What do you gather about Crocker-Harris from the play?
Mr. Crocker-Harris is a middle aged man and is a teacher by his profession. He is very strict and is very loyal towards his principles and don’t break it. He don’t show his emotions to his students. He was very serious to his duties and don’t do biasing in his students he gives marks what his students actually deserves.
Three ways in which the author’s grandmother spent her days after he grew up.
How does the story suggest that optimism helps to endure “the direst stress”?
Would you agree that the author’s grandmother was a person strong in character? If yes, give instances that show this.
The odd way in which the author’s grandmother behaved just before she died.
The way in which the sparrows expressed their sorrow when the author’s grandmother died.
Why do you think people undertake such adventurous expeditions in spite of the risks involved?
Can you think of a song or a poem in your language that talks of homecoming?
The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad.
Describe the shifts in the narration of the events as indicated in the three sections of the text. Give a subtitle to each section.
(i) List the deeds that led Ray Johnson to describe Akhenaten as “wacky”.
(ii) What were the results of the CT scan?
(iii) List the advances in technology that have improved forensic analysis.
(iv) Explain the statement, “King Tut is one of the first mummies to be scanned — in death, as in life...”
Which language do you think the author and his grandmother used while talking to each other?
Locate the lines in the text that support the title ‘The Ailing Planet’.
Can you think of a song or a poem in your language that talks of homecoming?
Would you agree that the author’s grandmother was a person strong in character? If yes, give instances that show this.
Find out the correlates of Yin and Yang in other cultures.
List the steps taken by the captain
(i) to protect the ship when rough weather began.
(ii) to check the flooding of the water in the ship.
(i) Contrast the Chinese view of art with the European view with examples.
(ii) Explain the concept of shanshui.
(i) What do you understand by the terms ‘outsider art’ and ‘art brut’ or ‘raw art’?
(ii) Who was the “untutored genius who created a paradise” and what is the nature of his contribution to art?
Do you think it is important to preserve languages?
In what ways do you think we could help prevent the extinction of languages and dialects?