CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper 2010 (Set 28/1)

CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

  Why did Margayya refuse to part with his purse?
  

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• 2.

  Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
  Pity would be no more
  If we did not make somebody Poor;
  And Mercy no more could be
  If all were as happy as we.
  And mutual fear brings peace,
  Till the selfish loves increase:
  Then Cruelty knits a snare,
  And spreads his baits with care.
  He sits down with holy fears,
  And waters the ground with tears;
  Then Humility takes its root
  Underneath his foot.
  (The Human Abstract)

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• 3.

  Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
  Solomon Margolin regarded her quietly. She had had her own share of troubles. She had suffered in silence for her two brothers, even for Hans, the Nazi. She had gone through a prolonged change of life. Now her face was flushed and covered with beads of sweat. He earned more than enough to pay for a maid, yet Gretl insisted on doing all the housework herself, even the laundry. It had become a mania with her. Every day she scoured the oven. She was forever polishing the windows of their apartment on the sixteenth floor and without using a safety belt.
  (A Wedding in Brownsville)
  

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• 4.

  Discuss the 'House of Enlightenment' and what it symbolizes for Balu.
  

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• 5.

  What is the contrast between the vitality of the swans and the decline of human life?
  

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• 6.

  Read the following poem ‘The Rain’ by Kamala Das :
  We left that old ungainly house
  When my dog died there, after
  The burial, after the rose
  Flowered twice, pulling it by its
  Roots and carting it with our books,
  Clothes and chairs in a hurry.
  We live in a new house now,
  And, the roofs do not leak, but, when
  It rains here, I see the rain drench
  That empty house, I hear it fall
  Where my puppy now lies.
  Alone..
  Based on your understanding of the poem, answer the questions given below: