Class 12 – English
Important Questions
FLAMINGO – Short Answer Questions
What had been put up on the bulletin board?
What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?
How did Franz’s feelings about M. Hamel and school change?
What did M. Hamel write on the blackboard at the end of the class?
What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?
What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he from?
Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
A young man in Firozabad is burdened with the baggage of two words. What are they?
Where has Saheb come from?
Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?
How did Douglas make sure that he conquered the old terror?
What is the ‘misadventure’ that William Douglas speaks of?
From where did the peddler get the idea of the world being a rattrap?
Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler?
Why did the peddler decline the invitation to stay at the crofter’s house?
Why did the crofter show the thirty kronor to the peddler?
Why is Rajkumar Shukla described as being ‘resolute’?
List the places that Gandhi visited before arriving at Champaran.
Why do you think the servants thought Gandhi to be another peasant?
Why did Gandhi agree to a settlement of 25 percent refund to the farmers?
Why did Gandhi chide the lawyers of Muzaffarpur?
What does the writer mean by the ‘fiery misery’ of those subjected to make-up?
Did the people at Gemini Studios have any particular political affiliations?
What does The God That Failed refer to?
Why was the office boy frustrated? On whom did he show his anger?
What are some positive views on interviews?
What is the belief in some primitive cultures about being photographed?
What do you understand by the expression ‘thumbprint on his windpipe’?
How have interviews become a common practice in journalism?
Why did Rudyard Kipling refuse to be interviewed?
Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?
How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future?
Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?
POETRY – Short Answer Questions
What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
Why has the poet used the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’?
Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
Why does the poet ask us to keep still?
Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.
VISTAS – Short Answer Questions
What does the third level refer to?
Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley?
What is a first-day cover? Explain.
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
How did crown prince Jung Jung Bahadur grow up?
What was the Maharaja’s first priority in marriage?
Why did the Maharaja ban tiger hunting in the state?
How is the world’s geological history trapped in Antarctica?
What are phytoplankton?
What was the purpose of the visit to Antarctica?
What was the first emotion of the narrator on facing Antarctica?
Who was Dr. Sadao? Where was his house?
Where did Dr. Sadao and Hana meet?
How did Dr. Sadao help Tom, the white man, to escape?
Who is Mr. Lamb? How does Derry get into his garden?
Why does Mr. Lamb leave his garden gate open?
What did Judewin tell Zitkala-Sa? How did she react?
Why did Zitkala-Sa oppose the cutting of her hair?
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
FLAMINGO
How did M. Hamel pay a tribute to the French language?
Why should child labour be eliminated and how?
What made the peddler think that he had indeed fallen into a rattrap?
What was Gandhi’s politics intertwined with?
Why do you think Gandhi considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in his life?
Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?
POETRY
What worried the poet when she looked at her mother?
What is the ‘sadness’ that Pablo Neruda refers to in the poem?
How are the shopkeepers treated in the poem?
What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it called ‘vain’?
How does the poet describe Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
VISTAS
Describe Galesburg, Illinois in 1894.
What do you think of the ‘ring episode’ in the story The Tiger King?
Describe the narrator’s ‘walk on the ocean’ experience.
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