Popular Questions
- Read the play out in parts. Enact the play on a suitable occasion.
- Discuss in groups plays or films with a strong message of social reform that you have watched.
- What impressions of Shahid do you gather from the piece?
- How do Shahid and the writer react to the knowledge that Shahid is going to die?
- Look up the dictionary for the meaning of the word ‘diaspora’. What do you understand of the Indian diaspora from this piece?
- Why does Andrew say this? What does it mean?
- There lies a great difference between textbook medicine and the world of a practising physician. Discuss.
- Discuss medical procedures such as organ transplant and organ regeneration that are used to save human life.
- Narrate ‘The Tale of Melon City’ in your own words.
- What impression would you form of a state where the King was ‘just and placid’?
- How, according to you, can peace and liberty be maintained in a state?
- Suggest a few instances in the poem which highlight humour and irony.
- Find similar examples in your language. Share them in the class.
- Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change ?
- How is the archeology changed substantially in the modern times ?
- What does the speaker mean by that and Why ?
- Why did the Narrator visit the village astrologer ? What according to be astrologer was Ranga’s cause of worry ?
- What was the root cause of conflict between the History teacher and Albert ?
- Write a note on the Title of the play ‘Mothers Day.
- People of city differ in emotions with those of village. Express your views in context to ‘The Portrait of a Lady.
- The children faced the situation more bravely than their elders. Discuss in context to, “We’re not afraid to die
- Why did Booker consider education out of the text book more valuable than the education through the text book?
