MP Board 12th English Short Answer Questions Vistas Question Bank

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Short Answer Questions (Vistas)

The Third Level

1. What does ‘The Third Level’ refer to?
2. Would Charley ever go back to the ticket-counter on the third level to buy tickets to Galesburg for himself and his wife?
3. How did Charley reach the third level of the Grand Central Station?
4. Why doesn’t Charley consider ‘stamp collecting habit’ a way of escapism?
5. What things at the third level of the Grand Central Station made Charley
   ascertain that he had reached the 1894 world?
6. Why did Charley run away from the third level?
7. What is referred to as ‘a temporary refuge from reality’? Why?
8. How did the narrator’s psychiatrist friend react to the former’s experience about the third level?
   

The Tiger King

1. What were the different names given to the King of Pratibandapuram?
2. How did the Tiger King acquire his name?
3. When he was only ten days old, a prediction was made about the future of the Tiger King. What was ironic about it?
4. Why did the Maharaja decide to get married?
5. When was the Tiger King stand in danger of losing his kingdom?
6. How did the Tiger King manage to retain his kingdom?
7. Why did the Maharaja ban tiger hunting in his state?
8. What sort of hunt did the Maharaja offer to organise for the high-ranking British officer? What trait of the officer does it reveal?
9. How did the king ‘kill’ the tiger?
10. Why did the king order the dewan to double the tax?
11. Why was the dewan not in favour of doubling the tax? What did the king then ordered him to do?
12. How was the royal infant brought up?
13. Why did one of the hunters kill the hundredth tiger?
14. Why did the dewan arrange the hundredth? Tiger for the king?
15. What happened to the tiger provided by the dewan?
16. What present did the king brought for his son on his third birthday? How much did he pay for it?
17. How did the Tiger King meet his death?
18. Why was the Maharaja sunk in gloom even after having killed seventy tigers?
19. How did the royal infant grew up?
20. What did the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?.

Journey to the End of the Earth

1. How do geological phenomena help us to know about the history of humankind?
2. What are the indications for the future of humankind?
3. ‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica’. How is the study of this region useful to us?
4. What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice Expedition?
5. ‘Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.’
6. What is the relevance of the statement in the context of the Antarctica environment?
7. Why is Antarctica the place to go to understand the Earth’s present, past and future?
8. What emotions did the author experience when she reached Antarctica at last?
9. How would you describe Gondwana?
10. What is that thing that can happen in a million years and would be mindboggling?
11. In what respect, Tisane Dashi’s encounter with Antarctica is a chilling prospect?
12. What is the visual experience in Antarctica?
13. How, according to the author, has mankind etched its dominance over nature?
14. How has Antarctica sustained itself and managed to remain pristine?
15. How is global temperature increasing? What are the immediate fears due to it?
16. How is Antarctica a crucial element in the debate of climate change?
17. What are the reasons for the success of the Students on Ice programme?
18. What is that beauty of balance that a trip to Antarctica unfolded to the author?
    

The Enemy

1. Who was Dr. Sadao?
2. Why was Dr. Sadao kept in Japan and not sent abroad with the troops?
3. Where did doctor Sadao and Hana meet?
4. In what condition did Dr. Sadao and Hana find the white man at the seashore?
5. What did Dr. Sadao and his wife do with the man?
6. What was the reaction of the servants when they were told about the wounded white man?
7. How did Dr. Sadao help Tom, the white man to escape?
   

On The Face of it

1. Who is Mr. Lamb? Where does he live?
2. How does Derry get into his garden?
3. How does Derry get his face burnt?
4. How does Mr. Lamb get the leg of Tin?
5. What does Mr. Lamb do in his garden?
6. How does some kids call Mr. Lamb?
7. When does the leg of tin hurt Mr. Lamb?
8. Why does Mr. Lamb leave the gate of his house always open?
9. Why is Derry worried all the time?
   

Memories of Childhood

1. What did she notice about the Indian girls in the school?
2. What was Zitkaka-sa’s idea regarding short-shingled hair?
3. Why was the girls tied to the chair in’ in Memories of Childhood’?
4. When did the narrator experience untouchability?
5. Why did the narrator feel terribly sad and provoked?
6. What advice did Annan offer Bama?
7. What do you know about Bama?
8. What type of child was Bama?
9. What was Bama interested as a child?
10. What was the elder doing that amused Bama?
11. What did her elder brother say about the way the elder was carrying the packet?
12. Why did Zitkala-sa resist the shingling of her hair?
13. How did Annan’s advice to his sister Bama impact her?
14. What were the indignities that Zitkala-sa had to suffer for being from a marginalized community?
15. Why did Zitkala-sa begin to cry when others started eating at the dining table?