CGBSE Board 12th English Exam 2024 : Most Important Question Answers

छत्तीसगढ़ बोर्ड 12वीं की English परीक्षा 4 मार्च, 2024 को निर्धारित है। तो यह आर्टिकल आपके लिए काफी ज्यादा महत्वपूर्ण साबित होने वाला है क्योंकि इस आर्टिकल में आपको बोर्ड परीक्षा के लिए वो ही प्रश्न दिए गए है जो बोर्ड पेपर में आने जा रहे है।

इस पोस्ट में छत्तीसगढ़ बोर्ड 12th परीक्षा 2024 के लिए English के महत्वपूर्ण (CG Board 12th English Important Question 2024) प्रश्न दिये गये है जो आपके पेपर के लिए बहुत महत्वपूर्ण है।

छात्रों को इन (CG Board 12 English Viral Question 2024) प्रश्नों को अच्छी तरह से याद रखना चाहिए, जिससे आपको तैयारी करने में आसानी होगी।

अब आपकी परीक्षा में कुछ ही घंटे बचे है I जिससे  English के पेपर की तैयारी कर सकते हैं और अच्छे मार्क्स ला सकते है I

Flamingo

A. Read the following extract from the lesson in your textbook and answer the question given below.

1. My last French lesson why I hardly knew how to write I should never learn anymore I must stop there then oh how sorry I was for not learning my lessons for seeking Birds eggs or going sliding on the Saar my books that had seemed such a nuisance a while ago so heavy to carry my grammar and my history of the saints were old friends now that I couldn't give up.

(i) It was the speaker‘s last French lesson because............
(a) his French teacher was retiring
(b) government has ordered to teach only German
(c) the speaker was migrating
(d) French has become a language to be taught in higher classes.

Ans: (b) government has ordered to teach only German

(ii) What is the speaker feeling after getting to know that it is his last French lesson?
(a) Sad
(b) regretful
(c) frightened
(d) distraught

Ans: (b) regretful

(iii) What did Franz do to skip his French lessons?
(a) seeking bird eggs
(b) going on the slides
(c) working on the mill
(d) both a and b

Ans: (d) both a and b

(iv) How do Franz‘s feelings change regarding his books?
(a) He feels that they were his friends
(b) He believes that they were a nuisance
(c) He feels that his identity is related to his books
(d) He believed that they are of no use to him

Ans: (a) He feels that they were his friends

2. Despite long years of hard labour, first as a tailor, then a bangle maker, he has failed to renovate a house, send his two sons to school. All he has managed to do is teach them what he knows — the art of making bangles. “It is his karam, his destiny,” says Mukesh’s grandmother, who has watched her own husband go blind with the dust from polishing the glass of bangles. “Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?” she implies. Born in the caste of bangle makers, they have seen nothing but bangles — in the house, in the yard, in every other house, every other yard, every street in Firozabad.

(i) This extract is taken from the lesson ............
(a) Indigo
(b) The Last lesson
(c) Lost Spring
(d) Deep water

Ans: (c) Lost Spring

(ii) Earlier profession of Mukesh’s father had been .......
(a) Shoe maker
(b) Goldsmith
(c) Bangle maker
(d) Tailor

Ans: (d) Tailor

(iii) Mukesh was taught the art of .............by his father.
(a) designing ornaments
(b) Painting pictures
(c) Making bangles
(d) Stitching clothes

Ans: (c) Making bangles

(iv) Firozabad is famous for..............
(a) Glass industry
(b) Leather industry
(c) Plastic industry
(d) Textile industry

Ans: (a) Glass industry

3. I flailed at the surface of the water, swallowed and choked. I tried to bring my legs up, but they hung as dead weights, paralysed and rigid. A great force was pulling me under. I screamed, but only the water heard me. I had started on the long journey back to the bottom of the pool. I struck at the water as I went down, expending my strength as one in a nightmare fights an irresistible force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head throbbed. I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the strategy — I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the surface.

(i) Who is ‘I’ in the above passage?
(a) Franz
(b) Saheb-e-Alam
(c) William Douglas
(d) Mukesh

Ans: (c) William Douglas

(ii) Why did the narrator scream?
(a) Out of fear
(b) For help
(c) To frighten the water animal
(d) To yell at the bully

Ans: (b) For help

(iii) What strategy did the narrator remember?
(a) To sit straight and jump
(b) To fold both hands and legs and move up
(c) To spring from the bottom and come up like a cork
(d) To shut the mouth and breath deep

Ans: (c) To spring from the bottom and come up like a cork

(iv) …….in the extract means ‘to feel a continuous pain’.
(a) ached
(b) throbbed
(c) rigid
(d) paralysed

Ans: (a) ached

Answer the questions in about 2 sentences each:

Q1. What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?

