Class 12 English Flamingo
Last Minute Revision 2026
PART A: PROSE (Q1–Q80)
Lesson 1: The Last Lesson
Q1. What was Franz afraid of on his way to school?Ans. He had not prepared his lesson on participles.
Q2. Why were bulletin-board notices put up in the town?Ans. To announce the order banning French in schools.
Q3. Who was Franz’s teacher?Ans. M. Hamel.
Q4. How long had M. Hamel taught at the school?Ans. For 40 years.
Q5. Why was M. Hamel dressed differently that day?Ans. It was his last French lesson.
Q6. What language was ordered to be taught in schools?Ans. German.
Q7. What words did M. Hamel write on the blackboard?Ans. “Vive La France!”
Q8. What does the story highlight?Ans. Importance of one’s mother tongue.
Q9. What did Franz regret the most?Ans. Not learning French seriously.
Q10. The Last Lesson is set in which country?Ans. France (Alsace–Lorraine).
Lesson 2: Lost Spring
Q11. Who is Saheb-e-Alam?Ans. A ragpicker boy from Seemapuri.
Q12. What does Saheb’s name mean?Ans. Lord of the Universe.
Q13. Where did Saheb come from?Ans. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Q14. What work do children of Seemapuri do?Ans. Ragpicking.
Q15. Who is Mukesh?Ans. A bangle-maker’s son from Firozabad.
Q16. What does Mukesh want to become?Ans. A motor mechanic.
Q17. Why do bangle makers remain poor?Ans. Due to exploitation and debt.
Q18. What disease affects bangle workers?Ans. Loss of eyesight.
Q19. What theme is highlighted in the lesson?Ans. Child labor and poverty.
Q20. What does “Lost Spring” symbolize?Ans. Lost childhood of poor children.
Lesson 3: Deep Water
Q21. What fear haunted Douglas?Ans. Fear of water.
Q22. Where did the fear begin?Ans. At a YMCA swimming pool.
Q23. Who pushed Douglas into the pool?Ans. A big bruiser boy.
Q24. How old was Douglas then?Ans. Ten or eleven years old.
Q25. What method did Douglas use to overcome fear?Ans. Training under a swimming instructor.
Q26. How long did the training last?Ans. Several months.
Q27. What lesson does the story teach?Ans. Fear can be conquered with determination.
Q28. What is the central theme of Deep Water?Ans. Victory over fear.
Q29. Where did Douglas finally test himself?Ans. In lakes and rivers.
Q30. What did Douglas gain after conquering fear?Ans. Confidence and freedom.
Lesson 4: The Rattrap
Q31. Who is the protagonist of the story?Ans. A poor peddler.
Q32. What does the rattrap symbolize?Ans. World full of temptations.
Q33. Who shows kindness to the peddler?Ans. Edla Willmansson.
Q34. What did the peddler steal?Ans. Thirty kronor.
Q35. Who owned the crofter’s house?Ans. An old crofter.
Q36. Why did the peddler feel trapped?Ans. Due to guilt after theft.
Q37. How does the peddler redeem himself?Ans. By returning the money.
Q38. What gift did the peddler leave for Edla?Ans. The stolen money in a rattrap.
Q39. What quality of Edla changes the peddler?Ans. Compassion.
Q40. What is the moral of the story?Ans. Kindness can transform people.
Lesson 5: Indigo
Q41. Indigo is based on which movement?Ans. Champaran Satyagraha.
Q42. Who led the movement?Ans. Mahatma Gandhi.
Q43. Where is Champaran located?Ans. Bihar.
Q44. What was the Tinkathia system?Ans. Forced indigo cultivation.
Q45. Who invited Gandhi to Champaran?Ans. Rajkumar Shukla.
Q46. What did British landlords exploit?Ans. Poor farmers.
Q47. What was Gandhi’s method?Ans. Non-violence.
Q48. What lesson does Indigo teach?Ans. Power of civil disobedience.
Q49. Who wrote Indigo?Ans. Louis Fischer.
Q50. What was the result of the movement?Ans. Abolition of Tinkathia system.
Lesson 6: Poets and Pancakes
Q51. Where is the story set?Ans. Gemini Studios, Chennai.
Q52. Who wrote the lesson?Ans. Asokamitran.
Q53. What was “Pancake”?Ans. A brand of make-up.
Q54. Who headed the make-up department?Ans. Subbu.
Q55. What language did the poet speak?Ans. English.
Q56. Why were the workers confused?Ans. They didn’t understand English.
Q57. Who visited Gemini Studios?Ans. Stephen Spender.
Q58. What does the chapter describe?Ans. Film industry’s inner life.
Q59. What is the tone of the lesson?Ans. Humorous.
Q60. What theme is highlighted?Ans. Gap between art and reality.
Lesson 7: The Interview
Q61. What is the interview considered as?Ans. A powerful medium.
Q62. Who disliked interviews?Ans. V. S. Naipaul.
Q63. Who interviewed Umberto Eco?Ans. Mukund Padmanabhan.
