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Long Question 1 | Grandmother

English 12 Notes — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:41:42 +0000

How does the poet feel about his grandmother? Explain.

Ans : The speaker has an affectionate and respectful feeling towards his grandmother. He describes his grandmother in such a way that she becomes the source of love and inspiration to him. He expresses his warm and intimate feeling to her through the words like feeling her ‘warm and damp hands’ and ‘her words would flow inside me like the light’. Here, the grandmother’s words are compared with the light of sleeping night fire which lightens the darkness when it is recovered by removing the ashes. This means that her words lighten the darkness of his life and show the right path to truth, love and goodness.

Short Question 1 | Grandmother

English 12 Notes — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:41:42 +0000

What does the poet remember / feel about his grandmother?

“Grandmother” by Ray young bear presents the feeling of a poet whose mind is full of grandmother’s memory. The grandmother used to love him so much in the past that her memory is printed in almost all his sense organs. Because of those ever lasting memory, he feels nostalgic towards his grandmother. Whatever he does is stitched with the color of his grandmother.

The poet states his nostalgic feeling throughout the poem. The beginning itself is important to understand the felling towards his grandmother. She resides permanently in eyes of the poet. As a result the poet can know her wisely ever if he sees her shape from a mile away. His nostalgic feeling is expressed in other lines too. His claim of identifying his grandmother with the help of other sense organs also suggests that he is nostalgic towards his grandmother. Of all his assertion, the one expressed towards the last is very important. In the last few lines he says that the words of grandmother remain inside him permanently. The grandmother was the sources of inspiration to him. She was the one who used to love him very much. Because of her memory the poet feels nostalgia reminds him of his grandmother frequently.

Short Question 3 | Grandmother

English 12 Notes — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:41:42 +0000

Describe what you think the poet’s grandmother was like? Which adjectives best describe her?

The poet has very affectionate and most respectful feeling towards his grandmother. His description of his grandmother in the poem using various poetic devices reveals that she is the source of love and inspiration for the poet. He seems to be strongly guided by the inspiration of his grandmother it is his close association with grandmother that inspires him to recognize, feel and understand her even from a far distance without looking her appearance his imagination of blowing words of grandmother from the rock entering inside him, enlightened him removing the darkness of his life. This words also inspire him to move forward enthusiastic way. The poet has evergreen and fresh memory of the grandmother which is highly motivated factor of his life. The poet is devotedly guided and inspired by the loving memory of his grandmother.

NEB Question Collection | Grandmother

English 12 Notes — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 1 : Grandmother

Long Questions asked from this chapter :

How does the poet feel about his grandmother? Explain.
What is the central idea of the poem 'Grandmother'?

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

What does the poet remember about his grandmother?
What images do you find in the poem’ Grandmother’? To what senses do they appeal?
Describe what you think the poet’s grandmother was like? Which adjectives best describe her?
How would the poet recognize his grandmother?

NEB Question Collection | The Boarding House

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 21 : The Boarding House

Long Questions asked from this chapter :

Briefly narrate the story ‘The Boarding House’
Sketch the character of Mrs. Mooney.

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

Write and interpretation of the story, “The Boarding House”.
What was the major problem in the relation between Mr. Doran and polly?

NEB Question Collection | I have a Dream

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 11 : I Have a Dream

Long Questions asked from this chapter :

What is the main idea of the speech ‘I Have a Dream’?
Describe the historical significance of the speech ‘I Have a Dream’.
Discuss the situation in Nepal regarding castes under the low are all castes equal? Is it legal to refuse to allow a low caste people a temple or a room in a hotel? In reality, are all castes treated equally? Are there any similarities between the situation in Nepal and the situation in the U.S.A forty years ago?

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

What is the apparent purpose of the speech ‘I Have a Dream’.
Explain the historical background to the speech?
Describe the particulars injustices or the racial discrimination in Martin Luther king’s speech.
How did Martin Luther king oppose the segregation?
What does Martin Luther king consider to be position of Negroes in society? Describe his dream.
Explain king’s analogy of the bad check.

NEB Question Collection | Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 6 : Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star

Long Questions asked from this chapter :

Give a short account of the life of people living in Karnali region? Discuss.
What did the authors find in the exploration of Karnali Region? Explain.

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

How is Karnali region economically linked with the lowland regions to the south?
What was happening to the trees in the sal forest?
What does it indicate about the exploitation of nature?
Why did the men not process the silajit before leaving home village? What does it refer to?

NEB Question Collection | The Little Brother and the Little Sister

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 20 : The Little Brother and the Little Sister

Long Questions asked from this chapter :
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Short Questions asked from this chapter :
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NEB Question Collection | Purgatory

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 16 : Purgatory

Long Questions asked from this chapter :

Sketch the character of An Old Man.
“We are always punished for our sins”. Elaborate this statement.
Interpret the play ‘purgatory’ from any perspective you like.

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

What is the Old Man’s motive in murdering the boy ?

SEE Question Collection | Hansel and Gretel

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 17 : Hansel and Gretel
Long Questions asked from this chapter :

Briefly narrate the story ‘Hansel and Gretel’
Narrate the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

How did Hansel and Gretel free themselves from the witch ?

NEB Question Collection | A Child is Born

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 14 : A Child is Born
Long Questions asked from this chapter :

What differences does the writer show between a traditional society and a modern society in matters of pregnancy, childbirth and child bearing ?
Write about the place of a mother in the Nepali family with reference to different stages of her life.

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

What kind of treatment does a woman in Bangladesh received during her pregnancy and after the childhood ?
What differences does the writer show between a traditional society and a modern society in matter of childbearing?
The essay ‘A Child is Born’ is often found controversial and one-sided. Do you agree ? Give reasons for your agreement or disagreement.

NEB Question Collection | God’s Grandeur

English 12 Notes — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:41:42 +0000

Unit 10 : God’s Grandeur
Long Questions asked from this chapter :

What is the main idea of the poem? Explain
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How does the poet manifest the magnificence of the God?

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

Why are men not aware of the greatness of god?
Why is the poet angry with modern men?
What does the poet say about nature? How does he describe it?