Important Questions 1st Year English – By: Sir Abid Maqsood, GHS Alipur

IMPORTANT SHORT QUESTIONS (BOOK-I)

1. Why did Norma consider the tone and attitude of Mr. Steward Offensive?
2. Why did Norma try to persuade her husband to agree with her?
3. Why did Mr. Steward continue persuading Norma?
4. What is the significance of Arthur’s life- insurance policy?
5. Why didn’t the old man follow the advice of the doctors?
6. Where did the old man take his son?
7. Why did the old man take the steep path?
8. What were the feelings of the old man at the age of seventy?
9. Why did Harry want to go back to the earth?
10. What climate did they face on the Mars?
11. What was the condition of the Bittering family on hearing the news of the war on the Earth?
12. What was the advice Harry gave to the people?
13. How dangerous can a Martian virus be?
14. What happened when to the boy when he tried to snatch the purse?
15. What was the conduct of the people when they saw the incident?
16. How did the boy look physically?
17. Why did the woman ask the boy to wash his face?
18. What was the nature of woman’s job?
19. Why did Manana accuse Hubert of picking the lost pocketbook?
20. Why did George give the pocketbook to his employer?
21. What made Hubert shameful?
22. Why did people make fun of his innocence?
23. Why did he keep claiming his innocence before his death?
24. What was the subject discussed at the Club?
25. What was the view point of the parents of Gorgios?
26. Describe the scene of inauguration. Write five lines.
27. What was the behavior of the child with the doctor?
28. Why did the parents rebuke her?
29. What was the condition of the tonsils of the sick girl?
30. How did the child look by appearance?
31. What was the remedy suggested by the physicians for the disease of the king?
32. Why did the boy look to the sky and smile?
33. What should be the role of a Qazi?
34. What is a clump of trees?
35. What was the punishment inflicted upon the quack by the villagers?
36. Why didn’t the villagers let the old man get cured?
37. What are locusts?
38. What was the desire of every farmer?
39. Why are the locusts compared with bad weather?
40. Why did the men eat their super with good appetites?
41. What was the cause of Negroes’ discontentment?
42. What is the dream of Martin Luther King?
43. What was the necessity of pleading the case of the Negroes’ freedom?
44. What should be the criterion of judgment for a person?
45. How much did Della save for Christmas?
 Important Questions 1st Year English – By: Sir Abid Maqsood, GHS Alipur
46. Why did they want to exchange the gifts?
47. Why did Jim not welcome her when he stepped in?
48. What was the wisdom in selling the most valuable things?
49. What did Abul always carry with him?
50. How much was distributed among the and the poor?
51. Describe Maulvi Abul’s appearance.
52. Write the names of the other two daughters mentioned in the story.
53. Describe the appearance of the young man?
54. Who were the people wearing such dress and had come on the Mall?
55. Why did the driver of the truck speed away after the accident?
56. What kind of music was played in one of the restaurants?
57. Give the list of articles, which were found in the coat of the young man.
58. What was the vexing dream the writer saw?
59. What does the author like about Christmas?
60. Write down the good deeds the author has admitted are a great joy on Christmas?
61. Why are the noble deeds always a great joy for the author?

IMPORTANT SHORT QUESTIONS (BOOK-III) PLAYS

1. Why couldn’t the girl describe the killer?
2. What were the circumstances that forced the girl to leave her car?
3. What was the condition of the weather?
4. How did the second man accuse the first man of lying?
5. Did the girl become suspicious of the first man as the play progresses?
6. Why didn’t the girl accompany the second man?
7. How does Kreton prove his extraordinary powers? Write five sentences.
8. What is the purpose of Kreton’s visit?
9. How much advanced is the civilization of Kreton than that of Earth?
10. How damaging is violence in life? Write five sentences.
11. What type of life do you foresee in the year 5000?
12. How impressive were the morals of Kreton
13. What is Harry’s philosophy?
14. What has happened to Clay’s father?
15. What did Clay find near the Black Rock?
16. What kind of judge is Judge Applegarth?
17. How does Harry describe the inhabitants of O.K-by-the-Sea?
18. What id Applegarth’s complaint about the sea?
19. Describe Harry’s shop.
20. What philosophy do Harry invent?
21. Why does Clay go to the beach?

IMPORTANT SHORT QUESTIONS (BOOK-III) POEMS

1. How can a rainy day be enjoyed?
2. Which personification is used in poem Night Mail?
3. What is the central idea of the poem “Night Mail”?
4. What time of the year is mentioned in the first stanza?
5. What does the title of the poem signify? (O, Where Are You Going?
6. How do you feel after reading the poem?
 Important Questions 1st Year English – By: Sir Abid Maqsood, GHS Alipur
7. What are the feelings of the poet standing in the dark?
8. Why has the poet used ‘Cannonballs’ to describe the fruits?
9. What is the main idea of the poem? (Sindhi Women)
10. What did the poet reflect when he saw the Sindhi Woman?
11. From where has the poem “Times” been taken?
12. What is Ecclesiastes?
13. What kind of feelings does the poem create in the reader’s mind? (Ozymandias)
14. What did the poet see in the desert? (Ozymandias)
15. What do you feel after reading the poem? (The Feed)
16. Why does the poet call the modern man as the hollow man? (The Hollow Men)
17. Describe the scene of devastation. (A Tale of Two Cities)
18. What is worse than slavery? (Ruba’iyat)
19. What is the effect of the death scene? (My Neighbour Friend)
20. Without whose love is Bullah in loss?
21. Why did Mansur mount the gallows? (He Came To Know Himself)
22. What is the bare truth?
23. How many attributes of God are mentioned in the poem? (God’s Attributes)
24. What makes one scare of sinning?
25. What are effects of the attributes of God?
26. How do these attributes help in refining the character of a person?
27. What is the effect of man’s good relation with earth and the lords?
28. What is the dream of the poet? (The Delight Song)
29. What is the effect of love? (Love-An Essence)
30. What is the effect of love on lions?
31. What is the effect of love on sickness?
32. How does the life of man passes through different phases of it? ( A man of words)
33. What happens when life is spent with the help of words and not deeds?
34. What does the garden look like when the weeds start growing?
35. What happens to a man who trusts his clear images? (In Broken Images)

Regards,

Abid Maqsood
GHS Alipur