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Answer any four of the following… (English 2023 2/2/1 Q8)

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EnglishCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2023, set 2/2/1 · 12 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 English 2023: question 8

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2023, paper 2/2/1, section C, question 8, for 12 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q8 · 12 marks · Short answerA Tiger in the Zoo

Answer any four of the following questions in about 40 – 50 words each:

  1. (a)

    What is the Indian legend about the discovery of tea?

    3 marks
  2. (b)

    What did Lencho hope for and why?

    3 marks
  3. (c)

    'I'll take the risk.' What is the risk? Why does the narrator take it? (The Black Aeroplane)

    3 marks
  4. (d)

    What impression do you form about Amanda in the poem?

    3 marks
  5. (e)

    What did Siddhartha Gautama come across by chance when he was about twenty-five years old?

    3 marks

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 2/2/1.

Hints

Open one hint at a time and try again before the next.

Hint 1

Recall the lesson or poem and list the two or three key facts.

Hint 2

Write 40-50 words, with the cause or reason included.

Hint 3

Check that you have answered every part of the question.

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. (a) Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist monk, vowed to meditate without sleeping. When he felt sleepy, he cut off his eyelids and threw them down. Ten tea plants grew from them. Leaves from these plants, steeped in hot water, drove away sleep.

    3 marks

  2. (b) Lencho hoped for rain, as black clouds were approaching. Good rainfall promised a good harvest, and his crops were the only source of income for his family.

    3 marks

  3. (c) The risk is flying through dark, stormy clouds, with the danger of an accident or damage to the plane. The narrator takes it because he wants to reach home and enjoy an English breakfast with his family.

    3 marks

  4. (d) Amanda is a sensitive, dreamy girl who feels suffocated. Her mother constantly instructs and controls her, so she daydreams about freedom and longs to be left alone.

    3 marks

  5. (e) At about twenty-five, Siddhartha saw a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk begging for alms. These sights showed him the suffering of the world: sickness, old age, death and poverty.

    3 marks

Answer: Any four of (a)-(e) answered as above.

Where the marks are

  • Content: complete answer with the key points (2 marks each)
  • Expression and organisation (1 mark each)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: A Tiger in the Zoo (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from A Tiger in the Zoo, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 2/2/1: every question, by section.

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