JHARKHAND
COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING, RANCHI
SECOND TERM EXAM 2021-2022
CLASS
XII
ENGLISH
ELECTIVE
MODEL
QUESTION PAPER
Time-1:30
Hrs Marks-40
Set-3
General
Instructions:
i.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as
practicable.
ii.
All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper.
III.
All parts of a question must be written together.
IV.
Answers of the questions must be in the context of the instructions given
therein
Section A
Read the following passage carefully and answer any three from
questions 1-4 2x3-6
Many
of us believe that small' means 'insignificant'. We believe that small actions
and choices do not have much impact on our lives. We think that it is only the
big things, the big actions and the big decisions that really count. But when
you look at the lives of all great people, you will see that they built their
character through small decisions, small choices and small actions that they
performed every day. They transformed their lives through a step-by-step or
day-by-day approach. They matured and nourished their good habits and chipped
away their bad habits, one step at a time. It was their small day-to-day decisions
that added up to make tremendous difference in the long run. Indeed, in matters
of personal growth and character- building, there is no such thing as an
overnight success.
Growth
always occurs through a sequential series of stages. There is an organic
process to growth. When we look at children growing up, we can see this process
at work: the child first Icarns to crawl, then to stand and walk, and finally
to run. The same is true in the natural world. The soil must first be tilled,
and then the sced must be sowed. Next, it must be nurtured with cnough water
and sunlight, and only then it will grow, bear fruit and finally ripen, and be
ready to eat
1) What do many of us believe?
Ans:
Many of us believe that 'small' means 'insignificant'. We believe that small
actions and choices do not have much impact on our lives.
2) What is organic process of growth"?
Ans:
Growth through a sequential series of stage is called organic process of
growth. When we look at children growing up. We can see : The child first
learns to craw then to stand and walk, and finally to run.
3) What do we learn from the lives of the great people?
Ans:
When we look at great people. We will see how they transformed their lives
through a step-by-step or day-by-day approach.
4) How does growth occur?
Ans:
Growth always occur through a sequential series of stages. This is an organic
process of growth.
Read the following poem carefully and answer any two from questions
5-7. 2x2=4
On
the door step of the temple
under
the hot sun
I
see her every day
Her
hands and feet are
withered
like limbs of the dead tree.
Her
cycs tired of scarching
"for
rays of hope
and
sunk deep like cause
in
a rock
Neither
they reccive light
nor
give it.
Her
three yard sari
has
torn in thirty places
Her
body has absorbed
sixty
years of dirt
her
knotty matted hair
is
the abode of worm and lice
Here
and there some black teeth
Stand
as guards in her open mouth.
The
lines on her face
have
spread far and deep
like
the crow's feet
Raising
her shaking hands
with
hope in her eyes
she
looks at me
and
an electric current
joins
together our two hearts.
Time
goes back fifteen years,
her
face changes, her cycs twinkle!
When
she smiles, her teeth dazzle!
In
that onc magic moment
I
see the image of my dead mother!
5) What does the poet see every day?
Ans:
The poet seen as old woman in her sixty's at temple every day.
6) What does the poet compare the old woman's hands and feet?
Ans:
The poet compare's the old woman's hands and feet to limbs of dead tree.
7) What did the poet think when she looked at him?
Ans:
The poet was reminded of his dead mother.
Section
B
Answer any two of the following questions in not more than 100
words. 5x2=10
8) Write an essay on 'Importance of the Internet'.
Ans:
Importance of the Internet: Today the Internet is the most powerful tool in the
world. The internet is a collection of various services and resources. However,
like every single innovation in science and technology. Internet has its own
advantages and disadvantages.
Internet
has played an important part in our daily life, and in fact, it brings us lots
of advantages and the first I want to mention is communication. The foremost
target of Internet has always been the communication we can avail the
facilities of e- mail, we can chat for hours with our friends. With the help of
such services it has became very easy to establish a kind of global friendship
where you can explore other cultures of different countries.
Besides,
information is the biggest advantage internet is offering. The internet is a
virtual treasure of information. Any kind of information any topic is available
on the internet and you can almost find any type of data on almost any kind of
subject that you are looking for. There is ahuge amount of information ranging
from government law and services to market information,new ideas and technical
support. It is very useful for students.
