THE LETTER
Dhumaketu
Short Answer Type Questions (Each
question carries 2 marks):
1. The post office became a
pilgrimage for Ali. How?
2. Why did Ali nit come to
the post office for several days? Why was he impatient when he finally returned
to the post office?
3. What request did Ali make
to Lakshmi Das?
4. What was Ali’s request to
the clerk?
5. How did the postmaster
become a changed man?
6. What brings about a change
in the postmaster?
7. What is the role of the
letter in the story by Dhumaketu?
8. What is the impression of
the postmaster and the postman in the story “The Letter”?
9. ‘Ali is a true example of
love, faith and sacrifice.’ Elaborate.
10.
Ali in the story is a lonely man. How does the author bring out
his loneliness?
11.
How did loneliness start haunting Ali? (I)
12.
Describe the daily routine of the post office clerks.(I)
13.
Why did the young peons come to the office? What did they
discuss?(I)
14.
“The postman began to make a game of him.’ Explain. (I)
15.
Why did Ali not come to the post office for several days? Why
was he impatient when he finally returned to the post office?
16.
What is the importance of the letter in the story?
Long Answer Type
Questions: (Each question carries 8
marks)
1. Do you think Ali’s misery
is a result of his past deeds? Give reasons to justify your answer.
2. One feels other’s pain
only when one goes through it himself/ herself. Explain the postmaster’s change
of heart in the chapter “The Letter’ and why did it it take place?
3. Justify the title ‘The
Letter’.
4. Coachman Ali and the
postmaster share feelings of guilt but their realizations come a little too
late to make amends. Describe what they feel guilty about and how the
realizations come to them.
5. Life is often a reflection
of one’s own deeds. God renders us according to our deeds. Do you think Ali and
the postmaster are examples of this philosophical thought?
6. The word ‘Letter’ is
interwoven into the text and imparts to us the value of letters which are
living documents of human emotions. Justify.
7. Imagine you are the
postmaster and have just gone and laid Miriam’s letter on Ali’s grave. You come
back home and reflect what has happened. The newly-awakened father’s heart in
you is reproaching you for having failed to understand Ali’s anxiety. As the
postmaster write a diary entry in about 150-175 words outlining your feelings.
MRS. PACKLETIDE’S TIGER
Saki
Short Answer Type Questions (2 marks
each):
1. What was Mrs. Packletide’s motive to shoot a
tiger?
2. What had Mrs. Packletide already arranged in
her mind for Loona Bimberton?
3. Why did Mrs. Packletide decide to give a party
in honour of Loona Bimberton? What did she plan to present Loona on her
birthday?
4. How did the villagers help Mrs. Packletide in
killing the tiger?
5. Why had the turned to eating small animals?
6. What were the villagers worried about in the
lesson ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger’?
7. What did Mrs. Packletide carry with her when
she went to hunt a tiger and why?
8. What preparations were made for the tiger
shoot?
9. Who was Miss Mebbin? What was her relationship
with Mrs. Packletide?
10.
How
much money did Mrs. Packletide pay to the villagers? Why?
11.
How
did the villagers react to the tiger’s death?
12.
Prove
that Miss Mebbin had a protective elder sisterly attitude towards the money
spent by Mrs. Packletide.
13.
What
discovery annoyed Mrs. Packletide?
14.
How
did Louisa Mebbin manage to buy the pretty weekend cottage?
15.
How
did Miss Louisa Mebbin blackmail Mrs. Packletide?
16.
How
did Louisa Mebbin exploit the incident of killing the tiger to her greatest
advantage?
17.
“Mrs.
Packletide indulges in no more big game shooting.” What put her off from going
on further hunts?
18.
“The
incidental expenses are heavy”, She confides to inquiring friends. Who is the
speaker? What is she referring to here?
19.
Depict
the instances of humour in “Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger”.
20.
Would
you agree that Mrs. Packletide was jealous? Give reasons.
21.
“Mrs.
Packletide was a good shot.” Discuss.
22.
Why
did Mrs. Packletide give up big-game shooting ?
23.
Do
you think that Louisa Mebbin was devoted to Mrs. Packletide? Give reasons for
your answers.
Long
Answer Type Questions (8 marks each):
1. Mrs. Packletide’s desire became a constant
trouble for her. Explain.
2. What comment did Miss Mebbin make after Mrs.
Packletide had fired the shot? Why did she make this comment? How did
Packletide react to this comment?
3. Mrs. Packletide develops extreme jealousy for
Loona Bimberton? She gives vent to her feelings by writing a diary entry. As
Mrs. Packletide, write a diary entry.
4. Write the character sketch of Mrs. Packletide.
5. As one of the villagers participating in the
hunting expedition, you are surprised to see an extravagant display of wealth
and money for fame which ends in failure. You decide to write a diary entry
mocking at the situation and expressing your feelings against the show of false
ego.
