Class 12 English - Vistas - Chapter Should Wizard hit Mommy NCERT Solutions | What possible plot line could the story

What makes Jack feel caught in an uglymiddle position?

Why is an adult’s perspective on life different from that of a child’s?

What is the moral issue that the story raises?

What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?

How does Jo want the story to end and why?

What do you think was Jo’s problem?

Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?

Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?

Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?

Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?

The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?

What does the third level refers to?

‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?

What kind of a person was Evans?

It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?

What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?

What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?

Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?

There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalty. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read.

What did the royal infant grow up to be?

While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during wartime, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?

Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?

You have read ‘Adventure’ by Jayant Narlikar in Hornbill Class XI. Compare the interweaving of fantasy and reality in the two stories.

When Stephens comes back to the cell he jumps to a conclusion and the whole machinery blindly goes by his assumption without even checking the identity of the injured ‘McLeery’. Does this show how hasty conjectures can prevent one from seeing the obvious? How is the criminal able to predict such negligence?

Where did Evans go?

Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?

What does the third level refers to?

Apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection? Discuss.