List of top English Questions

Answer in about 40 words: What is called 'a first day cover' as narrated by Charley?
(From 'The Third Level' by Jack Finney)
Answer in about 40 words: When did Bama feel humiliated?
(From 'Memories of Childhood' — 'We Too Are Human Beings' by Bama)
Answer in about 40 words: What part of history would it be to visit Antarctica now?
(From 'Journey to the End of the Earth' by Tishani Doshi)
Answer in about 80 words: Describe the character of Dr. Sadao on the basis of the text read.
(From 'The Enemy' by Pearl S. Buck)
Answer in about 80 words: What vow did the Maharaja take and how did he fulfil that?
(From 'The Tiger King' by Kalki)
Answer in about 40 words: When did Zitkala-Sa have to suffer extreme indignities?
(From 'Memories of Childhood' — 'The Cutting of My Long Hair' by Zitkala-Sa)
Answer in about 80 words: What was the position of Kothamangalam Subbu in Gemini Studios as described in the lesson 'Poets and Pancakes'?
(By Asokamitran)
Write the central idea of Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (by Adrienne Rich).
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

b) When would they all be together?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

c) Name the poet and the poem of the above lines, correctly.
Write the central idea of My Mother at Sixty-six (by Kamala Das).
Write the central idea of A Roadside Stand (by Robert Frost).
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

a) How is the exotic moment described by the poet?
Answer in about 80 words: In what way did M. Hamel blame himself and others for the negligence of the study of French language?
(From 'The Last Lesson' by Alphonse Daudet)
Answer in about 40 words: Why did the author, W. Douglas, have an aversion to the water from the beginning?
(From 'Deep Water' by William Douglas)
Use the pair 'Emerge - Immerge' in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear.
Use the pair 'Stationary - Stationery' in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear.
Answer in about 40 words: "If at the end of the day, we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that give us no grain." What meaning do you infer from this statement?
(From 'Lost Spring' by Anees Jung)
Answer in about 40 words: What was the ambition of the ironmaster who owned Ramsjo Iron Mill in those days?
(From 'The Rattrap' by Selma Lagerlöf)
Translate the following passage into English:
हमारा देश 15 अगस्त, 1947 को स्वतंत्र हुआ था। अतीत के भारत और आज के भारत में बड़ा अंतर है। प्राचीनकाल में हम सम्पन्न थे। देश में धनधान्य की कमी नहीं थी और लोग सुखी थे। आज सुख सुविधायें अनेक हैं, फिर भी देश में अन्धकार ही अन्धकार छाया हुआ है। हमारी बढ़ती जनसंख्या और साम्प्रदायिक दंगे ये दो प्रमुख समस्यायें हैं जिन्हें हमें सुलझाना है।
Answer in about 40 words: Why did Rajkumar Shukla come to the Congress session?
(From 'Indigo' by Louis Fischer)
Change into indirect speech: The captain said to them, "Bravo! You have done well."
Correct the sentence: The traveller admired beautiful sceneries.
Transform into Passive Voice: Someone has picked my pocket.
Combine into a Complex Sentence: The servant had a duty to perform. The duty was difficult.