CLASS – XII
SUBJECT – ENGLISH
CHAPTER – LOST SPRING
1. What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?
Answer: Saheb is looking for any valuable thing which he can't stand/afford to purchase. He is searching for things like a rupee, silver coin or a couple of shoes. He has gone to the garbage dump in the writer's neighborhood. He lives in Seemapuri in Delhi and has originated from Dhaka.
2. What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?
Answer: The writer says that they don't wear footwear since it is a custom in their families to stay barefoot.
3. Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
Answer: Saheb is glad that he has got work at the tea stall. He will get eight hundred rupees every month and his meals as well.
4. What makes the city of Firozabad famous?
Answer: Firozabad is famous for glass blowing industry.
5. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
Answer: People who work in the glass bangle industry lose their eyesight.
6. How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
Answer: Mukesh dares to dream and has an exit from his circumstance. He tries to become a motor mechanic. On the other hand, his family does not dare to dream. They are too tired and terrified to plan something to come out of their grim situation.
Understanding the text
Q1. What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?
Answer: People migrate from villages to cities or urban communities looking for a superior life. They need to earn money with the goal that they can have a decent life and rear their children in a better way. As city areas have more opportunities for work, this makes them to move from the villages to these big cities.
Q2. Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the text?
Answer: Indeed, I agree that the promises made to poor children are rarely kept. In the story the writer jokingly offers the rag picker boy to join a school that she would open. In fact, she doesn't plan to open a school. She talks thoughtlessly however the boy takes it to be true and later inquires as to whether the school has opened. There are numerous such empty promises in the boy's life in light of the fact that the person who makes the promise never intends to fulfill it.
Q3. What forces conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?
Answer: The writer discloses to us that the bangle – makers of Firozabad are poverty – stricken. They are burdened by the reality of the particular caste in which they are born – bangle – makers. They have to continue the traditional profession. Further, the society has formed a harsh circle around them. The money – lenders, middlemen, policemen, law – keepers, officers and politicians altogether form a barrier around them and tie them in the grip of poverty. They cannot escape from it.
Q4. How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dream?
Answer: Mukesh dared to dream and wished to become a motor mechanic. He wanted to drive cars as well. He took the initial step by seeking to accomplish something other than what's expected from the family-business. I believe that Mukesh can realize his dream with determination and diligent work.
Q5. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
Answer: The poor bangle makers in Firozabad work in risky conditions. The furnaces have high temperatures and no ventilation. Henceforth, they are prone to diseases like lung cancer. While polishing the bangles, the dust hurts their eyes and many lose their vision. They stay in dark for extended periods and so are unable to see during the daytime.
Q6. Why should child labour be eliminated and how?
Answer: Forcing a child to work is a crime. This is so as to counteract explanation of children. Whenever compelled to work, children cannot enjoy their childhood. They can't get appropriate education. Additionally, when they are forced into perilous works, they get ailments at a young age. This demolishes their future. Their parents ignore all of these realities as they need cash. So, the government has to become proactive and take measures to check child labour and authorize the law carefully.
Chapter: A Thing of Beauty
1. How is a thing of beauty a joy forever?
Answer: A thing of beauty gives everlasting satisfaction. Its beauty never diminishes however keeps on expanding with the progression of time. It never fades away.
2. What do you understand by a `bower’?
Answer: 'Bower' is the safe shelter under the shade of trees. It gives protection from the harsh beams of the sun.
3. What kind of a sleep does a 'bower' provide?
Answer: Bower gives a sound sleep, loaded with sweet dreams, health and tranquil breathing.
4. What are we doing every day?
Answer: Every morning, we are weaving a fancy wreath which ties us to the delights of the earth or we are gathering wonderful things that associates us to different wondrous things and keeps us grounded.
5. Which evil things do we possess and suffer from?
Answer: Human beings have characteristics of malignance, hatred and frustration. There is a deficiency of respectable characteristics and men keep on being abhorrent and unfortunate.
6. What removes the pall From our dark spirits?
Answer: A wonderful thing evacuates the pall or cover of misery from our dark spirits.
