CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper 2012 (Set 28)

CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

  In the novel 'A Tiger for Malgudi', why does the tiger say 'crow is a treacherous bird'?
  

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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.

  Why did Margayya refuse to part with his purse?
  

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• 4.

  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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• 5.

  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)

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• 6.

  What was the jungle superstition about how the tiger came to have the stripes and whom did he blame for it? Why did the tiger feel helpless in tackling the situation?
  

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