List of top English Questions asked in CBSE CLASS XII

How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dream?
What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?
List the places that Gandhi visited between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran.
“When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.”
Can you think of examples in history where a conquered people had their language taken away from them or had a language imposed on them?
What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us? Are beautiful things worth treasuring?
What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
What is the “misadventure” that William Douglas speaks about?
How did this experience affect him?
What makes for the distinction between the various genres of fiction—‘a sports story’, ‘a Western story’, ‘a jungle story’ and science fiction?
How does Asimov establish that John Campbell was wrong in his opinion that it is not possible for a science fiction mystery to be fair to a reader in the same way as a classical mystery is?
Which literary works does the author have in mind when he refers to ‘Open Sesame’ or the concept of winged horses or flying carpets?
What are the pitfalls that the writer of science fiction mystery must guard against?
What gives science fiction its validity?
Examine the noun phrases in these sentences from the text.
• This may be particularly significant in understanding the class basis of the rapid spread of Buddhism, in particular, in India.
Discuss the author’s attitude towards the pre-scientific imagination and the tone he adopts while talking about it.
What is the parallel drawn between myths and legends of the past and science fiction?
How is the message of the Gita generally understood and portrayed? What change in interpretation does Sen suggest?
Does Amartya Sen see argumentation as a positive or a negative value?
This essay is an example of argumentative writing. Supporting statements with evidence is a feature of this kind of writing. For each of the statements given below state the supportive evidence provided in the essay
(i) Prolixity is not alien to India.
(ii) The arguments are also, often enough, substantive.
(iii) This admiration for the Gita, and Krishna’s arguments in particular, has been a lasting phenomenon in parts of European culture.
(iv) There remains a powerful case for ‘faring well’, and not just ‘forward’.
Examine the noun phrases in these sentences from the text
• This concerns the relation—and the distance—between income and achievement.
Sen has sought here to dispel some misconceptions about democracy in India. What are these misconceptions?
How, according to Sen, has the tradition of public discussion and interactive reasoning helped the success of democracy in India?
What is Sen’s interpretation of the positions taken by Krishna and Arjuna in the debate between them? [Note Sen’s comment: ‘Arjuna’s contrary arguments are not really vanquished... There remains a powerful case for ‘faring well’ and not just ‘faring forward’.]
Examine the noun phrases in these sentences from the text
• The second woman head of the Indian National Congress, Nellie Sengupta, was elected in 1933.
What are the three major issues Sen discusses here in relation to India’s dialogic tradition?