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OR (b) Matilda's… (Class 10 English 2023, Q11b)

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EnglishCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2023, set 2/5/1 · 6 marks · Long answer

CBSE Class 10 English 2023: question 11(b)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2023, paper 2/5/1, section C, question 11(b), for 6 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q11(b) · 6 marks · Long answerThe Necklace

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(b) Matilda's over-ambitiousness was the cause of her destruction. Justify.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 2/5/1.

Hints

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

Hint 1

Describe Matilda's nature and dissatisfaction.

Hint 2

What did she borrow for the ball?

Hint 3

What were the consequences of losing it?

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. Matilda, from a modest family, always craved luxury and felt she deserved better, though she had a good husband who was a government clerk.

    1 mark

  2. Her ambition made her unhappy; to look rich at a ball, she borrowed a diamond necklace from Madame Forestier.

    1 mark

  3. She lost the necklace and she and her husband took heavy loans to replace it, working for ten years in poverty, which ruined her youth and beauty.

    1 mark

  4. Thus her over-ambition and vanity led to her destruction, and the borrowed necklace was only paste. (Expression 2 marks and accuracy 1 mark.)

    3 marks

Answer: Matilda's craving for luxury led to borrowing and losing the necklace, and years of ruinous poverty.

Where the marks are

  • Her desire for luxury and discontent (1 mark)
  • Borrowing and losing the necklace (1 mark)
  • Debt, hardship and ruin (1 mark)
  • Expression (2 marks) and accuracy (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: The Necklace (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from The Necklace, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 2/5/1: every question, by section.

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