Class 10 Extract Based Questions

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Class 10 Extract Based Questions

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Class 10 Extract Based Questions for CBSE Board Exam 2023. English Extract Based Questions Answer for class 10th board exam 2023. CBSE Class 10 Extract Based Questions Answer 2023 Board Exams, which will give you an idea how extract based questions are asked in 10th board exams 2023.

Extract Based Questions Answer Part-1

CBSE Class 10th All Poems Chapter Poetic Device

Part-1 [Question No. 6-10]

CBSE Class 10 Extract Based Questions Answer

6. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

‘‘Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.‘‘**

(a) Whom are these lines addressed to?
(b) What does the young man mean by ‘honey-coloured ramparts’?
(c) What does the word, ‘ramparts‘ here mean?

“Why, you‘re in evening dress ! Well, I never! Are you going to a ball or what? Though I must say you look better ……“
(a) Who is speaking and to whom?
(b) Why is the person spoken to about an evening dress?
(c) What does the word, ‘ball‘ mean here?

Answer & Explanation – 6

(a) These lines have been taken from W.B Yeats’ poem “For Anne Gregory” and the words have uttered by the poet himself.
(b) By ‘honey-coloured ramparts’, the young man means the yellow hair of the young woman.
(c) Ramparts refers to wall that protects a fort. Here, it has been used metaphorically to mean the lock of hair around her ear.

(a) Natalya is speaking to Lomov.
(b) Lomov, dressed in an evening dress had come there to propose to Natalya.
(c) The word ‘ball‘ here refers to a formal dance party.

7. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

“But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men is despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.“

(a) Who is speaking these lines?
(b) Why are young men in despair?
(c) What is the antonym of the word, ‘despair‘?

‘‘Please don‘t shout ! You can shout yourself hoarse in your own house but here I must ask you to restrain yourself !‘‘
(a) Who is speaking and to whom?
(b) What is the dispute over?
(c) What does the word, ‘restrain‘ mean?

Answer & Explanation – 7

(a) These lines are spoken by Anne Gregory
(b) Being hopelessly in love causes young men to be in ‘despair’ .
(c) Hope is the opposite of despair.

(a) Natalya is speaking to Lomov.
(b) The dispute is between Lomov and Natalya over the ownership of Oxen Meadows.
(c) The word ‘restrain‘ means check or control.

Class 10 Extract Based Questions

8. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :

I am an orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern soft dust with my hushed bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.

(a) Who is ‘I‘ referred to here?
(b) Why does she want to be an orphan?
(c) Identity the figure of speech used here.

The moment the letter fell into the mail-box the postmaster went to open it. It said, God: Of the money that I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me. Send me the rest. Since I need it very much. But don‘t send it to me through the mail, because the post office employees are a bunch of crooks. Lencho.

(a) Why did Lencho write this letter?
(b) Why was Lencho angry with the post office employees?
(c) Find out a word from the passage which means, Dishonest people‘.

Answer & Explanation – 8

(a) ‘I‘ is referred to Amanda
(b) She wants to be an orphan in order to be able to roam freely.
(c) Alliteration: A pattern soft dust with my hushed feet, is used here.

(a) Lencho wrote his letter because he thought that out of the hundred pesos which God had sent him to help, thirty were stolen by the post office employees.
(b) Lencho was angry because he thought that they had stolen thirty pesos.
(c) The word which means ‘dishonest people‘ is crooks.

9. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

I had to go to dirty and shadowy corners of the city to seek out my victims. Some of the larger and more self-confident ones even beat me up.

(a) Who is ‘I‘?
(b) Why was ‘I‘ beaten up?
(c) What does the word, ‘victim‘ mean?

At about the age of twenty-five, the Prince, heretofore shielded from sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession and finally a monk begging for alms.

(a) Name the Prince.
(b) What are the sights of sufferings that the Prince saw? (Any 2)
(c) Give the meaning of the word, ‘shielded‘.

Answer & Explanation – 9

(a) ‘I‘ here relates the author Sinclair Lewis who is a young lawyer that graduated with honours and worked as a junior assistant clerk in a magnificent law firm.
(b) ‘I‘, the young lawyer, was entrusted with the job of serving summons to victims for appearing as witness in court. and so was
beaten up out of displeasure by some of the larger and more self-confident victims
(c) Victim, here, is a witness, unwilling to appear in the court after summons was served to him.

(a) Gautam Buddha was born as a prince named ‘Siddhartha Gautama’.
(b) Prince Siddhartha Gautama was out on hunting and he got a chance to notice different sights of sufferings. First a sick man, then an aged man, a funeral procession and lastly a monk begging for alms.
(c) ‘Shielded‘ in this context means safe guarded.

10. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

These meadows aren‘t worth much to me. They only come to five dessiatins, and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can‘t stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can‘t stand unfairness.

(a) Who speaks the above lines and to whom?
(b) How much are the meadows worth?
(c) Find a word in the extract that means ‘not based on what is just.‘

I even considered fleeing to my hometown, where I could have been a real lawyer right away, without going through this unpleasant
training period.

(a) Who is ‘I‘?
(b) How did ‘I‘ suffer during the training period?
(c) What does the word, ‘fleeing‘ mean?

Answer & Explanation – 10

(a) Natalya speaks the above lines to Lomov
(b) The meadows measure approximately five dessiantins and possibly worth 300 roubles.
(c) The word in the extract for ‘not based on what is just‘ is “unfairness‘.

(a) ‘I‘ is the young lawyer who was on a training period and had become a Junior Assistant Clerk in an excellent Law firm.
(b) During the training period, this young lawyer was sent to dirty and shadowy corners to seek victims to serve summons. He had the fear of being beaten up once again by some larger and self-confident victims who had even beaten him up earlier.
(c) The word fleeing means running away for escaping.