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English Core · 2024 · 2 marks
CBSE 2024 · Region 5 · Set 2 · Q11
“I had been tossed about in the air like a wooden puppet” and now my long hair was shingled like a coward's…” What inference about the life of…
“I had been tossed about in the air like a wooden puppet” and now my long hair was shingled like a coward's…” What inference about the life of Zitkala-Sa can be drawn from the above statement ? (Memories of Childhood)
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her life full of struggles
she faced humiliation and suppression
shingling of her hair against her choice/identity
taken away from parents / faced discrimination at young age
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CBSE Class 12 English Core past-paper question from the 2024board exam, with the answer as CBSE’s own marking scheme gives it. Where our answers come from.