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Direction: Read the following passage/poem and answer the questions that follow.
“Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say. Shakespeare himself went, very probably— his mother was an heiress— to the grammar school, where he may have learnt Latin— Ovid, Virgil and Horace— and the elements of grammar and logic. He was, it is well known, a wild boy who poached rabbits, perhaps shot a deer, and had, rather sooner than he should have done, to marry a woman in the neighbourhood, who bore him a child rather quicker than was right. That escapade sent him to seek his fortune in London. He had, it seemed, a taste for the theatre; he began by holding horses at the stage door. Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody, knowing everybody, practising his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets, and even getting access to the palace of the queen. Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter— indeed, more likely than not she was the apple of her father's eye. Perhaps she scribbled some pages up in an apple loft on the sly, but was careful to hide them or set fire to them. Soon, however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighbouring wool-stapler. She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father. Then he ceased to scold her. He begged her instead not to hurt him, not to shame him in this matter of her marriage. He would give her a chain of beads or a fine petticoat, he said; and there were tears in his eyes. How could she disobey him? How could she break his heart? The force of her own gift alone drove her to it. She made up a small parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer’s night and took the road to London. She was not seventeen. The birds that sang in the hedge were not more musical than she was. She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother’s, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager— a fat, loose-lipped man— guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting— no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. He hinted— you can imagine what. She could get no training in her craft. Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight? Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways. At last— for she was very young, oddly like Shakespeare the poet in her face, with the same grey eyes and rounded brows, who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body? — killed herself one winter’s night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the Elephant and Castle.
- Shakespeare’s Sister, from A Room of One’s Own
   By Virginia Woolf
1. The given passage is written in

2. What was the name of Shakespeare’s imaginary sister?

3. Apart from the initial few sentences, the rest of the passage is narrated in

4. Shakespeare’s sister _______ be a part in the world of art.

5.The give passage takes a dig at

6. According to the passage, at the times of Shakespeare

7. If we put this passage in a modern context, the main concern that is subtly raised in the passage would be

8. “The hub of the universe” in the given passage is a direct reference to

9. Trace out the word from the passage that means “in eager desire”.

10. Trace out the word from the passage that means “intertwined”.

Ans 1 - The given passage is written in third person. Ans 2 - Judith was the name of Shakespeare's imaginary sister Ans 3 - Third person Ans 4 - None of the option is correct Ans 5 - The above passage takes a dig at patriarchy. Ans 6 - Women were ruthlessly held subservient to men. Ans 7 - All of the above Ans 8 - London Ans 9 - agog Ans 10- Tangled

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