List of top English Questions

Answer in about 40 words: When did Bama feel humiliated?
(From 'Memories of Childhood' — 'We Too Are Human Beings' by Bama)
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).
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?
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?
Write the central idea of Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (by Adrienne Rich).
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 A Roadside Stand (by Robert Frost).
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: "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 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)
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: Why did the author, W. Douglas, have an aversion to the water from the beginning?
(From 'Deep Water' by William Douglas)
Answer in about 40 words: Why did Rajkumar Shukla come to the Congress session?
(From 'Indigo' by Louis Fischer)
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)
Combine into a Complex Sentence: The servant had a duty to perform. The duty was difficult.
Combine into a Simple Sentence: Tagore was a famous Bengali poet. He is the author of the Gitanjali.
Transform into an Affirmative sentence: Do not commit mistakes.
Change into indirect speech: The captain said to them, "Bravo! You have done well."
Correct the sentence: The traveller admired beautiful sceneries.
Correct the sentence: Vikas wrote me from Kolkata.
Transform into Passive Voice: Someone has picked my pocket.
The government by a ruler who has unlimited power is :
Which of the following is a pair of antonyms?