QUESTION BANK FOR CLASS XI
HORNBILL
1. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY:
Short answer type questions :(for average students)
(1) Which thought of grandmother was revolting for Khushwant Singh?
(2) Why would Khushwant Singh listen to the prayers recited by his grandmother?
(3) Which act of grandmother shows she is kind to animals and birds?
(4) What were the moments best enjoyed by the grandmother after Khushwant
Singh went up to University?
(5) How did grandmother react when Khushwant Singh was going abroad?
(6) How did she express her happiness on author’s coming home from abroad?
(7) Why the sparrows did not eat the bread crumbs given by Khushwant Singh’s
mother?
(8) Why was grandmother disturbed with the music lessons taught in the school?
Long answer type questions: (for average students)
(1) Describe the character sketch of grandmother.
(2) Describe why grandmother preferred village environment to the city
environment.
Short answer type questions: (for bright students)
(1) Why is grandmother described as ‘an expanse of pure white serenity?’
(2) What do you understand about the grandmother in the way she accepted her
seclusion.
(3) ‘nature mourns the death of pure’ Describe in the light of grandmother.
(4) How did grandmother accept her death?
(5) Grandmother is a mentally strong lady. Explain.
Long answer type questions: (for bright students)
(1) Compare and contrast village education with city education.
(2) ‘Respecting old age is respecting traditions’. Elaborate.
2. “We’re Not Afraid to Die ….. if We Can All Be Together”
Short answer questions (for Average students)
Q.1.From where did the narrator set sail and what was the purpose of his journey?
Q.2. Describe the Wavewaker.
3) What was special about December 25?
4) Describe the journey of the narrator with his family on Jan 2.
5) Describe the gigantic wave that dropped the narrator overboard.
6) What injuries were sustained by Sue?
7) How does Jon try to comfort his father?
8) What surprise did the narrator receive when he woke up at 6 p.m.?
Long answer questions for Average Students
1) Describe the courage shown by children when they faced danger during their
voyage.
2) What was the scenario experienced by the voyagers on Jan 3?
Short answer Questions for Bright students
1) What was the dream of the narrator and how did he try to achieve it?
2) What were the indications of the impending disaster?
3) Describe the narrator’s mental condition when he was thrown overboard?
3) What happened to the boat after the narrator was thrown overboard?
4) Describe the grit exhibited by children during the journey.
5) Describe the card made by Sue.
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6) Why does the narrator call Ile Amsterdam –the most beautiful island in the world?
7) Why does the narrator say that their respite was short lived?
8) What was the only hope left with the Captain before reaching Australia?
Long Answer questions for Bright students:‐
1) Justify the title of the story.
2) “Staying together in times of direst of situation helps”. Describe in light of the
story.
3. DISCOVERING TUT: THE SAGA CONTINUES:
Short answer type questions:(for average students)
(1) How old was Tut when he died?
(2) When was Tut’s tomb discovered?
(3) Where was Tut laid to rest?
(4) What were the funerary treasures found in the first coffin?
(5) What efforts were made by Carter and his team to separate Tut from the
golden coffin?
(6) How does Carter justify his act of causing damage to Tut while separating the
body from the coffin?
(7) Why was Tut’s demise considered a big event by royal standards?
(8) Why is Akhinaten’s rule described as strangest periods in the history of ancient Egypt?
Long answer type questions: (for average students)
(1) What is the significance of funerary treasures in Egyptian’s civilization.
(2) Describe the role of science in unearthing the secrets of long dead.
Short answer type questions: (for bright students)
(1) Describe the funerary traditions in Indian context.
(2) Describe the purpose of keeping riches along with the dead as per Egyptian’s
civilization.
(3) Tut’s death was a death rattle to his dynasty. Explain.
(4) What were the various difficulties faced by Zahi Hawass while taking CT Scan of
Tut?
(5) What is your opinion about “curse of the pharaoh”
Long answer type questions:(for bright students)
(1) Forensic reconstruction helps us to know the traditions, culture and civilization
of our past. Enumerate in the light of Discovering Tut.
(2) How did Archeology change substantially? Describe its role in Discovering
Tut.
4. The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
Short answer questions for average students:‐
1) When did the Green Movement start? What was its purpose?
2) What is the present condition of earth?
3) What do you understand by sustainable development?
4) What is the new awareness dawned upon man?
5) “ Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts,
impoverished landscapes and ailing environment” Explain.
6) How is man exploiting forests?
