Complete बिहार बोर्ड 12th English Solution
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Comprehension Based Questions
A. Benjy understood another thing about the business of hens,
and that was that eggs could be sold to callers at the back door of their
house, in scores and half-scores and fivers, and the money from these eggs was
put carefully, almost religiously, into a large white basin that stood on the
top shelf of the kitchen cupboard. The basin was beyond Benjy’s reach. ‘But one
day,’ his mother would tell him, ‘the money will be yours. You understand? Your
father and I are going to save the money. When there’s enough we shall put it
in the bank. The bank will give interest on it and then one day, when you’re
twenty-one, it will be yours by rights. It’ll all be yours and you can do what
you like with it. Do you understand?’ And Benjy would simply smile at his
mother and say yes, he understood.
Q1.
Where did Benjy’s mother keep the money from selling eggs?
Ans: The money was kept in a large white basin on the top shelf
of the kitchen cupboard.
Q2.
What did Benjy’s mother tell him about the money from the eggs?
Ans: She told him that the money would be his one day, and when
there was enough, they would put it in the bank. When Benjy turned twenty-one,
the money would be his to do as he wished.
Q3.
How did Benjy respond when his mother explained the plan for the money?
Ans: Benjy simply smiled at his mother and said he understood.
Q4.
What did Benjy’s mother plan to do with the money from selling eggs?
Ans: They planned to save the money and put it in the bank, where
it would earn interest.
Q5.
What was Benjy’s understanding of the money according to the passage?
Ans: Benjy understood that the money would be his when he turned
twenty-one, and he could do whatever he liked with it.
B. For many years Benjy’s father had been a local preacher, a
man with quite a gift of talking. He liked not only to talk on Sundays, to
village congregations in small still chapels far out in the countryside, but he
liked to talk at the back-door, over the field gate, in the road outside the
house. He talked so much that he must have had an idea that the earth,
designed, created, and nourished by God, would take care of itself. While he
talked, thistles seeded and choked his wheat, rabbits broke in and gnawed his
cabbages, and storms smashed his standing corn. He struggled on like a man
chained by bad luck, and while he knew that his land was poor and that Benjy
was a simple man, no one had ever had the need or courage to tell him that he
himself was a lazy man with too large a trust in Providence.
Q1.
What was Benjy’s father’s profession?
Ans: Benjy’s father was a local preacher.
Q2.
Where did Benjy’s father like to talk besides on Sundays at church?
Ans: He liked to talk at the back door, over the field gate, and
in the road outside the house.
Q3.
How did Benjy’s father view the earth and its care?
Ans: He believed that the earth, created and nourished by God,
would take care of itself.
Q4.
What were some of the problems Benjy’s father faced with his land?
Ans: His land was plagued by thistles, rabbits, and storms that
damaged his crops.
Q5.
Why was no one able to tell Benjy’s father that he was lazy?
Ans: No one had the need or courage to tell him that he was lazy
and had too large a trust in providence.
C. When Benjy was twenty-one his mother and father planned and
carried out a little ceremony. They got his passbook from the bank, and at
supper his father made a sort of speech, almost in the tone of a public
address, in which he talked as if he had been a diligent man all his life, setting
an example of thrift and industry, and that this, the passbook, was Benjy’s
natural reward for following it. He talked as if he were talking to a child who
still does not know one from two, and at last he gave Benjy the passbook. This
is your money, Benjy,’ he said. Now you’re twenty-one, this is your money. Do
you understand?’
‘Yes,’ Benjy said, and he took the passbook. He opened it
and looked at it, and saw in it an amount of more than two hundred and thirty
pounds. Then he shut up the passbook and put it into his pocket.
Q1.
What special event did Benjy’s parents organize when he turned
twenty-one?
Ans: They carried out a ceremony and gave him his passbook from
the bank.
Q2.
How did Benjy’s father present the passbook to him?
Ans: Benjy’s father made a speech, speaking as if he had been a
diligent man and that the passbook was Benjy’s natural reward.
Q3.
How did Benjy’s father speak to him when giving the passbook?