Ans: Franz was expected to be prepared with the use of ‘Participles’ that day. His teacher M. Hamel had said that he would question the children on participles.

Q2. What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?

Ans: There used to be great hustle and bustle in the school on normal days but that day there was silence all about the school. No noise of the opening and closing of desks and of lessons being repeated loudly in unison could be heard.

Q3. What had been put up on the bulletin-board?

Ans: The bulletin-board notified the general public about an order from Berlin. It stated that only German was to be taught to students in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine.

Q4. How did M. Hamel feel and behave during the last lesson?

Ans: M. Hamel stood up in his chair. He looked very pale and tall. He wanted to say some parting words, but something choked him. Then he wrote “Five La France!” on the blackboard with a piece of chalk. Then he stopped. He leaned his head against the wall. Without a word, he made a gesture to the students with his hand to permit them to go as the school was over.

Q5. Who is Saheb? How can you say his name is ironic?

Ans: Saheb was a young boy of school going age. His full name was Saheb - e - Alam. It means lord of universe. He does not know what it means. The irony is that Saheb-e-Alam of the lord of universe moves around barefoot scrounging for gold in garbage dumps.

Q6. What did Saheb find sometimes in the garbage? What did he do then?

Ans: Sometimes, Saheb found a rupee or a ten rupee note. When he found a silver coin in a heap of garbage, he ’ didn’t stop scrounging. He always hoped to find more. He had entirely different meaning of garbage.

Q7. Why did the children not wear any footwear? What explanation did they give for it?

Ans: One explanation offered by the author is that it is a tradition to stay barefoot. It is not lack of money. He wonders if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty. He also remembers the story of a poor body who prayed to the goddess for a pair of shoes.

Q8. What does garbage mean for the elders and the children in Seemapuri?

Ans: For adults rag picking was only a means of survival but for children, a lot of excitement was associated with the same for they often found unexpected things as a ten rupee note in the same. There was always a hope of coming across unexpected surprises and so garbage was wrapped in wonder for them.

Q9. Who is Mukesh? What does he want to become and why?

Ans: Mukesh is a young boy who belongs to a family of the bangle makers in Firozabad. He doesn’t want to adopt his family profession. He wants to become a car mechanic. He has seen that bangle making has given his family nothing but perpetual poverty. Therefore he wants to break away from his family tradition of bangle making.

Q10. What is the opinion of Mukesh’s grandmother about her husband?

Ans: The grandmother of Mukesh laments that her husband became blind with the dust of polishing bangles. Her son could teach his sons only the bangle making. She says, 'It is his Karam, his destiny. He cannot go beyond the god, given lineage'.

Q11. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?

Ans: The Hazards of working in the glass bangles industry are:

1. The workers work around glass furnaces with high temperatures. They work in dingy cells without air and light. This is quite unhealthy for them.
2. The polishing of the glass of bangles produces dust. This dust slowly makes the workers lose their eyesight. They go blind.
3. The workers weld the pieces of coloured glass. They do this work in their dark hutments, in the dim light of flickering oil lamps. This also affects their eyesight badly.
4. Most of them lose their, eyesight even before they become adults.

Q12. What is the “misadventure” that William Douglas speaks about?

Ans: Douglas refers to the incident at the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool where he almost drowned as a misadventure. The author was about ten or eleven years old at the time and had barely begun to learn swimming primarily by aping others. As he was thrown suddenly into the water by someone and he couldnt swim he started drowning.

Q13. How did this experience affect him?

Ans: The near death experience of drowning had a very strong impact on his psychology. He was deeply perturbed and shaken by the whole experience. A haunting fear of water took control of his physical strength and emotional balance for many years. As he couldn’t bear being surrounded by water, he was deprived of enjoying any water-related activity.

Q14. How did the “misadventure” happen with Douglas?

Ans: Douglas was sitting alone on the side of the pool, waiting for others. A big, boxer boy of eighteen came there. Mocking him as skinny he enquired how he would like to be plunged in water. Saying so, he picked up Douglas and tossed him into the nine feet deep end. Douglas struck the surface of water, swallowed water and at once went to the bottom.