7) How are fisheries being collapsed?
8) What does Article 48A of the constitution state?
Long answers questions for Average students:‐
1) What are the four principal Biological systems of the earth? What is their
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condition?
2) How is the growth of world population affecting the future of mankind?
Short Answer questions for Bright students:‐
1) What do you understand by a holistic and ecological view of the earth?
2) What are our ethical obligations towards earth?
3) Have scientists been able to catalogue all the living species? What does it indicate
about man’s potential?
4) What was the question raised by the First Brandt Report? Why?
5) “What goes under the pot now costs more than what goes inside it” Explain.
Long answer questions for Bright Students
1) Development is the best contraceptive. Elaborate upon the statement.
2) Population explosion is a serious issue in India. How does it affect the environment?
5. The Browning Version
Short answer type questions: (for average students)
(1) For whom was Taplow waiting?
(2) Why was Taplow called for extra work?
(3) What were Frank’s feelings towards Crocker Harris?
(4) What was the suggestion given by Frank to Taplow?
(5) What did Taplow think of Crocker Harris?
(6) Why does Taplow call Agamemnon a ‘muck’?
(7) Why was Taplow not sure of his remove?
(8) Where does Millie send Taplow?
Long answer type questions :(for average students)
(1) Compare and contrast the characters of Frank and Crocker Harris.
(2) Describe why Taplow respects Crocker Harris inspite of his strict behaviour.
Short answer type questions: (for bright students)
(1) Taplow displays more maturity when compared to Frank. Do you agree
with this statement?
(2) When Crocker Harris cracked a joke, Taplow laughed. Was it a genuine
laughter? Discuss.
(3) Why doesn’t Taplow call Crocker Harris ‘a sadist’?
(4) Why was Frank envious of Crocker Harris?
(5) Crocker Harris was an introvert. Justify.
Long answer type questions:(for bright students)
(1) There is a drastic shift in teacher‐student relationship from past to
present. Elucidate.
(2) Do you agree with Frank’s act of instigating Taplow to imitate Crocker
Harris. Why or why not. Justify your answer.
A Photograph Poet: Shirley
Toulson
Short questions for average students:‐
Q.1 Where was the photograph captured? Who were the persons in the photograph?
Q.2)Who captured the photograph? How did the cousins pose for the photograph?
Q.3. How many years have passed for the mother’s death?
Q,4. How old is mother in the photograph? Who are standing on either side of her?
Read the following extract and answer the questions:
The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,
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And she the big girl – some twelve years or so
Q.1. What does the cardboard show
Q.2. Who was the big girl?
Q.3 What do you understand by paddling?
Short Answer questions for Bright students:‐
Q.1) What does the poet mean by “terribly transient feet”.
Q.2. Is the poet able to cope up with the loss of her mother?
Q.3. Has time healed the poet’s wounded feelings?
Q.4 What makes the mother laugh when she sees the photograph?
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
The sea holiday was her past,mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the labored ease of loss
Q.1. Who are “her’ and “ mine” in the above lines?
Q.3 Explain‐‘ Both wry‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ ease of loss’.
2. The Voice of the Rain Poet: Walt Whitman
Short answer type questions (for average students)
(1) Why does the rain call itself ‘the Poem of the Earth’?
(2) Where does rain originate from?
(3) How does rain help the unborn seeds?
(4) How is the journey of music cyclic?
Short answer type questions:(for bright students)
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(5) Explain the scientific process being described in the poem.
(6) Draw a parallel between rain and music.
(7) What is rain symbolic of?
(8) What does ‘eternal’ refer to?
Extract:
Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow:(for average
students)
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence vaguely form’d altogether changed, and yet the
same.
(a) Which word indicates continuity of the process?
(b) Find pairs of opposites from the extract.
(c) What does the phrase ‘vaguely formed’ indicate here?
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow :(for bright students)
(for song, issuing from its birth‐place, after fulfillment, wandering
Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.)
(a) Where does the song go after its origin?
(b) What does the poet mean by ‘reck’d or unreck’d’?
(c) Which phrase indicates that song like rain is imperishable?
3. Childhood Poet: Markus Natten
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :(For average
students)
When did my childhood go?
Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,
Was it the time I realized that Hell and Heaven,
Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore could not be,
Was that the day!
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1. When did the poet stop being a child?
2. Where did he search for Hell and Heaven?
3. Give the antonym of ‘cease’.
II. Short answer type questions (For average students)
1.What did the child realize about Hell and Heaven?
