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 Class:XII Sub:English Book:Flamingo Lesson:3 Deep Water Writer:Williom Douglas Questions & Answers Question 1. When did the author decide to learn swimming? Why did he join YMCA pool? Answer: The author decided to learn swimming at the age of ten or eleven years. There was a pool at the YMCA that offered that opportunity. The YMCA pool was quite safe. It was only two or three feet deep at the shallow end; and while it was nine feet deep at the other, the drop was gradual.  Question 2. Describe the author’s childhood experience when he was three or four years old? Answer: The author had an aversion to the water when he was three or four years old. His father took him to a beach in California. His father and he was standing together in the surf. Suddenly the waves knocked him down and swept over him. He was buried in the water. His breath was gone. This caused a terror in his mind of water. Question 3. What did Douglas feel and do when he was pushed into the swimming water?...

 Class:XII Poem:4 Keeping Quiet  Questions and Answers  Question 1. What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achieve ? Answer: Counting upto twelve and keeping still gives us time to introspect ourselves. In this way, we can recuperate our energy and restart our activities with fresh energy and zeal. Question 2. Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death ? Answer: No, the poet does not advocate total inactivity and death. He only wants us to keep quiet for a few seconds and suspend all our activities for a few seconds. In this way we can introspect our¬selves and restart our activities with fresh energy and zeal. Question 3. What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem? Answer: When people don’t introspect themselves they fail to understand themselves, then ‘sadness’ arises. The poet wants that people should overcome this sadness by introspecting themselves. Question 4. What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that ...

 Class:XII Book:Flamingo Poem:2nd A Thing of Beauty  Questions and Answers  Short Answer Type Question 1. List Hie things of beauty mentioned in the poem. Answer: The sun, the moon, the trees, daffodils, simple sheep, clear rills, the mid forest brake, musk roses and the mighty dead are some of the things of beauty mentioned in the poem. Question 2. List the things that cause suffering and pain. Answer: The things that cause suffering and pain are gloomy days. There is general depression among human beings. There is lack of noble nature. But without the beautiful things, our lives on this earth would have become impossible. Question 3. What does the line, ‘Therefore, are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth’ suggest to you? Answer: There is so much disappointment and sadness on this earth. There is lack of noble souls. But we are still living on this earth. The poet says that our existence on the earth is possible only due to some things of beauty. Question 4. ...

Class:XII Book:Flamingo Poem:1 My Mother At Sixty-six  Questions and Answers  Short Answer Type Question 1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet her mother might not live long with her. Therefore, feels ? Answer: The poet feels that her mother has grown so old that she couldnt grow older. She means to say that her mother might not live long with her. Therefore, the poet feels pain and ache, Question 2. Why are the young trees described as sprinting’? Answer: The young trees are described as sprinting since the car is moving fast in the forward direction. The trees appear to move in the backward direction. In fact it is the car that moves not the trees. Question 3. Why has the poet brought in the image of the children ‘spilling out of their homes’? Answer: The image of children spilling out of their homes has been brought to show the contrast between the old age and the childhood. In childhood, one is full of energy. In one’s old age the person becomes pale and lifel...

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 Class:XII Sub:English Book:Flamingo Lesson:3 Deep Water Writer:Williom Douglas Questions&Answers  Question 1. When did the author decide to learn swimming? Why did he join YMCA pool? Answer: The author decided to learn swimming at the age of ten or eleven years. There was a pool at the YMCA that offered that opportunity. The YMCA pool was quite safe. It was only two or three feet deep at the shallow end; and while it was nine feet deep at the other, the drop was gradual.  Question 2. Describe the author’s childhood experience when he was three or four years old? Answer: The author had an aversion to the water when he was three or four years old. His father took him to a beach in California. His father and he was standing together in the surf. Suddenly the waves knocked him down and swept over him. He was buried in the water. His breath was gone. This caused a terror in his mind of water. Question 3. What did Douglas feel and do when he was pushed into the swimming wa...

 Lesson:8 Mijbil the Otter Questions and Answers.  Question 1. What special characteristic of Mijbil did Maxwell learn after he took it to the bathroom? Answer: When Maxwell took Mijbil to the bathroom, he learnt that he went wild with joy in water, plunging and rolling in it and splashed water. Question 2. Why did the writer stay in Basra? Answer: The writer and his friend were going to Basra to the Consulate—General to collect and answer their mails. They found that the mail of his friend was available but the author had to stay in Basra for five days. Question 3. What did the otter look like? Answer: The otter looked like a very small dragon. Its appearance was very pretty. It was coated with pointed scales of mud on its back. It spread mud all round. Question 4. How did Maxwell get the otter? Answer: Maxwell wanted to keep an otter as a pet instead of dog. He expressed his wish before his friend who managed to get an otter and sent it to Maxwell through two Arabs. Thus Max...

 Lesson:7 Glimpses of India (iii) Tea from Asam  Questions and Answers Question 1. What excited Rajvir? Why did Pranjol not share his excitement? Answer: The sight of the vast sea of lush green tea bushes coupled with tall sturdy trees excited Rajvir. Pranjol did not share Rajvir’s excitement as he had been born and brought up on a tea plantation. Question 2. What legends are associated with the origin of tea? Answer: (a) There was one Chinese emperor who always boiled water before drinking it. One day a few leaves of the twigs burning under the pot fell into the water, which gave it a delicious flavour. It is said that they were tree leaves. (b) Bodhidharma, an ancient ‘Budhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during ‘ meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water drunk vanished sleep. Question 3. Why did Rajvir feel that the view outside the window was magnificent? Answer: Rajvir had never seen such b...