COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
PREVIOUS YEARS' QUESTIONS
CHAPTER-1(TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA)
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (Each question carries 2 marks) :
1. Justify the title of the story 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'.
2. Why were the two boys living in the streets of Verona?
3. Why were the boys waiting for the last bus from Padua?
4. What did the nurse tell the author about the boys?
5. Why did the boys join the resistance movement against the Germans?
6. What are the odd jobs Jacopo and Nicola did for a living?
7. Which qualities of the narrator impressed the narrator?
8. What were the narrator's feelings for the boys at first? What change did they undergo and why?
9. Why did Nicola and Jacopo develop hatred for the Germans?
10. Who is Lucia? What is she suffering from?
11. How were the boys useful to the author in the story "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
12. Why were Nicola and Jacopo working hard?
13. How did the boys impress the narrator and his companion?
14. What did the narrator see when he looked through the glass partition?
15. Why didn't the two boys disclose their problems to the author?
16. How did the loss of parents in the war affect the two boys?
17. Why didn't the narrator go inside Lucia's room in the hospital? What character trait is revealed here?
18. Draw the contrast between their childish and artless faces and the seriousness beyond their years visible on them.
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