Subject

English

Class

CBSE Class 12

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 Multiple Choice QuestionsShort Answer Type

1.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:  
............... The stunted, unlucky heir
Of twisted bones, reciting a father's gnarled disease,
His lesson, from his desk. At the back of the dim class
On unnoted, sweet and young.

(i) Who is the unlucky heir? 
(ii) What will he inherit? 
(iii) Who is sitting at the back of the dim class? 

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2. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: 
Driving from my parent's
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother, beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with pain
that she was as old as she looked.

(i) Where was the poet driving to?
(ii) Why was her mother's face looking like that of a corpse?
(iii) What did the poet notice about her mother? 

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3.

Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
What does Keats consider an endless fountain of immortal drink and why does he call its drink immortal?

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4.

Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem? What is Neruda's attitude towards these wars?

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5.

Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
What news in the poem, ‘A Roadside Stand’ is making its rounds in the village?

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6.

Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
What lies heavily on Aunt Jennifer's hand? How is it associated with her husband?

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7.

Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
What was the order from Berlin and what changes did it cause in the school?
                           

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8. Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
How did Douglas make sure that he conquered the old terror?

                           
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9. Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
Why was Sophie jealous of Geoff's silence?

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10. Answer the following in 30-40 words each:
What forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritable with his patient?                                                 


The distress of his wife at the sight of the operation and his inability to go to her at once forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritable with his patient who lay like a dead under his knife.

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