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Flamingo-English Reader
(Class 12)
(English Core) 2021-22
UNIT TEST-1
Chapters Deleted by CBSE MM:25
I)
POETS AND
PANCAKES
II)
THE INTERVIEW
Flamingo(Prose)
III) 1.THE
LAST LESSON 2. LOST SPRING 3.
DEEP WATER
THE LAST LESSON(Lesson No.01)Flamingo
1. Why was Franz
tempted to play truant from school?
A. The French
teacher M Hamel was going to ask questions on participle which Franz had not
prepared. To avoid being scolded he was tempted to play truant from school and
spend the day out doors in a pleasurable manner.
2. What was
unusual about the school that Franz noticed when he entered the school?
A. On entering
the school Franz noticed there was unusual silence. There was no usual bustle
of opening and closing of desks. The village elders had occupied the last
benches that usually remain empty.
3. Why was it
the last lesson? How did Franz react to it? A. As the order from Berlin had
come to teach German in all schools of Alsace and Lorraine there would be no
French lesson form the next day M Hamel announced in the class. The
announcement was like a thunderclap to Franz. He felt sorry for not learning
French. The French books, which earlier were nuisance, became attractive. He
felt he could not give up his French books.
4. What reasons
did M Hamel give for their lack of interest in learning French? A. The lack of
interest in learning French was due to the parents who wanted their children to
work in farm or mill to earn, due to the students who were reluctant to learn
and often put off the lesson for the
next day and due
to himself as he asked them to water the flower and gave them off when he had
to go for fishing
5. Why does not
M Hamel want the people to forget French?
A. M Hamel
wanted them not to forget French as it is the most beautiful and logical
language and as long as they hold fast to their language it would be as if they
had the key to the prison.
6. Describe how
M Hamel conducted the last lesson.
A. In his last
French class though M Hamel was emotional he fully involved himself in the
teaching learning process. He heard every lesson to the last sitting motionless
in the chair. When the church bell struck twelve he stood up pale and wrote
„Vive La French‟ and with a gesture he communicated that
the school is dismissed.
LOST SPRING
(Lesson No.02)Flamingo
1. Seemapuri a place
on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it metaphorically. Justify this
statement.
A. Seemapuri the rag pickers shanty is just in the
outskirt of Delhi but it is far away from Delhi so far as Delhi‟s glitter and
amenities are concerned. Here the squatters of Bangladesh who came after 1971
war live in structures of mud with roof of tin or tarpaulin. There is no
sewerage, drainage or pipe water that Delites enjoy.
2.
Through the years rag picking has acquired the
‘proportion of a fine art’ in Seemapuri. Justify the statement.
A. The means of survival of migrants of Bangladesh in
Seemapuri is rag picking. Garbage to them is gold. Like a fine art that has no
end in appealing the sense of beauty the rag picker‟s scrounging
the garbage is a never ending process which provide them their daily bread day
after day.
3.
Does the rag picking mean the same thing for parents
and children? Give reasons for your answer.
A. No, rag picking is not the same for
parents and children. For children it is wrapped in wonders where as for
parents it is the means of survival.
4.
Why was not Saheb happy on getting a job?
A. Saheb was not happy on getting a job in tea stall
for a salary of Rs.800/- per month as he lost his freedom. He had to carry the
stall owner’s steel canister in place of his bag. He lost his
carefree look He was now no longer his own master.
5. Why don’t the
bangle makers of Firozabad organise themselves?
A. The bangle
makers are trapped in the vicious circle of middlemen and police. If they
organise a co operative they will be hauled up, beaten and dragged to jail by
police for doing something illegal. There is no leader to help them out from
their misery. They are the victims of greed and injustice.
DEEP WATER
(Lesson No.03) Flamingo
1.What had
happened when Douglas was three or four years old?
A.When Douglas
was three or four years old he was on the California beach with his father.
There the sea waves knocked him down and swept over him. He felt breathless
buried in the water and was frightened; but his father laughed at him.
2.What was the
misadventure of Douglas? How did it end?
A. The
misadventure was his being ducked by a big bruiser of a boy of eighteen in the
YMCA swimming pool. He was drowned and nearly dying in the pool; but was
somehow miraculously saved from the mouth of death
3.How was the
instructor successful in making Douglas a perfect swimmier?
