MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: THE CUTTING OF MY LONG HAIR

^{I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while until I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit.}

'Then I lost my spirit’.

Choose the option that DOES NOT refer to ‘spirit’.

• resolve

• will power

• enthusiasm

• indifference

^{'Everyone picked up his knife and fork and began eating'.}

After which bell they began eating?

• After the first bell

• After the second bell

• After the third bell

• After a small bell was tapped.

Name the writer of this chapter.

• Zaitkala-Sa

• Zitakala- Sa

• Zitkala-Sa

• Zitkalasa

This chapter's writer was :

• An Indian American Woman

• An American Indian Woman

• A Tamilian American Woman

• A Tamil Dalit Writer

Name the school where this story took place.

• Carlisle Indian School

• Carilisle Indian School

• Carlisel American School

• Carlisile American School

How would you describe the author’s tone when she says,

^{“I was only one of many}

^{little animals driven by a herder”?}

• austere

• apathetic

• dismal

• resentful

“Among our people, short hair was worn by mourners, and shingled hair by cowards!”

^{This statement is an example of}

• a belief

• an opinion

• a myth

• a fallacy

What according to our writer, was the hardest trial in the first day?

• Eating by formula

• The paleface woman's talk

• Cutting of long, heavy thrix

• Bitter-cold in the land of apples

^{Choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below.}

Statement 1: The author had been subjected to humiliation when she was separated from her mother.

Statement 2: Nobody was able to ease her distress and empathise with her.

• Statement 1 is false but Statement 2 is true.

• Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.

• Both Statement 1 and Statement cannot be inferred from the lesson.

• Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 can be inferred from the lesson.

The writer was mainly against:

• Publishing articles on discrimination.

• The evils of oppression

• The school in which her hair was cut.

• The paleface woman