HSC Arts (English Medium) 12th Standard Board Exam - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

Do you appreciate Mabel’s tendency of deciding her own value from the comments given by others? Explain your views.

Frame three rules for the students of your college.

Frame three sentences giving advice to your younger brother.

Read the sentence ‘we are all like flies….’. The paragraph describes the dejected thoughts that Miss Mabel carries in her mind. All the earlier paragraphs are in a continuity of a storyline. The next paragraph begins with, ‘I feel like….’ again resumes to a story. The author has moved in the mind of the character and out of it very smoothly without any intimation or change in the language or tense. Similarly, she has moved in the past years of Miss Mabel’s life. This is called ‘stream of consciousness’ technique.

Read the sentence from the text  What a hideous new dress!
This is an exclamation. It can be written as a simple sentence ‘The new dress is very hideous.’
Find out few more exclamatory sentences from the passage and transform them into assertive sentences.

Virginia Woolf has created many characters other than Miss Mabel with great skill. Write a character sketch of any one of them.

Go to library and read the following book:

‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf

Go to library and read the following book:

‘Mrs. Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf

Find out information about career opportunities in the following field:

Fashion designing

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Dress designing

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Textile industry

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Garment industry

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Image consultancy

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Psychology and Psychiatry

Narrate in your class any of the incidents of your life when you were extremely terrified or awestruck.

Complete the given table regarding the factors/situations/reasons – why you sometimes get scared and the factors that add to it. Give possible solutions.

Given below are various activities which your can pursue as your hobby, passion, or profession. Complete the table accordingly.

Match the following ‘Wild-Life Sanctuaries’ with their locations.

In pairs, discuss the professions and challenges one can take happily if one is really passionate about the job.

In groups, organise a role-play activity associated with ‘Wild Life Expert’/ ‘Wild Life Photographer’/‘Wild Life Conservator’, explaining the differences and similarities involved in their profession.