2.As a child, what did he think about adults ?
3.What kind of thoughts did his mind produce as an adult?
4. What did he find on ‘an infant’s face?
Short Answer questions for Bright students:‐
1. What do you mean by ‘Hypocrisy’? why does he think adults are hypocrites?
2. What statement shows that he had developed independent thinking?
3. Where does he find his childhood in the end?
4. What different kinds of thinking does a child develop as he grows?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow for Bright students:
Where did my childhood
It went to some forgotten place
That is hidden in an infant’s face
And that is all I know.
1. What is the change in thought of the poet in the last stanza?
2. Where does he find his childhood?
3. How does the poet try to comfort himself in the end?
4. Why does a person cherish his childhood?
4.Father to Son Poet: Elizabeth Jennings
II. Short answer type questions (For average students)
1. How long have the father and son lived together?
2. What kind of relationship do they share?
3. What is the father’s desire?
4. Why is there silence between father and son?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow for Average
students:
I know nothing of him, So try to build up a relationship from how He was when small .
1. Who are referred to “I” and “he” in the poem.
2. Why does the father want to build up a relationship once again?
3. What is the father’s plight?
Short answer type questions (For bright students)
1. What is the meaning of prodigal son? Explain it in the context of the poem ‘Father
to Son’
2. ‘Silence surrounds us’. Explain.
3. ‘I would forgive him too, shaping from sorrow a new love’. Explain.
4. How does the father bring out his helplessness.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow for Bright students:
He speaks: I cannot understand
Myself, why anger grows from grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
Longing for something to forgive.
1. Why does the father say ‘anger grows from grief’?
2. What is the desire of father and son?
3. How can the generation gap between father and son be bridged?
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QUESTION BANK FOR CLASS XI (SNAP SHOTS)
1. Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
Short Answer Type Questions
1. Who were Aram and Mourad?
2. What did Aram think of the world when he was nine?
3. What did everybody think about Mourad?
4. Why did Mourad steal the horse?
5. What did the narrator see when he looked out of the window?
6. How does the narrator describe the tribe to which he belonged?
7. How does the narrator feel when he realized that his cousin had stolen the horse?
8. The narrator was proud of his tribe’s honesty then why did he agree to enjoy
riding a stolen horse?
9. What do you learn about the narrator’s uncle Khosrove?
10. What did uncle Khosrove say when his son told him that their house was on fire?
Long Ans Type Questions
1. This lesson doesn’t have breathless adventure and exciting action then what in
your opinion makes it interesting?
2. 2Write a brief character‐sketch of uncle Khosrove?
3. Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience‐stricken or because
they were afraid?
4. Describe how the narrator and his cousin enjoyed horse riding?
5. You lost your cycle a day before. Write a notice for the school notice Board about
it and announce a suitable reward for it.
6. Draft a Poster with the message—SAVE ANIMALS.
2. The Address
Short Answer Type Questions
1. What was the address referred in the story? How did the narrator get it?
2. Who was Mrs. Dorling? Why did she deny to recognize the narrator?
3. Why did the narrator want her mother’s belongings?
4. Briefly enlist the articles the narrator recognized as her own in Mrs. Dorling’s
house?
5. What was the attitude of Mrs. Dorling’s daughter towards the belongings of the
narrator’s mother?
6. How did the narrator recognize that the cutlery was her own?
7. “Bread was getting to be a lighter colour,…”Explain it.
Long answer type questions
1. Compare and contrast the life of common people during pre‐war, during the war
and post war times. Substantiate your answer illustrating the relevant information
from the story.
2. Comment on the significance of the title –The Address. Discuss the irony implied in
the title.
3. Describe the second visit of the narrator to Mrs. Dorling’s house? Why did she
suddenly decide to leave?
4. Write an article on the curse of war.
3.Ranga’s Marriage
Short Answer Type Questions
1. Why does Iyenger not give the story a fancy title?
2. How does he describe his village in a humorous manner?
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3. What is the priceless commodity? Why does he call it priceless?
4. Did Ranga change after he had education in the city? Give reasons.
5. Do you think Ranga got married according to his views on marriage? Prove your
point in brief?
6. Who was Shyama? Why was he named Shyama?
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. How does the narrator bring Ranga to marry Ratna? Do you think it was right on
his part to do so?
2. Give a character sketch of the narrator Shyama.
3. With reference to the story write when a boy should be married and when a girl.
Justify your answer with suitable reasons.
