CBSE Important Questions

Fiction -1 Two Gentlemen Of Verona

1. Why did Luigi prevent the author from purchasing wild strawberries?
2. What attracted the author towards the two boys?
3. What were the two boys doing when the author saw them next? How can you say that they were successful in that work?
4. Mention few works the two boys were doing besides selling strawberries?
5. As We made the rounds, my interest was again provoked by their remarkable demeanour. What was remarkable about the demeanour?
6. What was the most striking thing about the two boys?
7. "We are not complaining ,sir." Who said this and when?
8. How were the two boys trying to save the money?
9. Where did the author drive the two brothers to?
10. What misfortune had befallen on the two boys in the past?
11. Why did the boys join the resistance movement?
12. Why do you think the author did not say a word ,as they returned from Poleta?

Fiction -2 Mrs Packletide’s Tiger

1. What were not the reasons behind Mrs Packletide’s sudden interest in hunting of a tiger?
2. What was the compelling motive behind Mrs Packletide’s lust for hunting?
3. What had Mrs Packletide planned in advance of her hunting adventure?
4. How did the circumstances prove propitious for her?
5. The great night of hunting arrived. What were the safety measured taken?
6. How did Miss Mebbin asserted her elderly sister’s attitude towards money?
7. Was the tiger interested in the hunt? Why/Why not?
8. What role did the crowd play in glorifying Mrs Packletide’s great hunt?
9. Why did Miss Mebbin not disclose the secret soon after the tiger hunt?
10. Why did Mrs Packletide undergo a change in the colour of her face? What does it show?
11. What was Mrs Packletide most afraid of ?
12. Mrs Packletide, Miss Mebbin. Loona Bimberton and the villagers are driven by some or other greed . How?

Fiction - 3 The Letter

1. Ali’s journey to the post office was a lonely affair. How?
2. How can you say that Ali was a poor as well as an old man?
3. What helped Ali to bear so much the hostile weather?
4. Why is a reference to an opium eater given in the fiction?
5. Why is Ali called a clever shikari?
6. What dawned upon Ali as the evening of his life was drawing in?
7. Ali’s patience was beyond measure. How?
8. What made clerks scoff at Ali?
9. Ali can’t be called a pest. How?
10. What startled Laxmi Das so much?
11. How did the postmaster spend one night in misery?
12. How did the postmaster’s imagination deceive him?

By, - P.Divya VIII-B