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Important Questions Class 12
Q.(1) What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?
Q.(3) What had been put up on the bulletin-board?
Q.(4) What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
Q.(5) How did Franz’s feelings about M. Hamel and school change?
Q.(6)What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come
from?
Q.(7) Is Sahab happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
Q.(8) Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
Q.(9) How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
Q.(10) How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realize his dream?
Q.(11)What is the “misadventure” that William Douglas speaks about?
Q.(12) Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?
Q.(13) How did Douglas make sure that he conquered the old terror?
Q.(14) How did Douglas overcome his fear of water?
Q.(15) From where did the peddler get the idea of the world being a rattrap?
Q.(16) Why did he show the thirty kroner to the peddler?
Q.(17) What made the peddler accept EdlaWillmansson’s invitation?
Q.(18) Why was Edla happy to see the gift left by the peddler?
Q.(19) What made the peddler finally change his ways?
Q.(20) Why did Gandhiji agree to a settlement of 25% refund to the farmers?
Q.(21) Why do you think Gandhiji considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in
his life?
Q.(22) What was Gandhi’s politics intertwined with?
Q.(23) Why did Gandhi chide the lawyers of Muzaffarpur?
Q.(24) What is the example of national integration that the author refers to?
Q.(25) What work did the ‘office boy’ do in the Gemini studios? Why did he join the studios?
Why was he disappointed?
Q.(26) Subbu is described as a many sided genius. List four of his special abilities.
Q.(27) Why is the Englishman’s visit referred to as unexplained mystery?
Q.(28) How did the author discover who the English visitor to the studio was?
Q.(29) What are some of the positive views on interviews?
Q.(30) Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
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Q.(31) Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.
Q.(32) How does Eco find the time to write so much?
Q.(33) What is the reason for the huge success of the novel. ‘The Name of the Rose’?
Q.(34) Describe the novel ‘The Name of the Rose’?
Q.(35) Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?
Q.(36) What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her
from having such dreams?
Q.(37) What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
Q.(38) Why are the young trees described, as ‘sprinting’ ?
Q.(39) Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’ ?
Q.(40) Write central idea of the poem "My mother at sixty-six".
Q.(41) What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achieve ?
Q.(42) Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death ?
Q.(43) What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem?
Q.(44) Write centeral idea of the poem "Keeping Quiet".
Q.(45) List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.
Q.(46) List the things that cause suffering and pain.
Q.(47) What makes human beings live life in spite of troubles and sufferings?
Q.(48) Why is ‘grandeur’ associated with the ‘mighty dead’?
Q.(49) What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?
Q.(50) What is the message / central idea of the poem ‘A Thing of Beauty’?
Q.(51) What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
Q.(52) What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to ? why is it ‘vain’?
.Q.(53) Write central idea of the poem ‘A roadside stand’.
Q.(54) How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tigers attitudes?
Q.(55) What is suggested by the image ‘massive weight of uncle’s wedding band’?
Q.(56) What does the third level refer to?
Q.(57) What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
Q.(58) Who is the tiger King? Why does he get that name?
Q.(59) What did the royal infant grow up to be?
Q.(60) What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
Q.(61) Why did Maharaja ban tiger hunting in the state ?
Q.(62) What are the indications for the future of humankind?
Q.(63) ‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica’. How is the study of this region
useful to us?
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Q.(64) Why is Antarctica the place to go to, understand the earth’s present, past and future?
Q.(65) Who was Dr. Sadao? Where was his house?
Q.(66) Was Dr. Sadao arrested on the charge of harboring an enemy?
Q.(67)What will Dr. sadao do to get rid of the man?
Q.(68) Who is Mr. Lamb? How does Derry get into his garden?
Q.(69) Who was Derry? What do you think was his actual problem?
Q.(70) Compare the character of Mr lamb and Derry?
Q.(71) The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the
Q.(72) How did Bama come to know of the evil of untouchability?