9) Write a composition on 'The Value of Books'.
Ans:
The Value of Books : Books are not a more luxury or a superfluity of
civilization, they do what men of action cannot do. They are a compelling force
to make humanity feel its ones oneness. Folk-tale, folk-song have done as much
for mankind as the great religious or the great leaders of humanity. A book is
the life blood of a man.preserved for a life beyond life, as Milton say.
To
say only noisily trumpeted men in history make civilization is an unpardonable
blunder. Civilization is very largely made of anonymous forces.
A
book like the Gitanjali is not a political treatise. The Ramayana, and the Mahabharata
are not political treatises. Poetry, great fiction, painting, music and dance,
architecture and the little nameless unremembered acts are the best portions of
aman's life and not the Lenin, yet they are the breath of civilization. The
world can do without great men but it cannot do without great books. The great
German thinker Goethe said thata word was a deed. The Sanskrit word mantra
means a world-changing force. Bankim Chandra Chatterji's poem entitled Bande
Mataram has made history. The Bible and the holy Boran are nothing but books
but they have made history. Books are not merely sheets of printed paper. The
novels of Dickens, the books entitled 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', Marx's 'Capital' and
a hundred other books revolutionized-human history'.
Far
more valuable and important are the other services a rendered by books. The
value and the joy of understanding, the richness of thought, the joy of
knowledge, a heightened awareness of nature and life which books give cannot be
given by any political leader. Books are not mere fashionable respectability,
they are a force in life. But everything that is a force for good can become a
force for evil. All this emphatically does not mean that the state or the
influential force in the state should control book-writing; Democracy means,
above all things, faith and trust in the people, Let bad books be produced, let
them have their day and cease to be. Don't assert itself. Literary trash in
abundance is produced in every decade but the innate healthiness of the public
taste lets it die. In the matter of books time is the great arbiter
Books
are as great a force in civilization as political leadership, political creeds,
scientific and technological forces or any other noise of the moment. They are
the persistent and the all conquering forces of history. This is true even of
those books which are apparently aimless and purposeless. Life is not all
Marxism and Leninism or Maoism. Humanism is greater than communism. No single
school of thought can give us the whole humanism. Let a thousand flowers
blossom and let there be a countless variety of books. Marx and Lenin could
give us much, and gave us much; they simple could not give us all the values of
life.
10) You have witnessed a road accident where there is a loss of
three lives. As a press reporter, write a report for publication Sign as
Rahul/Rashmi
Ans:
Ranchi : 25th Feb. 2022, India Today (News Service); Ranchi is no more a safe
city. Various accidents are reported everyday on the roads of the city. The
horrible road accident that took away four innocent lives yesterday is just an
addition to the long list. A school but collided with an oil tanker coming from
the opposite direction. The accident took place near Police Station. The driver
of the oil tanker tried to take a sharp turn. There was a head-on collision.
The school bus was toppled.over. The oil tanker caught fire. Most of the
children were saved. But the conductor and a school boy died on the spot. Ten
students received minor injuries. They were admitted to nearby hospital. The
fire brigade arrives whthin ten minutes. But the oil flown onto the road caught
fire. The loss ran into thousands of rupees.
-Rahul Rashmi
Section
C
Answer any five of the following questions in about 50 words, 5x3-15
11) What was the conflict between Tao Ying and her son in the
story, 'One Centimetre'?
Ans:
It is because he has acknowleged/understood the double deal or cheat of his
mother. When he get scaled him by an old lady in the market, he was convinced
of being his height 1.11 mt. instead of 1.10 mt. Thus, an image of liar,
swindler, argumentative, rude, rustic and quarrelsome had put its crown in his
innocent mind for his mother. He raised brows, tripped and started racing away
from his mother.
12) Is the poet's attitude a representation of how the average
Indian feels both towards human violence and nature's fury? Give reasons to
support your view.
Ans:
No, she is neither callous nor selfish because what she had done was mere
review or analysis on the old house alias the obsolete customs, traditions and
rites and thus, she had chosen the right things while skipped off the
irrelevant and obsolete indulgence with counter productive ideas, legends and
mores.
