Jkbose 12th Class English Bi-Annual Private 2026 Guess Paper - Check Now
POETRY
Lesson 1st My Mother at Sixty-Six
Q1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
Q2. Why are the young trees described as sprinting?
Q3. Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
Lesson 2nd Keeping Quiet
Q4. What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achieve?
Q5. What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem?
Q6. What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that there can be life under apparent stillness?
Lession 3rd A Thing of Beauty
Q7. What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?
Q8. Why is grandeur associated with the mighty dead?
Q9. Beauty rests in a beautiful mountain scene. Explain.
Q10. What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?
Lession 4th A Roadside Stand
Q11. What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
Q12. What is the childish longing that the poet refers to? Why is it vain?
Lession 5th Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Q13. How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tigers’ attitudes?
Q14. What is suggested by the image “massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band”?
Q15. What ordeals is Aunt Jennifer surrounded by?
PROSE Section
Unit 1st The Last Lesson
Q16. What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day in ‘The Last Lesson’?
Q17. What thought came to Franz’s mind while going to school in the morning?
OR
What dread did little Franz have when he started for school in the morning?
Q18. How did Franz feel when Mr. Hamel said that it was his last lesson at school?
Q19. What did Franz see through the window when he reached his school?
Q20. How, in your opinion, can a linguistic minority keep their language alive in a state
Unit 2nd Lost Spring
Q21. What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps?
Q22. What had Saheb’s mother told him about their coming to the big city?
Q23. How did Saheb feel working at a tea stall? What did he get there?
Unit 3rd Deep Water
Q24. How does Douglas overcome his fear of water?
Q25. Why did Douglas fail to come to the surface of the pool as he hoped to?
Q26. What did Douglas learn from his experience of drowning?
Q27. How did the writer feel when he stopped all efforts to save himself in the pool?
Q28. Why does Douglas as an adult recount a childhood experience of terror and his conquering of it?
Unit 4th The Rattrap
Q29. What made the peddler finally change his ways?
Q30. Why was the peddler surprised when he knocked at the door of the cottage?
Q31. What made the peddler think that he had indeed fallen into a rattrap?
Q32. How did the peddler defend himself for not having revealed his true identity?
Q33. How does the metaphor of the rattrap serve to highlight the human predicament?
Unit 5th Indigo
Q34. Why do you think Gandhi Ji considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in his life?
Q35. Why did the servants think Gandhi to be another peasant?
Q36. How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?
Q37. How was Gandhi able to influence lawyers? Give reasons.
Q38. How did the Champaran episode change the plight of the peasants
Unit 6th Poets and Pancakes
Q39. What example of national integration does the author refer to?
Q40. Why was the office boy frustrated? Who did he show his anger on?
Q41. What made the lawyer stand out from the others at Gemini Studios?
Unit 7th The Interview (Part I & II)
Q42. Who was Umberto Eco? What does he say about his novel writing?
Q43. What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, The Name of the Rose?
Q44. What light does Eco throw on his famous novel, The Name of the Rose?
Unit 8th Going Places
Q45. What are Sophie’s dreams? How are they unrealistic?
Q46. What was Sophie’s ambition in life? How did she hope to achieve that?
Q47. What thoughts come to Sophie’s mind as she sits by the canal?
Q48. How would you describe the character and temperament of Sophie’s father?
MOST EXPECTED LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
Q49. Mr. Lamb and Derry are two highly contrasting characters. Highlight the contrasting traits in their characters.
Q50. How does Derry get into Mr. Lamb’s garden and what is it that draws him towards Mr. Lamb in spite of himself?
Q51. The actual pain or inconvenience caused by a physical impairment is often much less than the sense of alienation felt by the person with disabilities. What kind of behaviour does such a person expect from others? Discuss with reference to the story On the Face of It.
Q52. Do you think all this will change Derry’s attitude towards Mr. Lamb? Explain.
Q53. Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
Q54. What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
Q55. What is the author's indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
Q56. Why did the Tiger King decide to kill a hundred tigers? Describe the efforts he made to attain his target.
Q57. The world's geological history is trapped in Antarctica. How is the study of this region useful to us?
Q58. How can we say that Antarctica is the best place to study and understand about Earth's present, past and future?
Q59. Why is Antarctica the place to go to for scientists today?
Q60. In which section of the play does Mr. Lamb display signs of loneliness and disappointment? What are the ways in which Mr. Lamb tries to overcome these feelings?
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