DEHRADUN PUBLIC SCHOOL
II TERM ASSIGNMENT (2016-17)
SUBJECT –ENGLISH (301)
CLASS –XII
BOOK: FLAMINGO (PROSE)
CHAPTER-1 DEEP WATER
Short answer questions
Q1. How did the author feel when he was tossed into the water?
Q2.How did the instructor turn William Douglas into a swimmer?
Q3.What was William’s early childhood fear of the water? How did it affect him the rest of his life?
Long answer question
How did Douglas try to save himself from drowning in the YMCA pool?
Value Based question
Fear is a stumbling block to success unless challenged. Douglas proves it by overcoming his fear of water.
‘Braving the odds is the key to success’ Comment.
CHAPTER -2 GOING PLACES
Short answer questions
Q1. Why did not Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?
Q2.What did Sophie imagine about her meeting with Danny Casey?
Q3. What was the weekly pilgrimage in the story ‘Going Places’?
Long answer question
Compare and contrast Sophie and Jansie, highlighting their temperaments and aspirations?
Value based question
Every teenager has a hero/ heroine to admire. So many times they become role models for them. What is
wrong if Sophie fantasies about Danny Casey and is ambitious in life?
BOOK –FLAMINGO [POETRY]
POEM-1 MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX
Short answer questions
Q1.How did the face of Kamala’s mother betray her thoughts?
Q2.What were Kamala Das’ fears as a child in the poem ‘My mother at sixty six’?
Q3.Why has the poet’s mother compared to the late winter’s moon?
Long answer question
Do you think the poem reflects on the escapist tendency of the poet?
POEM- 2 AUNT’S JENNIFER’S TIGERS
Short answer questions
Q.1 What ideology does the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s tigers” propound?
Q.2 Is Aunt Jennifer able to find a refuge in her art?
Q.3 What do ‘tigers’ symbolize in the poem?
Long answer question
Do you think the poem has a veiled message in it? If so, what is it?
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BOOK - VISTAS
CHAPTER -1 THE ENEMY
Short answer questions
Q1.What did Dr. Sadao do to help Tom escape to freedom?
Q2. Why did the messenger come to Dr. Sadao ? What did Hana think about it?
Q3.Was Dr. Sadao arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
Long answer question
What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human consideration,
lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or simply self –absorption?
Value based question
Highlighting its horrors and condemning war, write an article for your school magazine on “The Need For
Universal Brotherhood”.
CHAPTER -2 EVANS TRIES AN O- LEVEL
Short answer questions
Q1. What was his German teacher’s opinion of Evan’s proficiency in German?
Q2. What were the contents of the small brown suitcase that Mc Leery carried?
Q3. How did Evans outwit the governor in the end?
Long answer question
What kind of a person was the governor of the prison in ‘Evans tries an O- Level’? Mention any four lapses
in his arrangement for Evans’ O level exam that helped Evans escape?
Value based question
The governor and the prison officers reveal the softer side of the law enforcing authorities. For all their
intelligence as well as miscalculations, they are caring men. Bring out the values they present.
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