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Year: 2057 - 2066

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For: English Students Class 12

Long answer questions ( Each question carries 10 marks)

Grandmother - Ray Young Bear

No long answer questions have been asked from this lesson.

About Love - Anton Chekhov

1) Sketch the character of Alyohin. [2062]

The Heritage of Words | Short Question Collection (2057 - 2066)

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Important Short Question Collection 

Year: 2057 - 2066

The Heritage of Words

For: English Students Class 12

Grandmother - Ray Young Bear 

1) What are the four things that Ray Young bear remembers about his grandmother?

2) What is the main idea of the poem ‘grandmother’ by Ray Young Bear?

3) What impression of grandmother does the speaker give in the poem ‘grandmother’?

Complete Syllabus of Compulsory English Class 12

Syllabus | English
Complete Syllabus of Compulsory English

Class: 12

Full Marks 100 | Teaching hours 150

Poems

1. William Stafford. "Traveling through the Dark."

2. W.B. Yeasts, "The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner".

3. William Shakespeare, "Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies."

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Grandmother - Ray Young Bear | Critical Summary - The Heritage of Words

Unit: Love and Reminiscence
Critical Summary of Grand Mother - The Heritage of Words
Class: 12

In this poem, the poet draws the picture of his grand mother, all loving, inspiring. The poet figure out cultural identity of American Indian or Misquaki people. In their culture, they provide high owner to their grandmother. The women work in the field. They were typical close; however their culture is nowadays not pure. The purple scarf and the plastic shopping bag is not their cultural apparition even after grandmother death, the poet remembers her.

The Heritage of Words - Complete Summary | Compulsory English Class 12

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The Heritage of Words - Complete Summary
Class: 12

The objectives of this selection, The Heritage of Words, is to help readers acquire sensitivity and involvement in the act of reading, and look at both the abstract and tangible of aspect life with insight and understanding. 

The tests have been grouped under eight headings. This grouping is a heuristically productive device. It also helps readers work out a system of reference to knowledge that the texts represents. The texts cover a wide range of themes, but they introduced the themes not only as a matter of encyclopedic significance but also as a way of developing reader's sensitivity to look at various aspects of reality, art and letters.

The Boarding House - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Eight : Playing with Text
The Boarding House
Wilhelm Grimn
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After a difficult marriage with a drunken husband that ends in separation, Mrs. Mooney opens a boarding house to make a living. Jack, her son and Polly, her daughter live with her in the house, which is occupied by clerks from the city, as well as occasional tourists and musicians. Mrs. Mooney runs a strict and tight business and is known by the lodgers as “The Madam.” Polly, who used to work in an office, now stays at home at her mother’s request, to amuse the lodgers and help with the cleaning. Surrounded by so many young men, Polly ultimately develops a relationship with a rich thirty five years old Mr. Doran.

Gretel - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Eight : Playing With Text
Gretel
Garrison Keillor
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‘Gretel’ by Garrison Keillor is an interpretation of the story "Hansel and Gretel" from the perspective of a female. The interpreter is Gretel who denies her cowardice in the original story. She claims that the depiction is distorted one. Gretel says that there was an understanding between her and her brother to sell their story to Grimm brothers. They had signed in a contract paper with an agreement to share fifty-fifty of the profit. But unexpectedly, Gretel found the story published the other day totally different order.

Hansel and Gretel - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Eight : Playing With Text
Hansel and Gretel
Jacob and Wilhelm
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Once there was a famine in a country, which compelled the step mother to think of leaving the children to the forest. The father yielded to the wish of wife, as she was pigheaded. In the morning, the step mother asked them to get ready to go to the forest. Hansel had collected pebbles as he had heard the conversation of parents the earlier night. As they left their home, the boy dropped pebbles on the way. After walking for some duration, they reached to a spot where the step mother asked the children to wait till they return back. But it was only a trick to leave the children in the forest.

Purgatory - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Seven : Crime and Confession
Purgatory
William Butler Yeats
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The boy and his father walk on the moonlight night; they are near a ruined house. Pointing towards the house, the old man describes the past of it. The house used to be occupied by his mother and her husband. The mother of the old man had married with the groom of the stable as soon as she met him. The man later turned out to be a drunkard and gambler. Due to drinking and gambling, he emptied everything he had. The mother died while giving birth to him.

The Tell-Tale Heart - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Seven : Crime and Confession
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edger Allan Poe
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The narrator claims that he is not mad as he could hear things in the heaven, earth and hell. To justify himself saint, he confesses dangerous crime he has committed. The narrator and the old man used to reside together; they had very good relationship. The man used to love the old man very much. The old man also used to treat him well. The only thing that irritated the narrator was the eyes of him which were pale and vulture like. To end the consequences, he went to the old man's room continuously for seven days. But returned, as he could not see the eyes of the man.

