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Chapters
1.2: Life
1.3: The Tempest
2.1: The Night the Ghost Got in
2.2: The Grumble Family
2.3: Zigzag
3.1: Empowered Women Navigating The World
3.2: I am Every Woman
3.3: The Story of Mulan
4.1: The Attic
4.2: The Ant and the Cricket
4.3: The Aged Mother
5.1: Tech Bloomers
5.2: The Secret of the Machines
5.3: A day in 2889 of an American Journalist
6.1: The Last Lesson
6.2: No Men Are Foreign
6.3: The Little Hero of Holland
7.1: The Dying Detective
7.2: The House on Elm Street
▶ 7.3: A Dilemma

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Solutions for Chapter 7.3: A Dilemma
Below listed, you can find solutions for Chapter 7.3 of Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Samacheer Kalvi for English Class 10 SSLC TN Board.
Samacheer Kalvi solutions for English Class 10 SSLC TN Board 7.3 A Dilemma Exercise [Pages 210 - 211]
Read the given line carefully and identify the character/speaker.
I suppose you think me queer. I will explain.
Read the given line carefully and identify the character/speaker.
Don't come back. It won't hasten things.
Read the given line carefully and identify the character/speaker.
He thought it simply a cruel jest.
Read the given line carefully and identify the character/speaker.
He did not desire to do so.
Read the given line carefully and identify the character/speaker.
He would think it over and come back later.
Based on your understanding of the story, answer the following briefly.
What did the uncle do as soon as he bought a stone?
What did the uncle bequeath to the narrator?
What was the condition laid by the uncle to inherit his property?
Why do you think Tom happily looked forward to the expenditure for his uncle’s funeral?
Write a few words about the mechanism used in the iron box.
What was the counsel offered to the narrator?
Why and when was the narrator shocked?
What was the doctor’s warning to Tom?
Why didn’t Tom dare to assign the task of unlocking the box to someone?
Answer the questions given below in a paragraph of 150 words.
Describe briefly the contents of the letter written by Tom’s uncle.
Explain the efforts taken by Tom to open the iron box? Did he succeed? Why?
Fill in the blanks with the right option and write down the summary of the story 'A dilemma'.
The narrator was sent for, by his uncle when he was ______.
on his deathbed
on his travels
in his workplace
The uncle had collected precious ______.
jewels
stones
articles
His uncle announced Tom as his heir and wanted him to pay for his ______.
rented house
marriage
funeral
Leaving an iron box for Tom, his uncle instructed him not to ______ the box.
throw
carry
shake
The letter read that the box contained ______.
a sensitive dynamite
jewels
money
He started thinking of all possible ways to open the box without being ______.
wounded
killed
maimed
He planned to explode the box at ______ but dropped the plan in fear of losing the rubies.
home
a safe distance
a waste land
His consultation with ______ did not yield him any fruitful solution.
Uncle Philip
Professor Clinch
Susan
He failed in his attempts to open the box. His efforts to read about explosives led to _____ (hopes / confusions / suspicious) and he had to change his _____(name and occupation/lodgings/appearance).
At last, he bequeathed the box to ______.
his offspring
his friends
the Society
Solutions for 7.3: A Dilemma

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