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Flamingo Prose Chapter 6 Poets and Pancakes — ENGLISH [FL] STD 12 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceENGLISH [FL]Flamingo Prose Chapter 6 Poets and Pancakes3 Marks
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Such a charitable and improvident man, and yet he had enemies! Was it because he seemed so close and intimate with The Boss? Or was it his general demeanour that resembled a sycophant's ?
Questions
Q.1. Which man is being spoken about?
A. VasantB. SubbuC. SastryD. Sangu
Q.2. The above passage is an excerpt from...............
A. The Boss and meB. Ananda Vikatan
C. My Years with BossD. My stint with Gemini Studio
Q.3. Who is a sycophant? (Which one is incorrect?)
A. yes manB. fawnerC. criticD. flatterer
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Answer

1. B. Subbu
2. C. My Years with Boss
3. C. critic

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Since its invention a little over 130 years ago, the interview has become a commonplace of journalism. Today, almost everybody who is literate will have read an interview at some point in their lives, while from the other point of view; several thousand celebrities have been interviewed over the years, some of them repeatedly.

So it is hardly \surprising that opinions of the interview-of its functions, methods and merits – vary considerably. Some might make quite extravagant claims for it as being, in its highest form, a source of truth, and, in its practice, an art. Others, usually celebrities who see themselves as its victims, might despise the interview as an unwarranted intrusion into their lives, or feel that it somehow diminishes them, just as in some primitive cultures it is believed that if one takes a photographic portrait of somebody then one is stealing that person’s soul.

V S. Naipaul ‘feels that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of themselves,’ Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice in Wonderland, was said to have had ‘a just horror of the interviewer’ and he never consented to be interviewed – It was his horror of being lionized which made him thus repel would-be acquaintances, interviewers, and the persistent petitioners for his autograph and he would afterwards relate the stories of his success in silencing all such people with much satisfaction and amusement.
Questions:
Q.1. Another expression for ‘commonplace’ is ………………….. .
A. ‘Public Park’. B. ‘Shopping Centre’ C. ‘Ordinary’ D. ‘Frequently’.

Q.2. Celebrities hate interviews because they feel that they …………………. .
A. are not advantageous to them. B. are an unwarranted intrusion into their lives.
C. bring them dishonour. D. spread wrong messages against them.

Q.3. In primitive culture it was believed that if one takes somebody’s photo, he ………………. .
A. blackmails him. B. takes away his soul too. C. helps him bring glory. D. humiliates him.

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My acquaintance with the barefoot ragpickers leads me to Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically. Those who live here are squatters who came from Bangladesh back in 1971. Saheb’s family is among them. Seemapuri was then a wilderness. It still is, but it is no longer empty. In structures of mud, with roofs of tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage, drainage or running water, live 10,000 ragpickers.

They have lived here for more than thirty years without an identity, without permits but with ration cards that get their names on voters’ lists and enable them to buy grain. Food is more important for survival than an identity. “If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,” say a group of women in tattered saris when I ask them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers. Wherever they find food, they pitch their tents that become transit homes.

Children grow up in them, becoming partners in survival. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child, it is even more.

Questions:

Q.1. “Seemapuri is yet miles away from Delhi, metaphorically”. One of the following sentences explains this briefly. Pick it out.
A. Seemapuri is quite distant from Delhi.
B. Seemapuri is underdeveloped, uncultured in comparison to Delhi.
C. Seemapuri is a home-place for ragpickers only.
D. None of these three

Q.2. The phrase ‘without an aching stomach’ here means ………………… .
A. ‘without any physical disorder’. B. ‘without any trouble’.
C. ‘with stomach full’. D. ‘without taking sleeping pills.

Q.3. The words ‘land of green fields and rivers’ refer to the land of …………………………. .
A. Kolkata. B. Bangladesh. C. Delhi. D. Pakistan.
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After dark she walked by the canal, along a sheltered path lighted only by the glare of the lamps from the wharf across the water, and the unceasing drone of the city was muffled and distant. It was a place she had often played in when she was a child. There was a wooden bench beneath a solitary elm, where lovers sometimes came. She sat down to wait. It was the perfect place, she had always thought so, for a meeting of this kind. For those who wished not to be observed. She knew he would approve.
Questions
Q.1. Who was walking by the canal?
A. SophieB. JansieC. CaseyD. Melissa
Q.2. Who as penned the story?
A. Alphonse DaudetB. Going Places
C. Louis FischerD. We too are human beings
Q.3. Whom was she waiting for?
A. GeoffB. DannyC. LouisD. Frank
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Here I sit, she said to herself, wishing Danny would come, wishing he would come and sensing the time passing. I feel the pangs of doubt stirring inside me. I watch for him but still there is no sign of him. I remember Geoff saying he would never come, and how none of them believed me when I told them. I wonder what will I do, what can I tell them now if he doesn’t come? But we know how it was, Danny and me – that’s the main thing. How can you help what people choose to believe? But all the same, it makes me despondent, this knowing I’ll never be able to show them they’re wrong to doubt me.

She waited, measuring in this way the changes taking place in her. Resignation was no sudden thing. Now I have become sad, she thought. And it is a hard burden to carry, this sadness. Sitting here waiting and knowing he will not come I can see the future and how I will have to live with this burden. They of course will doubt me, as they always doubted me, but I will have to hold up my head remembering how it was.