A Child is Born - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Six : Women and Children
A Child is Born
Germaine Greer
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Childbirth management in the Eastern society varies from place to place. The mother is familiar about the way of giving birth to child in such society because they are used to in such customs. They don't feel so much physical and mental tension while giving birth. The approach in Eastern society is ritualistic. She is covered with taboos and prohibitions which reduces her psychological burden.

The Children Who Wait - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Six : Women and Children
The Children Who Wait
Marsha Traugot
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Marsha Traugot's essay "The children Who Wait" discusses the scene of adoption in American context. Marsha Traugot begins her essay with the picture of Tammy, which has been published in a magazine with the hope that someone would be ready to adopt her. She is five and half years old with the face of Mona Lisa. The writer describes her unadaptable child had she been born before 1960. During that period only white healthy children were considered adaptable. Physically deformed children’s were referred as damaged goods. No one was ready to adopt such children. The children who were black, mixed racial group, handicapped and over five years were not adopted by families. This view, however, started disappearing after the sixties.

Women's Business - Summary | The Heritage of Words

Ilene Kantrov

English | Summary
Unit Six : Women and Children
Women's Business
Ilene Kantrov
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Women’s business is an essay written by Ilene Kantrov which is about some women from the United States of America who have been successful in business. It tells about other business women who followed Lydia’s footsteps. It deals the subject of how women took part in the business and what things were produced and sold by them.

I Have a Dream - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Five : Human Rights
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, a black civil right campaigner, delivered an unforgettable speech " I Have a Dream" on August 28, 1963 commemorating the centennial of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. In this speech he presses for equal treatment and improved circumstances for blacks, and stresses on the necessity of eradicating institutional racial inequalities. King expresses sharp dissatisfaction over segregation and racial discrimination. He demands a fast end to racial discrimination, pledging his followers to a fight to the finish to wipe out all forms of segregation and to achieve equality and integration. However, he is in favour of creative and disciplined protest without physical violence. In his speech he even appeals the Whites to join hands with Blacks in order to revolt against discriminatory practices against Blacks. He does not show hatred against Whites, he is against color discrimination and racial prejudice.

The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Three : Humour and Satire
The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
Garica Marquez
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The boy, who is also main character of the story used to go to sea where he had seen a mysterious ship in his childhood. The ship used to appear when there was darkness and vice versa. The ship was bigger than the village and taller than the steeple of the church. But he could not see the ship in the later years. However the boy didn’t stop going to sea. He had determined to show the existence of ship to the villager after he was beaten on charge of being a liar. After many years he saw the same ship by the harbor. He could not believe his eyes.

Traveling Through the Dark - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Two : Ecology and Change
Traveling Through the Dark
William Stafford
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William Stafford's poem "Traveling Through the Dark" examines the killing of a pregnant doe by a hit-and-run driver, and the dilemma faced by the speaker who is also a driver. People generally travel in the dark when there is some urgency or when they have some immediate destination to reach. Speaker is traveling in the dark with some special purpose. So he is in a hurry. On his way he finds a dead deer on the edge of Wilson River.

Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Two : Ecology and Change
Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star
M. Lilla and C. Bishop Berry
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American geographers M. Lilla and C. Bishop Barry in their essay Hurried trip to avoid a Bad Star present an exploration of Karnali zone of western Nepal on foot for 15 months. This essay was published as a visit report in The National Geographic as Karnali, The road less World of Western Nepal in 1971. The writers in this essay describe the life account of Karnali zone people, their daily life, their tradition and culture, their lack of awareness about environmental preservation and Karnali zone’s economic dependency with the plain region of south Nepal.

Two Long-Term Problems : Too Many People, Too Few Trees - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit Two : Ecology and Change
Two Long-Term Problems : Too Many People, Too Few Trees
Moti Nissani
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In the brief essay, Two Long Term Problems: Too Many People, Too Few Trees, Moti Nissani discusses two inter related problems they are, overpopulation and deforestation. With their impact showing several consequences of the twin problems, the writer makes us aware about our duties to solve them and to save the bio-sphere for our future generation.

About Love - Summary | The Heritage of Words

English | Summary
Unit One : Love And Reminiscence
About Love
Anton Chekhov
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“About Love “presents three dimensional love stories. The first love is of Nikanor and Palegeya, second is of Alyohin and a Russian girl, and the third Alyohin and a married women Anna. The Love of Luganovich and Anna is one of the third parts. These three stories are the representatives of the three categories of love.