Q64. Umberto Eco was from which country?Ans. Italy.
Q65. What was Eco’s profession?Ans. Writer and philosopher.
Q66. What does Eco call himself?Ans. A university professor.
Q67. What helped Eco to write novels?Ans. Interdisciplinary knowledge.
Q68. Name Eco’s famous novel.Ans. The Name of the Rose.
Q69. What skill is needed for interviews?Ans. Good questioning.
Q70. What does the lesson examine?Ans. Role of interviews in media.
Lesson 8: Going Places
Q71. Who is the protagonist?Ans. Sophie.
Q72. What is Sophie’s dream?Ans. To become famous.
Q73. Who is Sophie’s brother?Ans. Geoff.
Q74. What job does Sophie imagine?Ans. Boutique owner.
Q75. Who is Danny Casey?Ans. An Irish footballer.
Q76. What social class does Sophie belong to?Ans. Working class.
Q77. Why does Sophie fantasize?Ans. To escape reality.
Q78. What theme dominates the story?Ans. Dreams vs reality.
Q79. What is Sophie’s weakness?Ans. Daydreaming.
Q80. What lesson does the story convey?Ans. Unrealistic dreams lead to disappointment.
PART B: POETRY (Q81–Q140)
My Mother at Sixty-Six
Q81. Who is the poet?Ans. Kamala Das.
Q82. What is the poet’s fear?Ans. Losing her mother.
Q83. What does “ashen like a corpse” suggest?Ans. Old age.
Q84. What does the smiling face hide?Ans. Pain of separation.
Q85. What is the theme?Ans. Aging and loss.
Q86. Where is the poet going?Ans. To the airport.
Q87. What emotion dominates the poem?Ans. Anxiety.
Q88. What does the child symbolize?Ans. Youth and life.
Q89. What literary device is used?Ans. Simile.
Q90. The poem reflects which bond?Ans. Mother–daughter bond.
An Elementary School Classroom...
Q91. Who wrote the poem?Ans. Stephen Spender.
Q92. What does the classroom represent?Ans. Poverty.
Q93. Who are the students?Ans. Slum children.
Q94. What is the theme?Ans. Social injustice.
Q95. What is meant by “sour cream walls”?Ans. Dirty walls.
Q96. What should be opened for children?Ans. World of opportunities.
Q97. What does the map symbolize?Ans. Hope.
Q98. What is the poet’s appeal?Ans. Educate poor children.
Q99. What dominates their life?Ans. Hunger and misery.
Q100. What is the tone?Ans. Critical.
Keeping Quiet
Q101. Who is the poet?Ans. Pablo Neruda.
Q102. What does silence symbolize?Ans. Introspection.
Q103. For how long should we keep quiet?Ans. For twelve seconds.
Q104. What should humans stop doing?Ans. Violence.
Q105. What is the theme?Ans. Peace and unity.
Q106. What does the poem promote?Ans. Self-realization.
Q107. Who should not be misunderstood?Ans. The poet.
Q108. What activity should stop?Ans. War.
Q109. What is the tone?Ans. Philosophical.
Q110. What is the central message?Ans. Silence heals.
A Thing of Beauty
Q111. Who wrote the poem?Ans. John Keats.
Q112. What is a thing of beauty?Ans. Source of eternal joy.
Q113. What does beauty do?Ans. Removes gloom.
Q114. Name one thing of beauty?Ans. Nature.
Q115. What is the theme?Ans. Beauty of nature.
Q116. What binds us to the earth?Ans. Beauty.
Q117. What does beauty provide?Ans. Peace.
Q118. What poetic form is used?Ans. Blank verse.
Q119. What does “bowers” mean?Ans. Shady trees.
Q120. What feeling does beauty create?Ans. Hope.
A Roadside Stand
Q121. Who is the poet?Ans. Robert Frost.
Q122. What do poor villagers expect?Ans. Help from rich people.
Q123. What is sold at the stand?Ans. Local produce.
Q124. What is the theme?Ans. Rural poverty.
Q125. What hurts the poet?Ans. Indifference of rich.
Q126. What does the stand symbolize?Ans. Hope.
Q127. Who ignore the stand?Ans. City dwellers.
Q128. What tone is used?Ans. Sympathetic.
Q129. What does the poem criticize?Ans. Economic inequality.
Q130. What is the poet’s wish?Ans. Justice for poor.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Q131. Who wrote the poem?Ans. Adrienne Rich.
Q132. What do tigers symbolize?Ans. Freedom.
Q133. What does Aunt Jennifer suffer from?Ans. Oppression.
Q134. What is heavy on her hands?Ans. Wedding ring.
Q135. What is the theme?Ans. Female oppression.
Q136. What art does Aunt Jennifer do?Ans. Embroidery.
Q137. How are the tigers described?Ans. Fearless.
Q138. What does the ring symbolize?Ans. Patriarchy.
Q139. What will outlive Aunt Jennifer?Ans. Her tigers.
Q140. What message does the poem convey?Ans. Desire for freedom.
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Stay confident and keep revising.
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