4. Albert Einstein at school
Short Answer Type Questions
1. Why do Einstein and his teacher have an argument?
2. Why does Einstein ay that he doesn’t see any point in learning dates?
3. Why couldn’t Einstein leave school and go home?
4. How does Elsa comfort Albert?
5. What does Albert plan to do after reaching Milan?
6. Give a brief account of Albert’s encounter with the Principal of his school?
Long Answer Type Questions
1. Why does Einstein feel miserable while staying in Munich?
2. How does Einstein succeed in getting a medical certificate for nervous breakdown?
3. Imagine that you are Albert Einstein .Write a letter to a college in Italy enquiring
about the courses that are taught there.
4. “Mother’s Day”
Short answer type questions:
1. What happened to Mrs. Pearson after the change of personalities?
2. Who was Doris? What was it that surprised her about her mother?
3. What did Doris want her mother to do and why?
4. Why was Cyril annoyed with his mother?
5. Who was George Pearson? What did people say about him at the club?
6. Who was Charlie? What did Mrs. Pearson say about him?
Long answer type questions:
1. How did Mrs. Fitzgerald help Mrs. Pearson to be the boss of her family?
2. Compare and contrast the character of Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Pearson?
3. Bring out the theme of the play ‘Mother’s Day’.
7. BIRTH
Short Answer Type Questions
1. When did Andrew Manson reach Bryngower? What did he find there?
2. What do you know about his evening that day?
3. Why did Morgan’s mother‐in‐law offer Andrew a cup of tea?
4. How were Andrew’s thoughts on marriage that night and why?
5. ‘The dilemma was so urgent he did not solve it consciously’. Explain.
6. Describe the doctor’s state of mind and heart after his miraculous success.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. Trace the emotional and mental state form of Dr. Andrew from the beginning to
the end.
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2. What is the significance of the title ‘Birth’?
3. Write an article on the qualities of a good doctor.
4. Make a comparison between Andrew Manson and general doctors.
8. The Tale of Melon City
Short Answer Questions
1. 1 What did the king order to do and what happened after that?
2. 2 What was the king’s reaction after that?
3. 3What argument did the architect give in his self‐defence?
4. 4Why was it that the king was finally hanged?
5. 5 What decision did the ministers take after the death of the king?
6. 6How was a melon chosen to be the king?
Long Answer Questions
1. How did the accused in the construction of the faulty arch defend themselves from
being hanged?
2. What happened after all the accused put defence in their favour?
3. Suppose you are the resident of the same state.Write a letter to your mother
stating how a melon was chosen to be the king of your State.
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QUESTION BANK ‐ CLASS XII (VISTAS)
THE TIGER KING
SAQ for Average Students
1. How did the chief astrologer react to the tiger king’s question about the manner
of his death? How did the tiger king take it?
2. What did the Maharaja do when he stood in danger of losing his kingdom?
3. What plan did the Maharaja think of to fulfill his vow to kill hundred tigers after
the tiger population became extinct in his state?
4. What caused the death of the Maharaja?
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5. Who is the tiger king? How did the Tiger King acquire his name?
6. Why was the Maharaja in danger of losing his throne?
7. Where the hundredth tiger was finally found?
8. What was the special gift the Maharaja gave his son on his birthday?
SAQ HOTS
1. Why is there no chance of fulfillment of meeting the man of indomitable courage
face to face?
2. What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was
indisputably disapproved?
3. How did the Maharaja celebrate his victory over the killing of the 100th tiger?
4. Elucidate any two humorous or comic elements in the story.
5. Why did the British officer wish to hunt a tiger? How did the tiger king deal with
the problem?
6. What exactly did the crown princess of all the other Indian states do?
LAQ for Average students
1. An interesting conversation took place between Crown prince Jung Jung
Bahadur and the astrologers. What was it about? How did they react to each
other?
2. How did the Dewan take his tiger into the forest?
LAQ‐ HOTS
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1. What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the
willfulness of human beings?
2. Fear or conviction sometimes is our ruling passion. Discuss how the driving force
which governed the Maharaja’s life, enabled him to acquire his name as Tiger King.
THE ENEMY
SAQ for Average Students
1. How did Dr. Sadao tend the wound of the man?
2. Who was the white man whom Dr. Sadao and Hana found?
3. Why didn’t Dr Sadao put the wounded man back in the sea even though he was his
enemy?
