2021: Ahimsa Chapters 16 to 20

• ENGLISH
• Secondary Education
• Age 12,13

A beautiful journey to the chained India

Expected Learning Outcomes

I will be able to:

1. relate with the main events of the plot and share my views on the same.

2. answer the questions pertaining to the text. 

Exploring Chapters 16 to 20

Why did Anjali and her mother go to the
basti regularly?
(Ch.-16)

Anjali said, 'One day all these thoughts will be outdated, and India will finally be free.' Which of the following words is synonymous to
'outdated'?(Ch.-16)

1. contemporary
2. modern
3. obsolete
4. current

Anjali said, 'One day all these thoughts will be outdated, and India will finally be free.' Do you consider India 'free'
now as Anjali intended? Justify.
(Ch.-16)

Anjali's mother did not consider knowledge important, and felt it must not be accessible to everyone'.
(True / False)
(Ch.-17)

'Sunbeams fell this way and that on the collection of herbs, casting all the sorts of shadows.'
Identify the literary device used in the
given lines. (Ch.-17)

1. Imagery
2. Irony
3. Antithesis
4. Hyperbole

_____________ paid for Paro's and the other children's textbooks.
(Ch.-18)

1. Anjali's father
2. Chachaji
3. Keshavji
4. Mohan

The Khadi shop tailors sewed the children some uniforms for school, all free of charge.
(True/ False)
(Ch.-18)

1. True
2. False

The normally cacophonous din of people walking on the street was also strangely muted.
The word 'cacophonous din' means
__________. (Ch.-18)

1. loud roar
2. silent group
3. arranged group
4. none of these

'But now the bars felt strangely like a prison'. Identify the literary device used
in the given line.
(Ch.-18)

1. Hyperbole
2. Alliteration
3. Simile
4. Metaphor

'Anjali jumped down the patio steps, and passed Nandini's shed.'
What is 'patio'? (Ch.-19)

1. terrace
2. veranda
3. Both 'terrace' and 'veranda'
4. elevator

After Captain Brent had fired a warning shot from his revolver into the sky, Anjali ran to him and tearfully threw
her arms around him.
True / False (Ch.-19)

Jamuna trailed off as messy tears sputtered down her face and into the crevices around her nose.
The word 'crevices' means ___________.
(Ch.-20)

1. closure
2. cracks
3. juncture
4. none of these

"Good," retorted Anjali.
The word 'retorted' means ___________.
(Ch.-20)

1. requested
2. retaliated
3. inquired
4. questioned

The cow looked content, totally unaware that outside the gates of the compound, the world was
burning. Identify the literary device used in
the above lines. (Ch.-20)

'... the world was burning'. What, according to you, could have stopped 'the world from
burning'? (Ch.-20)

I CAN:
1. relate with the main events of the plot and share my views on the same.
2. answer the questions pertaining to the text.

1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. I need some help.