List of top English Questions asked in CBSE CLASS XII

What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.
What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?
Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the rural poor?
What does the title of the poem suggest to you? Are you reminded of other poems on tigers?
Why do you think Aunt Jennifer's hands are 'fluttering through her wool' in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.
What does the line, 'Therefore are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth' suggest to you?
What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?
Do we experience things of beauty only for short moments or do they make a lasting impression on us?
What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?
What do you understand by the expression “thumbprints on his windpipe”?
Who, in today’s world, is our chief source of information about personalities?
How does Eco find the time to write so much?
Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, The Name of the Rose?
Who was The Boss of Gemini Studios?
Why is the Englishman’s visit referred to as unexplained mystery?
Who was the English visitor to the studios?
How did the author discover who the English visitor to the studios was?
What does The God that Failed refer to?
What are some of the positive views on interviews?
Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
What is the belief in some primitive cultures about being photographed?
What work did the ‘office boy’ do in the Gemini Studios? Why did he join the studios? Why was he disappointed?