Bal Bharati Public School, Navi Mumbai

2021-2022

English Asssignment Class XII

The Last Lesson

Q1. Read the given extract and answer the following questions:

a. I had never listened so carefully, and that he had never explained everything
with so much patience. It seemed almost as if the poor man wanted to give us all
he knew before going away, and to put it all into our heads at one stroke.

i. Who is ‘I’ and ‘the poor man’ in these lines?

ii. Why is the poor man going away?

iii What did he want to put in the heads at one stroke?

iv What qualities can be seen in the ‘I’ and ‘the poor man’ in this extract?

b. Ah, that’s the great trouble with Alsace; she puts off learning till tomorrow.
Now these fellows out there will have the right to say to you, ‘How is it; you
pretend to be Frenchmen, and yet you can neither speak nor write your own
language’

i. Who is the speaker of these lines?

ii In what context the word ‘Alsace’ is referred to? Name the figure of speech also?

iii Why is the speaker reproaching?

iv What lesson can we get from the phrase ‘she puts off learning till tomorrow’?

Q2. Answer the following questions in 35-40 words each.

a. What did the narrator observe as he passed the town hall? Why did the sight
trouble him?
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b. What surprises awaited the narrator as he entered the classroom?

c. Why does the teacher feel the need to safeguard their language?

Q3. Answer the question in about 130-150 words?

a. The narrator thinks, ‘Will they make them sing in German, even the
pigeons?’How does the expression evoke feelings of indiscriminate domination by
man?
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