AHSEC – Class 12 Question Papers: Alternative English’ 2012

1. Who is the author of the prose piece, ‘The Refugees’?
2. Where do Eveline and Frank plan to go away?
3. Who was the last one in the ‘long procession of silent men and women’?
4. What type of a man was Frank?
5. Who is the ‘self-possessed young lady of fifteen’?
6. Why did Framton Nuttel visit the rural retreat?
7. What is the name of Mrs. Sappleton’s brother?
8. Is the imagery of eating really a ‘paradox of perversity’?
9. What was the relationship between the old man and the child?

1. How did the Chinese peasants become refugees?
2. Why did the passerby feel pity on the old man?
3. Why the French window is kept open every evening till dusk?
4. How does Mr. Nuttel sense the presence of ‘masculine habitation’ in the room of Mrs. Sappleton’s house?
5. Why does Eveline plan to leave her home?
6. What happen memories does Eveline have of her father?
7. Why does the write, G.K. Chesterton prefer a Kitchen garden to a flower garden?

1. Why didn’t the arrival of the fresh horde of refugees arouse the curiosity of the city dwellers?
2. Give an account of the conversation between the old man and the passer by.
3. What impression do you gather about Mr. Nuttel from your reading of the prose piece, ‘The Open Window’?
4. What is the dilemma faced by Eveline at the station and why?
5. Give the significance of the title, “The Appetite of Earth’.
6. Sketch the character of Vera.

1. He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the bank of Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him.
2. But if you had land you would know it must be put to seed again or there will be starvation yet another year.
3. Worldliness and the polite society at the world, has despised this instinct of eating, but religion has never despised it.
4. It was a hard work – a hard life – but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.

1. Who is the poet of ‘A Poison Tree’?
2. Why does Hardy address the bird as ‘darkling’?
3. What is meant by the term ‘trenches’?
4. ‘I who am dead of thousand years’ – Who is ‘I’ here?
5. Who is the ‘unseen’ friend mentioned by Flecker in her poem?
6. What is the meaning of the word ‘archaic’?
7. The ‘old Maeonides the blind’ is

1. Hardly
2. Flecker
3. Homer

1. What does the poet mean by ‘I told my wrath’? What happened when he told his wrath?
2. What is meant by a ‘coppice gate’?
3. What is meant by the expression ‘Narrow, domestic walls’?
4. What conclusion does the poet arrive at the end of the poem ‘The Darkling Thrush’?
5. What, according to Flecker, are the inspirations of poetry through the ages?

6. What is the meaning of ‘old druid Time’ in the context of the poem, ‘Break of day in the Trenches’.

1. What is Rosenberg’s attitude towards war, as stated in the poem?
2. Bring out the central idea of the poem, ‘To a Poet a Thousand years Hence’.
3. What kind of world does the poet describe in ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’?
4. Describe the black winter landscape on the last day of the year, at the end of the nineteenth century.
5. Why the poem is called ‘A Poison Tree’? What was the seed from which it grew?

1. The land’s sharp features seemed to be

2. The darkness crumbles away –

3. And it grew both day and night,

1. There is nobody but believes in his honesty. [Make it affirmative]
2. Where there is smoke there is fire. [Make it negative]
3. The beauties of Nature are beyond description. [Make it interrogative]
4. Is there anything wrong with me? [Make it affirmative]
5. He is sometimes careless. [Make it negative]
6. No one but a coward would fail to do his duty. [Make it affirmative]

7. Samir is taller than Bimal. [Make it negative]
8. I shall never forget those happy days. [Make it interrogative]

1. We have plenty of time.
2. We say no one we know.
3. A few people knew the answer.
4. I am reading a book.
5. Everything looked beautiful.
6. Please ask the girls to come in.
7. No one can stand against a woman’s will.
8. Let us play cricket.

1. He was charged ____ theft.
2. The child died ____ hunger.
3. I differ ____ you at this point.
4. I am going to Delhi ____ air.
5. He is playing ____ my patience.
6. He prides himself ____ his wealth.
7. Why should you object ____ my doing the work?
8. He stood ____ the window.

1. My house ____ east. (face)
2. Iron ____ at a high temperature. (melt)
3. I ____ in Mumbai for ten years. (live)
4. They ____ for Europe on Friday. (Leave)
5. We ____ for you since eight O’clock. (wait)
6. We ____ the letter yet. (write)
7. I saw you while you ____ the road. (cross)
8. If I were you, I ____ that letter at the main post office. (post)

1. What does Mrs. B say to Friend? 2
2. Where will Mrs. B order coffee? 1
3. Does Friend like sitting up on those high stools? If not, why? 1+1
4. Where do Mrs. B and Friend sit and why? 1+1
5. What does Mrs. B say to waitress? 2
6. What makes the difference to a good cup of coffee? 1
7. Why are there lots of people in the morning? 2
8. What makes Mrs. B to wonder? 1
9. Where will Mrs. B and Friend go after finishing the coffee? 2