Q15. Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler?

Ans: The crofter was living alone. He had no wife and children and was happy to get someone to talk to in his loneliness. So he was very talkative and friendly with the peddler. He gave him porridge for supper and tobacco for his pipe. He also played cards with him. He talked to him about his old days of prosperity and about his cow which supported him.

Q16. What made the peddler accept Edla Willmansson’s invitation?

Ans: Edla insisted on his staying with them over Christmas Eve. She told him that he would be allowed to leave them just as freely as he came. Her persuasiveness and friendliness made the peddler accept her invitation.

Q17. What doubts did Edla have about the peddler?

Ans: When Edla went to the iron mill to fetch the peddler, she noticed that he was frightened. She had doubts that the peddler had stolen something or had escaped prison. His appearance and behaviour also left her in doubts whether he was actually an educated man, as claimed by her father.

Q18. When did the Ironmaster realise his mistake?

Ans: When the peddler was given a bath, a haircut and had a shave, the ironmaster realised at the breakfast table that the tramp did not look like his regimental comrade and that he had made a mistake.

Q19. Why has Rajkumar Shukla been described as being resolute?

Ans: Rajkumar Shukla wanted Gandhiji to visit Champaran. Gandhiji was hot in a position to visit Champaran immediately. Rajkumar accompanied Gandhiji wherever he went. At last Gandhiji went with him. That is why he is described as being resolute.

Q20. What were the terms of the indigo contract between the British landlords and the Indians peasants?

Ans: Most of the arable land there was divided into large estates owned by Britishers and worked by Indian tenants. The landlords compelled them to plant 3/20 or 15 per cent of their holdings with indigo and surrender the entire indigo harvest as rent.

Q21. What are some of the positive views on Interview?

Ans: Interview, in the 130 years of its existence, has become an inherent part of journalism. It is a useful means of communication that is, at times, considered to be an art, serving as a source of truth. Denis Brian has stated that in today’s world we get to know “our contemporaries” through their interviews.

Answer in about 100-120 words :

Q1. The people in this story suddenly realise how precious their language is to them. What shows you this? Why does this happen?

Ans: M. Hamel told the students and villagers that henceforth only German would be taught in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. Those who called themselves Frenchmen would neither be able to speak nor write it. He praised French as the most beautiful, the clearest and most logical language in the world. He said that for the enslaved people, their language was the key to their prison. Then the people realised how precious their language was to them. This shows people’s love for their own culture, traditions and country. Pride in one’s language reflects pride in the motherland.

Q2. Why Subbu is described as a many sided genius?

Ans: (i) Subbu had the ability to look cheerful at all times.
(ii) His sense of loyalty made him turn his entire creativity to his principal's advantage: Film-making was quite easy with Subbu around
(iii) He was literary inclined too-a poet and novelist. He was an amazing actor.
(iv) He had a charitable and loving nature.

Q 3. Write the character sketch of Franz.

Ans: Franz was a very young boy living in Alsace district of France. He had a layman's attitude to studies. At the beginning we find him feeling tempted to skive his school. However, we also come to know his inner strength of character when he overcomes that temptation.

We come to know his patriotism and love for his teacher after he comes to know about the sad news of the new order according to which teaching of French had to be replaced with German. He is shocked to know that that was M. Hamel's last lesson. We see him getting remorseful for having ignored learning French. He wants to learn all the French in just one period. He is very sad at the departure of his teacher.

Q4. Draw the character sketch of Sophie?

Ans: Sophie has been portrayed as a central character in the story 'Going Places'. She represents the girls her age from poor families. As in reality they can't have the things they want, so they dream about them.

So is the case with Sophie. She always lives in her dreams. She always dreams impossible things which are far removed from reality. She makes up the story of meeting Danny Casey, a young charming and upcoming footballer. Nobody believes her but she refuses to accept that it is her dream. Rather, she starts believing that she has met him. To show that she is telling the truth, she makes up another story that she has fixed a date with him. He does not show up her. Her dreams have become an integral part of her life, and she cannot distinguish between her world of imagination and the real world.

Q5. Justify the title ‘The Lost Spring’.

Ans: ‘Lost Spring’ by Anees Jung describes two stories of stolen childhood. Millions of children in India, instead of spending their days in schools and playgrounds waste their childhood in ragpicking or hazardous industries. Childhood is the spring of life. But millions of unfortunate children like Saheb and Mukesh waste this spring either in the garbage of Seemapuri or in the blast furnaces of Firozabad. The best part their life, their childhood is lost to the demands of survival. Hence, the title is quite apt.