7. What sprouts a shady boon for sheep and how?
Answer: The old and youthful trees grow branches to give shade and shelter to the sheep. It is a gift for the sheep against the harsh sun.
8. How do 'daffodils' and 'rills' enhance the earth?
Answer: The daffodils sprout and are encompassing by the green world. The clear stream of water make a cooling cover for themselves against the warmth of the sun.
9. Explain ‘the grandeur of the doom’.
Answer: The grandness that we associate with our ancestors and the excellent things made by them.
10. What is implied by ‘all lovely tales that we have heard or read’?
Answer: All the wonderful stories that have been perused or heard by us are also things of beauty as they leave a positive effect.
11. List the things the cause suffering and pain.
Answer: The things that cause suffering and pain are dim periods of our life like despondency, frustration, unfriendly conditions, desolate days, the demise of noble people and ill health.
12. What does the line ‘Therefore are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth’ suggest?
Answer: Every morning we connect nature, to the delights of the earth in spite of all the bitterness that we experience. This is a result of all the excellent things around us.
13. What makes human beings love life in spite of all troubles?
Answer: despite all the sufferings, a thing of beauty encourages us to evacuate the cover of despair or darkness from our lives.
14. Why is grandeur associated with the ‘mighty dead’?
Answer: Grandeur is related with the 'mighty dead' since incredible men will always be associated with their honourable and wonderful deeds and manifestations. They have left a legacy for us to appreciate.
15. What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?
Answer: The writer makes the picture of 'an endless fountain of immortal drink' that pours delights on to us from the edge of paradise. These are the excellent things in nature or man-made objects that he calls 'immortal drink'.
16. What is the cause of our ‘gloomy days’ and ‘dark spirits’?
Answer: Our own acts of unpleasantness, savagery and malice towards others, make our days miserable and melancholy. We also get frustrated because of the absence of human qualities and nobility around us.
17. How does a thing of beauty provide us shelter and comfort?
Answer: Nature gives us the things of rare beauty. It has made the shade of trees to make us feel comfortable and peaceful in it with the goal that we can enjoy sound sleep, sweet dreams and good health. Also, excellent things like the sun and moon have the ability to lift our spirits.
18. What spreads the pall of despondency over our dark spirits? How is it removed?
Answer: Man makes his life hopeless and brimming with enduring due to his own behaviour. The pall of despondency is the trouble that is a consequence of what he does. A thing of beauty does some amazing things by removing the cover of anguish that engulfs man.
19. What does Keats consider an endless fountain of immortal drink and why does he call its drink immortal?
Answer: Keats considers the delight given by nature as an endless fountain which inspires the spirits of man. The beauty of nature is a constant wellspring of joy and enjoyment to the human mind and resembles an immortal drink from paradise.
20. What is the message of the ‘A Thing of Beauty’?
Answer: Keats, a fervent admirer of nature, in his poem alludes to the power of nature. He urges man to understand that these powers make life charming and worth living. He discloses to us how a thing of beauty gives joy.
21. What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?
Answer: Human beings love life since nature is the best healer and it carries magnificence and happiness to our lives. The memory of delightful experiences causes us to manage our distresses.
22. Keats feels that Nature binds us to the Earth. How does he justify this?
Answer: Keats feels that man has a solid bond with nature. In spite of the unhappiness and enduring, man is associated with the earth. An elegant band attaches us to the earth. This band is a wonderful thing and metaphorically made of blooms and brings happiness. There is a affinity between things of beauty in nature and in man.
23. What picture does the poet use to depict the lovely abundance of the earth?
Answer: The poet uses different pictures to portray the wonderful abundance of the earth. He makes reference to different delightful things which are available around us in nature like the sun, the moon, trees, daffodils, streams of water, the mid woods brake, musk roses, and so on.
24. How do beautiful things help us to live a happy life?
Answer: Human life is loaded with despondency, disillusionments, tribulation and loss of confidence which brings trouble. It is just beautiful things which lift this veil of unhappiness and make life worth living by bringing delight, expectation and confidence in life.
