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”?

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

Would you agree that the author’s grandmother was a person strong in character? If yes, give instances that show this.

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

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

(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.

What does the notice ‘The world’s most dangerous animal’ at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify?

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

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.

How does the story suggest that optimism helps to endure “the direst stress”?

What lessons do we learn from such hazardous experiences when we are face-to-face with death?

Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change?

Comment on the attitude shown by Taplow towards Crocker-Harris.

Three reasons why the author’s grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school.

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.