4. What did Dr Sadao do to send off the man?
5. How did Hana show her great human sight to the soldier after the operation?
6. Why did the General not send the assassins to kill the soldier as he promised?
7. How did Hana help the wounded man?
8. What message does ‘The Enemy’ give?
HOTS
1. What did Hana wonder about the cruelty of people in power?
2. What kind of relationship did Sadao share with his father?
3. A mature understanding is reflected in the relationship between Hanna and Dr.
Sadao. Why does Dr. Sadao say they were perfectly happy?
4. What did Hana and Dr Sadao contemplate first?
LAQ for Average students
1. While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during
war time, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?
2. Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier .
What made Hana , his wife sympathetic to him in the face of defiance from the
domestic staff?
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LAQ HOTS
1. What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier?
Was it human consideration, lack of nation loyalty, neglecting of duty or simply self
absorption?
There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles
as private individuals and as citizens with the sense of national loyalty. Discuss with
the story.
SHOULD WIZARD HIT MOMMY
SAQ for Average Students
1. Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story‐telling?
2. For how long Jack been narrating the stories to his daughter?
3. Why did Roger Skunk go to the Wizard?
4. What did he want to smell like?
5. What is the moral issue the story raises?
6. What was usually the basic storyline of the tale that Jack told Jo almost daily?
7. Describe the wizard’s room.
8. What does Jack actually want Jo to know and understand in the story?
HOTS
1. What is your opinion about the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?
2. Do you think the slip of tongue of Roger Fish was due to some particular reason?
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3. Why is an adult’s perspective on life different from that of a child?
4. What was Jack’s justification for the ending of the story?
LAQ‐for Average students
1. What happened when Roger Skunk returned home What is your opinion of the
mother?
2. What makes Jack feel caught in an ugly middle position?
LAQ_HOTS
1. Though Jack appeared to be concerned about his wife do you think he really cared?
2. Your parents, they give you your life, but they try to give you their life. What is your
opinion to the Quote?
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ON THE FACE OF IT
SAQ for Average students
1. What does Mr. Lamb tell about himself?
2. What is it that draws Derry towards Mr. Lamb?
3. Why did not Mr Lamb have any curtains at his windows?
4. Why has Derry developed a negative attitude?
5. What did kids call Derry? Did it trouble him?
6. Why didn’t Derry like being kissed by his mother?
7. How does Derry’s attitude change after meeting Mr. Lamb?
8. What do you think the play ‘On the Face of It’ is all about?
HOTS
1. The actual pain or inconvenience caused by a physical impairment often much
than the sense of alienation felt by the person with disabilities. What is kind of
behavior that the person expects from others?
2. Will Derry get back to his old seclusion or will Mr. Lamb’s brief association effect a
change in the kind of life he will lead in the future?
3. Do you think there is an element of subtle irony in the story?
4. The world has got a whole face, and the world and the world there to be looked at.
What is Mr. Lamb trying to say?
LAQ for average children
1. What lesson of life does Mr. Lamb teach Derry when he comes to his garden?
How has it affected him?
2. What is the initial attitude of Derry towards one and all? Why is it so?
LAQ_ Hots
1. Both Mr. Lamb and Derry represent two serious aspects of life though their
origin can be called the same. Explain the statement.
2. Mr. Lamb has a different perspective of life. How does he explain there are other
important to stare at?
EVANS TRIES O LEVEL
SAQ FOR Average children
1. Why did Jackson visit Evan’s cell?
2. How did Mclerry made the Governor think as a security lapse in Evan’s trying to
escape?
3. What irregularity did Stephens see about Evans when he frowned slightly seeing him
wrapped under a blanket?
4. What instructions were given to Evans through the German correction slip that was
smuggled into his cell?
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5. What kind of a person Evans was?
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6. What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
7. Why was the sigh of relief short lived after the examination?
8.What did the Governor do to find out about the correction slip? Why?
SAQ ‐ HOTS
1. A call was made during the exam regarding a correction in the question paper.
Who made the call and why?
2. Why did the Governor himself take a keen interest in the security arrangements of
Evan’s examination?
3. Was Evans a hard core criminal? Justify your answer.
4. What was the Governor’s apprehension about McLeery?
LAQ for average children
1. Describe how Evans was recaptured after his escape from Oxford prison.
2. What did Oxford prison do to ensure the smooth conduct of Evan’s O Level
German Examination so that he did not escape as he was notorious to do?
