CBSE Important Questions class XII

English 2008 2

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Book - 2 (Vistas) The Third Level

Short Questions:

1. What does the narrator think of Grand Central?

2. How does the narrator describe Galesburg, Illinois?
3. What does Sam’s writing found in the oldest First Day
Cover signify?
4. What was Charley’s reaction after coming back from the
Third Level?

Broad Questions:

1. Imagination is a ‘temporary refuge from reality’.

Explain the statement.
2. What convinced Louisa and Charley about the existence
of the Third Level?
3. What discovery did Charley make? How?

The Tiger king

Short Questions:

1. What had the astrologers foretold about the Tiger King?

When did he become the ruler of the kingdom?
2. “At another time he was in danger of losing his throne”.
How?
3. How did the hundredth tiger come to be killed by the
Maharaja? What is so funny about it?

Broad Questions:

1. The title of the Maharaja reflected grandeur but his

death was an anticlimax. Justify.
2. What problem arose when Maharaja had killed the
ninety-ninth tiger?

Journey to the End of the Earth

Short Questions:

1. What happened when there thrived Gondwana thrived

for 500 million years?
2. How is global temperature increasing? What are the
immediate fears due to it?
3. What are the microscopic phytoplanktons? How are
they important in the food chain and photosynthesis?
4. What warning do the scientists give about a further
depletion in the ozone layer?

Broad Questions:

1. What does the writer say about the geological history of

Antarctica?
2. How has man played havoc with the ecological health of
the earth?
3. The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.
How is the study of this region useful to us?
 The Enemy

Short Questions:

1. How did Dr. Sadao meet Hana? When did their

marriage take place?
2. How did Dr. Sadao treat he wounded man?
3. What complex situation did arise when the wounded
man was taken into the house?
4. How did the servants show their superstitions?
5. How was Hana affected while helping Dr. Sadao in the
operation?
6. What opinion does the General have of Dr. Sadao as a
surgeon?
7. What was the ‘reward’?

Broad Questions:

1. How did Dr. Sadao and Hana nurse the wounded

American?
2. Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help
the enemy soldier.
3. Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem
was the best possible one in the circumstances?
4. What is the theme of Pearl S. Buck’s ‘The Enemy’?

Should Wizard Hit Mommy?

Short Questions:

1. How did the wizard help Roger Skunk shed his awful
smell?
2. Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit
and not the mother?
3. What does Jack suggest for the ending of the story?
4. How did Roger Skunk’s mommy react when he,
smelling ‘roses’ went home?
Broad Questions:

1. Describe the basic tale that originated a new story with

a slight variation each time, as it was narrated by Jack
to Joe.
2. What is the moral issue that ‘Should Wizard Hit
Mommy’ raises?
3. Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit
and not the mother?

On The Face of It

Short Questions:

1. How does Mr. Lamb receive Derry when the latter

enters his garden stealthily?
2. How do people comment so painfully about Derry’s
face? Why?
3. Mr. Lamb says to Derry: ‘It’s all relative. Beauty and the
beast’. What does he mean by that?
4. Who should be ‘friends’ according to both Derry and
Mr. Lamb?
5. What does Mr. Lamb usually do that seems ‘peculiar’ to
Derry?
6. Why does Derry go back to Mr. Lamb in the end?
7. Comment on the aptness of the title of the story ‘On the
Face of It’.

Broad Questions:

1. What is the initial attitude to Derry towards one and

all? Why is it so?
2. What lesson of life does Mr. Lamb teach Derry when he
comes to his garden? How has it affect him?
3. What lesson of life does ‘On the Face of It’ teach? How?

Evans tries an O- Level

Short Questions:

1. What do Secretary and the Governor decide about

Evans’ taking the O-level exam?
2. How did Evans appear which prompted Jackson call
him ‘scruffy sod’?
3. What two motives were there behind Evans’ cell getting
bugged by the Governor?
4. How do you think did Evans actually escape throwing
all the prison security to the winds?

Broad Questions:

1. Describe how Evans escaped from the high security

Oxford prison despite all the precautions taken against
his escape.
2. Do you agree that between crime and punishment it is
mainly a battle of wits?

Memories of Childhood

Short Questions:

1. How did the author feel awkward in sitting in the chair

for breakfast?
2. What emotional trauma did the author undergo when
her hair was being cut?
3. What other entertainments & funs did the author enjoy
from time to time while returning from school?
4. What advice did Annan give to the author that could
reduce Untouchability?

Broad Questions:

1. Describe the Breakfast episode that