Question Answers: NCERT Class 11 English - Hornbill

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 way in which the sparrows expressed their sorrow when the author’s grandmother died.

The odd way in which the author’s grandmother behaved just before she died.

The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad.

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?

(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...”

Describe the shifts in the narration of the events as indicated in the three sections of the text. Give a subtitle to each section.

Give reasons for the following.
(i) King Tut’s body has been subjected to repeated scrutiny.
(ii) Howard Carter’s investigation was resented.
(iii) Carter had to chisel away the solidified resins to raise the king’s remains.
(iv) Tut’s body was buried along with gilded treasures.
(v) The boy king changed his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun.

Why do you think people undertake such adventurous expeditions in spite of the risks involved?

We have come across words like ‘gale’ and ‘storm’ in the account. Here are two more words for ‘storm’: typhoon, cyclone. How many words does your language have for ‘storm’?

Which language do you use to talk to elderly relatives in your family?

Locate the lines in the text that support the title ‘The Ailing Planet’.

“The landscape is an inner one, a spiritual and conceptual space.”

Describe the shifts in the narration of the events as indicated in the three sections of the text. Give a subtitle to each section.

How would you say ‘a dilapidated drum’ in your language?

How are the earth’s principal biological systems being depleted?

Have you heard any boatmen’s songs? What kind of emotions do these songs usually express?