Arts (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Important Questions

Lakshmi Holmstrom in “The Novels of R. K. Narayan” Calcutta: Writers Workshop Publication, 1973, comments “Different abilities and values are opposed and matched until Pal becomes a “nightmare to Margayya”. Keeping the above statement in mind, trace the evolution of Margayya and Mr. Pal’s relationship.

“A man whom the goddess of wealth favours need not worry much. He can buy all the knowledge he requires. He can afford to buy all gifts that Goddess Saraswathi holds in her palm” In the light of the above lines, elaborate on the relation of the human and divine realms in R.K. Narayan’s The Financial Expert.

Describe briefly Margayya’s new found career in the publishing house.

1. Who does ‘he’ refer to?
2. What signs of age were evident to him?
3. ‘But in company was quick to straighten up….’ What does this phrase reflect about ‘him’?
4. Pick out the word from the extract which means to conceal one’s appearance by using wigs/glasses etc.
   1. straighten
   2. disguise
   3. monocle
   4. stopped
5. What had happened to his uncle?
6. Give a brief description of him.

State any two objectives of problem identification.

How is 'Naturalisation of Humans' different from 'Humanisation of Nature'?

Examine any five factors which are responsible for population flow from rural to urban areas in India.

निम्नलिखित प्रश्न को ध्यानपूर्वक पढ़कर प्रश्न के लगभग 40 शब्दों में उत्तर दीजिए:

'उषा' कविता में 'भोर के नभ' की तुलना किससे और क्यों की गई है?

निम्नलिखित प्रश्न का उत्तर लगभग 60 शब्दों में लिखिए -

समाचार माध्यमों में प्रिंट माध्यम की विशेषताएँ लिखिए।

Which of the following empire issued gold coins for the very first time in first century CE?

Analyse the elements examined by historians on Mahabharata as text.

Why have many scholars written the months after Independence as being Gandhiji's "finest hours? Explain.

Quit India movement was genuinely a mass movement bringing into its ambit hundreds of thousands of ordinary Indians. Elucidate the statement with suitable examples.

‘Gandhiji had mobilized a wider discontentment against the British rule in the Salt Satyagraha.’ Elucidate the statement with suitable examples.

Show that the relation R on R defined as R = {(a, b): a ≤ b}, is reflexive, and transitive but not symmetric.

A function f : [– 4, 4] `rightarrow` [0, 4] is given by f(x) = `sqrt(16 - x^2)`. Show that f is an onto function but not a one-one function. Further, find all possible values of 'a' for which f(a) = `sqrt(7)`.

Let A = {3, 5}. Then number of reflexive relations on A is ______.

If for any 2 x 2 square matrix A, `A("adj"  "A") = [(8,0), (0,8)]`, then write the value of |A|