Ans: He spoke as if Benjy were still a child who did not know the
difference between one and two.
Q4:
What was the amount of money in Benjy’s passbook?
Ans: The passbook contained more than two hundred and thirty
pounds.
Q5.
What did Benjy do after receiving the passbook?
Ans: He looked at the passbook, saw the amount of money, then
shut it and put it into his pocket.
D. As time went
on, and Benjy acquired the land, his father and mother not only felt that it
was a good idea but they felt very proud of him. They had that kind of pride in
him that parents have in a child that says its first word or takes its first
step. Benjy, a simple-minded man, had taken his first step in normal, adult
things. It was wonderful, too, that he had taken the step without help, without
force or prompting. All his life they had treated him as a child that will not
grow up and now, suddenly, he had grown up. Though they could scarcely realize
it. Benjy was a man of property.
For the next four or five years Benjy went on creating more
houses for more hens, and then selling more eggs and making more money.
Q1.
How did Benjy’s parents feel as he acquired land?
Ans: They felt very proud of him, like parents proud of a child
taking its first step or saying its first word.
Q2.
How did Benjy’s parents view his growth?
Ans: They had treated him as a child who wouldn’t grow up, but
now, they realized that he had grown up and was a man of property.
Q3.
What was Benjy’s significant achievement mentioned in the passage?
Ans: Benjy acquired land and became a man of property.
Q4.
What did Benjy focus on after acquiring the land?
Ans: He continued creating more houses for hens, selling more
eggs, and making more money.
Q5.
How long did Benjy continue with his work after acquiring the land?
Ans: He continued for the next four or five years.
E. By this time Benjy was almost forty, and it was only to them
that he remained a simple-minded man. As his new hygienic chicken houses began
to cover first one strip of his father’s former land and then another, with the
grey patches of hen-dung eating their way into the brown tilled earth, he began
to be the largest poultry farmer on that side of the town. In appearance he had
changed too. Always big-limbed, he had now become rather fat. His eyes were
still a simple blue, and soft fair hair still grew thickly on his face, but
now, set in fat flesh, the eyes seemed much smaller. They were no longer the
eyes of a simple-minded man. They were the eyes of a man who, in a simple way,
is quite cunning.
Q1.
How did Benjy’s parents still perceive him as he reached forty?
Ans: They still saw him as a simple-minded man.
Q2.
What changes occurred in Benjy’s physical appearance as he got older?
Ans: Benjy became rather fat, and although his eyes were still
blue and his hair thick and fair, his eyes seemed much smaller, set in fat
flesh.
Q3.
What business did Benjy become involved in as he grew older?
Ans: Benjy became the largest poultry farmer on that side of the
town.
Q4.
How did Benjy’s new chicken houses affect the land?
Ans: The grey patches of hen-dung spread across the land, eating
into the brown tilled earth.
Q5.
How did Benjy’s eyes change in appearance and meaning as he grew older?
Ans: His eyes seemed smaller, and they no longer appeared
simple-minded but rather like the eyes of a man who, in a simple way, is quite
cunning.
F. And throughout that winter Benjy and his wife lived in one
part of the house, and his father and mother in the other. To the old people
the days began now to seem very long, and as they looked out on the land they
could see the reason. Where there had once been brown bare earth, rows of
winter beans, and patches of wheat, there were now only Benjy’s chicken houses.
The earth was still there, but the purpose of it no longer concerned them. The
plough, the mare, the cart, and their few tools stood about in the yard, but
now it was truer than ever that without the earth they were useless.
Q1. How
did Benjy and his wife live during the winter?
Ans: They lived in one part of the house, while Benjy’s father
and mother lived in the other part.
Q2.
How did the old people feel about the days during the winter?
Ans: The days began to seem very long to the old people.
Q3.
What change did the old people notice when they looked out on the land?
Ans: They saw that where there had once been brown bare earth,
winter beans, and patches of wheat, now there were only Benjy’s chicken houses.
Q4.
How did the old people view the tools in the yard?
Ans: They saw the plough, the mare, the cart, and their few tools
as useless without the earth to work on.
Q5.
What did the old people feel about the purpose of the earth?