LAQ –HOTS
1. Do you agree that between crime and punishment it is mainly a battle of wits?
2. Write the character sketch of Governor as given in ‘Evans Tries O Level’
MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD
SAQ FOR AVERAGE
1.How did the author pass her first day in the land of apples ?
2. How were the Indian girls including the author herself led it to the dining hall ?
3. What emotional trauma did the author undergo when her hair was being cut ?
4.Why was the narrator taking an hour or half to reach home instead of ten minutes?
5 What did Judewin tell the narrator? What was the effect?
6 How did Bama come to know about untouchability?
7. Why did Bama study so hard?
8. How did the author follow her elder brother’s advice that could reduce untouchability ?
HOTS
1.What lesson is learnt from the episode ‘We too are Human beings ‘?
2. What trials were in store for the new girls at the Carlisle Indian School?
3. What advice did Annan give to Bama to get better results and to get result?
4. ‘I felt like sinking to the floor’ what was the humiliation faced by the Native Americans?
LAQ FOR AVERAGE
1. Describe the breakfast episode that made Zitkala‐Sa cry and not venture anything more
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2. What proved to be fun‐giving and entertaining to the author on the way when she
returned home from school ?
LAQ FOR GIFTED
1. The two accounts of the story ‘Memories of My Childhood’ are based in two different cultures.
What is the commonality found in both of them ?
2. The same incident that makes Bama laugh makes her feel, ‘so provoked and angry.’
Explain.
WRITING SKILLS‐CLASS‐XI& XII
NOTICES
1. You lost your pen drive in the school. Draft a notice to be put up on the school notice board. You are Pallavi/Piyush of Bal Nivas
Vidyalaya.
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2. You are the literary captain of Vivekanda school. Your school is celebrating grandparents’ day. Draft a notice to be put up on the
notice board asking the students to invite their grandparents. Invent all the details.
3.The Students council have organized an excursion to Darjeeling and Sikkim. Write a notice informing the students of class 11 and
12 about the trip. Invent all the details.
4.You are Rema/Rajan the cultural captain of St.Thomas Public School. An inter school orchestra competition has been organized
on the occasion of the Silver jubilee of your school. Draft a notice informing the students to give their names.
5. You are the school pupil leader of Little flower school. Prepare a notice for your school notice board Informing the students of
class 12 about a career counseling workshop to be held at your school from 18 may to 24 may.
6. You are Anita Desai/ Anup Sharma, the Sports secretary of St. Paul public school, Ahmadabad. Your school has decided to host
the regional Level Basket Ball Tournament. Draft a notice for your school Notice Board inviting all the school children to attend the
Tournament and cheer the participants.
7. You are Vipin Dogra /Vibhuti Sharma, The Student Editor of the magazine of Gandhi Memorial Senior secondary school. Draft a
suitable notice for your school Notice Board inviting articles, poems, etc. for the forthcoming edition of the magazine.
8. You are Ashwin/ Ashwini the secretary of Cultural club of your school. Your school has decided to organize instrumental music
competition soon. Write a notice for the same for your school notice board.
POSTER WRITING
1. Prepare the poster to create awareness among awareness about eve teasers on behalf of Karnataka police.
2. You are Chandan / Chandrika a social activist .Design a poster for conservation of tiger.
3. Your school plans to spread the message of the harmful effects of smoking to be put up in the school premises. Draft a poster.
4. Design a poster to be put up in the school library on the value of books.
5. Design a poster for a school fete.
6. Design a poster against exploitation of children as labourers in harmful industries like cracker factories.
7. You are going to contest the elections for the post of school pupil leader. Draft a poster in about 50 words impressing the
students upon why they should vote for you.
8. .Draft a poster to create awareness about the need to donate your eyes for the blind.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT
1. You wish to let out your flat on rent. Draft an advertisement to be inserted in the classified columns of a newspaper. Invent all
the necessary details.
2. You are going abroad. You wish to sell your Fiat Linea car. Draft a suitable advertisement to be published in the classified
columns.
3. You have lost your brief case while travelling to Chennai by bus. Draft an advertisement to be given in the local daily. Invent all
the details.You are Shalini/Sunder.
4. You are setting up crèche in your area. You need a trained nurse for the crèche. Draft a suitable advertisement inventing all the
details.You are Ashok/ Ashoka of Belgaum.
5. You are saju/Vasant of No‐26 Vasant Vihar Trissur. You wish to sell your plot. Draft an advertisement to be inserted in the
newspaper.
