CBSE Class 12 English Going Places Worksheet Set 01

Practice Worksheets for Class 12 English: Flamingo Chapter 08 Going Places

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               Very Short Questions

Q.1)        Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?

Q.2)        Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?

Q.3)        Does her father believe her story?

Q.4)        How did the members of Sophie’s family react to her announcement that she would open a boutique if she came into money?

Q.5)        What would be the priority of Sophie when she earns money?

               Short Questions

Q.6)        Sophie’s real world is different from her fantasies. Explain.

Q.7)        It is natural for teenagers to have unrealistic dreams. What would you say are the benefits and disadvantages to such fantasizing?

Q.8)        What did Sophie tell her brother Geoff about Danny Casey?

Q.9)        What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her from having such dreams?

Q.10)      If you were Danny Casey, what would you think about Sophie?

               Long Questions

Q.11)      Sophie and Jansie were classmates and friends. What were the differences between them that showed up in the story?

Q.12)      Sophie’s dreams are all connected to the world of glamour. Many children today aspire for things beyond their means. What values need to be inculcated in children so that they learn to be better human beings and not purely materialistic?

Q.13)      Briefly Explain the Summary of the Chapter ‘Going Places’?

Q.14)      The theme of the story ‘Going Places’ is adolescent fantasy and hero-worship. Every teenager has some or the other hero in his/her life. Based on your reading of the story, write an article on the topic: ‘Are teenagers justified in their act of hero-worship’.

Q.15)   Notice the following expressions. The highlighted words are not used in a literal sense. Explain what they mean.

  1. Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of a ground.
  2. Sophie felt a tightening in her throat. If he keeps his head on his shoulders.
  3. On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to the United.
  4. She saw….him ghost past the lumbering defenders.


Questions Based On Extracts:

“Damn that Geoff, this was a Geoff thing not a Jansie thing”.

Question. What did the speaker mean by ‘Jansie thing’
Answer: She means to say that Jansie was nosey and would spread everything in the neighbourhood. 

Question. What is the speaker talking about?
Answer: She is talking about her imaginary meeting with Danny Casey. 

Question. Name the speaker?
Answer: Sophie

Question. Why did the speaker say so?
Answer: Sophie said so as she believed that Geoff had shared her secret with others. 

 
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Short Answer Type Questions:

Question. Who is Geoff?
Answer: Sophies's brother, realistic, reticent apprentice mechanic.

Question. Did Sophie actually meet Danny Casey personally at the canal side?
Answer: sheer imagination, illusion, never met him.

Question. What socio-economic background did Sophie belong to? What are the indicators of her family's financial status?
Answer: She belongs to middle class, earmarked for biscuit factory. They are not well-off, struggle and dissappointment marks their daily life-Curtainless windows, cluttered room, congested living, dirty linen piled up in a corner and mother's back bent on the sink are the indicators of the socio-economic background.

Question. Comment on- Sophie's dreams and disappointments are all in her mind.
Answer: Value Points: An imaginative girl, dwells in the luxury of dreams unrealistic, highly ambitious etc.

Question. Bring out the differences between Sophie and Jansie?
Answer: Sophie was unrealistic and day-dreamer. She had high ambitions inconsistent with the resources available whereas, Jansie was realistic and practical. She knows her limitations.

Question. How did Sophie's father reacts to the news- 'Sophie met Danny Casey?
Answer: Disbelief, anger, looking at Sophie in disdain.

Long Answer Type Questions:
 
Question. Jansie is just as old as Sophie but she is very different from her. Bring out the contrast between the two friends citing relevant instances from the story ‘Going Places’.
Answer: Sophie and Jansie are classmates and friends. They belong to lower middle class families. Jansie thinks that they both are earmarked for biscuit factory. While Jansie seems to have no unrealistic dreams, her friend, Sophie, is a daydreamer. She wants to own a boutique when she grows up. Jansie, who is practical and a realistic person, reminds Sophie that it takes a lot of money to own a boutique. Sophie, on the other hand, is fickle minded. She says that she will get a high paying job of a manager or become an actress because they get paid a lot. Sophie shares her dream of becoming an actress/designer/boutique owner with her friend Jansie, which only saddens her. A worldlywise Jansie warns Sophie against such far-fetched and unachievable dreams and is content with her reality, whereas Sophie wants to escape hers and find contentment outside, in a world, which is full of mystery and adventure. Sophie’s adolescent fantasising about having a grand and promising future and hero-worship of Danny Casey stands in total contrast to Jansie’s groundedness and practical temperament.
 
Question. Why did Sophie long for her brother’s affection?
Answer: Geoff was an introvert and Sophie envied her brother’s silence as she thought that he had access to a world that she had never got a chance to visit. She sought her brother’s affection and approval because Geoff was not critical and disapproving of her like her father. To her, Geoff’s world symbolised freedom and adventure, which Sophie craved for a lot. She, to some extent hero-worshipped Geoff.
 
Question. Why did Sophie not want Jansie to know anything about her meeting with Danny Casey?
Answer: Sophie did not want Jansie to know anything about her meeting with Danny Casey because Jansie was a gossip monger. She took interest in knowing things about others, but would not keep any secret. Sophie feared that Jansie would tell the whole neighbourhood about this and Sophie’s fantasy would be exposed.
 
Question. What were Sophie’s plans for her future? Why would you call her dreams unrealistic?
Answer: Sophie wanted her future to be sophisticated and comfortable. She did not see herself working at the biscuit factory for the rest of her life. Instead, she wanted to have a boutique after leaving school. However, realising that it costs money to own a boutique, she changed her mind and decided to become a shop manager first to earn enough money for the boutique. Alternatively, she considered becoming an actress because, as a profession, it pays well. She changed her mind yet again and revealed that she would be an actress and run a boutique side by side. Her dreams can be called unrealistic because, she came from a poor family who could not provide all the resources needed to fulfil her fantasies. Moreover, Sophie wanted to escape her reality with the help of such dreams and fantasies, but not work hard to make them come true.
 
Question. It is normal for adolescents to fantasise and indulge in hero worship. How far is it true of Sophie?
Answer: It is normal for adolescents to fantasise and indulge in hero-worship. Same is the case with the protagonist of the story, ‘Going Places’, Sophie. Sophie is someone, who looks for an escape from her harsh reality in her fantasies. In the story, one can see Sophie idolising two individuals. One is of course Danny Casey, the Irish, star football player and the other one is Geoff, her older brother. Sophie loves Geoff the most in the family to the extent that she worships him and longs for his affection. Geoff is an introvert, he does not talk to her much and keeps himself busy with his bike. Sophie thinks that when Geoff is silent, he is far away somewhere in the mysterious world he belongs to. She too wants to be a part of Geoff’s mystery world. She imagines herself riding behind him, wearing a yellow dress hearing the sound of people applauding for them. She wants him to think of her as an adult; it matters to her what Geoff thinks. However Geoff considers Sophie too young. Her hero-worship for Danny Casey develops into a romantic fantasy, which she cherishes and starts to think as real. She lies about meeting him in person at the arcade. Her detailed description of the way he looks, his mannerisms, etc., makes her lie believable to her brother Geoff and her best friend Jansie. Sophie tells Geoff that Danny has asked her to meet him again and insist that he would certainly come, even though Geoff half believes it. Later on the day Sophie is supposed to meet Danny the second time, she imagines him coming and how she would react. Reality hits her hard once again when Danny does not come and it saddens Sophie. The fact is, she and Danny had never met in reality. Sophie had only seen him once playing at the stadium.

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