Ans: The old people felt that the purpose of the earth no longer
concerned them.
The Earth Question Answers
B.1.1 Complete following
sentences on the basis of the unit you have just studied:
i) A simple-minded person is calm, innocent
and differently
looking than others.
ii) Johnson was more interested in talking than working
iii) Johnson's possession included a plough, a two
wheeled cart, tools, a bony brown mare
iv) Benjy's simplicity seemed gradually to have become cunningness.
B.1.2 Read the following sentences and write T for true and
'F' for false statements
i) Johnson was a hard-working man. - False
ii) Johnson was interested in preaching. - True
iii) Johnson had an insane son. – False
iv ) Benjy hated his hens. - False
B.1.3 Answer the following questions briefly
Q.1 - Who is a tenant farmer?
Ans. – In this story Johnson is a tenant farmer.
Q.2 - What did the doctor advice Benjy's patents to ensure his
mental growth?
Ans. - The doctor advised Benjy's parents to engage him in a work
to develop a sense of responsibility in him and he suggested them to give him
some hens.
Q.3 - What did Benjy understand about a hen?
Ans. – Benjy understood the first and last thing about a hen: that
it exists for the purpose of laying eggs.
Q.4 - What did Benjy understand
about the business of hens?
Ans. – What Benjy understood about the business of hens was that
eggs could be sold to callers at the back door of their house, in scores and
half-scores and fivers.
B.2.1. Complete the following sentences
on the basis of the unit you have just studied:
B.2.2 Answer the following questions
briefly
Q. 1 - What silent belief did Benjy's
parents cherish about their land?
Ans. - At the back of their minds
Benjy’s parents laid a precious belief that Benjy would one day grow out of his
simplicity. In the same way they cherished a silent belief that the earth would
one day outgrow their poverty.
Q.2 - Why had their land not
yielded much?
Ans. Johnson must have had an
idea that the earth, designed created, and nourished by God, would take care of
itself. While he talked, thistles seeded and choked his wheat, rabbits broke in
and gnawed his cabbages, storms smashed his standing corn. Thus, their land not
yielded much.
Q.3 - How did Benjy's parents feel
when be silently put the passbook in his pocket?
Ans. - A strange tremor of a
peculiar emotion went through them both: a mixture of disappointment, fear,
pride, and pain.
Q.4 - What had Benjy's parents expected
when they handed him the passbook?
Ans. - Benjy's parents had expected: a
word of thanks, perhaps a concession, a willingness that they should share the
money they had helped to save.
Q.5 - What did Benjy want to do with
money?
Ans: - He wanted to buy a
piece of land with money.
B.3.1. Complete the following sentences
on the basis of the unit you have just studied:
a) The only difference between
Benjy's hens and his parents land was that the hens belonged
to Benjy and his parents land did not belong to them originally.
b) Benjy wanted to buy his parents'
land to install
more incubators for the chickens and hens.
c) It was possible to gauge
Benjy's progress by the new chicken houses covering his father's former
land, and by the fact that he now employed people to help him
d) Benjy's parents did not like
Florence because she was a simple, undistinguished girl with ugly
legs and a mouth that would not keep shut
B.3.2 Answer the following question
briefly-
Q.1 - Who had Johnson rented their
land from?
Ans. Johnsons had rented their
land from Mr. Sanders.
Q.2 - What information did Sanders
give them that made them happy?
Ans. –Sanders told them that
Benjy would buy their land.
Q.3 - Who was Florence?
Ans. - Florence was one of the employees who
worked at Benjy’s chicken houses.
Q.4 - Why did Benjy want to Mary Florence?
Ans. - Benjy did not need a distinguished,
intelligent girl, even if one would have looked at him. He needed a woman to
help with the hens.
B.4.1.
Complete the following sentences on the basis of the unit you have just
studied:
a) When Benjy asked his parents to vacate the front bed room,
they vacated it and moved into the back.
b) Benjy asked parents to go somewhere else because he bought the house and
wanted to live alone with his wife
c) Benjy’s parents did not speak when their son drove them down
into the town because they believed that he was not right in his
head.
