CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper 2007 (Set 28)

CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

  Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
  ‘I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night,’ she said. ‘You must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years.’
  Her conviction was so real that I boarded the last train to Rome that same night. As for me, I was so influenced by what she said that from then on I considered myself a survivor of some catastrophe I never experienced. I still have not returned to Vienna.
  (I Sell My Dreams)

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• 2.

  Why did the long-tailed, black-faced langur advise the tiger to take great care to avoid going near a porcupine?
  

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• 3.

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

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• 4.

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

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• 5.

  In the poem 'A Lecture Upon the Shadow', what does the metaphor 'shadow' represent?
  

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• 6.

  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)