Q6. What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool? What plans did he make to come to the surface?

Ans: Douglas was frightened when he was thrown into the pool. However, he was not frightened out of his wits. While sinking down he made a plan. He would make a big jump when his feet hit the bottom. He would come to the surface like a cork, lie flat on it, and paddle to the edge of the pool. 

Q7. How did Douglas overcome his fear of water?

Ans: At the age of three or four, Douglas was engulfed by waves from the sea, which started his fear of water. Then when he was ten or eleven years old, Douglas was tossed into a nine feet deep swimming pool by a foolish boy. He had a near drowning experience which further increased his fear. Determined to get rid of his fear, Douglas engaged an instructor under whom he practiced five days a week, an hour each day. The instructor tied Douglas with rope suspended from a pulley to overcome his fear. However every time when the instructor loosened his grip, Douglas's fear returned. It took him three months to overcome it.

Next, the instructor taught Douglas to exhale under water and inhale by raising his nose. He was made to, kick at the side of the pool with his legs to build up stamina.

Thus, Douglas spent six months with the instructor i.e. from October to April. Thereafter, he practiced on his own way by swimming across various lakes, finally overcoming his fear.

Q8. How does the peddler interpret the acts of kindness and hospitality shown by the crofter, the iron master and his daughter?

Ans: The peddler was a vagabond who had no house, no family. He used to sell rattraps. One evening when he was trudging along the road, he saw a cottage by the roadside. He knocked at the door and asked for permission for night stay at the forge. The owner of the cottage gave him shelter, food, tobacco and his company and confidences. He even showed him the thirty kronor that he had saved. But the peddler stole the money the next day, violating the trust of the crofter. Later, the peddler thought that the crofter’s hospitality was a bait for him to be trapped.

Similarly, the ironmaster’s hospitality also did not impress the peddler much because he was kind to him only because he thought him to be his old acquaintance. But, on the contrary, Edla’s kindness and hospitality stirred up the essential goodness in him because her kindness was without any selfish motive in it like the crofter who wanted company and the ironmaster who wanted to help his old friend. Edla wanted to give some comfort and happiness to the peddler even though she knew that he was a tramp.

Q9. Why do you think Gandhi considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in his life?

Ans: The success of the Champaran episode made Gandhiji decide to urge the departure of the British from India.

Gandhiji concluded that the root cause of the problem was fear, so going to law courts to solve and the dispute was useless. It brought him face to face with reality and he became aware of the miserable condition of the poor, illiterate farmers. He also realised the exploitation that lay beneath the policies of the Britishers. The spontaneous demonstration by the peasants was the beginning of their liberation from fear of British. Civil disobedience had triumphed for the first time in modern India. Gandhiji declared that British could not order him about in his own country. Thus, it was a turning point in his life, which also served as a source of strength motivation for his future movements.

Q10. How do you know that common people too contributed to the freedom movement?

Ans: The freedom movement was for the ordinary people. No leader could do anything for ordinary people without their involvement. So the contribution of ordinary people could never be ruled out in this case also, Gandhiji wanted the ordinary people to be courageous and fearless. The people showed their courage by following him. When the peasants of Motihari knew’ that Gandhiji was in trouble, they gathered around the court where’ Gandhi ji was summoned. Even the British authorities could not control them. This shows that without the participation of the common people, the freedom movement could not have become successful.

Vistas

Answer the questions in about 2 sentences each :

Q1. Do you think that the ‘Third level’ was a medium of escape for Charley, why?

Ans: Yes, I think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley. Life in modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worries and stress. Man has to confront them all the time. The harsh realities of life make living quite unpleasant and even unbearable. So he wants to escape into a wishful world. Charley talks to his psychiatrist friend about the third level at the Grand Central Station. His friend calls it "a walking dream wish fulfilment". Charley possesses an escapist tendency. Even his stamp collecting is a 'temporary refuge from reality'.

Q2. What does the third level refer to?

Ans: The third level refers to the subway of the Grand central Station that takes passengers to Galesburg Illinois. The third level on the station was a medium of escape for Charley, the narrator from the harsh realities of modern life. It provided him a base hwere he could interweave fantasy and reality.

Q3. How is the Grand Central station a symbol of escape?

