family/neighbourhood who has responded well to love and care. What change have you noticed in this person?
Ans: Individual responses.
INTEXT QUESTIONS 17.2
1. Who set up Ananda Bharati school and for whom?
Ans: A seventy-year-old woman called Janki Iyer set up Ananda Bharati school for girls who worked as domestic helpers.
2. Ananda Bharati is a non-formal school but the author says, “This is no non-formal education center.” Why does the author say that?
Ans: Ananda Bharati is a non-formal school. It is not a formal and recognised educational institution. When the author says, “This is no non-formal education center” he means that Ananda Bharati is very serious about education just like a formal school. The teachers and the students work very hard to achieve their educational goals. The school has flexible methods and timings like a non-formal institution, but it is as serious about studies as a formal school.
3. Describe Janki Iyer in 60-80 words.
Ans: Janki Iyer is a seventy-year-old soft-spoken and gentle woman who takes care of the needs of others. She takes over Bhagya’s responsibility of looking after her little sister so that Bhagya can study. Janki Iyer is very serious about education for girls and cannot tolerate carelessness about studies. She loves Bhagya and helps her, but also scolds her when she comes late to class. She is a very good manager and also very good at building huge social support for her school.
4. Who are the people who help Janki Iyer in her work?
Ans: Young professionals help Janki Iyer to run the school. A computer professional helps with the school’s accounts, a Linguistics professor teaches Hindi, another professor teaches English and another one teaches music. Some teachers from the less privileged class work at the school.
5. Choose the correct options to complete the following statements.
a. A first generation learner is a person …
– Who goes to school for the first time.
– Who is the first in the family to go to school.
– Who learns about the first generation.
Ans: A first generation learner is one who is the first in the family to receive education.
b. A well ordered mind is …
– A mind that is in order.
– A balanced mind.
– A fit mind.
Ans: A well ordered mind is a balanced mind.
6. Say whether the following are true or false:
a. Ananda Bharati is located in a house called Needa.
Ans: False
b. Ananda Bharati does not prepare girls for public exams.
Ans: False
c. At Ananda Bharati children are transformed into confident individuals
Ans: True
d. Many professionals teach at the school.
Ans: True
e. The school has a combination of highly educated teachers and teachers from the underprivileged class.
Ans: True
f. Janki Iyer has to handle all the problems alone.
Ans: False
INTEXT QUESTIONS 17.3
1. Who was Bhagya?
Ans: Bhagya was a poor, ten-year-old girl. She had the responsibility of taking care of her two younger sisters. Bhagya also worked as a part-time domestic helper. She was very keen to study and was a regular student at Ananda Bharati.
2. How did Janki Iyer share Bhagya’s responsibilities in the school?
Ans: Janki Iyer took care of Bhagya’s baby sister, Swapna as soon as Bhagya came into the class. She kept the baby busy with playful activities to give Bhagya time to study.
3. State how Bhagya changed as soon as she came to the class?
Ans: As soon as Bhagya entered the class, she shed off her responsibilities and began to enjoy school like any other child.
4. Where did Bhagya start working?
Ans: She started to work for the occupants of a newly constructed flat.
5. What new things did she buy with the money she earned?
Ans: She bought a pair of slippers, green bangles and new clothes for herself.
6. Why did Janki Iyer scold her?
Ans: Janki Iyer scolded Bhagya because she was late for class. Janki Iyer did not want Bhagya to neglect her studies.
7. What was the difficult choice Bhagya had to make?
Ans: For the work Bhagya did as a domestic helper, she got money with which she could buy clothes, slippers and other pretty things. When she was offered more work as a domestic helper, she knew that she would get more money for it but have less time to study and go to school. She liked school, and she also liked all the things she could buy with the money she earned. She had to make a difficult choice between her studies and the money she could earn.
8. a. What choice did Bhagya make?
b. What was remarkable about her choice?
Ans:
- a. Bhagya decided not to accept the offer of more work as a domestic helper so that she would have time to study in the afternoon.
- b. Her choice was remarkable because the money she could earn for the extra work was a big amount for her. To refuse such an offer was very difficult for a poor girl like her. It was a remarkable choice because she made it after thinking very clearly about her goals, and about what was more important to her – education or money.
Exercise
1. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences to get an adverb clause of time:
a. You should not drive———————you have drunk alcohol.
if
because
after
Ans: after
b. We should heat up the iron ————————we iron our clothes.
before
so that
if
Ans: before
c. ——————————the crop is harvested (cut), it is sold in the market.
if
although
after
Ans: after
d. Do not talk————————————she is singing.
if
though
while
Ans: while
e. You can go home————————you finish your work.
so that
when
because
Ans: when
2. Complete the following sentences by adding an adverb clause of time:
a. They go to their daughter’s school when —————————————.
Ans: They go to their daughter’s school when they are called for a meeting.
b. Bhavana shifted to Mumbai after ———————————————
Ans: Bhavna shifted to Mumbai after she took up a job.
c. I had arrived at the platform before ————————————
Ans: I had arrived at the platform before the train arrived.
d. The doctor comes whenever ————————————————
Ans: The doctor comes whenever he is called for.
e. They were asked to wait till —————————————————
Ans: They were asked to wait till the signal was red.
TERMINAL QUESTIONS
I. 1. Read the following phrase from the text:
“delicate bright rainbow-tinted circles of light”
In the above phrase, the poet Sarojini Naidu has used some adjectives to describe bangles. Explain how each adjective describes a feature of the bangles.
Ans:
- ‘delicate’-suggests that the bangles may be made of glass, which can break easily.
- ‘bright’ – suggests that the colours are bright.
- ‘rainbow-tinted circles of light’ – the colours are a mix of seven colours of the rainbow. The bangles are round, so they are called circles.
2. Now read the sentence given below:
“It’s rainbows like these that make all the rainy teaching days worthwhile.”
In the above sentence, the writer has used ‘rainbows’ and ‘rainy days’ as symbols.
Complete the statements below by choosing the correct meaning of rainbows and rainy days from the given options.
a. Rainbows in the context of the lesson refer to:
• seven colours
• beautiful moments
• a beautiful phenomenon of nature
Ans: Rainbows refer to beautiful moments.
b. Rainy days in the context of the lesson refer to
• when it is raining.
• old age
• difficult moments
Ans: Rainy days refer to difficult moments.
II. 1. How did Mother Teresa make her patients feel comfortable?
Ans: Mother Teresa looked after her patients. She made them feel wanted. She made them feel that they were not alone. She made them feel that there were people who loved and cared for them.
2. In what way is Ananda Bharati a unique school?
Ans: Ananda Bharati is a unique school because, although it is a non-formal school, it is very serious about education. It is flexible like a non-formal institution, yet its students write public examinations and even go on to higher studies like the students of a formal school. It shares the problems of its students and tries to solve them. It builds their trust and confidence in themselves and supports them throughout their stay in the school.
3. Who should be given the credit for Bhagya’s education – Janki Iyer or Bhagya? Why?
Ans: Individual responses.
4. State the three words the writer has used to describe Janki Iyer. Do you know somebody who has one or all three of these characteristics? Write a short description of that person in about 50 words.
Ans: Sprightly, soft spoken, and unassuming are three words the writer uses to describe
Janki Iyer.
5. Think of a time when you had to make a difficult choice. Describe the situation and the options you could choose from. State the choice you made. Explain why you made that choice.
Ans: Individual responses.
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