DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, DHAMTARI

Practice paper 2018-19

Class : XII
Subject: Chapter 1 & 5 Date: 26.09.2018

Answer the following questions (5 x 2 = 10)

Q1. Why the order from Berlin is called a thunderclap by Franz?
Or
“What a thunderclap these words were to me!” What were the words that shocked
and surprised the narrator?

Q2. Who were sitting on the back benches during M Hamel’s last lesson? Why?
Or
Why had the villagers come to school on the day of the last lesson?
Or
Why were the elders of the village sitting in the classroom?

Q3. How did the Champaran peasants react when they heard that a Mahatma had come
to help them?

Q4. How was Gandhi able to influence the lawyers? Give instances. (All India 2009)
Or
How was Gandhiji able to influence the lawyers?

Q5. Why did Gandhi agree to the planters’ offer of a 25% refund to the farmers?

Long Answer type questions (5 x 3 = 15)

Q6. The people in this story suddenly realize how precious their language is to them. What shows
you this? Why does this happen?

Q7. Give an account of Gandhiji’s efforts to secure justice for the poor indigo sharecroppers of Champaran.

Q8. Gandhiji’s loyalty was not a loyalty to abstractions; it was a loyalty to living human beings. Why did Gandhiji
continue his stay in Champaran even after indigo sharecropping disappeared?