B.4.2.
Read the following sentences and write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false
statements:
I.
With
the arrival of Florence as Benjy’s wife, the house was filled with
happiness. False
II.
Benjy
and his wife lived in one part of the house and his parents in the other. True
III.
Benjy
paid utmost attention to his ageing parents. False
1. 1. Long Answer Questions
Q.1 - Did Benjy treat his parents justly? What would you do if you were
Benjy?
Ans. – No, Benjy
didn’t treat his parents justly. If I were Benjy, I must have taken care
of my parents. His parents always believed that Benjy was a simple-minded
person, what he actually wasn’t. He knew very well how to grow his business; he
knew how to handle finances and how to make good investments. In fact, he
was more hard working and more intelligent than his father, so he must have
understood about the conditions of his parents but in reality, he was
cunning and a coward. So, he always thought about himself and his
business.
Q.2 – On how many
occasions were Benjy’s parents disappointed with Benjy?
Ans. – Benjy’s parents were
disappointed several times in this story. Disappointment starts with handing
over the passbook to Benjy. He didn’t even thank them for helping him in saving
that much amount. Then there comes a time when Benjy decides to buy a piece of
land with that money, he didn’t even consult his parents regarding this.
Then he decides to buy the land borrowed by his own parents and he doesn’t make
them aware of it, they come to from the owner of their land, Sanders. When
Benjy decides to marry Florence, again he didn’t find it meaningful or worthy
to ask his parents. And at last, he tells them to get out of his
house.
Q.3 – ‘Looks are
deceptive.’ How does this apply to Benjy?
Ans. – In this story, the
complete plot has been based on how innocent and simple-minded did Benjy look.
And at last, he turns out to be cunning and selfish. So we can say that
‘Looks are decptive’. Benjy was a simple guy, with smooth silky hair and loose
limbs, he didn’t talk much and always smiled whenever anyone told him anything.
But there was always something running in the background of his cunning and
deceitful mind. Anyone could think that he was a man with no mind but only his
actions reflected every time what he actually was. So ‘Looks are deceptive’
applies completely to Benjy.
Q.4 – What is the
role of Florence in this story? How did she affect Benjy’s life?
Ans. – Florence played the
role of an antagonist in this story and was the main reason behind the
separation between Benjy and his parents. The problem of the girl was
different. It seemed to the parents of Benjy that the girl was about to take
Benjy away from them. The air in the house became charged deeply with
antagonism, the house itself invisibly but clearly divided. And then presently
it became divided in actuality. Once there occurred a quarrel between Florence
and Benjy’s mother and when Benjy heard of the quarrel he had a very simple
solution. That settled it , he said. 'Now you eat in the kitchen, and we'll eat
in the other room.' and throughout that winter Benjy and his wife lived in one
part of the house, and his father and mother in the other. To the old people
the days began now to seem very long. As the winter went on, and the four
people were more and more confined indoors, the division in the house became an
enormous gap. The two women passed each other on the stairs with glances of
antagonism, nor speaking. When Benjy's father walked out to preach on Sundays
he walked slowly and brokenly, with the steps of an old man.
Q.5 – Johnson
himself was responsible for his tragedy or troubles. Do you agree with this?
Give reasons.
Ans. – Yes, I agree that
Johnson himself was responsible for his tragedy and troubles. The reason of
their sorrow was not in the Earth or Benjy but in themselves. For most of their
lives they had put rather more value on faith than sweat. At the back of their
minds, lay a precious belief that Benjy would one day grow out of his
simplicity. In the same way they cherished a silent belief that the earth would
one day outgrow its poverty.
For many years Johnson had
been a local preacher, a man with quite a gift of talking. He liked not only to
talk on Sundays, to village congregations in small still chapels far out in the
countryside, but he liked to talk at the backdoor, over the field gate, in the
road outside the house. He talked so much that he must have had an idea that
the earth, designed created, and nourished by God, would take care of itself.
While he talked, thistles seeded and choked his wheat, rabbits broke in and
gnawed his cabbages, storms smashed his standing corn. He struggled on like a
man chained by bad luck.
