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Extract Based Questions(3 marks each)
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Q.1.A headmaster once told his father thatwhat Einstein chose as a profession would not matter, because
"he will never make a success at anything". Einstein began learning to play the violin at the age of six, because his mother wanted him to. He later became a gifted amateur violinist, maintaining this skill throughout his life.
(i)What was the headmaster's opinion about Einstein ?
(ii)Why did Einstein learn to play violin ?
(iii)Find a word from the passage that means "having great natural ability".(Board Term 1,2012, ELI-013)
Ans. (i) The headmaster's opinion about Einstein was that he would never be successful in his life.
(ii)Einstein learnt to play the violin to fulfil the desire of his mother.
(iii)Gifted.
Q.2.Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. This time he wrote a public missive to the United Nations. In it he proposed the formation of a world government. Unlike the letter to Roosevelt, this one made no impact.
(i)What did Einstein write and to whom ?
(ii)Why did he write a letter to Roosevelt earlier ?
(iii)Find the word from the extract that means - "a long and official letter".
(Board Term 1,2012, ELI-027)
Ans.(i)Einstein wrote a public missive to the United Nations proposing the formation of a world government.
(ii)He wrote a letter to Roosevelt earlier in which he warned him by saying, "a single bomb of
this type might very well destroy the whole part with some of the surrounding territory", i.e., a letter warning him for a bomb blast. ,
(iii)Missive.
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