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AHSEC CLASS 12 Memories of childhood is a Beautiful Chapter of Class 12 English Supplementary Reader (Vistas). Here you will find a detailed Question Answer of Memories of childhood, with Previous Year Question of Memories of childhood As well as Here you will see 1 marks Question- From Memories of childhood Chapter and you can prepare for MCQ. Also 2 & 5 marks Questions from Text and Previous Year examination.
AHSEC 12th VISTAS
Memories of childhood
QUESTION BANK (LAST TEN YEARS)
2012
1.What was Zitkala's idea regarding short, shingled hair? 2
2. When did Bama experience untouchability? 2.
2013
1. Describe the experience Bama had on her way back home which made her feel sad? 7
2. When did Bama experience untouchability? 2
3. How did Zitkala-sa try to hide herself from 'others' in the school? Did she succeed?2
2014
1. Why did Zitkala-Sa feel uncomfortable in the dining room? 2
2. Why did Bama feel terribly sad and provoked? 2
2015
1. When did Bama experience untouchability? 2
2. Why did Zitkala-Sa feel uncomfortable in the dining room?
2016
1. What was Zitkala's idea regarding short, shingled hair? 2
2. What did Annan say about his community to the narrator? 2
2017
1. Bama's experience is that of a victim of the caste system'. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa's experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations? 7
2. When did Bama experience untouchability?
3. What was Zitkala's idea regarding short, shingled hair? 2
2018
1.Discuss the forms of discrimination projected in the nar rations of Zitkala-Sa and Bama.7 Marks
2. What was Zitkala-Sa's immediate reaction to the cut ting of her hair?
3. What did Annan say about his community to the narrator'?
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
2 Marks
1.What was Zitkala's idea regarding short, shingled hair?(HS 2012, 2016, 2017)
ANS: Zitkala's idea regarding short, shingled hair was that short hair was worn by mourners and shingled hair was worn by cowards.
2. When did Bama experience untouchability? (HIS 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017)
ANS: Bama experienced untouchability when one day she found an elder holding out a packet of vadai by its string without
touching it. This act of the eider was amusing for her but after she learnt from her brother that the elder behaved like that because he was of low caste. Thus she experienced the indignity of her caste.
3. How did Zitkala-sa try to hide herself from 'others' in the school? Did she succeed? (HS 2013)
ANS: Zitkala-sa disappeared unnoticed. She came to a large room with three white beds in it. She crawled under the bed and hid herself in the dark corner. She couldn't succeed in hiding herself for long. They stormed into the room and dragged her out.
4. Why did Zitkala-Sa feel uncomfortable in the dining room? (HS 2014, 2015)
ANS: Zitkala-Sa felt uncomfortable in the dinning room be cause she could not follow the instructions as she was very nerv ous. Moreover she also found a strange lady and a man staring at her.
5. Why did Bama feel terribly sad and provoked? (HS 2014)
ANS: Bama felt terribly sad and provoked when her brother gave her every reason not to laugh at the incident but feel sorry because the elder of the village was not supposed to touch the edibles as he was an untouchable. Bama too belonged to the same caste
6. What did Annan say about his community to the narrator? (HS 2016, 2018)
ANS: Annan said that because they belonged to the commu nity the untouchables, they were never given any dignity, respect or honour. But if they studied and made progress, they could throw away these indignities.
7. What was Zitkala-Sa's immediate reaction to the cut ting of her hair?
(HS 2018)
ANS: Zitkala-Sa felt rather anguished and indignant when her long hair was cut. She lost her spirit and felt as helpless as a pup pct. With her hair being shingled like a coward's, she moaned in anguish. She also felt she had lost her distinct cultural recognition and identity.
8. Why was Zitkala-Sa terrified when Judewin told her that her hair would be cut short?
ANS: Zitkala-Sa was terrified when she heard that her hair would be cut short because in their culture only cowards, traitors and mourners kept shingled hair.
9. When did Bama experience untouchability?
ANS: Bama experienced untouchability when she followed the elderly man of the village as he carried the bundle of bhajjis for the landlord. The old man did not touch the edibles. He was holding out the packet with a piece of string without touching it.
10.How was the narrator inspired by the words of her elder brother (Annan)?
ANS: The narrator's elder brother Annan told her that she would leave behind all the indignities of life if she studied well and progressed in life. The narrator was inspired by her brother's words. He told the narrator that if she went ahead in her lessons, people would come to her on their own accord.
11. How did Zitkala-Sa try to hide herself from them? Did she suceed? ANS: Zitkala-Sa hid herself in a large empty room with three beds. She crept under one of those beds furthest from the door. She peered out and heard Judewin calling out her name. She heard the approching footsteps and shuddered with fear.
12.How did Zitkala-Sa feel when she was made one of the animals led by a herder?
ANS: Zitkala-Sa felt like a coward with her shingled hair. She felt like a wooden puppet tossed about in the air. No one came to comfort her and she missed her mother. No one even bothered to reason with her.
AHSEC HS 2nd Year Memories of childhood Question Answers
13. Why was the narrator taking an hour or half to reach home instead of ten minute?
ANS: The narrator was taking an hour or half to reach home as she used to watch the roadside fun and games. The entertaining novelties like the performing monkey, snake charmer's display of snake, marathon cycling, dried fish stall by the statue of Gandhi, street play or puppet show used to pull her stand still on her way back home.
