IPE Important questions March 2016

Important questions March-2016

Prose

Short answers questions

1)      ‘Most complex problems do have a solution’, Explain how the girl in the story used lateral thinking to come up with a solution for her problem.

2)      Explain the difference between lateral thinking and logical thinking.

3)      Explain the use of six thinking hates.

4)      Sudha Murthy was extremely determined and resolute. Justify this statement.

5)      Explain the relationship between bowling and wicket keeping with examples.

6)      What are the qualifications, according to the writer, that a wicket keeper should possess?

7)      The invention of robots will not lead to the loss of jobs. How does the writer explain this?(or)

8)      How does human intelligence differ from robotic or computer intelligence?

9)      Robotic and computer intelligence complement human intelligence. Comment.

10)   Describe Adam Mayblum’s escape from the 87^th floor of the World Trade Centre.

11)   The play is a satire on the modern education system, which doesn’t prepare students for life. Discuss and debate.

Poetry

1)      Who finds a faithful friend, finds treasure. This is a Jewish saying. Do you agree? Base your answer Kahlil Gibran’s On Friendship

2)      “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked” said Bernard Meltzer.List all the qualities a true friend should have, according to Kahlil Gibran.

3)      How does Television kill one’s imagination?

4)      Describe how children spent their leisure time in the past and how they spend it now

5)      The poem ‘A Spider and a Fly’ is a celebration of beauty rather than utility. Justify your answer.

6)      Does the poet approve of celebrating Mother’s Day?

7)      Contrast the attitude of adults as opposed to children as reflected in the poem ‘Anecdote for Father’

Non- detailed (Short stories)

1)      Were Bob and Wells both successful men at the time of their second meeting? Justify your answer.

2)      Datta found a solution his problem. Did it really work for him? Justify your answer?

3)      Is the nightingale’s sacrifice in vain? Give reason to your support?

              

Important Annotations

Prose

1)      All in all, it is easier to be Prime Minister of a coalition government, than it is to be wicket- keeper of India.

2)      Because I didn’t get money’s worth, that’s why!              

3)      Sevenmeters!I know it lasted that long.                                                                                                                                                  

4)      Everyone was a hero, justify this statement made by Adam Mayblum.

5)      If muscles aren’t  used much, they get flabby, and that’s true of the brain, too

6)      In most real-life situations, the pieces are not given, we just assume they are there. We assume certain perceptions, concepts and boundaries”.

7)      “Life was full of fun and joy. I did not know what helplessness or injustice mean.”

8)      “Fine preparation one might say for the most complicated of cricketing tasks- keeping wickets

9)     It is thinking differently or doing something different, doing something that might be quite novel and unconventional in nature.

10) Though I was not keen on taking up the job, I saw as a challenge.

11) He must focus, and focus relentlessly.

12) There will be many times as many jobs coming into being as are destroyed.

13)  The connection of a heart surgeon, the reflexes of fighter pilot, the guts of a boxer”

Poetry

1)      “For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed”  

2)      “I am a vessel of righteousness scattering seeds of justice and serving the noblest uses”.

3)      “My thoughts on former pleasure ran, I thought of Kilve’s delightful shore”.

4)      It rots the sense in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters of the mind!”

5)      They sit and stare and stare and sit,until they are hypnotized by it.

6)      “I am the artist a creator and a demi-god’

7)      Whenever I see a caterpillar slouching towards a pansy’s eye, or hear ancestral voices in a wind’s howl, I invoke my diety – sometimes twice a day”.

8)      Holding a candela for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

9)      He is your field you sow with love and reap with thanks giving and he is board and fireside.

10)  I serve a great purpose in the world.

Prepared by G P. Yadav

www.gphenglish.blogspot.com