Ans: Yes, I think the third level was a medium of escape for Charley. He was living with the fear, worries, stress and insecurity of modem life. He wished to live in a peaceful world that existed long before. So, an imagination of the third level cropped up in his mind. He found this to be a place that existed much before the two world wars. He thought of buying tickets from there to a place of the past. He thought of living there away from the hue and cry of the modem world.

Q4. Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?

Ans: The Tiger King was the king of Pratibandapuram. At the time of his birth, royal astrologers predicted his death to be caused by a tiger. When he grew up, he hunted ninety-nine tigers. For killing so many tigers, he got the name Tiger King’.

Q5. How did the author feel on reaching the Antarctica?

Ans: The writer's first emotion on reaching Antarctica was that of relief. He felt relieved to have set foot on the Antarctic continent after over 100 hours. Then he experienced a sense of amazement on seeing its vastness and immense white landscape which dazzled his eyes.

Q6. Who was Dr. Sadao? Where was his house?

Ans: Dr. Sadao was a famous surgeon and scientist of Japan. He was a sympathetic man who remained loyal to his profession even in adverse situations. He lived in his ancestral square stone house in Japan which was built upon rocks, above a narrow beach, on the Japanese coast.

Q7. Why did the servant leave Dr.Sadao’s house?

Ans: Japan was at war with America. Dr Sadao was nursing a wounded American soldier. The servants did not approve of Dr Sadao’s generosity who was trying to give an American a new lease of life. They thought Dr Sadao was doing a treacherous act by helping the enemy, so their patriotic feelings made them leave Dr Sadao’s house.

Q8. How did Roger Skunk find three more pennies?

Ans: The wizard asked Roger Skunk to go to the end of the lane and turn around three times and look down the magic well and there he would find three pennies. Roger followed the instructions, collected the money and handed it over to the wizard as the price for fulfilling his wish.

Q9. What is mother Skunk’s role in the story?

Ans: Mother Skunk’s role in the story is to make her son understand that it was important for him to retain his identity. She was absolutely against the idea that Roger Skunk should have changed his smell to please and befriend other creatures. She wanted the other creatures to accept her son as he was.

Q10. Who is Mr. Lamb? How does Derry get into his garden?

Ans: Mr. Lamb is an old man who lived in a big house with a huge and beautiful garden. He had lost one of his legs due to a bomb explosion and it had now been replaced with a tin leg. He liked to talk to people and make them his friends, and so, he kept the gates of his garden always open.

Derry was a fourteen-year-old boy who was low on self esteem and liked to stay alone. Considering the garden to be empty, he jumped over the wall to hide away from the rest of the world.

Q11. What is that drew Derry towards Mr. Lamb in spite of himself?

Ans: Derry has an acid burnt face. He hates people staring at him and therefore avoids their company.

He suffers from a kind of inferiority complex. Mr Lamb himself is handicapped in one leg. But he seems to have ho inferiority complex. Instead, he loves meeting people. Mr Lamb’s personality is an example for him to live life without feeling ashamed of himself. All this draws Derry to Mr Lamb. He seems to be loving his company.

Q12. What kind of person was Evan?

Ans: Evans was a congenital kleptomaniac and was in Oxford Prison. He was an expert at escaping from prisons and was called ‘Evans the Break’. He was a genius at planning and foresight. He was very clever and had many friends and contacts who helped him to escape. He was a very good actor too, as nobody doubted him when he was acting as McLeery.

Q13. What does the chief astrologer tell to be the cause of the Maharaja’s death?

Ans: The royal infant tells them that ..all those who are borm will one day have to die... There is nothing new in it. He wants to know the real cause of his death. The astrologer tells the royal infant thathe is born in the hour of the Bull. The Bull and the Tiger are enemies. Therefore, his death will ..come from the Tiger..

Q14. What was Zitkala’s idea regarding short, singled hair?

Ans: Judewin told Zitkala that she had overheard the white woman talking about cutting their long heavy hair cut. Among their people this was done with cowards. Judewin wanted her to submit but she decided to resist.

Answer in about 100-120 words :

Q1. Give the character sketch of Charley.

Ans: Charley is an ordinary man living in New York. He is thirty-one years old. He finds this modem world full of insecurity, fear, stress, and worries. To escape from this world, he reaches Galesburg, Illinois of 1894.

Charley is a. loving and understanding husband. He does not want to go to Galesburg alone. So he visits this place with his wife. He, like every gentleman, believes that old is gold.

Q3. Draw the character sketch of the Tiger King?