THE FROG AND THE NIGHTINGALE
VIKRAM SETH
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
1. How did the animals in the forest react to the
frog’s song?
2. Why did the audience applaud the nightingale’s
song?
3. How did the frog impress the nightingale when
he first met her?
4. How does the frog introduce himself to the
nightingale?
5. Why did the nightingale call the frog a Mozart
in disguise?
6. What according to the nightingale was a fairy
tale?
7. How did the animals react to the nightingale’s
song?
8. How did the frog train the nightingale?
9. Why is the frog’s joy both sweet and bitter?
10.
What
was the frog’s reaction when the earning from the box office dropped?
11.
How
did the frog satisfy his greed through the nightingale’s song?
12.
Why
according to you did the frog exploit the nightingale?
13.
Do
you agree with the frog’s assessment that the nightingale is a brainless bird?
14.
Why
is the nightingale called foolish?
15.
What is the irony in the statement of the frog
when he says, “That your song must be your own’?
16.
What
was the aim of the frog?
17.
How
did the frog once again become the unrivalled king of the bog?
18.
Describe
the role of the audience in the tragic fate of the nightingale.
19.
To some extent the nightingale was herself
responsible for her downfall and death. Comment.
20.
Comment
on the frog’s character.
21.
What
message does the poet wish to give in the poem, “The Frog and the Nightingale”?
LONG
ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
1. How did the nightingale fall prey to the
heartless frog?
2. How did the nightingale fall prey to the
heartless frog?
3. “That your song must be your own.” Write the
significance of the statement said by the frog in “The Frog and the
Nightingale”.
SONNET NO.55 (NOT
MARBLE,NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS)
SHAKESPEARE
Short Answer Type Questions (2 marks each):
1. Why did rich people get
their statues erected?
2. In what way is the poet
stronger than powerful rulers?
3. What do time and war do to
the monuments?
4. Describe how the monuments
and statues brave the ravages of time.
5. Why does Shakespeare refer
to war as ‘wasteful war’?
6. The poet says that neither
forces of nature nor wars can destroy his poetry. What quality of the poet is
revealed through these lines?
7. What according to the poet
transcend time in the poem.
8. How does the time destroy
the monuments and memorials?
9. Why does the poem refer to
‘Time’ as being sluttish?
10.
How has the poet personified time?
11.
How will the living record of the memory remain according to
the poet in the sonnet?
12.
How does the poet pay tribute to friendship?
13.
How long does the poet feel the lover can live in the rhyme
written by him?
14.
How has the poet eternalized the subject of his attention in
this poem?
15.
Explain in your own words how poetry has been glorified by
the poet.
16.
How will posterity
remember the poet’s friend?
17.
What differences does the poet bring out between his rhyme
and the monuments?
18.
What is the theme of the sonnet no.55?
19.
What message does he poet wish to convey through his poem?
20.
Bring out the substance of the sonnet.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
1. Materialistic things don’t
really last. Explain this with reference to sonnet no. 55.
2. Critical appreciation of
the poem.
OZYMANDIAS
P.B.SHELLEY
Short
Answer Type Questions (2markseach):
1. What message is conveyed
through the poem?
2. What did the traveler see
in the desert?
3. Describe the face of the
half sunk statue?
4. In what condition was the
statue found?
5. Who does the ‘shattered
visage’ in the poem belong to and why is it ‘half sunk’?
6. In the poem, the poet
says, ‘the hand that mocked them, and that fed’. How does the hand ‘mock them’?
7. Who had written the
inscription on the pedestal below the statue? What did it indicate?
8. “My name is Ozymandias,
king of kings.”Why does Ozymandias refer to himself as king of kings? What
quality of king is revealed through the statement?
9. What is ironic about the
inscription on the pedestal of Ozymandias’ statue?
10.
What quality of king Ozymandias does the poem reflect?
11.
What do the inscriptions about Ozymandias on the pedestal
reveal about him?
12.
What is the theme of the poem?
13.
What words were written on the pedestal of the broken statue?
What did they show?
14.
What moral is Shelley teaching through the poem?
15.
What message does the poem convey?
16.
What is ironic about the fate of Ozymandias?
17.
What is your impression of Ozymandias as a king?
18.
Why does the partially destroyed statue of Ozymandias
symbolize?
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
1. Bring out the irony in the
words, “My name is Ozymandias,king of kings, Look on my works,ye mighty, and
despair!” What lesson does the irony teach us?
2. Describe how Shelley
brings out the futility of power and riches in the poem.
3. The poem illustrates the
vanity of human greatness. Comment.
4.
Write the theme of the poem “Ozymandias”.
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