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प्रश्न
How was the family affected by the war?
उत्तर
Before the war, Nicola and Jacopo’s widowed father was a well-known singer. He was killed in the early part of the war leaving Lucia, his daughter behind to take care of the little boys. Shortly after a bomb destroyed their home. The three children were thrown into the streets. They had always known a comfortable and cultured life. Lucia was training to become a singer. Suddenly they were uprooted from their cozy life. They had suffered from near starvation and exposure to cold winter. The home they rebuilt from the rubbles was not weather-proof. The boys joined the secret services of resistance moment as they hated Germans. When they returned home after the war, they found their sister affected by tuberculosis of the spine. They persuaded a private hospital to take Lucia in. Every week they worked hard to pay for their sister’s medical expenses. To achieve it they had to sacrifice a lot.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Why did the author avoid going to Lucia’s room?
What were the various jobs undertaken by the little boys?
Who took the author to the cubicle?
Recount the untold sufferings undergone by the siblings after they were rendered homeless.
What seems ‘curious’ to the author?
How does army tea taste?
Elucidate the author’s ideas about teapots.
What thoughts troubled Dr. Christiaan Barnard as he neared the end of his career as a heart surgeon?
How did the hospitalization of Dr. Barnard and his wife affect their routine?
Why did the choice of roles prove to be easy for them?
Detail the statistics Dr. Barnard has provided in his speech.
How did the boy who played the mechanic lose his eyesight?
“These two children had given me a profound lesson …” Elucidate.
Name an equipment and a tool carried by the climbers during their expedition.
What did Hillary find in a tiny hollow?
What did the photograph portray?
The soft snow was difficult and dangerous. Why?
Who visited the family?
Describe the stool that the narrator’s family had.
What was Pedanna’s suggestion to their father?
How did Maamanaar handle the chair at home?
What was grandmother’s suggestion of wood? Why?
Write character sketches of Maamanaar and Pedanna.
What would be the consequence of the old lady’s action?
How would a reasonable person react when his actions affect other person’s liberty?
Define ‘liberty’ as perceived by the author.
How would ‘liberty’ cause universal chaos?
Para 4
Tenzing kicked steps in a long
traverse back towards the ridge, and we
reached its crest where it forms a great
snow bump at about 28000 feet. From
here the ridge narrowed to a knife-edge
and, as my feet were now warm, I took
over the lead.
Para 5
The soft snow made a route on top
of the ridge both difficult and dangerous,
which sometimes held my weight but often
gave way suddenly. After several hundred
feet, we came to a tiny hollow and found
there the two oxygen bottles left on the
an earlier attempt by Evans and Bourdillon.
I scraped the ice off the gauges and was
relieved to find that they still contained
several hundred liters of oxygen-enough
to get us down to the South Col if used sparingly
Para 6
I continued making the trail on up
the ridge, leading up for the last 400 feet
to the southern summit. The snow on this
the face was dangerous, but we persisted in
our efforts to beat a trail up it.
We made frequent changes of
lead. As I was stamping a trail in the deep
snow, a section around me gave way and
Para 7
I slipped back through three or four of
my steps. I discussed with Tenzing the
the advisability of going on, and he, although
admitting that he felt unhappy about the
snow conditions, and finished with his
the familiar phrase “Just as you wish”.
Para 8
I decided to go on, and we finally
reached firmer snow higher up, and then
chipped steps up the last steep slopes and
crampon onto the South Peak. It was now 9 a.m.
Give an account of the journey to the South Col from 28,000 feet. (Para 4 to 8)
Can you iron your clothes and arrange them? Can you replace a tube light?