6.Kendriya vidyalaya Mysore needs contractual teachers in English .Draft an advertisement on behalf of the principal in the
classified columns of the local newspaper.
7. You have been transferred from Hyderabad to Kolkata.You wish to hire a house in salt lake. Draft a suitable advertisement to be
inserted in the local daily.
8. You are the manager of Care Travels and Tours. You have an attractive package to Kulu Manali. Draft a classified advertisement
to be inserted in the local daily.
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT.
1. You are the Marketing Manager of Hindustan Lever. You have introduced a new health drink in the market. Draft an attractive
advertisement.
2. Max Mart is having its annual clearance sale of garments. Draft an attractive advertisement.
3. Kala Niketan is staging a drama on Child Labour. As the manager of the publicity department draft an attractive advertisement to
be circulated to all.
4. You have opened a new kindergarten school in your area. Draft a commercial advertisement to be circulated in all the residences
of your locality.
5. Titan has brought into the market a watch. Draft an advertisement.
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6. Reebok Shoe Company has designed a new sports shoe for sports people. Draft an advertisement informing the public. You are
the marketing manager of the company.
7. You are working for an advertising agency. Draft an advertisement for a company Called Comfortable Electonics for marketing
their new refrigerator ‘Eco Cold’.
8. Draft an advertisement for Solar Cooker launched by Surya Pvt. Ltd .
REPORT WRITING.
1. Inter School Regional Level Science exhibition was held in your school. As the science captain of your school you have been asked
to write a report for the newspaper.
2. Your school has taken up various steps to eradicate smoking as initiated by the Govt. of India. Write a report for your school
magazine.
3. You are Usha/Umesh . An Education Fair was organized in your city .As a newspaper correspondent of “The Hindu” write an
article for the newspaper.
4. You are Preeti the secretary of the literary club of the Vidyalaya. Write a report for the school magazine on the activities of the
club during the current year.
5. You are Suresh/Shalini, special correspondent of “The Times of India”. You have visited a place which was recently affected by a
natural calamity. Write a report.
6. You are Anil/Anita of class IX. Your school has organized a musical concert in the school auditorium on the occasion of the
foundation day of the school. Write a report for the school magazine.
7. You are Ram/Ravina, a reporter of “Decan Herald”. Recently the President of India visited Bangalore to inaugurate Cancer
Research Institute. Write a factual report for the newspaper.
8. You are Anirudh/ Reema. Write a report for the school magazine on the Annual Day celebration of the Vidyalaya.
ARTICLES
1) Recently you have witnessed a program ‘Satyamev Jayate’ on T.V. It shows that how the people in India are crazy about the birth
of a son in the family. Think ofthe effects of female infanticide and its effects on the future of India. Write an article on the same.
2) We find many children working in factories, fields, as waiters in hotels and domestic servants. As a result of this they are
deprived of their right to education. Write an article bringing the same to the notice of the people and the efforts government as
well as society at large can do in this regard.
3) The C.B.S.E. Board has decided to implement Continuous comprehensive evaluation for all its classes however it is leading to the
deterioration of standard of education and increase in indiscipline in the schools. Write an article expressing your views on the
same.
4) Write an article expressing your views about ‘Right to education’ recently introduced by the government. Discuss the merits and
demerit of it in an article
5) The movies and the internet has caused havoc in the life of the young generation. Write an article about the destructive effects
of the same and what steps can be taken to improve the existing situation.
6) The problem of ‘generation gap’ has been responsible for the disintegration of the families in modern era. Write an article about
what measures can be taken by the grown‐ups as well as the young people to check this phenomena .
7) You notice that even school going children are found busy with their mobiles . You feel that it has spoilt their relationship with
the family members. It has also led to some undesirable developments in their life. Write an article on the same discussing the
measures against the same practice.
8) Computer literacy has become the need of the hour. Write an article about the need of the same and what steps can be taken by
government in this regard.
INVITATIONS
1. Write a formal reply to your neighbour accepting the invitation to his cousin’s birthday party. Invent name, date, time, place etc.
2. Write an informal invitation to your friend inviting her to the Golden Jubilee celebrations of your School.
3. For the Birthday Celebrations, you plan to invite your friends, relatives and colleagues. You are Ramani. Write out the invitation.
4. You have requested Mr. K.D.S.Rao to inaugurate your School Fete. As the Principal of Santhi Public School, draft an invitation
card.
5. You are Ruby. You have been invited to attend the Family get together party of your friend’s sister during summer vacation.
