Class 11 English - Hornbill - Chapter The Browning Version NCERT Solutions | Comment on the attitude shown by Taplow

What do you gather about Crocker-Harris from the play?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is the language spoken in Flanders?

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

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

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