He
could not maintain the tradition of living a life of middle class. Her blood
has developed greed for gems, gold and perfumes and her tendency to visit at
Royal Palace on elephant ride instead of her grand mother's visit at Lord
Shiva's temple.
She
is now rich and her grand mother had once told that blood of rich becomes as thick
as gruel. It's her difficulty that she could not follow the age old customs in
their unchanged form. Her's being educated and enlightened; she was honoured
with medals and awards. However, she maintains the blood thin and clean by
virtue of her being generous to the poor. She has become lazy and suffers from
waist ache and uncomfortable with her sensory organs i.e. eyes, ears, nose,
tongue and skin.
13) What makes the depiction of a crumbling village house so
authentic in the poem, Blood?
Ans:
It is reminscience of the poetess when she was merely a child and lived with
her grand mother in a dilapidated house. Images of children's playing on sand,
frawing birds and animal abundantly found in countryside. Cracks on walls,
groaning windows, rat holes and their scampering and lichen on icons left
uncleaned for several days due to grand mother's falling sick and it draws a
live picture before our eyes.
Yes,
it is a common feature of most village houses due to rapid urbanisation. It is
because, land holdings have shrunk to smaller bits owing to increase in
population and people from rural India have settled in metro-cities. Urban
conglomerates in the form of slus and unhygienic settlements have become
inseperable feature of so-called metro-cities or million plaus cities
(Presently 35 in number). It's modern type of foraging in the state of gross
unemployment problem in rural India.
Yes,
the poetess is speaking from her actual experience. She has aptly drawn the
picture of deserted villages. She herself could not get repaired that
dilapidated house inspite of her promise before her grandmother, Finally she
says in her pensive state of mind - "I have let you down old house, I seek
forgiveness o mother's mother's mother, I have plucked your soul like a pip from
a fruit and have flung it into your pyre."
Thus,
the poetess has reflected the sobbing and pain of averagers villagers presently
settled in metro-cities where gongs in clocktowers are beaten round the clock
each slightly off the other's time, decper or lighter viz a gross mess and
impasse.
14) How do the trees in their autumn beauty dry woodland paths,
October twilight', 'still sky' connect to the poet's own life?
Ans:
An age at nineteenth is the stage of life from where youth age is started. In
psychology, it is known as period of transition. Herein, mould of unique
personality with its physical, intellectual and emotional aspects is duly
formed and herefrom, manifestation in action takes place and finds recognition
by the society.
The
poet tells this a stage of equipoise or equanimity, Trees in their autumn
beauty are attributed to the balanced state of human emotions including sensory
paths are free from mud i.e. illusion and confusions viz a state of
Selfrealisation attained to without options or wholesome. It's real
understanding of one's mission and the entire road map or blue print of the
future planning. Herefrom, the poet sees a clear highway to march ahead. As the
sky becomes clear, the stars are seen twinkling with fresh light in the evening
of October month. Here, October month is attributed to equipoise (A balance
state of head and heart) in which gems of virtues (stars) acquired till then,
through self- study, contemplation, keen observation and lab. work (i.e.
analysis) start glittering in the evening. These assure him path finding in the
night that will fall as a trial of his per severance and the skill till then
acquired by him.
The
constellation August with its rise in the sky has dried the mud till then
smeared on the path. It's analogous to rise of contentment (complacence) in
disposition that replaces the greed. The cloudless and clear sky is as
facinating as people attained to cosmo-sconsciousness do their work without
hope (Niskama Karma) or disinterested duty or duty without attachment.
Conclusion:
It's an excellent and apt use of pathetic fallacy and allegory. The poet
presents disposition using imagery of nature and its objects like trees, water,
swans etc.
15) What are some of the flaws of the world of film-making
today?
Ans:
(1) Artistic creationis being given place next to the individual today
(ii)
There is seen intolerance and loss of team spirit among all worken in the film
industry.
(iii)
Art is no more understood analogous to worship of almighty
(iv)
The artist today considers his isolation, subjectivity and his individualism
almost holy.
(v)
Loss of team spirit has made film industry stifling like an insect under the
books of separatism, individualism and scepticism.
