Subject: Social Science, asked on 15/9/11

Subject: Social Science, asked on 14/9/15

1. Identify famous characters from novels (mentioned in your textbook), after reading thefollowing clues. Write the name of the character, the name of the novel and the name of theauthor etc.a. He is a blind 'untouchable' beggar who struggled against the forcible take over to hisland and for setting up a tobacco factory.b. She is an intelligent and educated upper caste woman who challenged the existingpractices and married an educated man outside her caste.c. He was shipwrecked on an Island, rescued a native, and named him 'Friday', withouteven bothering to ask his name.d. He was a successful and independent minded grain merchant who had his own styleof conducting business.e. She was an independent and assertive young girl who challenged the hypocrisy ofelders.

2. Match the names of the books given in column 'A' with the names of author in column 'B'A Ba. Kadambari i. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyayb. Pariksha-Guru ii. Rokeya Hosseinc. Sewasadan iii. Banabhattad. Durgeshnandini iv. Srinivas Dase. Padmarag v. Premchand3. Strike the odd one out and explain your rationale:(a)(i) Jane Austen(ii) George Eliot(iii) Charlotte Bronte(iv) homas Hardy(b)(i) Germinal(ii) Oliver Twist(iii)(iv)aaHard TimesTreasure Island4. Short answer questions :(a) Examine the reasons for increasing popularity of novels in 18th century.(b) Do you like serialized novels better than regular novels? If so give the reasons for it. Ifnot, why?(c) To what extent do the novels reflect the condition of contemporary society? You cangive example from the description given in your text.(d) Source based question5) "Dear children, don't read these novels, don't' even touch them. Your life will be ruined. You willsuffer disease and ailments. NO. No. You must become mothers; you must lead happy lives; thisis the divine purpose."This extract is from a Tamil essay published in 1927.Read the passage and answer the following questions :Which group of children is being addressed in the passage?Examine the nature of happy lives mentioned by the author.

In your opinion, what were the real reasons for dissuading these children fromreading?

6)Given below is a suggested list of books mentioned in the chapter.a. Oliver Twistb. Robinson Crusoec. Treasure Islands

7)Study the fig. 10, pg. 183 carefully and answer the following questions :1. What are the traditional roles of women and men in our society?2. Why did people feel threatened with the emergence of women writers?3. Do you think the artist's view is showing a bias?4. Could he have portrayed a different picture?5. Do such pictures influence people?Decentering is an aspect of Piagetian theory which takes into consideration, learning aboutothers and their experiences. Seeing others' points of view is significant aspect of learning insocial science. Lack of the same may make us narrow-minded and we tend to believe ourculture, our language and our religion as the best. This also helps in promoting critical thinking.

8) Although they were about imaginary stories, novels often spoke to their readers aboutthe real world. But novels did not always show things exactly as they were in reality.Sometimes, they presented a vision of how things ought to be. Social novelists oftencreated heroes and heroines with ideal qualities, who their readers could admire andimitate. How were these ideal qualities defined? In many novels written during thecolonial period, the ideal person successfully deals with one of the central dilemmasfaced by colonial subjects : how to be modern without rejecting tradition, how to acceptideas coming from the West without losing one's identity.Chandu Menon portrayed Indulekha as a woman of breathtaking beauty, highintellectual abilities, artistic talent, and with an education in English and Sanskrit.Madhavan, the hero of the novel, was also presented in ideal colours. He was amember of the newly English-educated class of Nayars from the University of Madras.He was also a first-rate Sanskrit scholar'. He dressed in Western clothes. But, at thesame time, he kept a long ruft of hair, according to the Nayar custom.The heroes and heroines in most of the novels were people who lived in the modernworld. Thus they were different from the ideal or mythological characters of the earlierpoetic literature of India. Under colonial rule, many of the English -educated classfound new Western ways of living and thinking attractive. But they also feared theat awholesale adoption of Western values would destroy their traditional ways of living.characters like Indulekha and Madhavan showed readers how Indian and foreignlifestyles could be brought together in an ideal combination.Do you think there is an effort to equate a 'modern person' with a well-educated person and alsoone who is fond of western ways of living and things?Who is 'modern' according to you in India now? Is he/she different from what you read in the text?(Word limit: 150)Students should be encouraged to write their own views from the world around them in simplelanguage with evidence. Word limit helps.

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