English The Huck Meets The duke and The King

 Supplementary Reader    

 The Huck Meets The Duke and The King.


Date- 19.07.21

Topics covered- Reading of the chapter and explanation.


New Words

1.abriged

2.heaved

3.solemn

4.reckon

5.seized

6.exiled

7.humbugs


Homework- Character sketch of Mark Twain.


Q 1

Answer each of the following questions in 30-40 words.

 

a)

Jim and the narrator were shocked when the young man solemnly and in confidence told them the secret of his birth. He said he was born a duke.

b)

The young man felt that though he was the rightful Duke of Bridgewater, he was forlorn, torn from his estate, degraded, hunted by men, despised by the cold world, tired and heart-broken.

He felt that it was his fault for the kind of life he was leading.

c)

The young man said that he was the rightful Duke of Bridgewater. He asked Jim and the narrator to do something as frivolous as wait upon him and address him as ‘your Grace’/‘My Lord’ in order to make him feel better. The old man cried and declared that he was the Dauphin. He couldn’t correctly

pronounce his name or the names of his parents.

d)

The narrator had learnt from his father that the best way to get along with people is to let them have their own way. He had no objections to doing that as long as it would keep peace in the family.

 

Q 2

 

Answer each of the following questions in 80-100 words.

 

a.

Jim and the narrator pitied him and tried to comfort him, but he said if they could acknowledge him, that would do him better than anything else. They agreed they would, provided he told them how. He said they ought to bow when they spoke to him, and say 'Your Grace’ or 'My Lord,' or 'Your Lordship' and he wouldn't mind it if they called him 'Bridgewater’ which he said was his title anyway. And one of them ought to wait on him at dinner and do any

little thing for him that he wanted to be done.

b.

The old man didn't look comfortable over all that was going on around the ‘duke’. He seemed to have something on his mind. So, he told the ‘duke’ that although he was sorry for him, he was not the only person who had problems

like that. He was not the only person who had a secret of his birth. Saying this


 


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