A. The
instructor made Douglas a perfect swimmer by removing his fear of being drowned
and teaching him swimming piece by piece in a period of three months. During
the training he let Douglas swim back and forth of the pool tying him with a
pulley.
He taught him to
put his face under the water to exhale raise above it to inhale.
4.How did
Douglas finally over come his fear of water? A. Douglas over came his fear of
water by challenging the fear itself and going for several round of swimming in
the pool; but finally the residual fear he over came when he went up to Tie ton
to Conrad meadows and swam across the other shore and back of the warm lake as
Doug Corpron used to do.
5.What thought
of Roosevelt deeply impacted Douglas? How did the thoughts apply to his life? A. The thought
of Roosevelt that there is terror in the fear of death had deep impact on
Douglas. He had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror of the
fear of death. But later he brushed aside his fear by challenging it by the
will to live and succeeded.
Poetry
Flamingo-English Reader
(Class 12)
Unit Test-I
MM:25
Flamingo(Poetry)
1.
My Mother at Sixty-Six 2. An Elementary Classroom In a Slum
SHORT QUESTIONS IN POETRY-CLASS
XII ENGLISH CORE
1.
My Mother at Sixty-Six (First Poem)
1.
What did the poet realise looking
at her mother in the car?
ANS. When the poet saw
her mother’s face ashen like that of a corpse in the car she realised with pain
that her mother has grown old and would die soon.
2. How was the scene
outside the moving car different from the inside one?
ANS. Inside the car
the scene was inert and lifeless. The poet’s old mother has dozed off. With her
mouth slightly opened she was looking like a corpse. In contrast the scene
outside was full of life and energy with trees sprinting and children spilling
out of their homes.
3.
How does the poet describe her
mother?
ANS. The poet compares
her sixty-six years old mother with late winter’s moon. In her old age she has
become pale, wan and dim like the late winter’s moon whose journey of life will
be over soon.
4. What is the old
familiar ache the poet felt?
ANS. The childhood
fear and pain about the aging and inevitability of death gripped the poet
seeing her mother’s failing health. She realised soon her mother would die and
she would be separated from her forever
2. An Elementary
Classroom In a Slum (Second Poem)
1. How do the children of
the elementary school in a slum look?
ANS. They look grim. Their faces are pale and
lifeless. The torn hair around their pale faces look like rootless weeds. They
look ill, weak, exhausted and depressed due to malnutrition. Their eyes shine
like the rat’s eyes in their diseased body.
2. How has the poet
expressed his despair and hope?
ANS. The poet has expressed his despair through
the paper-thin boy who has inherited his father’s gnarling disease and his hope
through the unnoted boy who sits on the last seat and dreams of squirrel’s game
out side the class room in the tree- trunk.
Flamingo- Poetry (Class 12)
3.
Why don’t the maps and pictures
have any relevance to the children of the slum?
ANS. The maps and pictures that decorate the
classroom walls belong to the world of rich. There is a big gap between the
world in which the
slum children live and
the world of the rich. The beautiful wall hangings cannot cheer them as they
are diseased and suffer from malnutrition and their future full of
uncertainties.
4.
What does the poet want for the
children of the slum?
ANS. The poet does not want the children to be
cramped in classrooms with pictures donated by the rich that have no relevance
to their living; rather they should be allowed to explore the world, get
strength from the Sun and fight the social injustice.
Vistas-Supplementary
Reader (Class 12)
(English Core)
Chapters Deleted by CBSE
i)
The Third Level
ii)
Journey to the End of the Earth
THE
Tiger King (Lesson No.02)Vistas Unit Test-I
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?
A. When the baby barely ten days old opens its lips in speech the chief
astrologer was wonderstruck. He thought it to be incredible that the baby
raised an intelligent question –to know about the manner of his death. The
astrologer told that the prince was born in the hour of the bull. The bull and
tiger are enemies. Therefore, death to him shall come from the Tiger. The tiger
king growled, “Let tigers beware!”
2. Why was it
celebration time for all the tigers inhabiting Pratibandapuram?
