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| English 12th Chapter 4 - End of Term Questions Bank |
English 2nd Year Chapter 4 - End of Term Solved MCQs, Important Short Questions and Long Questions Bank
MCQs
Please select the right answer.
1. Abruptly Chips flamed up. Here the word Abruptly means
2. All my early childhood, i desperately longed for a tricycle. Here the word longed for means
3. Daiches hung on the outskirts of a crowd around an ice-cream jg, gloomy .Here the word outskirts means
4. Friday morning was positively rose-colored. Here the word positively means
5. Friday night was positively rosecoloured. Here the word positively means
6. He acquitted me, apparently. Here the word acquitted means
7. Her voice sounded in my ears like a summons to damnation. Here the word damnation means
8. Her voice sounded like a summons to damnation. Here the word damnation means
9. I could look forward to a period of felicity. Here the word felicity means
10. I would savor my happiness with a conscious relish .Here the word happiness means
11. I would savour my happiness with a conscious relish. Here the word relish means
12. On Friday the writer walked with the tread of an escaped prisoner. Here the word escaped means
13. Seeing the hours of school stretching ahead, was a dismal experience. Here the word dismal means
14. She would announce in deep, funeral tones. Here the word funeral means
15. Sleep again if you feel inclined. Here the word inclined means
16. Sometimes there were unexpected respites. Here the word respites means
17. Sometimes they enjoyed some unexpected respite. Here the word respite means
18. Sometimes they had dismissal of school an hour or two before the usual time .Here the word dismissal means
19. The anticipation was always worse than reality. Here the word anticipation means
20. The daily grind of the school pressed heavily upon me. Here the word grind means
21. The last period on Friday had a happy flavour. Here the word flavour means
22. The maidservant walked with grim steps. Here the word grim means
23. The maidservant walked with grim steps. Here the word maidservant means
24. The morning and seeing the hours of school stretching ahead was a dismal .Here the word dismal means
25. The voice of the maid sounded like a summon to damnation‘ .Here the word damnation means
26. The writer used to Ik waiting for the ominous tread. Here the word ominous means
27. The writer used to lie waiting for the ominous tread. Here the word ominous means
28. The abundant homework was a cause of tension. Here the word abundant means
29. The abundant homework was a cause of tension· .Here the word abundant means
30. The anticipation was always worse than reality. Here the word anticipation means
31. There was fierce competition in the school. Here the word fierce means
32. There was fierce competition in the school. Here the word fierce means
33. These things never happened. Here the word happened means
34. Three strenuous coal turns head in need rolled away. Here the word strenuous means
35. Three strenuous terms, at last, ended. Here the word strenuous means
Short Questions
1. "Friday Thank God" Does this phrase show the writer's attitude towards holidays? Comment on it.
2. Daiches liked holidays for their freedom - freedom from what?
3. Describe briefly the feelings of David Daiches about the summer vacation?
4. Describe the attitude of David Daiches towards Friday morning and Friday night.
5. How did Daiches spend his summer holidays?
6. How did David Daiches feel as he walked home from school on a Friday afternoon?
7. How did David Daiches feel when he entered the university?
8. How did the steps/walk/tread of the maid servant seem to the writer?
9. How did the writer feel in the last period on Friday?
10. How did the writer feel on Sunday night?
11. How many holidays did Daiches get at Christmas and Easter during his school days?
12. How many holidays did they get at Christmas and at Easter?
13. How many holidays did they get in the summer time?
14. How was the university life different from school life?
15. What could writer hardly believe at the start of summer vacation?
16. What did Daiches do to his pocket money during his childhood?
17. What did Daiches do with his pocket money?
18. What did Daiches feel when the maid climbed to the attic floor to wake him up?
19. What did the writer feel on Friday and Sunday nights?
20. What did the writer feel on Thursday morning?
21. What difference did David Daiches find between school and the university?
22. What is it that David Daiches calls a characteristic sensation of his childhood, and What is it that David Daiches calls a characteristic sensation of his childhood, and when did it disappear?
23. What is it that David Daiches calls a dismal experience?
24. What kind of unexpected blessed-breaks in routine did David Daiches enjoy when he was at school?
25. What made the week-end luxuriously long?
26. What was a dismal/dull/dreary/gloomy experience for the writer early in the morning?
27. What was a glorious vehicle for the writer and why?
28. What was Daiches general view of school life?
29. What was Daiches’ attitude towards the week-end as a school boy? Why did he long for it?
30. What was the title of the book that reminded the writer of his school time?
31. What were the "unexpected respites"?
32. What were the blessed breaks in routine"?
33. What were the unexpected respites?
34. What wish of the writer could his parents not afford?
35. What wish of the writer did come true every year?
36. When did the writer buy his first bicycle and how?
37. Why did David Daiches like holidays?
38. Why did the writer feel depressed when he was a school boy?
39. Why did the writer stand outside of a shop or at the edge of crowd around ice-cream man?
40. Why did the writer wait and long for the summer vacation.
41. Why was Monday the worst day for the writer of "End of Term"?
42. Why was the Friday morning rose-coloured for the writer?
43. Why was the writer fed with the school?
44. Wishes don’t come true in this life writes Daiches. What are the things he linged for but could not have?