treasure trove solution - Short Stories

"The Blue Bead"   Treasure Trove Workbook Solutions/Notes The Blue Bead Solutions/Notes, story written by   Norah Burke BY ABHINAV ABHIJEET______________________________________________ UNSOLVED PASSAGES PASSAGE-1 (i)  She had husked corn, and gathered sticks, and put dung to dry, and cooked, and weeded, and carried, and fetched water, and cut grass for fodder, during her childhood. (ii)  She went with her mother, and some other women, to get paper grass from the cliffs above the river, which could then be sold to an agent, which would give them some revenue. (iii)  The women toiled for the whole day to earn themselves living by selling the paper grass to the agent. This agent would then arrange for the dispatch of the paper grass to paper mills. (iv)  Sibia carried a sickle and her homemade hay fork, with her, when she went with her mother to collect paper grass from the cliffs, and then sold it to the agent. (v)  Sibia could not skip wor

My Greatest Olympic Prize"   Treasure Trove Workbook Solutions/Notes The Little Match-Girl Solutions/Notes, story written by   Jesse Owens _____________________________________________________________________________ UNSOLVED PASSAGES PASSAGE-1 (i) Owens was confident because he had recently made a world record of 26 feet, 8-1/4 inches, in broad jump, but he was surprised to see a German, who was jumping almost 26 feet, even in his practice leaps. (ii) The person that startled Jesse Owens at the trails was a tall German, named Luz Long. He had been told that Hitler had kept him secret from the others, and was hoping to win the broad- jumping event, with him. (iii) If Luz Long had won the medal, it would have supported the Aryan superiority theory that the Nazis had, according to which, they were a part of a master race, and were to be considered as superior than the others. (iv) Jesse Owens was angry at Hitler because, he believed that his people