25/05/2015
Three Questions
1. Who was the bearded man?
2. Where did the hermit live?
3. What was the first question that the Tsar had?
4. What was his second question?
5. What was his third question?
6. Why did some suggest the Tsar to consult magicians?
7. How many times did the Tsar ask the hermit the answers of his questions?
8. What did the wise men suggest the Tsar in reply to his second question?
9. Who has wounded the bearded man?
10. Why did the bearded man become a sworn enemy of the Tsar?
11. What did the Tsar gain having saved the bearded man?
12. Why was the hermit digging beds in front of his hut?
13. What does the term ‘cell’ used to describe the hermit’s hut suggest about his dwelling?
14. What does ‘Tsar’ mean?
15. When did the Tsar decide to meet the hermit?
16. Why could not a group of councillors help the Tsar all the time?
17. Why did the Tsar walk up to the hermit’s cell?
18. What should a ruler do instead of ‘absorbed in idle pastimes’?
19. What did the bearded man resolve to do?
20. Who dressed the wound of the bearded man?
21. Why was the time, when the Tsar was digging the beds, most important?
22. What did the wise men reply to the Tsar to his third question?
23. What makes the present time important?
24. Why was the Tsar surprised when the bearded man asked to forgive him?
25. What according to the hermit is the most important occupation of man?
The Eyes have It
1. How far did the narrator travel alone?
2. How far, the narrator’s co passenger, the girl, was going?
3. Who would come to receive the girl?
4. What could the narrator only tell about day time being blind?
5. Why did the narrator think that he could easily hide his blindness form his co passenger?
6. What was the narrator daydreaming about?
7. What did the narrator ‘pretend’?
8. Who stammered an apology?
9. Why did the narrator say confidently that he did not see any animal outside?
10. What did the girl’s parents guide her about?
11. Why did the narrator doubt as proving himself a ‘romantic fool’?
12. What may disappoint the narrator according to his new co-passenger?
13. What made the narrator feel lonely and troubled?
14. What did the narrator ask the girl first?
15. When did the girl say the narrator ‘a gallant young man’?
Asleep in the Valley
1. What is the theme of the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley’? 23.06.2014
2. What type of a poem is ‘Asleep in the Valley’?
3. What does the poet ask the Nature to do?
4. What does the concluding line of the poem reveal?
5. What is the setting of the poem?
6. How is the soldier lying in the valley?
7. What does Rimbaud celebrate apart from futility of war?
8. Who does the dead soldier seem to smile like?
9. What do the sunrays fill?
10. How does the stream look like?
11. What are the insects doing?
12. ‘He may catch cold.’- Why does the poet fear so?
13. Where are the soldier’s feet lying?
14. ‘He sleeps in the sunlight.’- What figure of speech is used in this line?
15. What message does the poem convey?
Strong Roots
1. Where was APJ Abdul Kalam born?
2. How far was the coconut grove of the author’s family from their home?
3. What is one of the most vivid memories of the author’s early childhood?
4. What could not the writer recall?
5. How did Kalam describe himself?
6. What title did one of his mother’s forebears earn?
7. What did the author usually eat?
8. What is Rameswaram famous for?
9. Why did people wait for the author’s father after prayer?
10. What were provided to the author in his childhood by his father?
11. What did the author’s father used to avoid?
12. How did Jainulabdeen begin his day?
13. How did Kalam spend his childhood?
14. How many outsiders used to eat with Kalam’s family?
15. Who, according to Kalam, can lift a man from misery and confusion?
16. When do we start looking for company?
17. How long did Kalam’s father maintain a strict routine life?
18. How far was the Shiva temple from Kalam’s ancestral house?
19. What is Kalam’s idea about divine power?
20. Why was Kalam’s father well known in his locality?
21. ‘...my austere father’- What does ‘austere’ mean?
22. When was Kalam’s autobiography ‘Wings of Fire’ published?
23. What could Kalam’s father simplify in down-to-earth Tamil?
24. What did Kalam try to emulate throughout his life?
25. Who do we look for when we reach an impasse?
26. What does adversity provide us with?
27. When did Jainulabdeen judge Kalam’s mental capacity?
28. Where did Kalam use to eat?
29. ‘...this water was then carried home for the invalids.’- What does ‘invalids’ mean?
30. What helps us to become a part of the cosmos?
31. What is the name of Kalam’s father?
32. When was Kalam’s ancestral house built?
33. What should we not be afraid of?
34. Who come to thank Jainulabdeen?
35. What was Kalam totally convinced about?
36. What con one achieve if one severs his emotional and physical bond?
37. How could people propitiate the demonic forces?
38. What should we do when trouble comes?
39. What can we transcend through prayer?
40. Who is a part of the manifest divine being?
