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visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ Daughter Lata Jagthiani Short Answer Questions : I. 1. The family members had gathered at the Sohrab Saheb's office at the Oval for i. Deciding the distribution of property ii. Hearing the distribution iii. Challenging the distribution A work of Art-Anton Chekhov The Cask of Amontillado-Edgar Allan Poe   New The five boons of life-Mark Twain The Native American Oral Tradition 2. What did Deepa and her brother get from their father's property according to the will? According to the will of their father, Deepa, his daughter, who was twenty-six, was left only with the sum of seven lakhs which was already nominated to her in the form of Reserve Bank of India bonds. The rest of the estate, cash, property, assets, the office, the cars, the jewellery, the farmhouse,the paintings worth more than six crores were  all equally divided among the four sons. 3. Only Deepa was alarmed at reading the will, because . . . (complete the sente...

visit website   https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ 6. MY TEACHER   Helen Keller About the author: Helen Adams Keller, the American author, political   activist and a lecturer was born on June 27 1880, in  Tuscumbia, Alabama to Captain Arthur H. Keller and  Kate Adams Keller. In 1882,when she was 19 months  old, she was stricken by an illness that left her blind  and deaf.  In 1886, according to the advice of an ENT specialist  her parents contacted Alexander Graham Bell, who  was working with deaf children at that time. Bell  advised them to contact Perkins Institute for the  Blind. The director of the institute, asked former  student Anne Sullivan, to become Helen Keller's  instructor. That was the beginning of a 49-year-long  relationship with her teacher. Anne Sullivan, came  rd to her house on March 3 , 1887 and helped her  make tremendous progress with her ability to  communicate .In May, ...

 Chapter 8 Wall -D.S. Dadhalkar visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com for all bcom subjects notes Short answer questions 1) What is the contract taken by the poet? The poet has taken contract to demolish the walls of the building to demolish the walls of buildings. 2) The poet wants to demolish the walls of villages also. 3) According to Dadhalkar, the world wars were fought for  the walls of nations 4 ) Walls are built by 1. Kings      2. Grandpas      3. Grandmothers 5) Why were the walls hardened? The walls were hardened to protect human beings. 6) The people had raised their hands against these walls before. (True/False) True 7) What does the poet want to learn from history? Poet learned that his eyes had been entombed in walls and his organs of sense lay mutely by those walls like motionless refugees. 8) Mention the figure of speech in the line, ‘like motionless refugees’. simile 9) What should the wall be replaced wi...

visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com  for all bcom notes Chapter-7  Caged bird-Maya Angelou Click here for notes on Wall-Poem About the author Maya Angelou was an American poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which brought her international recognition and acclaim, is about her life up to the age of 17.She was respected as a spokesperson for black people and women, and her works have been considered a defence of black culture. “Caged Bird” is a poem which considers the conditions...