16) Give instances from the poem 'Trees that shows that great poetry
is a result of close observation of natural phenomena.
Ans:
The term "phenomena" refers to a fact or an event in nature or
society especially one that is not fully understood or mysterious in itself.
Poets are clairvoyant and only able to see and disclose these facts vested in
the nature events or in society. The poetess here is introvert and lives a
hermetic life viz. she has made in depth observation of natural phenomena both
in plant and animal kindgoms (including human beings).
Trees
accompanying the sun have been shown as the so- called socialite or elite class
(including rulers/emperors) of the society who inflict atrociti an overt and
secret manner and victims to their atrocity/persecution either cry/ wail loudly
or see the within. The very thing at the level of plant kingdom-or the inert
nature (environment), reveals the storms that take place in the summer. These
tornados or cyclones uproot the trees and they destroy the undergrowth
(creepers, small plants, bushes etc.), the buildings, structures and bring in
death to birds, reptiles, worms, animals (pet and wild both) including human
beings. Thus, herein also, the trees being in havoc to all organisms of this
world.
Another
example is that this ruling class (or trees here) holds the sun (endower of
light and heat for growth) in its fist. It appears to the masses as if the sun
is enslaved by this ruling class or trees. It allows the sun (cruelty in the
form of atrocity, repression, suppression etc.) to shine with scorching heat
for a while in order to shut the tongues of masses (i.e. curfews, bans,
emergencies, decrees to snatch the freedom of press and expression). At an
another time, it is allowed to shine half (reward/incentive to supporters while
punishment to uprisers/protesting people in a big pomp and show) and at some
other time the sun is not allowed to shine even with a streak of its ray (viz.
scams, stunt, espionage mis-appropriation of public fund--all at the back of
masses leaving them in ignorance or dark).
When
we talk on next aspect of implication the trees while in their mazy motions,
allow the sun to shine with full light for undergrowth (i.e. creepers, bushes
etc.) because motion of twigs and branches leave sufficient space between them.
However, when the air is not blowing, these do not allow the sun rays to shine
on the surface.
17) What childhood memories does the author recollect in
Film-Making that had a bearing on his later involvement with film-making?
Ans:
The author recollects the following childhood memories which he thinks,
assisted him in large in his film making business or profession-
(i)
He was born during the period feudalism spread all over the European continent.
(ii)
His father was a priest and settled inside a cathedral where polin:a debates
were arranged time to time and the common people were made fool: framing
coercive and punitive laws.
(iii)
He saw his father abusing and misusing his authority as a priest ve the feudal
system or three orders system (viz. priest, nobility and comn people including
serfs and slaves). He saw people seethe and boils, pro: and demonstration as
also ruthless suppression of them time to time under facade of tricky and
biased framing of laws and regulations.
(iv)
As his father was busy with deceptive ruling of public in Sweden, his grandmother
remained his only care-taker. He states the rule of Venice was run from Uppsala
Cathedral under his father's tricky command.
(v)
He could understand very early the procedure of funerals, marriages, baptism,
preaching and framing and issuing sermons or decrees.
(vi)
He could obtain a magic lanter containing film on Red Riding Hood the wolf and
several other. He was just ten years old when he could obtain a rattling film
projector.
These
six major elements or stimuli which he got during childhood, bad assisted him
and led to film making profession. He states it later on a deception of human
eye, a conjuring business and ruthless efficient suasage machine.
Section
D
Note:
Answer either Group-A or Group-B
Group-A
Attempt any one of the following questions in not more than 100
words. 5x1=5
18) Meenakshi is a typical Indian housewife-loving, submissive
and practical. Discuss.
Ans:
Meenakshi, the wife of Margayya, is a lovable character. She is a typical
Indian housewife in a middle class family. She represents the loving, faithful,
submissive and practical middle class women of India. Her home is all the world
to her. Her sole duty is to look after her son and her husband. Although her
son Balu is a bundle of mischief, giving her untold inconveniences, she bears
with him with the characteracally motherly fortitude. Meenakshi is a loving
mother. She loves her son deeply. One day when she has gone to nearby shop to
buy something, her husband is at home with Balu. Balu burns his finger by his
mischief by touching a burning lamp and lets out a shriek. She comes running
into the house and blames her husband for the calamity. The other instance is
when Balu disappear from the house. She sheds tears constantly, eats very
little and asks her husband to go out in search of the son. It is she who
forces her husband to go to Madras and find him.