Already I envisage the slow walk home, and Geoff’s disappointed face when I tell him, “He didn’t come, that Danny.” And then he’ll fly out and slam the door. “But we know how it was,” I shall tell myself, “Danny and me.” It is a hard thing, this sadness.

Questions :

Q.1. One of the following sentences is true. Pick it out.
A. Geoff has planned the meeting between Sophie and Danny.
B. Sophie herself has fixed the meeting with Danny.
C. That Danny will come to see her there was Sophie’s romantic illusion.
D. Geoff also believed that Danny will turn up to see Sophie.

Q.2. What makes Sophie downhearted?
A. That if Danny doesn’t come, she will never be able to prove to others that they were wrong in doubting her.
B. That Danny ‘was not supposed to come.
C. That Geoff was misguiding her.
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’

Q.3. ‘Resignation was no sudden thing’. This sentence means ……………………………. .
A. ‘She will not surrender without prior information.
B. ‘She will not lose the hope so soon’.
C. ‘She had decided to resign well in advance.
D. None of these three

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“It is his karma, his destiny,” says Mukesh’s grandmother, who has watched her own husband go blind with the dust from polishing the glass of bangles. “Can a God-given lineage ever be broken ?” she implies.

Questions
Q.1. What was the old woman's belief ?

A. That your destiny is chosen by you.

B. That a man does what is written in his destiny and lineage.

C. That destiny has no place in one’s life.

D. That their destiny has always been bad.
Q.2. What suffering did the old woman witness?

A. She has been making bangles from the time she was married.

B. She has had a bad karma.

C. Her husband did the horrible work of bangle making.

D. Her husband went blind making bangles.
Q.3. Where was Mukesh from ?
A. Firozabad B. Faridabad C. Ferozabad D. Faizabad
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Usually when school began there was a great bustle which could be heard out in the street, the opening and closing of desks, lessons repeated in unison, very loud, with our hands over our ears to understand better and the teacher’s great ruler rapping on the table. But now it was all so still ! I had counted on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen; but of course that day everything had to be as quiet as Sunday morning.
Questions
Q.1. What had the narrator counted on for entering the school unnoticed? (Which One is incorrect?)
A. The great bustle at the beginning of school. B. The teacher writing on the board.
C. The repetition of lessons in unison. D. The opening and closing of desks.
Q.2. What is the title of the story ?
A. The Last Lesson B. The Lost Spring C. The Last Interview D. The Lost Place
Q.3. To what does the narrator compare the working day with?
A. Sunday morning B. Sunday afternoon C. Feast Day D. Regular holiday
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A mass of yellow water held me. Stark terror took an even deeper hold on me, like a great charge of electricity. I shook and trembled with fright. My arms wouldn’t move. My legs wouldn’t  move. I tried to call for help, to call for mother. Nothing happened.

Questions
Q.1. Where did the incident take place ?
A. In a poolB. In a lakeC.  In the seaD. In a river
Q.2. What is meant by ‘stark terror’ ?
A. unlikely co-ordinationB. horrible feelingC. naked thoughtsD. utter fright
Q.3. How is the force of the water described  by the boy ? 
A. Like a mass of yellow waterB. Like a great charge of electricity
C. Like stark terrorD. Like shaking and trembling stuff
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Sophie watched her back stooped over the sink and wondered at the incongruity of the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings. The delicate - seeming bow and the crooked back. The evening had already blacked in the windows and the small room was steamy from the stove and cluttered with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner. Sophie felt a tightening in her throat. She went to look for her brother Geoff. He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city.
Questions
Q.1. Whom was Sophie watching near the sink?
A. FatherB. MotherC. GeoffD. Derek
Q.2. What is untrue about Sophie's house?
i. The kitchen was a small room.ii. Dirty washing was piled up in a corner of the room.
iii. The kitchen was steamy from ancient fire place.iv. The next room had a carpet.
A. iii and ivB. only iiC. i and iiD. only iii
Q.3. What was Sophie's brother doing?
A. He was tinkering the carpet.B. He was lying on the carpet
C. He was mending a part of his motorcycleD. He was reading a book on the carpet.
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M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language, Saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world - the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it, because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.
Questions
Q.1. Which of the following superlatives is not used for the French language?
A. most logical B. most beautiful C. clearest D. most unforgettable
Q.2. What is the French language compared to in the Passage?
A. Key to logical thinking. B. A guard for protection.
C. Key to their imprisonment D. Clarity and beauty.
Q.3. When did M. Hamel speak the above words?
A. When the Prussians were attacking Lorraine. B. During his last French lesson.
C. When Alsace was taken over by the French. D. When he was going on a holiday.
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The great prose-writers of the world may not admit it, but my conviction grows stronger day after day that prose-writing is not and cannot be the true pursuit of a genius. It is for the patient, persistent, persevering drudge with a heart so shrunken that nothing can break it; rejection slips don't mean a thing to him; he at once sets about making a fresh copy of the long prose piece and sends it on to another editor enclosing postage for the return of the manuscript.
Questions
Q.1. Who according to the narrator can be a prose-writer?
A. One who is a drudge and possess a shrunken heart.B. One who is patient but is highly emotional.
C. One who can persist but cannot accept rejection.D. One who has contacts with Editors.
Q.2. How does a prose-writer deal with rejection?
A. He remembers that he is not a genius.B. He allows his heart to shrink.
C. He patiently accepts the outcome.D. He sends his manuscript to another editor.
Q.3. Which word in the passage means 'hunt'?
A. drudgeB. rejectionC. pursuitD. shrunken
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