Telangana Board Class 10 English A Tale of Three Villages Question and Answers
Board | Telangana |
Class | 10th |
Subject | English |
Unit | 6 (6C) |
Topic | Solution |
C
Reading
A Tale of Three Villages
Comprehension
I.) Answer the following questions.
1.) Why were the large empty drums placed outside Mr. Nana’s house?
Answer: Outside Nana’s house there were three large empty metal drums. It came from Italy. It had poisonous substance that got mixed in the stream from where the villagers got drinking water.
2.) What harm can the pyramid of identical drums cause to the villagers?
Answer: The identical drums contained various colours – grey, dark green, bright orange, etc. which leaked out, down, on to the baked African earth and into the stream. It was the stream from where the villagers got their water to drink. The mixing of the chemicals could be harmful for the villagers.
3.) Why was the Chief smiling as the lorries drove away?
Answer: The Chief gave a brown paper bag which could be an envelope. It might have money which the Chief smiled as the lorries drove away.
4.) Was Thomas Agonyo correct in his findings? Justify your opinion.
Answer: Thomas Agonyo was one of the brightest boys in the village who observed the thing from the drums and studied it. Yes, his findings were right. He held a meeting of the village and told them that the drums contained poisonous chemicals. And that was the reason people died and many became sick.
5.) Why didn’t the people move from their place?
Answer: The people didn’t move because they had not other money to buy land. They didn’t have any choice.
6.) There is a repetition of sentences with ‘some’ in the passage. Read the passage again and write down the sentences and the function of ‘some’ in each one of them. Do you find any other repetitions in the passage? If yes, mention it.
Answer: Some of them are badly corroded, their slimy contents of various colours – grey, dark green, bright orange, etc. – leaking out, down, on to the baked African earth and into the stream.
Some have fallen down and rolled – or been rolled by playful children – into the bush. Some are smoking in the midday heat. Some are swelling, as if their contents are bursting to get out. Some have already burst. It refers to the drums here.
We have never seen deaths like that before.
We have asked the Government to take the drums away, but they do nothing.
The Chief says we should move our houses to another place. But we have no money to buy land.
We have no choice. We have to stay here.
Here We refers to the villagers and their helplessness.
II) Choose the correct answer
1). Nana’s house is with mud walls and a rusting corrugated iron roof.
a) picturesque, colourful and noisy.
b) with mud walls and a rusting corrugated iron roof.
2.) Skull and crossbones symbol is visible on the empty metal drums.
a) bright red paint flaking away
b) skull and crossbones symbol
3.) The important conclusion Thomas Agonyo gave is that the drums contained poisonous chemicals.
a) the drums had come from Italy.
b) the drums contained poisonous chemicals.
III.) Write the adjectives or adjective phrases that describe the happy and gloomy situations in the village.
Happy | Gloomy |
pictures, colourful, noisy, playful children, brightest boys | with mud walls, rusting corrugated iron roof, terrible pain, frowning, troubled look, |
Grammar
Pick out the nouns along with quantifiers and numerals and write them down and analyze the meaning they convey.
Answer:
- Any other African village- just like other African village
- Some of them- a few drums from the other drums
- Some have fallen down and rolled- few of them are fallen
- Some are smoking in the midday heat- Some of the drums are burnt due to intense heat
- Some are swelling, as if their contents are bursting to get out – a few are swelling because of the overload in the drums
- Some have already burst.- a few are already burst out
Fill in the blanks appropriately with the following quantifiers: no, any, all, some, each, several and every.
1.) No ordinary person is bothered about climatic changes. If we talk of any changes, people look at us as if we don’t have any work. In fact , it is such a grave problem that every person has to think about. All scientists feel alarmed because the ozone layer is depleting. In addition, some people believe that the global warming is creating climatic problems. But no single individual shows any concern for it.
2.) Some meteorologists predict that the world will get warm between 2 to 4 degrees Celsius by the year 2030. The scientists believe that every year some polar ice will melt and cause rainfall, increase in the sea level and also temperature will be affected. Some people disagree with the theory that the human activity is having an effect on the world’s climate. All scientists need to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere and all human beings need to care for the air, water and plant life that influence world’s weather.
