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

State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement and discuss the reason.

We should choose a dress according to the fashion rather than our choice.

Narrate in your words the picture imagined by Mabel as she thinks herself in the party as a fly at the edge of the saucer.

There are a few other characters mentioned in the story. Discuss the way their reactions help us to understand the inferiority complex of Mabel.

Pick out the sentences from the story which describe the ambience of the party at Mrs. Dalloway’s place.

Mabel is thinking too much of her dress. Propose five sentences supporting the above statement.

Critically analyse Mabel’s weak economic conditions in the past as one of the reasons that led her to choose the old-fashioned dress.

The cause of Miss Mabel’s disappointment is not only her poor background in the past but her too much bookishness also. Substantiate

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

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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