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Question I:
Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.
A.   How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?
B.    When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Answer I:
A.   Evelyn was 16 years old when she went to the Royal Academy of Music.
B.    Evelyn's deafness was first noticed when she was 8 years old. It was confirmed when her headmistress told her parents to get her check-up done at the age of 11.

Question II:
Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (30-40 words). 1. Who helped her to continue with music? What did he do and say? 2. Name the various places and causes for which Evelyn performs.
Answer II:
A.   Ron Forbes helped her continue with music by tuning two large drums to different notes and he
said "Don't listen the music through your ears, try to sense it some other way".
B.    Even with a hectic internationa l schedule, Evelyn gives solo performan ces at regular concerts. Apart from those she gives free concerts in prisons and hospitals. She also gives high priority to classes for her young musicians.

Question III:
Answer the question in two or three paragraphs (100-150 words). 1. How does Evelyn hear music?
Answer III:
1. Evelyn heard musi c by sensing the notes in different parts of her body. When Ron Forbes tuned two drums to different notes and she could sense the sound without using her ears, she could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower drum from the waist down. She learnt how to open her mind and body to sounds and vibrations. It was her determina tion, passion and hard work. When she played the xylophone, she sensed the sound passing up the stick by her fingertips.
She removed her shoes on a wooden platform so that the vibrations could pass through her bare feet and up her legs. It tingled in the skin, her cheekbones and even in her hair. By leaning against the drums, she could feel the vibrations flowing into her body.


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