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🎶 Chapter 6: Twin Melodies • Check Your Understanding

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Check Your Understanding 5Critical Reflection 2Answer the Following Questions 6All Exercises 13
Q1

I Complete the table given below based on Act I of the play. Check your answers with the teacher.

Category Details
Setting Where: Iqbal's room
Description of the room: a small rack, a wooden table stacked with books
On the wall: Posters of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and Shashank Subramanyam
Children and their instruments 1. Iqbal: flute
2. Avinash: tabla
3. Peter: keyboard
4. Shruti: violin
Words of the Speaker & Reason Speaker: Avinash
Words: "Oh ho! Wow Shruti! You are a sensation now! The least you can do is throw a party!"
Reason: Shruti's performance with her father was praised in the newspaper 'Parbatpuri Daily Clarion'.

Speaker: Shruti
Words: "There is need to worry Iqbal! You don't know papa."
Reason: Her father is very strict and considers playing violin to Western fusion tunes a desecration of the art.

Speaker: Peter
Words: "That's the spirit!"
Reason: Shruti finally gathers the courage to talk to her parents at dinner.
  • Setting: Iqbal's room; contains a small rack, a wooden table stacked with books, and wall posters of Indian flute maestros Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and Shashank Subramanyam.
  • Instruments: Iqbal plays the flute, Avinash plays the tabla, Peter plays the keyboard, and Shruti plays the violin.
  • Speakers & Reasons:
    • Avinash: Excited because Shruti was called a sensation in the Parbatpuri Daily Clarion.
    • Shruti: Worried because her father is an orthodox classical purist who disapproves of Western fusion.
    • Peter: Cheering Shruti for deciding to "bite the bullet" and talk to her parents at dinner.
Q2

II Do you think Shruti will gather the courage to speak to her father? Give a reason.
III What might be Shruti's father's reaction? Why?

  1. II Answer: Yes, Shruti gathers the courage because her friends encourage her to face the truth, and she realizes that keeping it a secret will let her group down.
  2. III Answer: Her father will react with anger and stern disapproval because he believes Classical Hindustani music is the only worthy art and views fusion music as noisy and improper.
Q3

I Complete the summary of Act II by choosing the correct words from the box given below. There are two extra words that you do not need.

disapproval | setback | plea | absent-minded | surprised | scolded | courage | firm | clash | relief

Shruti seemed 1. ________________ during dinner. She finally gathered the 2. ________________ to inform her father, Nabin, about her wish to participate in an upcoming Indo-Western fusion concert. Nabin reacted negatively, expressing 3. ________________ of fusion music and dismissed the idea. Despite Shruti's 4. ________________ to him to attend a practice before deciding, Nabin was 5. ________________ in his decision. Shruti's mother, Leela, 6. ________________ her for not seeking permission earlier. The tension highlights the 7. ________________ between traditional and contemporary musical preferences within the family. Despite the 8. ________________, Shruti promises not to hide again and is urged to go to bed by her mother.

  1. absent-minded
  2. courage
  3. disapproval
  4. plea
  5. firm
  6. scolded
  7. clash
  8. setback
Q4

II Will Shruti's father go for the rehearsal? Support your answer with a reason.
III Do you think Shruti and her parents would understand one another? If yes, why? If no, why not?

  1. II Answer: Yes, he goes to the rehearsal because his wife, Leela, persuades him to observe the children's hard work before judging them.
  2. III Answer: Yes, they will understand one another because mutual love, deep respect for music, and shared dedication bridge their generational gap once they communicate openly.
Q5

I Work in pairs. Identify the true statements. Check the answers with your teacher.

  1. During the rehearsal, Shruti's parents enter the room and are overjoyed at her performance.
  2. Shruti initially considers telling her friends that she can't join them for the performance, after practising one last time.
  3. Shruti's father expressed that she had sung a few notes incorrectly during her performance.
  4. Shruti's father had followed the family's tradition of being a violinist and worked very hard to achieve all that he did.
  5. Shruti's mother helped her husband realise why he should support their daughter.
  6. Shruti's father accepts that he underrated the potential of classical music.
  • 1. True (They listen quietly, tap their feet, and clap enthusiastically at the end).
  • 2. True (Shruti reflects in an aside that she will rehearse one last time and then back out).
  • 3. False (Nabin praises her, stating she did not lose sight of the raga's notes even once).
  • 4. False (His family were vocalists; taking up the violin went against his family's tradition).
  • 5. True (Nabin acknowledges that Leela opened his eyes and reminded him of his own past).
  • 6. True (He admits: "I underestimated the power of our own music").