List of top English Questions

“I’ll take the risk.” What is the risk? Why does the narrator take it?
“They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly.” Why did the seagull’s father and mother threaten him and cajole him to fly?
“The sight of the food maddened him.” What does this suggest? What compelled the young seagull to finally fly?
Why was the young seagull afraid to fly? Do you think all young birds are afraid to make their first flight, or are some birds more timid than others? Do you think a human baby also finds it a challenge to take its first steps?
How did Mandela’s ‘hunger for freedom’ change his life?
How did Mandela’s understanding of freedom change with age and experience?
Would you agree that the “depths of oppression” create “heights of character”? How does Mandela illustrate this? Can you add your own examples to this argument?
What does Mandela mean when he says he is “simply the sum of all those African patriots” who had gone before him?
Why did such a large number of international leaders attend the inauguration? What did it signify the triumph of?
There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question. greedy, naive, stupid, ungrateful,selfish, comical, unquestioning.
Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation? (Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of it. An ironic situation is strange or amusing because it is the opposite of what is expected.)
Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
Why did the peddler sign himself as Captain von Stahle?
How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of future?
The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?
Three reasons why the author’s grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school.
Who had written the letter, to whom, and when?
In the following passage, the first and the last parts of the sentence are numbered 1 and 6.The rest of the sentence is split into four parts and named, P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the parts and find out which of the four combinations is correct. Then find the correct answer and blacken the appropriate rectangle in the Answer Sheet.
1. Making ourselves
P. our language
Q. part of growing into
R. masters of
S. is an important
6. full manhood or womanhood
In the following passage, the first and the last parts of the sentence are numbered 1 and 6.The rest of the sentence is split into four parts and named, P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the parts and find out which of the four combinations is correct. Then find the correct answer and blacken the appropriate rectangle in the Answer Sheet.
1. The very first battle they fought
P. and they had to fall back
Q. cross the border
R. was lost
S. letting the enemy
6. an enter the country