Prose
Leela’s Friend
👉🏻 1. “Don’t send him away. Let us keep him in our house.” – Who was the speaker
and to whom was it spoken? About whom was it said? How did the person or persons
spoken to react?
👉🏻 2. “Sidda, come and play!” – Who is the speaker? What would Sidda do when he
heard this call? What kind of games did the speaker play?
👉🏻 3. “He looked her mutely, like an animal.” – Who looked at and to whom? What
was the situation when this occurred?
Karma
👉🏻 4. Describe the character of Lady Lal.
👉🏻 5. ‘Preposterous, preposterous! he shouted’ – Who shouted and why? What was
the result?
👉🏻 6. ‘You are a bit of all right, old chap’ – Who is the speaker? Who has been
referred to as ‘old chap’? What picture of the person’s character here spoken to is
revealed in this line?
👉🏻 7. Bring out the significance of the title ‘Karma’.
Jimmy Valentine
👉🏻 8. Who is Ben Price? How did he come to a decision that Jimmy had resume his
business? What did decide next?
👉🏻 9. “one day Jimmy sat down in his room and wrote a letter to an old friend” – who
is the old friend? What does Jimmy write and why?
👉🏻 10. Who is Ralph D. Spencer? What is Phoenix? Why has the comparison been
made?
👉🏻 11. “That child she can’t stand it long in there” – Who is reffered to here? Why
was she in danger? How was she saved?
👉🏻 12. Describe the Character of Jimmy Valentine.
Nobel Lecture
👉🏻 13. ‘And she died with a smile on her face.’ – How did she die with a smile on her
face?
👉🏻 14. ‘I had the most extraordinary experience with the Hindu family that had eight
children.’ – Which experience is Mother Teresa speaking of?
👉🏻 15. In what ways does Mother Teresa appeal to the emotions of her audience?
What stories does she share of her encounters with the poor in Kolkata?
👉🏻 16. Why did Mother Teresa say that poor people are great people?
The Place of Art in Education
👉🏻 17. According to Nandalal Bose, how are beauty and aesthetics connected to a
person’s physical and mental well–being? Explain with an example from the text.
👉🏻 18. According to Nandalal Bose, how can the aesthetic sensibilities of the
students be increased?
👉🏻 19. How does a poor Santhal express his sense of beauty and order in his daily
life?
Poetry
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
👉🏻 1. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.” – What for such a comparison is
made in the poem? Who is described as ‘Dull soul’ and why?
👉🏻 2. Describe the poet’s attitude to nature revealed in the poem ‘Upon Westminster
Bridge’.
Meeting at Night
👉🏻 3. Justify the title of the poem ‘Meeting at Night’.
👉🏻 4. Evaluate ‘Meeting at Night’ as love poem.
👉🏻 5. “And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, than the two hearts beating
each to each!” – Whose voice is referred to here? Why is the voice full of joy and
fear?
The Sick Rose
👉🏻 6. Bring out the central idea of the poem ‘The Sick Rose’.
Brotherhood
👉🏻 7. Bring out the central idea of the poem ‘Brotherhood’.
👉🏻 8. What does the poet mean by ‘I am a man: little do I last’? What does he try to
convey through the expression ‘the night is enormous’?
👉🏻 9. In the poem ‘Brotherhood’ what does the poet say about his position on earth?
What does the poet mean by ‘I too written’? How does he understand this?
Daybreak
👉🏻 10. Who takes the responsibility of announcing the breaking of the day? How is
this feat achieved?
👉🏻 11. Narrate the wind’s activities as presented in the poem ‘Daybreak’.
👉🏻 12. Write the substance of the poem ‘Daybreak’.
Rapid Reader
Commedy of Errors
👉🏻 1. Who was Aegeon? How did he arrive at Ephesus? What made the Duke pity on
Aegeon?
👉🏻 2. Why did Antipholus Younger think Ephesus to be the land of sorceress and
witches?
👉🏻 3. How did Aegeon find out all his family members?
As You Like It
👉🏻 4. How was the banished Duke’s life in the Forest of Arden?
👉🏻 5. Who is Celia? Why did she leave her father’s dukedom? Write in your own
words the experiences of Rosalind and Celia when they reached the forest of Arden .
👉🏻 6. How did Adam prove his loyalty towards his master?
Twelfth Night
👉🏻 7. Who was Olivia? What saddened her? Why did she not allow any visitors?
👉🏻 8. How was the confusion of mistaken identity overcome in ‘Twelfth Night’.
👉🏻 9. What information given by the captain consoled Viola? What plan did Viola
think of to reach the Duke? How did the captain help her in this?
👉🏻 10. Why did Duke Orsino send Viola to Orsino? What was Olivia’s reply?
Othello
👉🏻 11. Why did Othello decide to kill his wife and himself?
👉🏻 12. What led Desdemona to marry Othell?
👉🏻 13. What role did the handkerchief play in bringing about Desdemona’s ruins?
👉🏻 14. How did Othello overcome the fury of Brabantio after marry Desdemona?
Macbeth
👉🏻 15. Give a brief account of the ‘Banquet Scene’ in ‘Macbeth’.
👉🏻 16. Why did Lady Macbeth plot to kill the king? What did Macbeth say to oppose
her?
👉🏻 17. Bring out the significance of the opening scene of Macbeth.
👉🏻 18. What was the mystery behind the moving of Birnam woods?
👉🏻 19. Describe the character of Macbeth.
