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in Bihar.
9. Objectives : To test global comprehension of prose texts
Marking Scheme:
Content: 6 marks
Expression : 4 marks
Value Points:
• Bangle makers born in poverty, live in poverty, die in poverty.
• For generations people have been engaged in this trade.
• Work in inhuman conditions.
• Although they work hard but the profit is meager.
• Their hovels have crumbing walls, wobbly doors and no windows.
• They are overcrowded with humans and animals.
• Social customs, traditions, stigma of caste and people in authority combine so that
they remain poor and uneducated
• Money lenders, middlemen, politicians and policemen are all against them.
• Unable to organize themselves into a co-operative due to lack of a leader.
• They have lost the ability to dream.
• They can only talk but not act to improve their lot.
Or
Marking Scheme:
Content : 6 marks
Expression : 4 marks
Value points:
•Author uses gentle humour and mild satire.
• He has a chatty style which quickly changes from one thought to the other.
• Makes fun of the make-up applied to the artists which changes a decent person into
a monster.
• Sets required the actors to look ugly so that they look presentable in the movie.
• Characters of the office boy, Subbu No. 2 and the legal adviser have many subtle touches
of humour.
• Purpose of the visits of Moral Re-Armament Army and the English Poet baffles
everyone.
• Baffled reaction of the staff of Gemini studio arouses humour.
• Satire is also directed towards people who are against communism and would do
anything to oppose it.

28 10. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate then.
Marking Scheme:
Content: 1 mark for each value point (4 points)
Expression: 3 marks (1 ½ + 1 ½ accuracy and fluency)
Value Points
• The feeling of hatred for enemy country is created by the system/ government
• People are made to hate each other
• It is considered to be patriotic/ nationalistic
• Personally knowing or not knowing has no meaning in such cases.
• These are people who rise above such petty thoughts
• Like doctor Sadao- for him saving the patient was most important
• As a doctor that was his first duty-the sick, injured needed attention and the
country to which the patient belongs did not matter to him.
OPTION II
Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.
Marking Scheme:
Content: 1 mark for each value point (4 points)
Expression: 3 marks (1 ½ + 1 ½ accuracy and fluency)
Value Points:
• Adult is mature, experienced and has a practical approach
• Adult responses are tutored and actions reflect the thought
• Children are spontaneous
• Their responses are natural, not tutored
• They want excitement
• Their idea of story is very different from adults
• The girl wanted Wizard to hit Skunk’s mother as she had forced Skunk to get back
the offensive smell.
• The girl did not approve of this, for her the baby Skunk was right
• From her perspective, it was fine if the Wizard hits Mommy.

29 11. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.
Marking Scheme:
Content: 1 mark
Expression: 1 mark
Value Points
1. Charley had been going to the station for long
• But each time he bumped into new doorways, stairs and corridors
• Once he had entered a long tunnel and came out near Roosevelt hotel
2. Derry was a boy of fourteen
• Has a burn scar on his face which makes him feel low
• He is scared of looking at himself in the mirror
3. Evans was an experienced thief
• Had broken the jail many times
• People saw this as his way to escape from prison
4. • She hid herself in a dark room
• did not come out or answer even when they came looking for her
• Tried to escape and fight when they caught her.