Class 11 English - Hornbill - Chapter Landscape of Soul NCERT Solutions | “The landscape is an inner one, a

“The Emperor may rule over the territory he has conquered, but only the artist knows the way within.”

Find out the correlates of Yin and Yang in other cultures.

(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?

What is the language spoken in Flanders?

(i) Contrast the Chinese view of art with the European view with examples.
(ii) Explain the concept of shanshui.

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.

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

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

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

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) 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...”

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

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

Does Frank seem to encourage Taplow’s comments on Crocker-Harris?

Describe the mental condition of the voyagers on 4 and 5 January.

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

Have you known someone like the author’s grandmother? Do you feel the same sense of loss with regard to someone whom you have loved and lost?

The author’s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this?

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?

Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?

‘Catamaran’ is a kind of a boat. Do you know which Indian language this word is derived from? Check the dictionary.

What difference did you notice between the reaction of the adults and the children when faced with danger?

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

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