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English · 2025 · 6 marks
CBSE 2025 · Region 2 · Set 3 · Q11
In what ways does Think-Tank misinterpret innocent nursery rhymes as threats to the Martians ?
(The Book That Saved the Earth)
Official answer
From CBSE’s own marking scheme for this paper.
Rhyme- Mistress Mary from Mother Goose
concludes people on earth are:
advanced
grow crops of rare metal , high explosives
Hey Diddle Diddle
humans highly civilized
taught musical culture, space techniques to domesticated animals
dogs taught sense of humour
may be launching inter- planetary attack of millions of cows
Humpty Dumpty
resembled Think Tank
fears discovery by Earthlings/captivity and overruled
orders immediate evacuation of Mars/ space capsule to escape himself
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