ENGLISH HOLIDAY
HOMEWORK
THE LAST LESSON
• Q1) What were more tempting for Franz than the rules of participles?
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• Q2) What was the significance of the bulletin board?
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• Q3)Describe the school scene on usual days.
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• Q4) Mention all that surprised little Franz in school that day.
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• Q5) ‘What a thunderclap these words were to me!’ Why does Franz say so?
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• Q6) Why does M Hamel reproach himself for his students’ unsatisfactory progress in studies?
Q7) Choked with emotion M. Hamel is unable to speak , yet he reveals superb
patriotism. Explainwith appropriate example.
Q8) How does M. Hamel glorify French language?
Q9) Why did M Hamel not scold Franz when the latter fumbled with the rules of
participles?
Q10) Who were sitting on the back benches during M Hamel’s last lesson ? Why?
THE LOST SPRING
• Imagine that you are Mukesh. Write a diary entry reflecting your dreams and
plans to achieve it.
MY MOTHER AT 66
• Q1. Comment on the main thought and tone of the poem.
• Q2. Discuss the mother’s appearance as mentioned in the poem. What does it suggest?
• Q3. How does the metaphor “merry children spilling out of their homes” connect with the context of
• the poem?
• Q4. Comment on the poet’s activity after “the airport’s security check”.
• Q5. How does the “wan, pale face of the mother connect to the poet’s “childhood fear”?
• Q6. “see you soon Amma”. Explain the purpose of this statement.
• Q7. Repetition of the verb ‘smile’ has different connotations. Comment.
• Q8. Comment on the contextual use of the word “ache” in the poem.
• Q9. Why does the poet have to look at her mother’s face ‘again’?
• Q10. Bring about the contrasting imagery and the latent thought between the mother’s face and “the
• young trees sprinting.”
THE THIRD LEVEL
• a How does the narrator describe himself? What made him take the Grand
• Central?
• b How did the man on the third level appear to the narrator? 2m
• c Why did the narrator turn towards the ticket windows? Why did he run back
• from there?
• d What happened to the narrator’s psychiatrist friend Sam Weiner? What do
• you deduce from it?
• E Why was Charley sure that his psychiatrist friend has gone to the year 1894
• in Galesburg?
• F Describe the first day cover that the narrator found among his collection.
• g Discuss the irony at the end of the chapter.
• h What strange things did the narrator see when he reached the third level?
• i How does the narrator’s psychiatrist friend react to the narrator’s statement
• that the third level exists?
• j How does the narrator describe Galesburg, Illinois?