Respond to the invitation accepting the invitation.
6. You have received an invitation to attend the Award giving‐ ceremony on the occasion of the Regional Social Science Exhibition.
Write a letter to the Secretary of ‘The Global Creator’ (the organiser of the exhibition) informing him about your inability to attend.
Give three reasons.
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7. You are Sajjanraj, S/o Sh. Dharmaraj of Greater Kailash, New Delhi. Your father wants you to draft a formal invitation to be sent
on the occasion of your sister, Anita Raj’s marriage. Prepare the invitation.
8. You are Mohan/Molly. You have been invited by the Lions Club to act as one of the judges for a fancy dress competition for
children. But due to a previous engagement you cannot accept this invitation. Write a formal reply to the President of the Club
regretting your inability to accept the invitation. (Word input ‐50 words)
LETTER WRITING
1. You are John/Urmila, the Tour in charge of Grant Public School, Agra. During the summer break, you are planning to organize a
tour to a place of historical importance. Write a letter to The National Travel Agency, Agra enquiring about the charges, facilities
and all the other necessary details. 10
2.You are John/Urmila, Staff Secretary, Grant Public School, Agra. The state Transport bus which is playing in your route at 8 a.m.
has become irregular, putting a large number of students and office‐goers in great difficulty. Write a letter to the Bus Depot in
charge complaining about it and requesting him to send the bus regularly.
3. Write a letter to the Editor of ‘The Times of India’, Delhi, expressing your concern over the increase in the rate of road accidents,
rash driving, and suggesting ways to curb the accidents. You are Nandita/Naveen of Jawahar Nagar, Delhi (Invent details) 10
4.Write a letter to M/s P. Orr & Sons, Chennai, complaining about the quality of the computers received in response to your order.
Sign as Ramesh, No.18, Hudson Colony, Coimbatore. (Invent details)
5. Write a letter to the Editor of Deccan Herald, Bangalore, regarding many unlawful activities going on in your area. You are of
Kalyanpur, Shimoga. Also give your suggestions to curb such activities. (Word limit: 150 words). 10
6.You purchased an L.G. Air‐conditioner 3 months ago. It ’was working well initially and suddenly the cooling effect has reduced
and also there is a rattling sound. Write a letter to the Regional Manager, L.G; Electronics, New Delhi, asking for the
repair/replacement of the A.C. unit. You are Suneet Arora/Suneeta of 182, Greater Kailash, New Delhi. (Word limit: 150 words).
7. Your younger brother, Suresh, needs your advice for the preparation of his Secondary School Examination. Write a letter to him
giving some tips in brief. You are Ramesh / Reena staying at kotagiri Public School Hostel, Kotagiri. 10
8.Write a letter to the Editor, ‘The New Indian Express’ drawing attention of the concerned authorities to the misused and poorly
maintained subways in Chennai. Give your suggestions You are Ram / Rani living at 10, Kamraj Street, Chennai
9. You are Karthik / Krithika of Chennai. Of late, chain‐snatching incidents are Increasing in the city Write a letter to the Editor of
The New Indian Express drawing the attention of the concerned authorities Also give suggestions 10
10.You could not visit your sister at Nepal due to certain unavoidable circumstances. Write
a letter to your sister explaining and regretting your inability; you are Madhavan / Madhavi of Kochi, Kerala.
11. You are Rama residing at 75 A, Nehru Nagar, Bhopal Write a letter to the editor of a national daily highlighting the seriousness
of drunken driving, requesting him to publish articles, cartoons and slogans against drunken driving and also urging the government
to take severe action against those who drive in drunken state. 10
12.You are Rama residing at 75 A, Nehru Nagai Bhopal. An open and well maintained park meant for the residents and children of
your area will‐soon be converted into a shopping complex. Write a letter to the Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Bhopal
requesting him not to disturb the park which is the only open space in your area. Also suggest alternate space for the shopping
complex away from the residential area, giving suitable reasons.
13. You are Kamala/Rajan, President of the Youth Club, Kanpur . You are organizing a Chess Tournament for the youth of the age
group 15‐ 18 in Kanpur . Write a letter to the Minister for Youth and Sports requesting him or her to be the Chief Guest and
inaugurate the tournament. Do not forget the mention the activities of your club. 10
14.You are Kamala/Rajan. You have seen an advertisement for the post of an English Teacher in Rani Public School , Kolkata. Write
a letter in response to the advertisement applying for the post. Give your detailed bio‐data also. 10
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