Science (English Medium) इयत्ता १२ - CBSE Important Questions

What do we come to know about the author of Lost Spring, Anees Jung, through her interactions with Saheb and Mukesh?

Comment on any one aspect of the writing style of the author, Kalki in The Tiger King.

Read the given extract and answer the questions:

1. Complete the sentence appropriately.     1
   The author’s purpose in using foreshadowing, is to ______.
2. In the given extract, what emotion were the astrologers feeling when they "bit their lips and swallowed hard"?    1
   1. Humiliation
   2. Disbelief
   3. Grief
   4. Unease
3. Which trait are the astrologers lauding when they say "warrior of warriors, hero of heroes, champion of champions"?     1
4. How is the line, "the most fantastic aspect of his demise", an example of contrast?     1

Read the given extract and answer the questions.

1. What is the writer’s purpose in allowing the boys to speak for themselves via dialogue, as opposed to only a writer’s commentary?    1
2. The line, "It is not lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot" can be best classified as:    1
   1. A fact
   2. An opinion
   3. A theme
   4. A plot point
3. Explain any one possible inference that can be drawn from the line, "an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon”.     1
4. Identify the line from the text that bears evidence to the fact that the writer's association with the boys is not a recent one.    1
5. Based on the context provided in the extract, select the most likely comment that the writer would have made, based on the boy's reaction to the mismatched shoes.      1
   1. "Why are your shoes mismatched? That's not a good look."
   2. "Don't worry about your shoes, you can wear a matching pair later."
   3. "I like your shoes. What matters is that they protect your feet."
   4. "Have you chosen to mismatch your shoes?"
6. Complete the sentence with ONE word.      1
   The phrase "he answers simply", suggests that the boy's response to the writer's question about why he wasn't wearing chappals was ______.

Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.

Do you agree with the Tiger King's statement?

You may kill even a cow in self-defence.

Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.

What did the Maharaja and dewan do to avoid the danger of losing the throne?

Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.

What did the Maharaja do to realize his ambition of killing a hundred tigers?

Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.

In what way did the infant Tiger King surprise the astrologer?

Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.

Did the Tiger King manage to kill the hundredth tiger? Why/Why not?

Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.

Why did the shopkeeper sell the wooden tiger at a cheap price?

Why did Roger Skunk go to visit the owl ? 

Validate John Updike’s open-ended title, ‘Should Wizard Hit Mommy?’.

Why was Jo unhappy with the ending of Jack's story?

Jack's story does not appeal to Jo? Why/Why not?

Why do you think the wizard tolerated the beating and agreed to the mother's demand?

What was the role of the owl in Jack's story?

Why did McLeery bring a smallish semi-inflated rubber ring to Oxford Prison ? 

Colin Dexter, the author of Evans Tries an O-level employs the red herring technique of intentionally misleading readers by placing false clues to keep the plot enigmatic. Substantiate with reference to the text, in about 120-150 words.

Who do you think, has the last laugh-The Governor or Evans? Justify.

Give an account of the blunders committed by the prison authorities in the story 'Evan's Tries an O' level'.