List of top English Questions

What lessons do we learn from such hazardous experiences when we are face-to-face with death?
What are the different ways in which Tilly’s parents could have reacted to her behaviour? What would you have done if you were in their place?
Do you think Tilly’s mother was alarmed by them?
Point out the difference between the slavery of man to Nature and the unnatural slavery of man to Man.
The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?
How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dream?
Why did Tilly’s family come to Thailand?
List the places that Gandhi visited between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran.
Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change?
What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
How did this experience affect him?
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.
What is the parallel drawn between myths and legends of the past and science fiction?
What gives science fiction its validity?
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 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?
What are the pitfalls that the writer of science fiction mystery must guard against?
Discuss the author’s attitude towards the pre-scientific imagination and the tone he adopts while talking about it.
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’.]
What are the three major issues Sen discusses here in relation to India’s dialogic tradition?
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?
Does Amartya Sen see argumentation as a positive or a negative value?
How is the message of the Gita generally understood and portrayed? What change in interpretation does Sen suggest?