List of top English Questions on Prose asked in UP Board XII

Answer in about 40 words: When did Bama feel humiliated?
(From 'Memories of Childhood' — 'We Too Are Human Beings' by Bama)
Answer in about 80 words: What vow did the Maharaja take and how did he fulfil that?
(From 'The Tiger King' by Kalki)
Answer in about 40 words: What part of history would it be to visit Antarctica now?
(From 'Journey to the End of the Earth' by Tishani Doshi)
Answer in about 40 words: When did Zitkala-Sa have to suffer extreme indignities?
(From 'Memories of Childhood' — 'The Cutting of My Long Hair' by Zitkala-Sa)
Answer in about 80 words: Describe the character of Dr. Sadao on the basis of the text read.
(From 'The Enemy' by Pearl S. Buck)
Answer in about 40 words: What is called 'a first day cover' as narrated by Charley?
(From 'The Third Level' by Jack Finney)
Answer in about 80 words: What was the position of Kothamangalam Subbu in Gemini Studios as described in the lesson 'Poets and Pancakes'?
(By Asokamitran)
Answer in about 40 words: "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 give us no grain." What meaning do you infer from this statement?
(From 'Lost Spring' by Anees Jung)
Answer in about 40 words: Why did Rajkumar Shukla come to the Congress session?
(From 'Indigo' by Louis Fischer)
Answer in about 40 words: Why did the author, W. Douglas, have an aversion to the water from the beginning?
(From 'Deep Water' by William Douglas)
Answer in about 40 words: What was the ambition of the ironmaster who owned Ramsjo Iron Mill in those days?
(From 'The Rattrap' by Selma Lagerlöf)
Answer in about 80 words: In what way did M. Hamel blame himself and others for the negligence of the study of French language?
(From 'The Last Lesson' by Alphonse Daudet)
Answer the following question in about 80 words: Why did the king kill the hundredth tiger? (from 'The Tiger King' by Kalki)
Why is Antarctica the place to go if we want to study the earth's past, present and future? (from 'Journey to the End of the Earth' by Tishani Doshi)
Why was the programme 'Students on Ice' so successful? (from 'Journey to the End of the Earth' by Tishani Doshi)
What was the third level? Where was it situated? (from 'The Third Level' by Jack Finney)
Why did the Tiger King decide to marry? (from 'The Tiger King' by Kalki)
Answer the following question in about 40 words: Who was Hana? How did she meet Dr. Sadao? (from 'The Enemy' by Pearl S. Buck)
Answer the following question in about 40 words: What was the importance of garbage for children in Seemapuri? (from 'Lost Spring' by Anees Jung)
Why did M. Hamel declare that the lesson he was going to teach on that fateful day was to be the last lesson? (from 'The Last Lesson' by Alphonse Daudet)
Answer the following question in about 40 words: Who was the rattrap seller? How did he make rattraps? (from 'The Rattrap' by Selma Lagerlof)
Why did Gandhiji chide the lawyers of Muzaffarpur? (from 'Indigo' by Louis Fischer)
Answer the following question in about 80 words: What did Douglas decide to overcome his fear of water? (from 'Deep Water' by William O. Douglas)
Describe the life of people working in the glass bangle industry. (from 'Lost Spring' by Anees Jung)
(b) How did Annan motivate Bama to move ahead in her life leaving behind social discrimination?