CBSE Class 12 English Elective Outside Delhi Question Paper 2013 (1)

CBSE Class 12 English Elective Outside Delhi Question Paper 2013 (1). Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions.Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations. 

1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :

(a) Amrita, who was herself a blending of the Orient and the Occident, was looking for more than new forms; nor was she seeking just harmony. She was a herald of the spiritual equilibrium between Europe and Asia, a new synthesis, a step towards the age of world-art.

(i) What was the most striking feature of Amrita’s personality ? 

(ii) What did she look for in art ? 

(iii) How was her art ‘a step towards the age of world-art’ ? 

                             OR

For those whose will is weak, whose purse is slender, and whose acquisitiveness or generosity is highly developed, London is, at the moment, no safe city. Such recently has been the multiplication of curiosity shops and the improvement in the taste of their proprietors, that it is wisest to bandage one’s eyes or stay indoors altogether.

(i) For whom is London not a safe city ? 

(ii) What changes have taken place recently in London ? 

(iii) Why is it an act “of wisdom to keep one’s eyes closed or stay indoors ? 

(b) The freedom of the press is one of the highly guarded and valued privileges of democracy. There are laws to protect the privacy and rights of the individual, and the security of the country but no man is too important, no office too high to escape comment. A well informed press carrying all degrees of opinion is a vital part of our heritage.

(i) What is one special privilege of democracy ? 

(ii) What purpose are the laws framed for ? 

(iii) What is the significance of a well informed press ? 

                            OR

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and the now. We cannot help the egoism of our senses. Sight and sound and touch are bound up with our own bodies and cannot be made impersonal. Our emotions start similarly from ourselves.

(i) What is the essence of wisdom ? 

(ii) Which sense perceptions cannot be made impersonal ? 

(iii) What is the similarity between our emotions and sense perceptions ? 

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