HSC Arts Class 12 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

Given below are pictures of fictitious detective characters in English & Tamil short stories. Match them with the authors who created them.

What was put on the family agenda?

Who visited the family?

Describe the stool that the narrator’s family had.

What was Pedanna’s suggestion to their father?

What was offered to Maamanaar by their mother?

Why were the two chairs compared to Rama-Lakshmana?

When did the children shy away from the chair?

How did Maamanaar handle the chair at home?

What happened to the visitor when he sat on the stool?

Why did the family find it difficult to make a chair?

What was grandmother’s suggestion of wood? Why?

How was the chair made and how did the villagers react to it?

When did the children get over the fear of sitting on the chair?

Why did Maamanaar hand over the chair to the villagers to retain it?

Narrate the humorous incidents that happened in the author’s home before and after the arrival of the chair.

Write character sketches of Maamanaar and Pedanna.

Find out the synonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.

Just as we thought our chuckles had subsided.

Find out the synonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.

Our father rejected it, saying it wouldn’t be sturdy.

Find out the synonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.

Anna would say with an impudent smile.