A. There was a celebration time for all the tigers inhabiting
Pratibandapuram because the state banned tiger hunting by any one except the
Maharaja and a proclamation was issued to the effect that if any one dared to
fling a stone at a tiger, all his wealth and property would be confiscated.
3. What did the Maharaja do when he stood in danger of losing
his kingdom in refusing the British officer permission for tiger hunting?
A. The Maharaja obtained some fifty expensive diamond rings
of different designs from a British Jewellery Company in Calcutta and send them
to the British officer‟s good lady expecting her to choose one or two rings and send
the rest back. But she kept all the rings and thanked the Maharaja for the
gift. This cost the Maharaja three lakh rupees; but his kingdom was saved.
4. What plan did the Maharaja think of to fulfill his vow to
kill hundred tigers after the tiger population became extinct in his state?
A. When the tiger population became extinct in his state the
Maharaja planned to marry a girl of royal family of a native state with a large
tiger population so that he would kill the remaining thirty tigers in the sate
of his father –in-law when he visits that. 5. What caused the death of the
Maharaja? A. The prophecy of the chief astrologer came true. A toy-wooden
tiger-the hundredth tiger killed the Maharaja. The silver quill on the wooden
tiger pierced his hand when he was plying with it on the crown prince‟s
third birthday. It caused a suppurating sore that spread all over the arm. He
was operated but died.
The
Enemy
(Lesson No.04) Vistas Unit Test-I
1.Why didn’t Dr Sadao put the wounded
man back in the sea even though he was his enemy?
A. Dr Sadao could not
put the wounded man back in the sea even though he was an enemy because he was
a Doctor and the foremost duty of a doctor is to save life. He knew the man
would die if not tended medically. This would be against medical ethics. So, he
rescued him to give medical treatment.
2.How did the servants express their
displeasure?
A. The servants did not
like the idea of helping an enemy. Yumi refused to wash the white man. They
stopped working; but became watchful as long as a white man was harbored there.
3.How did Hanna show her human side to
the wounded man after the operation?
A. Hanna nursed the man
herself. When he was getting ready to face some fearful eventuality she told
him not to be afraid of anything. Then she knelt and fed him gently from the
porcelain spoon. She also told him that he would be soon strong.
4.What did Dr Sadao do to send off the
man?
A. As soon as it was
dark Dr Sadao dragged the stout boat down to the shore. He put food, bottled
water and two quilts. He medically examined the man. Then gave him his own
little flashlight to signal for food, gave him Japanese clothes, covered his
blond head and let him go.
5.What message does ‘The Enemy’ give?
A. „The Enemy‟ gives the message that
humanism transcends all man made prejudices and barriers. Here Dr Sadao upholds
the ethics of medical profession in treating an enemy. The story is a great
lesson of peace, love, sympathy, fellow feeling and humanism.
Should
Wizard Hit Mommy? (Lesson
No.05) Vistas Unit
Test-I
1.What was
usually the basic storyline of the tale that Jack told Jo almost daily?
A. The stories that Jack used to tell Joe
were the slight variation of the basic tale about a small creature usually
named Roger. Roger would go to the wise owl whenever in trouble. The wise owl
would ask him to go to the wizard who would finally solve Roger‟s problem.
2.Decribe the
wizard’s room.
A.The wizard‟s room is a white house over the crick.
Inside it are all magic things all jumbled together in a big dusty heap as the
wizard did not have any cleaning lady.
3.How did Roger Skunk’s mommy react when he
smelling ‘roses’ went home?
A.
When Roger Skunk smelling „roses‟ reached home
his mommy asked what was that awful smell. Roger Skunk replied that the wizard
had made him
smell like that. She got angry and with Roger went to
the wizard and hit his head with an umbrella.
4.How did Jo
react to Jack’s storyline?
A. Jo did not agree with Jack‟s version of the story in which Roger Skunk‟s mommy hit
that wizard right over his head for changing Roger Skunk‟s smell.
Instead she wanted the wizard hit Skunk‟s mommy and
did not change that little Skunk‟s smell back.
5.What does Jack actually want Jo to
know and understand in the story?
A. Jack actually wants
Jo to know and understand that parents always love their children as they are.
Smelling good or bad is immaterial against the natural biological bond. But
this thing is Jo‟s
beyond understanding. She understands what she sees around; but not beyond
that.
The
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