Q.6 - How is
simple minded man defined in story? Do you agree with this definition?
Ans. – The Benjy has
been introduced as a simple-minded man in this story. Benjy had the large
loose limbs that often belong to the simple-minded and thick, soft fair
hair on his face. He had the look of being simple-hearted.
man, as well as a
simple-minded man. His eyes were blue, and all day long he had a simple smile
on his face. But somewhere behind the blue eyes, the simple smile, and the soft
childish hair. I don’t agree with this definition because his simplicity seemed
gradually to have become a kind of cunning.
Q.7 - Sketch the
character of Johnson.
Ans. - For many years
Johnson had been a local preacher, a man with quite a gift of talking. He liked
not only to talk on Sundays, to village congregations in small still chapels
far out in the countryside, but he liked to talk at the backdoor, over the
field gate, in the road outside the house. He talked so much that he must have
had an idea that the earth, designed created, and nourished by God, would take
care of itself. While he talked, thistles seeded and choked his wheat, rabbits
broke in and gnawed his cabbages, storms smashed his standing corn. He
struggled on like a man chained by bad luck. For most of their lives they had
put rather more value on faith than sweat. At the back of their minds, lay a
precious belief that Benjy would one day grow out of his simplicity. In the
same way they cherished a silent belief that the earth would one day outgrow
its poverty.
Q.8 - Sketch the character of Benjy.
Ans. - The Johnsons' son
was named Benjy, and it was more than thirty years since they had surrendered
to the idea that he was not right in his head. It was not that he was insane or
imbecile or even that he could not read and write and count figures, but only that
he was simple, not quite like other people. And because he was their only son,
the Johnsons had spent many years being a little too kind, too anxious and too
sacrificial towards him, so that he had grown up to seem worse, in their eyes,
than he really was. Benjy had the large loose limbs that often belong to the
simple-minded and thick soft fair hair on his face. He had the look of being a
simple-hearted man as well as a simple-minded man. His eyes were blue, and all
day long he had a simple smile on his face. But somewhere behind the blue eyes,
the simple smile, and the soft childish hair, his simplicity seemed gradually
to have become a kind of cunning.
3. 3. COMPOSITION
4. Write a short essay in about 150 words on ‘an
ideal family’
Ans-
Family
plays an essential role in human lives. An ideal family is a source of joy. It
is the gift of God and a basis of happiness and prosperity. In an ideal family,
all members love one another and are willing to make and sacrifice for one
another. An ideal family helps us to grow and develop emotionally, socially and
intellectually .It provides security and a lovely environment which helps us to
share our happiness and problems. In modern times, people are busy and hardly
have time for their family members. However, an ideal family needs to take some
time for each other. Everyone needs to realize that there is nothing that is as
essential as family.
It is
believed that families are the pillars of strength. It is because they give
everyone in the family courage to face the challenges in society, country, and
world. Also, they are always there when a person needs them.In an ideal family
we need to nurture and strengthen the bonds between family members or the
family will drift apart. Strong family relationships mean better communication
with each other. For me, family is an extension of my life.
2. Write a paragraph in about 100 words on ‘Duties Of Children Towards
Their Parents’
This
Beautiful world was gifted to us by our parents to live in and to enjoy. They
also took care to arrange for each and every possible comfort since our Birth,
provided shelter, education, food, guidance, Protection throughout their life.
So it should be our main responsibility or duty to take care of our
parents.
The first
and the primary duty of the child should be to treat your parents with the
dignity and respect that they deserve. Always listen to your parents,
what they have to say, what they want to do. Yes, even if they tell you the
same story over and over. We owe our parents time. After all, they gave
us nearly every moment of theirs for most of our lives. So it’s our duty to
spend time with them. It is our duty that parents should be given food that
they like and can digest. If they are unwell, they should be given medical aid
immediately. They should be given clean clothes to wear. Parents do not expect
much. If they get love and care they are happy.
Out of
all the duties the most important one is to Make sure they have a place to call
home. While we’re not legally obligated to house our parents when they get
older, we definitely have a moral obligation to make sure they’re not homeless.
