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B. Match the following types of music in Column A with its definition in Column B.

Column A Column B
1. Folk music a) serious and traditional music

2. Jazz b) music that reflects the feelings and lives of
ordinary people especially of the country side

3. Fusion music c) modern popular music usually with a strong beat.
4. Classical music d) music of American Negro origin

5. Pop music e) mixture of Eastern and western music

C. One word answer questions.
1. In which school was Ravi Shankar sent to learn French?
2. With whom Ravi Shankar preffered to spend his time in the French School?

3. Was the way the European children were brought up to behave, so like our Indian
customs?

4. In which year, Ravi’s mother went to India?
5. What did the Ravi want to become?

6. Whose story deeply impressed the Ravi in his childhood?
7. Was the Ravi very much intrested in learning anything about Bengali?

D. Answer the following questions.
1. Why was Ravi placed in classes with children several years younger?

2. How did Ravi Shankar pass his time when his mother went back to India?

3. What did Ravi Shankar use to do when he was in Benares?
4. Write the lines that show Ravi Shankar had great love for life on the stage.

5. Mention three activities in which Ravi Shankar kept himself busy till he was seven
years old.

6. Which classics were read by Ravi Shankar first of all? What was his age at that time?
What did he learn from them?
7. Whose childhood stories did impress Pandit Ravi Shankar? What did he say about
Buddha?

8. Why did Ravi Shankar much prefer to read in Bengali than English or French? Write
the name of two writers whose French novels he read.

9. Which lines show that Ravi Shankar was very keen to read everything written in
Bengali.
10. Name the Bengali writers (other than Tagore) that Ravi Shankar read. Which writer
brought him closer to the Bengali way of life?

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