Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follo

Subject

English

Class

CBSE Class 12

Pre Boards

Practice to excel and get familiar with the paper pattern and the type of questions. Check you answers with answer keys provided.

Sample Papers

Download the PDF Sample Papers Free for off line practice and view the Solutions online.
Advertisement

 Multiple Choice QuestionsShort Answer Type

Advertisement

1.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

.......... but soon
put that thought away and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, ...

(a) Which thought did the poet put away?

(b) What do the sprinting trees' signify?

(c) What are 'the merry children spilling out of their homes', symbolic of?


a) The poet puts away the painful thought of mother’s ageing and declining health thinking she might not see her mother after returning.

b) The trees appear to be racing past as the car moves towards the airport. They signify the passage of time.

c) These lines symbolise happiness. The sad thoughts of the poet contrasted with merry children spilling out of their homes.

2982 Views

Advertisement
2.

Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal –
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night ? On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.

(a) Why is Shakespeare described as wicked?

(b) Explain: 'from fog to endless night'.

(c) What does the reference to 'slag heap' mean?

2212 Views

3.

Do you think the poet; Pablo Neruda advocates total inactivity and death? Why / Why not? 

710 Views

4.

Why and how is grandeur associated with the mighty dead? (A Thing of Beauty)

1643 Views

Advertisement
5.

What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?

461 Views

6.

How do 'denizens' and 'chivalric' add to our understanding of the tigers' attitude?

1045 Views

7.

What was Franz expected to be prepared with for the school that day? 

587 Views

8.

Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?

931 Views

Advertisement
9.

Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler? 

831 Views

10.

Why did the author appear to be doing nothing at Gemini studios?

638 Views

Advertisement