If that means letting them live with us, so be it.
D. WORD STUDY
D.1. Dictionary Use
Ex.
1. Correct the spelling of the following words:
|
Tremore |
Disapointment |
Bussiness |
Cobsession |
|
Inormos |
Precupied |
Imobile |
Cronicle |
Answer-
|
Tremore- Tremor |
Disapointment- Disappointment |
Bussiness- business |
Cobsession- obsession |
|
Inormos- Enormous |
Precupied- preoccupied |
Imobile- immobile |
Cronicle- chronicle |
Ex.
2. Look up a dictionary and write two meanings of the following words — the one
in which it is used in the lesson and the other which is more common
|
anxious |
insane |
concession |
|
cunning |
simple |
interest |
Ans-
Anxious :
As per
lesson- worried
Other
meaning- intensely desirous
Insane:
As per
lesson- mentally deranged
Other
meaning- very foolish
Concession:
As per
lesson- the act of yielding
Other
meaning- reduction in the usual price
Cunning:
As per
lesson- crafty
Other
meaning- wily
Simple:
As per
lesson- easy to understand
Other
meaning- feeble minded
Interest
As per
lesson- hobby
Other
meaning- charge on credit
D.2.
Word-formation
Read
the following sentence carefully:
It was
true that they also had possession….
His
simple blue eyes were shot suddenly with a wild expression….
Here,
‘possession’, a noun, is formed by adding the suffix ‘-ion’ to ‘possess’ which
is a verb. Similarly, ‘expression’, a noun, is formed by adding the suffix
‘-ion’ to ‘express’ which is a verb. Make nouns from the following verbs:
|
Suggest- Suggestion |
Relate- Relation |
Confess- Confession |
Narrate- Narration |
Create- Creation |
|
Irrigate- Irrigation |
Humiliate- Humiliation |
Frustrate-
Frustration |
Cultivate- Cultivation |
Violate-
Violation |
D.3.
Word-meaning
Ex
1. Find from the lesson words the meanings of which have been given in Column
A. The last part of each word is given in Column B:
|
Column A |
Column B |
|
weak in mind |
imbecile |
|
a stalk of grain |
stubble |
|
stunned |
stupefied |
|
to separate |
segregate |
|
obstinate |
stubborn |
D. 4. Phrases
Ex.1. Read the lesson carefully and find out the sentences in
which the following phrases have been used. Then use these phrases in sentences
of your own:
|
grow up |
come from |
cut off |
by the time |
|
all the time |
take care of |
for long time |
look at |
Answer-
1. Grow up- India is a wonderful
place to grow up.
2. Come from- Respect from others
comes from self-respect.
3. Cut off- Our water supply has
been cut off.
4. By the time- I had lived
in 12 different cities by the time I turned 18.
5. All the time- We have all the
time in the world to find out exactly how it can be done.
6. Take care of- I can take care
of myself.
7. For the long time- We
were waiting for him for a long time
8. Look at- Would you like me to
look at your essay before you hand it in?
E. GRAMMAR
Ex.1. Read the following sentences, taken from the lesson,
carefully:
1. a) Very often it seemed as if
it were all they had ever had.
2. b) He had the look of being a
simple-hearted man as well as a simple-minded man.
3. c) By this time the money no
longer went into the basin, but straight into the bank.
In the
sentence given above ‘as if’, as well as’ and ‘but’ join words, phrases and
clauses. Such words are called conjunctions.
Find
at least ten conjunctions which have been used in the story and use them in
sentences of your own.
Answer-
1. After- The bank is just
after the park, on the left.
2. But- he looked simple-minded
but he was shrewd
3. Although- We had a great time
at the park, although it rained
4. So that- they both went on a
diet so that they could play more football with their friends.
5. Because- it’s a really useful
book because it explains everything very clearly.
6. As- She arrived early, as I
expected.
7. As well as- There’s no knowing
what he might have done for you as well as for Fred.
8. Besides- If I were you I would
accept their offer. Besides, there’s no harm in trying.
9. Rather- He would rather play
than work.
10.
Both- She
played both hockey and basketball when she was a student.