Arts (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’. 

Doing well in any activity, for example a sport, music, dance or painting, riding a motorcycle or a car, involves a great deal of struggle. Most of us are very nervous to begin with until gradually we overcome our fears and perform well.

Write an essay of about five paragraphs recounting such an experience. Try to recollect minute details of what caused the fear, your feelings, the encouragement you got from others or the criticism.

You could begin with the last sentence of the essay you have just read - “At last I felt released – free to walk the trails and climb the peaks and to brush aside fear.”

• Think of a person who you would like to have as a role model.
• Write down the points to be discussed or questions to be asked, if you were asked to interview that person on a television show.

Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.

The old woman said to Arun, “Can you help me to cross the street?”
(Begin: The old woman asked Arun……………….) 

Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.

How cruel Shylock was to demand his pound of flesh!
(Begin: It was cruel………………….) 

You are the editor of your school magazine. You have recently attended a cultural program in your city. Write an account of this program (in approximately 300 words) using the points given below:

Did the author believe in the prophetic ability of Frau Frieda?

Why did he think that Frau Frieda’s dreams were a stratagem for surviving?

Why does the author compare Neruda to a Renaissance pope?

Discuss in groups

In spite of all the rationality that human beings are capable of, most of us are suggestible and yield to archaic superstitions.

Discuss in groups

Dreams and clairvoyance are as much an element of the poetic vision as religious superstition.

The story hinges on a gold ring shaped like a serpent with emerald eyes. Comment on the responses that this image evokes in the reader.

The craft of a master storyteller lies in the ability to interweave imagination and reality. Do you think that this story illustrates this?

Bring out the contradiction in the last exchange between the author and the Portuguese ambassador

‘In concrete terms,’ I asked at last, ‘what did she do?’ ‘Nothing,’ he said, with a certain disenchantment. ‘She dreamed.’

Comment on the ironical element in the story.

Name the two characters in this story whom Eveline liked and loved, and two she did not. What were the reasons for her feelings towards them?

Describe the conflict of emotions felt by Eveline on the day she had decided to elope with Frank.

Why do you think Eveline let go of the opportunity to escape?

What are the signs of Eveline’s indecision that we see as the hour of her departure with Frank neared?

Deciding between filial duty and the right to personal happiness is problematic. Discuss.