English 12th Short Questions End of Term

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Question 1: What was Daiches attitude towards the week end as a school boy? Why did he long for it?      
Answer: As a school boy, he felt joy at the arrival of week-end. He walked home like an escaped prisoner. He longed for it to get rid of daily burden of school.

Question 2: What was his general view of school life?
Answer: He was a good student and often enjoyed the actual class room work. School life was full of labour and tough competitions. Teachers gave them a lot of home work. This daily grind of school made him long for holidays.

Question 3: He liked holidays for their freedom- freedom for what?
Answer: He liked holidays for their freedom-freedom from waking up early in the morning, from large number of classes and from grind of routine school work.

Question 4: How did he spend his summer holidays?
Answer: The summer holidays were a long period of bliss. He spent his summer vacation in his village with his grand parents. He played cricket in July sunshine; he enjoyed these holidays very much.

Question 5: Wishes don’t come true in this life, writes Daiches. What are the things he longed for but could not have?
Answer: He wished to get a tricycle in his early childhood and later a bicycle. He wished to get ice-cream and sweet free of cost. His these wishes did not come true.

Question 6: What did he do with his pocket money?
Answer: He kept his savings in money-box because he was not allowed to spend his pocket-money.

Question 7: Why was the Friday morning rose colored for the writer?
Answer: Friday morning was positively rose colored because it was a week end. Moreover, they were going to have two consecutive holidays to enjoy themselves.

Question 8: What were unexpected respites?    
Answer: Unexpected respites mean sudden dismissal of school before usual time due to some crises, celebration and football match. But these were few and far between.

Question 9: When did he buy his first bicycle?
Answer: He bought his first bicycle at the age of 21 with the prize money he won at Edinburgh University.

Question 10: What was the most frightening day of the week for Daiches?
Answer: Monday was the most frightening day of the week for Daiches. Waking up on Monday morning was a dismal experience for the writer.

Question 11: What were the feelings of the writer on Saturday and Sunday?
Answer: Saturday night had the charm for the holiday between it and the Monday morning. But Sunday night was full of the threat of Monday morning. 

Written by: Asad Hussain & Muhammad Jawad