List of top English Questions

What did the author find in a junk shop?

What is the 'sadness' that the poet refers to in the poem?

What does the title of the poem suggest to you? What do you think the poem is about?

Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children 'spilling out of their homes'?

What do you understand about the author’s literary inclinations from the account?

How does the author describe the incongruity of an English poet addressing the audience at Gemini Studios ?

Notice the sentences in the text which are in ‘direct speech’. Why does the author use quotations in his narration?

How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?

The passing of time will no longer affect her, says the poet. Which lines of the poem say this?

“A slumber did my spirit seal,” says the poet. That is, a deep sleep ‘closed off’ his soul (or mind). How does the poet react to his loved one’s death? Does he feel bitter grief ? Or does he feel a great peace?

Now fill in the blanks with suitable words from the ones that you have formed.
(i) Mass literacy was possible only after the __of the printing machine.
(ii) Ramesh is unable to tackle the situation as he lacks__.
(iii) I could not resist the__ to open the letter.
(iv) Hardwork and __are the main keys to success.
(v) The children were almost fainting with__ after being made to stand in the sun.

How did Santosh begin to climb mountains?

Where does the traveler find himself? What problem does he face?

Why did Margie hate school? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun?

How does he describe the old kind of teachers?

What had once happened to Tommy’s teacher?

Answer the following with reference to the story.
“Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
(ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
(iii) What is it contrasted with?

to be physically strong

to give vent to

Tick the item that is closest in meaning to the following phrases

They used their traditional slang of language when the talk to each other but they speak to other groups the use the language that is accepted by the people belonging to all three communities.