11th Standard - XI Std. - English - Short Answers - Important Questions - Previous Public Exam

Previously Asked Short Answers

1) Why did she call herself ‘lucky’?

2) What kind of absent-mindedness is regarded as a virtue by Lynd?

3) Who does the speaker claim to represent?

4) How is school education in the village different from that in the city?

5) What was the role of scholars and poets in olden days?

6) What happened to Bryson when he leaned to tie his shoelace?

7) Why are universities necessary for a society?

8) Why did the grandmother accompany the author to school?

9) Describe the author’s grandmother.

10) How did the narrator take advantage of the situation?

11) Describe the grandfather as seen in the portrait.

12) How do psychologists interpret forgetfulness?

13) What was the happiest time of the day for grandmother?

14) In what ways have universities improved the society?

15) How does the narrator describe the man who approached him?

16) What are our memories filled with?

17) What is a tight corner?

18) What is common about the ‘angler’ and the ‘poet’?

19) What was the narrator’s financial condition?

20) How did Mary Kom manage to get financial support for her trip to the USA?

21) Where did the author study in his childhood?

22) Name a few things that a person remembers easily.

23) How was she felicitated on her return to India?

24) Why did Mary Kom think that she should not return empty-handed?

25) What were the contents of the bag?

26) Why did the narrator visit Christie’s?

27) What was the bidder’s offer to the narrator?

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