3.) People who disagree with the theory that there is a direct relationship between the human activity and climate believe that the world climate has gone through several changes since the earth and its atmosphere first formed. So for every argument there is a counter argument. Every individual differs with the other in some way or the other.
2.) Ponnimanthuri Village, India
I.) Answer the following questions.
1) The people in this village were affected by chemical factories. Where, in your opinion, should the factories be built? Why?
Answer: The chemical factories should be built far away from the residential areas. It should cause any harm to the people and its surroundings. Large industries and factories tend to generate high amount of pollution that lead to have negative impact on the lives of the humans.
2.) If it is necessary to build factories near the villages, what precautions should be taken to keep the villagers safe?
Answer: If it becomes necessary to build factories near the villages then every step of precaution should be followed. It should be made sure not to create any sort of pollution. The responsible person of the factory should have a separate dumping area for the industrial waste. Also the opinion of the villagers should be taken into consideration while setting up any sort of factory. If there is a chemical factory, one should take extra precaution that it would harm any villagers or even animals.
3.) The narrator said at the end, “There is so much they didn’t tell you, I thought”-what was that so much that was not told, according to you?
Answer: Vijayasama told that they were not told about the chemicals that would be dumped in open fields and into their rivers. They were also not told that the women would have to walk ten kilometers every day and people would get ulcer and sores on their bodies. These side effects were kept hidden from the villagers and innocent villagers fell prey.
But the narrator felt that there are still many things that were kept hidden from them. The land would become barren and nothing will grow there. The people would suffer from such conditions and eventually there would be no life in the village.
Grammar
Write the following sentences in reported speech –
1.) “I can remember the time.” she said wistfully, “when all the fields around this village were green and the harvests good.”
Answer: She said wistfully that she could remember the time when all the fields around that village were green and the harvests good.
2.) “They said that factories need leather to make shoes, handbags and clothes. They said our men folk would get jobs. They said we would all become rich.”
Answer: It was reported that they had said that the factories needed leather to make shoes, handbags and clothes. They had said that their men folk would get jobs and they would all become rich
3.) Vorobyov Village, Ukraine (formerly USSR)
Answer the following questions.
1.) What measures should the government have taken when the nuclear reactor was installed beside the village?
Answer: It is risky to install nuclear reactor beside the village or near any area where there are residents. The government should not have installed near the village as there were people residing nearby. There should have been warned and given proper instructions.
2.) What havoc can radioactive dust cause?
Answer: Radioactive dust can cause vomiting, hair fall. It makes one pale and thin. It can cause sores.
3.) Pick out the words/expressions/images that describe the tragedy caused by the radioactive dust.
Answer: 1.) All three died-all three on the same day
2.) They’re buried over there.
3.) No one lived there anymore.
4.) The fields were barren. Nothing grew.
5.) Nothing ever would again.
6.) There was no bird-song.
7.) No rabbit peered at me.
8.) No cow endlessly chewed.
9.) No horse neighed
4.) What is the common theme that runs through the assorted narratives presented under the title ‘A Tale of Three Villages’? Substantiate your answer with evidences from the three Texts?
Answer: A common theme of the three narratives under the title’A Tale of Three Villages’ is of pathetic condition of the people of the rural areas who faced ill-effects of the industrialization. In the first narration we can see that people of an African village faced health problems due to chemical that came from the drums. It also took the lives of some children too.
In the second narrative, Vijayasama told that how the factory people didn’t tell the villagers about the ill-effect of the leather factory. They were under false impression of getting jobs and becoming rich but what happened was beyond one can imagine. The land became barren due to the factory’s waste.
In the third narrative the side-effects are from the radioactive reaction that caused havoc. Many people lost their lives and finally there was no life left in the village.
In the three stories, we can see that how under the pretext of industrialization and modernization, there is harmful effects of it on the environment. These narratives tell us how horrible the condition people had to face.