Meenakshi
is a devoted and faithful wife. Her husbands often scolds her but even then she
remains calm and silent. She suffers humiliation at her husband's hand, but she
tolerates everything. Even when Margayya has enough money he does not employ
any servant, and Meenakshi continues to do all the household work herself.
Meenakshi
is meek, submissive and self-sacrificing in nature. She is so tolerant that she
even surrenders before her aggressive and domineering husband. She does not
argue with him even when she knows that her husband is in the wrong. When Balu
is married to Brinda, she does not like Margayya's idea of putting the son and
his wife up in a separate house at Lawley Road. Despite the pain she undergoes
due to this, she does not assert and suffers silenty
Meenakshi
is a practical woman. She knows that money is important in life but i; is r.ct
everything. She is satisfied with what she is given and does not crave for
more. Like her husband, she does not have lust for money, Meenakshi does not
regard money as the most important thing in the world. The sensible and
practical aspects of her character are clearly manifesto in her advice to her
husband when Margayya speaks rudely to the peon, Arul Doss.
ln
short, meenakshi is a typical homely, Indian housewife. Her field of activity
is confined to the four walls of her house. Silent suffering is her lot in life
and she bears this suffering without any complaint. She is an ideal Indian
housewife.
19) Attempt a character sketch of Margayya.
Ans:
Margayya had been named after the enchanting God Krishna by his parents but the
people did not know it and called him Margayya and thought it to be his real
name. 'Marga' meant the way and the 'Ayya' denoted the man who showed the way.
Margaya and his elder brother and his wife, Meenakshi have a male child Balu.
Margayya led to believe that money is as essential in life as food and air. He
is blindly obsessed with money.
Margayya
runs a wayside counter opposite the Co-operative Bank in Malgudi. He writed
loan application forms on behalf of illiterate and ignorant agers who come to
seek loans from the bank. He charges a modest fee for expediting application
forms of the villagers. So the bank secretary orders him to leave the place.
Margayya
leaves this business and enters into an agreement with Makhan Lal, A book 'Bed
Life' is Printed on partnership but changes his business. Then he launches an
attractive deposit scheme and accepts millions of rupees as deposits on
interest at the rate of 20% annual interest. This is strange. The banks give
only 3% annual interest.
Financial
management consumes his time and energy and Margayya neglects his wife and
child, Balu converts into a spoilt child and he runs away from the house. He
causes a great loss of money to his father and ruining his money-lending
business, Margayya engages. Mr. Murti to guide Balu at home, he fails in his
Matriculation examination. He squanders money in smoking, sleeping and
drinking. Margayya spoils his relation with Dr. Pal and his money pending
business comes to a stand still. In a way Margayya is responsible for spoiling
his son at all levels.
We
admit that Margayya knows how to mint money. He is an expert financial manger.
But he fails miserably as father and husband. He doesn't know how to bring up
his child. He site on a mountain of wealth but life slips from underneath him
throwing hism into hell.
Group-B
Attempt any one of the following questions in not more than 100
words 5x1-5
20) Describe the tiger's life at the Mempi hills.
Ans:
Initially, Raja had very bad expariences about humans, he lost his family which
were killed by the hunter. The decided to take revenge from the humans so he
enters into nearby village and started killing the pets of villagers which
ended up in a cage. Again the captain (owner of the circus) and his wife
mistreat him to train him for the circus show. But after these mischievous
things he lastly met to a monk with whom he got connected and learn the
sprituality of world.
21) Discuss RK Narayan's teasing wit and insight into human
nature in 'A Tiger for Malgudi?
Ans: The life in the circus was not easy for the tiger. The captain (Owner of the circus) and his wite, Rita used to beat him and behaved very cruselly. Something they used to keep him starving to that he can get weak and get ready for the practice. Also they threatend the tiger with electric stick. He was a trained to become a star. He learned and play all the shows very well. People considered him to be the star of the circus.
