CLASS 12 - CBSE -LITERATURE PRACTICE PAPER 2

 SECTION C - LITERATURE           18 Marks

Q5. Attempt ANY FIVE of the six questions given below, within 40 words each.2x5=10

i  The peasants were themselves the most crucial agents in the success of the Champaran Civil Disobedience. Expand.  

ii If the world is “nothing but a big rattrap” as the tramp stated in the story ‘The Rattrap’, who might the rattrap peddler be? Discuss. 

iii  If you were given an opportunity to share your perception of beauty, what would you say? Explain.

iv Would you say that kindness is a weakness in a law enforcement officer? Support your opinion based on your reading of the story ‘Evans Tries an O-Level’.  

v How would you describe Derry’s tone when he says – “We’re not the same”? Why does he say so?

vi‘What knitting was to Aunt Jennifer; poetry was for Adrienne Rich’. Do you agree? Comment with reference to the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’. 



 



6. Answer ANY TWO of the following in about 120-150 words each. 4*2



i How would you compare the peddler’s actions in relation to the crofter and Edla?  Would you say kindness does not always beget kindness, and that the conditions for receiving kindness are important for it to truly transform people? Elaborate. Provide relevant textual details to support the analysis.


 ii Imagine that Aunt Jennifer read the poem that Adrienne Rich wrote about 

her. As Aunt Jennifer write your feelings about your own personality and those of your tigers. Give the reason why the two are so different.



iii 

After realizing that he had been outwitted once again, the dejected Governor goes home that night contemplating his next move. While on one hand, he worries about the day’s humiliation, on the other, he cannot but smile at the adventure it brought about.  He decides to narrate the day’s events as a bedtime story to his children. 

 • Do you think he would change the story in any way? 

 • Keeping in mind that it is a bedtime tale, what more could he add to the story, or take away from it?  

• How might he generate sympathy for the police and prison authorities? 


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