25. How do things of beauty enrich us?
Answer: Our longing to live on this earth is to a great extent due to the nearness of lovely things that are a steady source of bliss for us. Without beauty, the earth is brimming with despair and misery. There is brutality, childishness and mean conduct all around and absence of well-intentioned people. It is this beauty, a creation of God which removes the trouble and obscurity from our minds and spirits. As we get enveloped with the lovely extravagant band or this strong association with nature we get motivation to live further. The sun, the moon, trees old or young are all the sources of bliss for us. The trees grow and spread their branches to give shelter inside their shade. The Daffodils sprout inside the green surroundings in which they develop. The clear and small stream of water make a cooling shelter for themselves against the hot season. The thick mass of plants looks great with their delightful musk roses. Every one of these things enrich our lives to a degree that it is unimaginable to expect to live without them.
CHAPTER – ROADSIDE STAND
1.Why did the rural people set up the roadside stand? Was it successful? Give reasons.
Answer: The rural people set up the roadside stand in front of their old house at the edge of the street to sell different country produce to have some income. But, their exertion stayed fruitless as no driver from the city tried to stop and purchase their things.
2.How did the village folk deface the scene?
Answer: They defaced the scene by putting their despicably malleable stand at the edge of the street, by putting signboard with words and letters written wrongly.
3.What do they keep for sale in their shed?
Answer: They keep available to be purchased wild berries in wooden measurements and slanted necked golden squash with silver warts on their external side.
4.Why do some driver stop at the stand?
Answer: Some drivers stop at the roadside stand to ask about the produce; some to ask the direction; some for taking a back turn; some even stop to ask if they would sell gas. But, sadly nobody would buy the ranch/farm produce.
5.What would happen to the village folks in the event that they were made live close to the theater?
Answer: If theater and multiplexes are opened close to their home for the sake of their financial upliftment; they would just lose their house; however the genuine beneficiary would be the proprietor of the theaters and multiplexes.
SUBJECT – ENGLISH
CHAPTER – LOST SPRING
1. What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?
Answer: Saheb is looking for any valuable thing which he can't stand/afford to purchase. He is searching for things like a rupee, silver coin or a couple of shoes. He has gone to the garbage dump in the writer's neighborhood. He lives in Seemapuri in Delhi and has originated from Dhaka.
2. What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?
Answer: The writer says that they don't wear footwear since it is a custom in their families to stay barefoot.
3. Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
Answer: Saheb is glad that he has got work at the tea stall. He will get eight hundred rupees every month and his meals as well.
4. What makes the city of Firozabad famous?
Answer: Firozabad is famous for glass blowing industry.
5. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
Answer: People who work in the glass bangle industry lose their eyesight.
6. How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
Answer: Mukesh dares to dream and has an exit from his circumstance. He tries to become a motor mechanic. On the other hand, his family does not dare to dream. They are too tired and terrified to plan something to come out of their grim situation.
Understanding the text
Q1. What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?
Answer: People migrate from villages to cities or urban communities looking for a superior life. They need to earn money with the goal that they can have a decent life and rear their children in a better way. As city areas have more opportunities for work, this makes them to move from the villages to these big cities.
Q2. Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the text?
Answer: Indeed, I agree that the promises made to poor children are rarely kept. In the story the writer jokingly offers the rag picker boy to join a school that she would open. In fact, she doesn't plan to open a school. She talks thoughtlessly however the boy takes it to be true and later inquires as to whether the school has opened. There are numerous such empty promises in the boy's life in light of the fact that the person who makes the promise never intends to fulfill it.
Q3. What forces conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?
Answer: The writer discloses to us that the bangle – makers of Firozabad are poverty – stricken. They are burdened by the reality of the particular caste in which they are born – bangle – makers. They have to continue the traditional profession. Further, the society has formed a harsh circle around them. The money – lenders, middlemen, policemen, law – keepers, officers and politicians altogether form a barrier around them and tie them in the grip of poverty. They cannot escape from it.
