CBSE 2015 Class 12 English Delhi Set 1 Paper

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SECTION - C
(LITERATURE: TEXT BOOKS AND LONG READING TEXTS)

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away, ......
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Question : 10
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Why was there pain in her realisation?
Solution:  
There was pain in the poet's realisation because her mother now looked as old as she was, her bodily infirmities that come with old age were visible on her face and she was fast approaching her death.
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