List of top English Questions

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.
Do you think the soldiers of the two armies are like each other, or different from each other? Find evidence from the story to support your answer.
Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change?
The story is divided into pre-War and post-War times. What hardships do you think the girl underwent during these times?
Do you think there are also parents like Mrs. Pumphrey?
How does the poet speak to the wind — in anger or with humour? You must also have seen or heard of the wind “crumbling lives”. What is your response to this? Is it like the poet’s?
What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
Do you agree with Margie that schools today are more fun than the school in the story? Give reasons for your answer.
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an Answer?
What is the “misadventure” that William Douglas speaks about?
How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?
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?