Q4. How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dream?
Answer: Mukesh dared to dream and wished to become a motor mechanic. He wanted to drive cars as well. He took the initial step by seeking to accomplish something other than what's expected from the family-business. I believe that Mukesh can realize his dream with determination and diligent work.
Q5. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
Answer: The poor bangle makers in Firozabad work in risky conditions. The furnaces have high temperatures and no ventilation. Henceforth, they are prone to diseases like lung cancer. While polishing the bangles, the dust hurts their eyes and many lose their vision. They stay in dark for extended periods and so are unable to see during the daytime.
Q6. Why should child labour be eliminated and how?
Answer: Forcing a child to work is a crime. This is so as to counteract explanation of children. Whenever compelled to work, children cannot enjoy their childhood. They can't get appropriate education. Additionally, when they are forced into perilous works, they get ailments at a young age. This demolishes their future. Their parents ignore all of these realities as they need cash. So, the government has to become proactive and take measures to check child labour and authorize the law carefully.
Chapter: A Thing of Beauty
1. How is a thing of beauty a joy forever?
Answer: A thing of beauty gives everlasting satisfaction. Its beauty never diminishes however keeps on expanding with the progression of time. It never fades away.
2. What do you understand by a `bower’?
Answer: 'Bower' is the safe shelter under the shade of trees. It gives protection from the harsh beams of the sun.
3. What kind of a sleep does a 'bower' provide?
Answer: Bower gives a sound sleep, loaded with sweet dreams, health and tranquil breathing.
4. What are we doing every day?
Answer: Every morning, we are weaving a fancy wreath which ties us to the delights of the earth or we are gathering wonderful things that associates us to different wondrous things and keeps us grounded.
5. Which evil things do we possess and suffer from?
Answer: Human beings have characteristics of malignance, hatred and frustration. There is a deficiency of respectable characteristics and men keep on being abhorrent and unfortunate.
6. What removes the pall From our dark spirits?
Answer: A wonderful thing evacuates the pall or cover of misery from our dark spirits.
7. What sprouts a shady boon for sheep and how?
Answer: The old and youthful trees grow branches to give shade and shelter to the sheep. It is a gift for the sheep against the harsh sun.
8. How do 'daffodils' and 'rills' enhance the earth?
Answer: The daffodils sprout and are encompassing by the green world. The clear stream of water make a cooling cover for themselves against the warmth of the sun.
9. Explain ‘the grandeur of the doom’.
Answer: The grandness that we associate with our ancestors and the excellent things made by them.
10. What is implied by ‘all lovely tales that we have heard or read’?
Answer: All the wonderful stories that have been perused or heard by us are also things of beauty as they leave a positive effect.
11. List the things the cause suffering and pain.
Answer: The things that cause suffering and pain are dim periods of our life like despondency, frustration, unfriendly conditions, desolate days, the demise of noble people and ill health.
12. What does the line ‘Therefore are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth’ suggest?
Answer: Every morning we connect nature, to the delights of the earth in spite of all the bitterness that we experience. This is a result of all the excellent things around us.
13. What makes human beings love life in spite of all troubles?
Answer: despite all the sufferings, a thing of beauty encourages us to evacuate the cover of despair or darkness from our lives.
14. Why is grandeur associated with the ‘mighty dead’?
Answer: Grandeur is related with the 'mighty dead' since incredible men will always be associated with their honourable and wonderful deeds and manifestations. They have left a legacy for us to appreciate.
15. What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?
Answer: The writer makes the picture of 'an endless fountain of immortal drink' that pours delights on to us from the edge of paradise. These are the excellent things in nature or man-made objects that he calls 'immortal drink'.
16. What is the cause of our ‘gloomy days’ and ‘dark spirits’?
Answer: Our own acts of unpleasantness, savagery and malice towards others, make our days miserable and melancholy. We also get frustrated because of the absence of human qualities and nobility around us.
