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EnglishCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 2/5/1 · 5 marks · Reading comprehension

CBSE Class 10 English 2025: question 6(b)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 2/5/1, section C, question 6(b), for 5 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q6(b) · 5 marks · Reading comprehensionCompetency-basedThe Proposal

Read the given extract and answer the questions.

Lomov : Hear me out, I implore you ! The peasants of your father's grandfather, as I have already had the honour of explaining to you, used to bake bricks for my aunt's grandmother. Now my aunt's grandmother, wishing to make them a present.
Natalya : I can't make head or tail of all this about aunts and grandfathers and grandmothers. The Meadows are ours, that's all.
Lomov : Mine
Natalya : Ours ! You can go proving it for two days on end.

  1. (i)

    What is Lomov pleading for ?

    1. (A)to be heard
    2. (B)bricks for his aunt's grandmother
    3. (C)documents of the Meadows
    4. (D)for two days time to prove himself
    1 mark
  2. (ii)

    What effect does the following sentence have on Natalya ? Why ?
    'The peasants of your father's grandfather ……… used to bake bricks for my aunt's grandmother.'

    2 marks
  3. (iii)

    Fill in the blank with the correct word from the bracket :
    The use of the phrase 'can't make head or tail' adds to a sense of ________ (confusion/realization) to the extract.

    1 mark
  4. (iv)

    What is Lomov trying to prove ?

    1 mark

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 2/5/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Lomov says 'Hear me out, I implore you'.

Hint 2

Think how Natalya feels about the Meadows.

Hint 3

'Can't make head or tail' means she cannot understand.

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. (i) Option (A): Lomov is pleading to be heard.

    1 mark

  2. (ii) The sentence makes Natalya angry and she loses her temper, because she believes the Oxen Meadows belong to her family and thinks Lomov is wrongly claiming them.

    2 marks

  3. (iii) confusion

    1 mark

  4. (iv) Lomov is trying to prove that the Oxen Meadows are his and that Natalya is wrongly claiming them.

    1 mark

Answer: (i) A; (ii) she becomes angry because she believes the Meadows are hers; (iii) confusion; (iv) that the Meadows belong to him

Where the marks are

  • (i) A (1 mark)
  • (ii) Effect: anger (1 mark); reason: she believes the Meadows are hers (1 mark)
  • (iii) Confusion (1 mark)
  • (iv) The Meadows are his (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: The Proposal (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from The Proposal, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2025 board paper, set 2/5/1: every question, by section.

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