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her voice broke during a song. Her son stepped on stage and sang a popular song. That’s when a star
was bom.
Through all these years of success, Charlie never forgot his troubled childhood. It made him recall a
Christmas when he was denied two oranges and his bag of sweets for breaking a rule at the
orphanage he went to after his mother’s death. It would have broken his heart, if the other children
had not offered him a share of theirs. Spontaneously, the adult Chaplin gifted the orphanage with a
motion picture machine and insisted that each child should have as many oranges and sweets as
they pleased.

(A) Answer the following questions:
(a) Which unforgettable character did Charlie Chaplin invent ?
(b) Describe the personality created by Charlie, whom everybody loved.
(c) What did Charlie see himself as ?
(d) Give two reasons to show that his early life was very sad.

(B) Do as directed:
(e) The word that means ‘to search for food’ is_________ (para 3)
(i) stepped (ii) forage (iii) emerged (iv) orphanage
(f) What is meant by the word ‘invented’ ? (para 1)
(i) created (ii) wrote (iii) struggled (iv) laughed
(g) Find the word in the passage opposite in meaning to ‘bold’ ? (para 2)
(i) found (ii) shy (iii) silent (iv) puzzled
(h) Find the word opposite in meaning to ‘failure’ ? (para 5)
(i) troubled (ii) share (iii) motion (iv) success

EXERCISE -5-LITERATURE

Answer these questions:

1. Who can see where the old road ran ?
2. Why is otter not afraid of men?

3. What are the various creatures that can be seen and heard in these woods?
4. Which words tell you
a. that it is not a clear night?
b. that a woman is walking through the woods?
c. what lives in the pools?

5. They shut the road through the woods. Who do you think are they ?