HSC Arts Class 11 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

What are the articles the writer forgets most often?

Who are the citizens of ‘dreamland’? Why?

What is common about the ‘angler’ and the ‘poet’?

What made people wonder about the absentmindedness of their fellowbeings?

What are our memories filled with?

When does human memory work with less than its usual capacity?

Why, according to Lynd, should taking medicines be one of the easiest actions to remember?

How do the chemists make fortunes out of the medicines people forget to take?

The list of articles lost in trains suggest that sportsmen have worse memories than their ordinary serious-minded fellows. Why does Lynd say this?

What kind of absent-mindedness is regarded as a virtue by Lynd?

Narrate the plight of the baby on its day out.

You have borrowed a branded cricket bat from your reluctant friend for an outstation match. After returning home you realize you have absent-mindedly left it in the hotel room. Write a letter of apology and regret to your friend.

Kahlil Gibran states ‘Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.’ Write an article for your school magazine, linking your ideas logically and giving appropriate examples.

Will you sympathize or ridicule someone who is intensely forgetful? Write an essay justifying your point of view.

Nobody can say ______there will be an improvement in the______

(whether/weather)

Your ring is ______. Do not ______it. (loose / lose)

We found a ______of biscuits in the old man’s shirt ______. (pocket/packet)

When the pole vaulter cleared 28 ______, it was declared a record ______. (feet/feat)

Explain the ______‘Cut your ______according to your cloth.’ (coat/quote)

The stranger ______for a few minutes before he ______ my house. (paused/passed)