Class 12 English - Vistas - Chapter Should Wizard hit Mommy NCERT Solutions | What do you think was Jo’s problem

What makes Jack feel caught in an uglymiddle position?

Why is an adult’s perspective on life different from that of a child’s?

What is the moral issue that the story raises?

What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?

How does Jo want the story to end and why?

Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?

What possible plot line could the story continue with?

Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?

Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?

Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?

The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?

What does the third level refers to?

‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?

What kind of a person was Evans?

It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?

What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?

What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?

Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?

Did the Governor and his staff finally heave a sigh of relief?

Will Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?

What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or simply self-absorption?

Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?

While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during wartime, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?

‘The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress.’ What are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them?

We need a new system for the age of ecology - a system which is embedded in the care of all people and also in the care of the Earth and all life upon it. Discuss.

How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home even when he knew he couldn’t stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?

Dr Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?

Does the story remind you of ‘Birth’ by A. J. Cronin that you read in Snapshots last year? What are the similarities?