HSC Commerce Class 12 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions for English

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.

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Just as we thought our chuckles had subsided.

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

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Anna would say with an impudent smile.

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A silver tumbler of buttermilk seasoned with asafetida.

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A few people from the house of bereavement stood outside.

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The anticipation of this imagined separation only increases their fondness for the calf.

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Fortuitously, a guest visited our house.