Important Questions for Memories of Childhood

 Q. 1 Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. (1x4=4)

But this eating by formula was not the hardest trial on that first day. Late in the morning, my friend  Judewin gave me a terrible warning. Judewin knew a few words of English, and she had overheard the paleface woman talk about cutting our long, heavy hair. Our mothers had taught us that only unskilled warriors who were captured had their hair shingled by the enemy.

i. What does the term, 'eating by formula' refer to?
a) following a ritual before eating.
b) a manner of eating
c) the process of eating
d) a formula for eating healthy
ii. What would be the hardest trial that would take place later that day?
a) being thrown about in the air like a rag doll
b) being tied to a chair
c) eating by formula

d) having her hair cut.
iii. State the relationship between the Assertion and the Reason
Assertion: Native Indians did not cut their hair.
Reason:     It was a custom and tradition to have long hair.

a) The Assertion is correct but the Reason is not.
b) Both the Assertion and Reason are incorrect.
c) Both Assertion and Reason are correct, but the Reason does not support the Assertion.

d) The Assertion is correct but the Reason is not.
iv. What had Judewin overheard that terrified Zit Kala Sa?

Q2. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. (1x4=4)
I felt so provoked and angry that I wanted to touch those wretched vadais myself straightaway. Why should we have to fetch and carry for these people, I wondered. Such an important elder of ours goes meekly to the shops to fetch snacks and hands them over reverently, bowing and shrinking, to this fellow who just sits there and stuffs them into his mouth. The thought of it infuriated me.

 i. Who is 'I' in the above extract and what had provoked her?
a) Zit-Kala-Sa and she was angered by the cutting of her hair.

b) Bama and she was angered by a village elder bowing to a young man.
c) Zit-Kala-Sa and she was provoked by having to wear Western clothes.

d) Bama and she was angered by having to fetch things for adults.
ii. State the relationship between the Assertion and the Reason
Assertion: The person in the extract was infuriated.

Reason:    She had witnessed an episode of untouchability.
a) Both the Assertion and the Reason are incorrect.

b) Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason support the Assertion.

c) The Assertion is correct while the reason is not.
d) The Assertion is incorrect, but the Reason is correct.
iii. Fill in the blank with a correct solution.
The only solution to the problem, according to her brother Annan, was_____________
iv. State whether the statement given below is TRUE or FALSE

The extract describes an example of racial discrimination.

Q.3 Short answer questions to be answered in 30-40 words. ( 2 marks each)
a) Although Bama and Zit-Kala-Sa belonged to different eras and countries, what made them similar?
b) How did Zit-Kala-Sa feel on the first day at the Carlisle School for Indians?
c) How did Bama feel on the day she saw the village elder with the vadais and later when her brother 
told her about the significance of the incident?
d) How did Zit-Kala-Sa and Bama fight against the Chauvinism of the mainstream community?

 Q. 4 Long answer type questions to be answered in 120-150 words. (5 Marks each)

a) You are Zit-Kala-Sa. Write a diary entry describing your first day in the Carlisle Indian School.

b) You are Bama, write a letter to your friend, Kamala Dass, describing what made you decide to 

excel in studies.
c) Write an article on the topic, The seeds of rebellion are sown early in life. Injustice of any kind cannot escape being noticed, even by children.