17. How does a thing of beauty provide us shelter and comfort?
Answer: Nature gives us the things of rare beauty. It has made the shade of trees to make us feel comfortable and peaceful in it with the goal that we can enjoy sound sleep, sweet dreams and good health. Also, excellent things like the sun and moon have the ability to lift our spirits.
18. What spreads the pall of despondency over our dark spirits? How is it removed?
Answer: Man makes his life hopeless and brimming with enduring due to his own behaviour. The pall of despondency is the trouble that is a consequence of what he does. A thing of beauty does some amazing things by removing the cover of anguish that engulfs man.
19. What does Keats consider an endless fountain of immortal drink and why does he call its drink immortal?
Answer: Keats considers the delight given by nature as an endless fountain which inspires the spirits of man. The beauty of nature is a constant wellspring of joy and enjoyment to the human mind and resembles an immortal drink from paradise.
20. What is the message of the ‘A Thing of Beauty’?
Answer: Keats, a fervent admirer of nature, in his poem alludes to the power of nature. He urges man to understand that these powers make life charming and worth living. He discloses to us how a thing of beauty gives joy.
21. What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?
Answer: Human beings love life since nature is the best healer and it carries magnificence and happiness to our lives. The memory of delightful experiences causes us to manage our distresses.
22. Keats feels that Nature binds us to the Earth. How does he justify this?
Answer: Keats feels that man has a solid bond with nature. In spite of the unhappiness and enduring, man is associated with the earth. An elegant band attaches us to the earth. This band is a wonderful thing and metaphorically made of blooms and brings happiness. There is a affinity between things of beauty in nature and in man.
23. What picture does the poet use to depict the lovely abundance of the earth?
Answer: The poet uses different pictures to portray the wonderful abundance of the earth. He makes reference to different delightful things which are available around us in nature like the sun, the moon, trees, daffodils, streams of water, the mid woods brake, musk roses, and so on.
24. How do beautiful things help us to live a happy life?
Answer: Human life is loaded with despondency, disillusionments, tribulation and loss of confidence which brings trouble. It is just beautiful things which lift this veil of unhappiness and make life worth living by bringing delight, expectation and confidence in life.
25. How do things of beauty enrich us?
Answer: Our longing to live on this earth is to a great extent due to the nearness of lovely things that are a steady source of bliss for us. Without beauty, the earth is brimming with despair and misery. There is brutality, childishness and mean conduct all around and absence of well-intentioned people. It is this beauty, a creation of God which removes the trouble and obscurity from our minds and spirits. As we get enveloped with the lovely extravagant band or this strong association with nature we get motivation to live further. The sun, the moon, trees old or young are all the sources of bliss for us. The trees grow and spread their branches to give shelter inside their shade. The Daffodils sprout inside the green surroundings in which they develop. The clear and small stream of water make a cooling shelter for themselves against the hot season. The thick mass of plants looks great with their delightful musk roses. Every one of these things enrich our lives to a degree that it is unimaginable to expect to live without them.
CHAPTER – ROADSIDE STAND
1.Why did the rural people set up the roadside stand? Was it successful? Give reasons.
Answer: The rural people set up the roadside stand in front of their old house at the edge of the street to sell different country produce to have some income. But, their exertion stayed fruitless as no driver from the city tried to stop and purchase their things.
2.How did the village folk deface the scene?
Answer: They defaced the scene by putting their despicably malleable stand at the edge of the street, by putting signboard with words and letters written wrongly.
3.What do they keep for sale in their shed?
Answer: They keep available to be purchased wild berries in wooden measurements and slanted necked golden squash with silver warts on their external side.
4.Why do some driver stop at the stand?
Answer: Some drivers stop at the roadside stand to ask about the produce; some to ask the direction; some for taking a back turn; some even stop to ask if they would sell gas. But, sadly nobody would buy the ranch/farm produce.
5.What would happen to the village folks in the event that they were made live close to the theater?
Answer: If theater and multiplexes are opened close to their home for the sake of their financial upliftment; they would just lose their house; however the genuine beneficiary would be the proprietor of the theaters and multiplexes.
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