SAMPLE QUESTIONS FLAMINGO PROSE SECTION CBSE – CLASS – XII- ENGLISH

A. Answer the
following questions in about 30 – 40n words each  
1. How did Franz’s feelings change about M. Hamel and
School?
2. Write about the other guests in the classroom apart
from M. Hamel and other students.
3. “Will they make them sing in German even the
pigeons?”
4. Why was there a crowed in front of the bulletin
board at the town hall?
5. “Garbage to them is gold” . Why does the author say
about the rag pickers?


6. For sahib. “even shoes with a hole is a dream come
true”. Elucidate.
7. What are the problems faces by the bangle makers?
8. “Saheb is no longer his master’ – what does the
author mean? 
9. What did Douglas plan when his feet hit the bottom?
10.       
What happened
when “all efforts ceased”?
11.       
How did the
instructor make William Douglas a perfect swimmer5?
12.       
“All we have to
fear is fear itself” – Explain.
B. Answer the
following questions in about 125 to 150 words each.  
1) How did Douglas overcome fear?


2) Describe Saheb’s life story from a rag picker to a
servant in a tea-stall. Why couldn’t his new job make him happy?
3) What was the parting message of Mr. Hamel to his
students and village elders? What was the effect on them?