Ans: The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram was a brave, resolute, determined, courageous and a firm ruler of his state. When he was born, the astrologers had predicted his death with a tiger. But the baby had something miraculous quality in him. He was only of ten days, he challenged the prediction of the astrologers and asked them the manner of the death. They told that he was destined to be killed by a tiger some day.

The Crown Prince was brought up in English environment. He grew up a tall, sturdy, brave and strong man. He become the king of his state at the age of twenty. He was determined to fulfil his pledge. So he issued a proclamation not to kill the tigers except by himself. The lawbreakers would be taken to task and their properties would be confiscated. Being a man of firm determination and self-respect, he denied permission to the British officer to hunt a tiger. He had to pay a high price to retain his throne. In between ten years, he killed seventy tigers and his forests became extinct. Then he married a princess whose father had large forest cover full of tigers. There he killed twenty-nine tigers but the hundredth one fainted due to the shock of the bullet. His hunters came there and killed it. Thus he fulfilled his vow. In between he did not adhere to the welfare of his subjects. Thus it can be said that he was a brave, courageous king that lacked worldly wisdom.

Q4. How is the Grand Central Station a symbol of escape?

Ans: Yes, I think the third level was a medium of escape for Charley. He was living with the fear, worries, stress and insecurity of modem life. He wished to live in a peaceful world that existed long before. So, an imagination of the third level cropped up in his mind. He found this to be a place that existed much before the two world wars. He thought of buying tickets from there to a place of the past. He thought of living there away from the hue and cry of the modem world.

Q7. Who was Hana and where did Sadao meet her? How were they married?

Ans: Sadao and Hana first met each other at an American professor.s house. But he had waited to fall in love with her until he was sure she was japanese. His father would not have accepted her in the family unless she had been pure in her race.

Q8. Justify the title of the story ‘The Enemy’ ?

Ans: Pearl S. Buck has given a suitable title to the story. The title is quite appropriate and logical. The wounded American prisoner of war is a natural enemy of Dr. Sadao and his wife Hana. They should have handed him over to the police. But human consideration and his duty as a doctor made Dr. Sadao to save the life of even a dying enemy.

Q9. What is the moral issue that the story ‘ Should Wizard Hit Mommy” raises?

Ans: The moral issue that the story raises is whether parents are the best judge of what is good for their child or not. A sharp contrast is displayed in the story about the child's viewpoint and an adult's perspective of life. In the story, the child Jo felt that the happiness of being able to make friends is more than anything else and so she wanted the story to end with Roger Skunk smelling of roses. On the other hand, her father ended the story by saying that the mother was right in getting Roger's smell back to its original state, implying to his daughter that parents know what is best for their children. He also advocates that children should respect their parents' opinions and obey them unquestioningly. Jack also narrated that all other animals finally accepted Roger, as he was emphasising the importance of a person's originality and individuality.

Q11. Give the character sketch of Evan?

Ans: Evans, also referred to as "Evans the Break," was a cunning burglar. He began as a non-violent kleptomaniac, but after being detained numerous times, he turned out to be a thief. He was cunning enough to break out of the prison up to three times, though. He had a great sense of humour and was friendly. He wasn't particularly handsome, but he had a bright smile that he saved just for the guards. He had the power to influence others to do anything he desired.

He was also adept at perception. He took extra caution when posing as someone else, notably in the one instance where he pretended to be the invigilator. He never loses his composure, which suggests that he is quite self-assured and that he always has a fallback option at the ready. He is almost like a negative hero with his charisma and knowledge.

Q12. Untouchability is not a crime , it is in human too. Why and how did Bama decide to fight against it?

Ans: Bama first encountered untouchability when she saw an elder of her caste walking along the street from the direction of the bazaar. Initially the vision made her to laugh but then she saw the elder walk up straight to the landlord, bowing low and extending the packet towards him, cupping the hand that held the string with his other hand. Bama's brother Annan explained her the whole incident in detail. He explained that since they were born into the community of the marginalised, they were never given any honour,dignity or respect. They had all been stripped of the basic rights of any person. But if they studied and made progress then they could shake off all these indignities. So he advised his sister to study with care and learn all she could. If she was always ahead in her lessons then people would come to her of their own accord and attach themselves to her. These words that Annan had spoken to Bama made a very deep impression on her and spurred her to study hard with all her breath and being.  She stood first in her class and many of the children from upper caste became her friend. In this way, she rebelled against the injustice of untouchability.