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Treasure Trove Poem - 8 The Patriot Extract 4   1. 'I' refers to the speaker. He is going to the Shambles' Gate or by the scaffold's gate. In the context, rain symbolises speaker's inner crisis and sadness. It also creates a tense atmosphere in the poem.   2. The speaker's hands were tied from behind with a rope. This rope cuts his wrist. It signifies how the speaker is treated now. A year earlier, he was a hero, but now he is tied like a criminal, without any kindness.   3. The phrase adds to the ambiguity in the poem as the speaker is depicted as innocent by the poet. The reader tends to sympathise with him, but his own reference to his 'year's misdeeds'  creates ambiguity in the poem.   4. The poem shows the fickleness of the people. A year ago, he was regarded as a hero. Now the same public throes stones at him. The crowd that wanted to fulfill the speaker's wishes, now wants him executed. The poem portrays how the love, respect and honou...

Treasure Trove   Poem - 8 The Patriot (Workbook Answers 1 to 3) Extract 1   1. The speaker of the poem is a patriot who narrates the story of his golden past. His path was filled with roses as the people of his town gave him a grand welcome when he returned after war.    2. The line 'a year ago on this day' is significant because it helps the reader to understand the speaker's past, and contrasts it with his present state. A year ago, people welcomed him and treated him as a hero. A year later, people treat him as a disgrace.   3. The figure of speech used is Alliteration. The sound 'm' is repeated in this line.   'Myrtle' is a flower. 'Myrtle' symbolises the love shown to the speaker by the townspeople. To welcome the speaker, the people had thrown Myrtle flowers on the road.   4. 'They' refers to the people of the town. This line tells us that on the day when the speaker was welcomed by the people, they were so happy that they would have gi...

Merchant of Venice Act 3 - Scene 2 (Workbook Answers: 10 & 11) Extract 10 1. Tubal and Chus are two Jewish men who are friends of Shylock. When Jessica was at home, she had heard Shylock saying to them that he will take out a pound of flesh from Antonio’s body. He will not let Antonio go even if they pay him twenty times over. 2. The Duke, law and influential citizens would use all their powers of persuasion to prevent Shylock from taking flesh from Antonio’s body. 3. If the forfeiture was denied to Shylock as per the terms of the bond, it would affect the business in Venice negatively. The people of other countries may not do business with the people of Venice because they would be afraid of getting cheated and not getting justice. 4. In terms of payment to Shylock in cash, Portia offers to pay him double the amount. Then she says to give him double of six thousand and afterwards she says to give him triple of six thousand. Later she says to pay him enough gold to pay the debt...

Merchant of Venice Act 3 - Scene 2 (Workbook answers: 7 to 9) Extract 7 1. After Bassanio chooses the correct casket, Portia transfers her mansion, her servants, herself and all her possessions to him. 2. Portia, for Bassanio's sake, wishes that she were 60 times better, 1000 times more beautiful and 10,000 times wealthier. These wishes express her desire to excel in everything for the sake of Bassanio. 3. As a token of her love to Bassanio, Portia gives him a ring. She warns him that if he parts with the ring, or loses it, or gives it away, that will be a sign that his love for her is dead. The ring becomes a part of the main plot of the play when Bassanio gives it away to Portia, who was disguised as a judge, towards the end of the play. 4. The given lines mean 'let that be a sign that your love for me is dead and it will give an opportunity for me to excuse you for that'. 5. After Portia's speech, Bassanio is overpowered with emotion and he tells Portia that her...

Computer Chapter 6 Cloud Computing Exercise A   1. Cloud computing 2. Services 3. Resource pooling  4. Google Docs   5. Google Drive    Exercise B   1. True 2. True 3. True 4. False 5. True 6. False  Exercise C   1. Hybrid 2. pay as you go 3. Platform as a service 4. Google Drive 5. trash 6. logout Exercise D   1. IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a service. It provides infrastructure like servers, storage etc. over cloud computing. 2. SaaS stands for Software as a service. It is a method of delivering software services over the internet.   3. PaaS stands for Platform as a Service. It provides a platform to developers to test their apps, websitte etc. over the internet.   Exercise E   1.  Public Cloud: It is not proprietary of any organisation. The services of public cloud can be accessed by any organisation or individual.   Private Cloud: It is a properietary service. The services can be used only by the members of t...

