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THE SILK ROAD CLASS-XI (SNAPSHOTS) IMPORTANT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ----------------------------------------------------- Q. The narrator, while travelling to Mount Kailash, observed many changes in the landscape. Discuss. Answer: The narrator and his companions took a short-cut to leave the Changtang region. Tsetan knew a route that would lead them southwest, almost straight towards Mount Kailash. This path required them to cross several fairly high mountain passes. Starting from the gently rising and falling hills of Ravu, the short-cut led them across wide open plains, empty except for a few gazelles grazing in the dry grasslands. As they moved ahead, the plains became more rocky than grassy, and soon they saw a large herd of wild asses.                Further on, the hills grew steeper, and they saw a few drokbas living alone and taking care of their flocks. This route eventually brought them to snow-covered mountains and then...
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1.  Pringle, who is the hostess of the dinner party, is shown entering the stage wearing a “lovely evening gown”. She carries with her a bouquet of flowers sent by Harper who has declined the invitation due to one of his friend’s illness. Though she admires Harper for sending the flowers but she disapproves of young men refusing dinner invitations at the eleventh hour. She looks excited as she is expecting a number of guests at her dinner party.

5.  Pringle had selected Oliver as her daughter, Elaine’s suitor. The sitting arrangement was made in such a manner that Elaine was to sit next to Oliver.  Pringle wanted her daughter to win the heart of Oliver by any means as he was a millionaire and belonged to an aristocratic lineage. When the secretary of Oliver informed Pringle over telephone that   would not be able to attend the dinner since he was to leave for Boston immediately on business purpose, Pringle got utterly disappointed and started throwing tantrums on Oliver for having spoiled all her dinner plans and most importantly her plan to get her daughter married to him. She considered it as the only chance for her daughter to meet the young man and leave an impression on him.

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