CBSE Class 12 English Going Places Worksheet Set 08

               Very Short Answer

Q.1)        “He doesn’t believe you-though he’d like to.” Who says, about whom and in what context?

Q.2)        What thoughts came to Sophie’s mind as she sat by the canal?

Q.3)        Why did Jansie discourage Sophie from entertaining thoughts is about the sports-star, Danny Casey?

Q.4)        What do you think of Sophie’s dream about her career?

Q.5)        What is unrealistic about Sophie’s dreams of her future life?

               Short Answer

Q.6)        Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?

Q.7)        What are the other dreams of Sophie in addition to having a boutique?

Q.8)        Why does Jansie say: “Soaf you really should be sensible”?

Q.9)        Compare and Contrast Sophie and Jansie?

Q.10)      What job is Geoff engaged in? How does he differ from his sister, Sophie?

               Long Answer

Q.11)      What made Sophie imagine her meeting with Danny Casey? What does it tell us about her life and her relationship with her family?

Q.12)      Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie’s dreams?

Q.13)      ‘I can see the future and now I will have to live with this burden’, says Sophie. What is the burden being referred to? What light does it throw on Sophie’s life?

Q.14)   Now I have become sad, she thought. And it is a hard burden to carry this sadness. Sitting here waiting and knowing he will not come I can see the future and how I will have to live with this burden. They of course will doubt me, as they always have, but I will have to hold up my head remembering how it was. Already I envisage the slow wake home and Geoff’s disappointed face when I tell him, “He didn’t come, that Danny.” And then he’ll fly out and slam the door. “But we know how it was,” I shall tell myself, “Danny and me.” It is a hard thing, this sadness.

Sadness is really difficult to carry. And more difficult to carry. And more difficult is to carry unfulfilled desires.

After reading the above statement and ‘Going Places’ who far do you feel that sadness and unfulfilled desires can’t be carried for a long time? Elucidate.

Q.15)      Sophie lives in her fantasies. Many girls today daydream and their daydreaming merges into reality. Write an article of 120-150 words on the dangers of daydreaming.

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