Merchant of Venice Act 3 - Scene 2 (Workbook Answers: 4 to 6) Extract 4 Answer 1: In the given extract the theme of appearance and reality is highlighted. Bassanio, commenting on the caskets, says that a pretty exterior may often hide a rotten interior. Most people fall for the outward appearance instead of the inward appearance. He is highlighting this theme by providing the examples of lawyers, religious beliefs and cases of cowards who assume outward signs of valour.   Answer 2: Bassanio says that every wrong has some appearance of virtue. He explains it through the example of a lawyer. A lawyer can hide his weakness by his appearance and smooth talk. This gives him the appearance of a wise man in front of people. Similarly, religious preachers can justify any wrongdoing by claiming it is not a sin in god's eyes.   Answer 3: 'Stairs of sand' refer to a stairway made of shifting sand. Such a stairway is unreliable and easily falls off. These stairs are compared to cowa...

Merchant of Venice Act 3 - Scene 2 (Workbook Answers: 1 to 3)   Extract 1 Answer 1: This scene takes place in a room in Portia's house at Belmont. The first line refers to the fact that if Portia expressed her thought, people will think bad things about her, so she can't speak of her desire. Portia says enough to convey to Bassanio that she loved him. She is doubtful whether Bassanio has understood what she has said and wanted to explain further. But then she is taken over by her maidenly modesty. Answer 2: At the end of her speech, Portia says that she spoke at length to stretch the time and delay Bassanio's act of choosing the caskets. This shows that she has feelings of love for Bassanio and does not want to lose him soon.   Answer 3: Portia cannot teach Bassanio to choose the correct casket as she has promised her father not to reveal the secret of the caskets to anyone. She would never break her promise. If Bassanio were to make an incorrect choice, Portia would ha...

Computer   Chapter 2 Access - Creating a Database Exercise A 1. access 2. record 3. value   4. Query 5. memo   Exercise B  1. False 2. True 3. True 4. True 5. False 6. False   Exercise C 1. Rows and columns 2. Value 3. .accdb [note: the dot (.) should also be put before accdb] 4. OLE object 5. Primary key 6. 255 Exercise D Ans 1: Unique name given to each field in the table is known as the field name. Ans 2: Data type controls what type of data can be stored. Ex: We cannot enter letters if the data type of that field is ‘Number’. Ans 3: It allows you to enter a detailed description of all the fields within the table. Ans 4: A validation rule is used to limit a field entry to meet certain criteria.   Exercise E 1.  Record: It is a row in a table that contains information. Field: It is a column in a table that contains information within a record. 2. Datasheet View: It is used to create a table quickly. It gives general names to field such as Fi...

Merchant of Venice Act 1 - Scene 3 (Workbook Answers)    Extract 1:   Answer 1: Antonio is bound to a bond according to which if he fails to repay the amount in due time, Shylock will be entitled to take an exact pound of flesh from any part of Antonio’s body that he may wish. It was very unwise of Antonio to misjudge Shylock’s intentions and sign such a fatal bond.  Answer 2: Can you help me and will you do me this favour?  Answer 3: When Shylock says the above words, he means that Antonio is a reliable man, whose surety is sufficient to give a loan.  Answer 4: Shylock enumerates the possible dangers to Antonio’s merchandise - ships could be broken as they are made of wood; the sailors being merely human beings, can be drowned; there are pirates in the sea; and there are all the dangers of the ocean such as storms and dangerous rocks.  Answer 5: Antonio can be considered as a prudent businessman as his wealth is distributed over the whole world....

Merchant of Venice Act 1  Scene 2 (Workbook Answers) Extract 1 Ans 1: Portia has just said that she doesn’t have the freedom to choose her own husband. The person she has to marry will be decided by the lottery of caskets created by her father. She can neither say yes to a person whom she likes, nor refuse a person whom she dislikes.   Ans 2:  Portia’s father had made 3 caskets - one made of gold, one made of silver and the last one made of lead. The suitors had to choose a casket from the three. If they chose the right casket, they would win Portia’s hand in marriage.   Ans 3:  Portia was anxious about the lottery of caskets, because she did not have any choice in the matter of her own marriage. Portia wanted to be a good daughter, so she decided to follow her father’s will. Nerissa was positive about the lottery. She believed that Portia’s father was a great wise man and only a worthy man would choose the correct casket.    Ans 4:  The given li...