Science (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Elective - NCERT

In the last section of the story, notice these expressions

(i) A bell clanged upon her heart.

(ii) AlI the seas of the world tumbled upon her heart.

(iii) Her hands clutched the iron in frenzy.

(iv) She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal.

What are the emotions that these images evoke?

Do you think the author indicates his judgment of Eveline in the story?

What do you understand of Dr. Margolin’s past? How does it affect his present life?

What was Dr. Margolin’s attitude towards his profession?

What is Dr. Margolin’s view of the kind of life the American Jewish community leads?

What were the personality traits that endeared Dr. Margolin to others in his community?

Why do you think Dr. Margolin had the curious experience at the wedding hall?

Was the encounter with Raizel an illusion or was the carousing at the wedding hall illusory? Was Dr. Margolin the victim of the accident and was his astral body hovering in the world of twilight?

Discuss in small groups

Fiction often deals with human consciousness, rather than with the reality of existence.

Discuss in small groups

The ways in which survivors of holocausts deal with life.

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement in France between the two World Wars. Its basic idea is that the automatic, illogical, and uncontrolled associations of the mind represent a higher reality than the world of practical life and ordinary literature. Do you think this story could be loosely classified as surrealistic? What elements in this story would support the idea?

Comment on the technique used by the author to convey the gruesome realities of the war and its devastating effect on the psyche of human beings through an intensely personal experience.

Who were the Senciminers?

Why did Dr. Margolin not particularly want his wife to accompany him to the wedding?

What is the Hippocratic oath?

What topic does the merry banter at the wedding invariably lead to?

Who was the woman that Dr. Margolin suddenly encountered at the wedding?

What were the events that led to his confused state of mind?

How did the author recognize the lady who was extricated from the car encrusted in the wall of Havana Riviera Hotel after the storm?

Why did the author leave Vienna never return again?