Science (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Core

What made the peddler finally change his ways?

How does the metaphor of the rattrap serve to highlight the human predicament?

Have you ever stopped at a roadside stand? What have you observed there?

The peddler comes out as a person with a subtle sense of humour. How does this serve in lightening the seriousness of the theme of the story and also endear him to us?

Discuss the following in groups of four. Each group can deal with one topic. Present the views of your group to the whole class.

The reader’s sympathy is with the peddler right from the beginning of the story. Why is this so? Is the sympathy justified?

The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the  people who ran il If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their  complaint about?

What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand? 

Discuss the following in groups of four. Each group can deal with one topic. Present the views of your group to the whole class.

The story also focuses on human loneliness and the need to bond with others.

Discuss the following in groups of four. Each group can deal with one topic. Present the views of your group to the whole class.

Have you known/heard of an episode where a good deed or an act of kindness has changed a person’s view of the world?

The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards. 

Discuss the following in groups of four. Each group can deal with one topic. Present the views of your group to the whole class.

The story is both entertaining and philosophical.

What is the 'childish longing that the poet refers to? Why is it 'vain'? 

Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the  rural poor?

The man selling rattraps is referred to by many terms such as “peddler, stranger” etc. Pick out all such references to him. What does each of these labels indicate of the context or the attitude of the people around him?

You came across the words, plod, trudge, stagger in the story. These words indicate movement accompanied by weariness. Find five other such words with a similar meaning.

Notice the words in bold in the following sentence.

“The fire boy shovelled charcoal into the maw of the furnace with a great deal of clatter”. This is a phrase that is used in the specific context of an iron plant.

Pick out other such phrases and words from the story that are peculiar to the terminology of ironworks.

Mjölis is a card game of Sweden.

Name a few indoor games played in your region. ‘Chopar’ could be an example.

Strike out what is not true in the following. 

Rajkumar Shukla was

A crofter is a person who rents or owns a small farm especially in Scotland. Think of other uncommon terms for ‘a small farmer’ including those in your language.