Arts (English Medium) Class 12 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

‘Nature may have tricks up her sleeve to check us if the chemists exploit her too greedily.’ Discuss.

Respect for elders is not to be confused with blind obedience. Discuss.

Both the texts are on ‘freedom’. Comment on the difference in the style of treatment of the topic in them.

When Shaw makes a statement he supports it with a number of examples. Identify two sections in the text which explain a statement with examples. Write down the main statement and the examples.

Notice how this contributes to the effectiveness of the writing.

Notice the use of personal pronouns in the two texts. Did this make you identify yourself more with the topic than if it had been written in an impersonal style? As you read the texts, were you able to relate the writer’s thoughts with the way you lead your own life?

Split the following sentences into their constituent clauses

There is no freedom if you are enclosed by self-interest or by various walls of discipline.

Split the following sentences into their constituent clauses

When you see a servant carrying a heavy carpet, do you give him a helping hand?

Split the following sentences into their constituent clauses

Very young children will eat needles and matches eagerly—but the diet is not a nourishing one.

Split the following sentences into their constituent clauses

We must sleep or go mad: but then sleep is so pleasant that we have great difficulty in getting up in the morning.

Split the following sentences into their constituent clauses

Always call freedom by its old English name of leisure, and keep clamouring for more leisure and more money to enjoy it in return for an honest share of work.

What is the string of varied thoughts that the mark on the wall stimulates in the author’s mind?

What change in the depiction of reality does the author foresee for future novelists?

What is the author’s perception of the limitations of knowledge and learning?

Describe the unbroken flow of thoughts and perceptions of the narrator’s mind, using the example of the colonel and the clergy.

An account of reflections is more important than a description of reality according to the author. Why?

Looking back at objects and habits of a bygone era can give one a feeling of phantom-like unreality. What examples does the author give to bring out this idea?

How does the imagery of

(i) the fish

(ii) the tree

used almost poetically by the author, emphasize the idea of stillness of living, breathing thought?

How does the author pin her reflections on a variety of subjects on the ‘mark on the wall’? What does this tell us about the way the human mind functions?

Not seeing the obvious could lead a perceptive mind to reflect upon more philosophical issues. Discuss this with reference to the ‘snail on the wall’.

‘In order to fix a date, it is necessary to remember what one saw’. Have you experienced this at any time? Describe one such incident and the non-chronological details that helped you remember a particular date.