Class 11 English - Hornbill - Chapter The Browning Version NCERT Solutions | What do you gather about Crocker-Harris

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

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.

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

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.

(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...”

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

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.

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

Three ways in which the author’s grandmother spent her days after he grew up.

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.

Can you think of a song or a poem in your language that talks of homecoming?