14. What was going on at the opposite corner when Bama came to her streetone day?
ANS: A threshing floor had been set up there. Some people of Bama's community were hard work. They were driving cattle round and round in pairs. They were treading out the grain from the straw.
15. Why did Bama want to laugh on seeing an elder of her street?
ANS: The elder was carrying a small packet by its string. He was holding it out so as not to touch it. There seemed to be Vadais in the packet because it was stained with oil. Bama wanted to laugh because that way the packet could get undone and the Vadais could fall out.
16. How did Annan explain to Bama that there was nothing funny about the elder carrying the packet by its string? -
ANS: Annan told Bama that the landlord and his people were believed to be of upper caste. The Dalits were not supposed to touch them. By their touch, the upper caste people thought they were polluted. That was why the elder had to carry the packet by its string.
17. Why did Bama study so hard?
Ans. Bama's brother who was studying at a University told her because they were bornin a low caste they are deprived of honour and dignities. He advised her to study andmake progress to throw away the indignities. The words of her brother left a deep impression in her mind and she studied hard.
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
7 Marks
1. Describe the experience Bama had on her way back home which made her feel sad? (HS 2013)
ANS: While Bama was on her way home she was watching the people working with cattle to tread out the grain and the landlord watching the proceeding, sitting on piece of sacking spread over a ledge.
She saw an elderly man coming along from the direction of the market. He was carrying a small packet by its string. without touching. The manner in which he was walking made her shriek with laughter. The elder went straight upto the landlord, bowed low and extended the packet towards him. He cupped the hand that held the string with the other hand. The landlord opened and started eating the vadais.
She narrated her funny story to her brother. Her brother informed her that upper caste people believe that others must not touch them, they would be polluted That is why the old man did not touch the contents but held the packet by its string. Bama did not want to laugh anymore. She feit terribly sad. When she thought over this practice of untouchability, she became infuriated.
AHSEC HS 2nd Year Memories of childhood Question Answers
2. Bama's experience is that of a victim of the caste system'. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa's experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situation?
(HS 2017)
ANS: Bama is a victim of the caste system as she has been born in a dalit community. Zitkala- Sa is a Native American who finds that the people who have overpowered the natives are out to destroy their culture. She notices the discrimination against Native American culture and women. The cutting of her long hair is symbolic of being subjected to the foreign rulers.
In their culture, only unskilled warriors who were captured had their hair shingled by the enemy. Both of them rebelled against the existing circumstances. They struggled hard to remove the discrimination and other barriers raised by people in power oppression, prejudice, social injustice and ignorance. The tool which they carried for their safety is education. Both of them studied hard and earned a name for themselves. Their works depict their viewpoints and carry on their struggle against the discrimination that contains and binds the free flow of their spirits.
3. Discuss the forms of discrimination
projected in the nar rations of Zitkala-Sa and Bama. (HS 2018)
ANS: Both Zitkala-Sa and Bama had a terrible experience of so cial oppression and discrimination during their childhood. Bama was filled with revolt when she saw how the elder of their community was humiliated by the village landlord. She said, "We too are human be ings. We should never bow low before these fellows." Zitkala-Sa was also a victim of social discrimination. She belonged to a tribe of native Americans. The whiteskinned settlers from Europe looked down upon the local tribes. They treated them like animals. Both Bama and Zitkala-Sa refuse to bow to the injustice they are subjected to. Both of them protest in their own way. Zitkala-Sa does not want her hair to be shingled. Among her tribe, shingled hair is considered to be a sign of cowardice. She struggles with all her might when she is tied in a chair. But at last the little one has to give herself up. Bama, on her part, decides to work hard at her studies so that others realise her worth and come to her as friends.
AHSEC HS 2nd Year Memories of childhood Question Answers
4. Describe how Zitkala-Sa tried in vain to save her hair from being cut. Why did she want to save her hair?
ANS: Zitkala- Sa had long heavy hair. Since the day, she was taken away from her mother, she suffered extreme indignities. Her friend Judewin had overheard the paleface woman talk that their hair was to be shingled. Zitkala- Sa decided to resist. Among their people, short hair was worn by mourners and shingled hair by cowards.
She tried to avoid it by hiding herself under the bed in a room with dark curtains. She had crawled to the corner farthest from the door and lay close to the darkest corner. Soon she heard her name shouted in seach of her. Some one threw up the curtains and the room was filled with sudden light. Zitkala - Sa was dragged out though she resisted by kicking and scratching wildly. She was carried down stairs and tied fast in a chair. She cried loudly and kept shaking her head till the scissors cut her long hair. All her efforts to save her hair was in vain.
5. What is the common link between the two accounts about two different women from two different countries?
ANS: The two accounts given in the lesson 'Memories of Childhood, are based on two distant cultures. Two grown up and celebrated writers from marginalised communities look back on their childhood. They reflect on their relationship with the mainstream. The discrimination, oppression, humiliation, suffering and insults faced by both the young members of the marginalised communities are common.
Zitkala Sa highlights the severe prejudice that prevailed towards the Native American culture & women. The cutting of her long hair reduces her to the status of a defeated warrior as in her culture shingled hair was worn by only cowards. Bama on the other hand, highlights the humiliations faced by untouchables who were never given any honour, dignity or respect as they were born in lower classes. They were made to live apart, run errands, and bow humbly to the masters. The sense of rebellion against the existing state of affairs and decision to improve them are also common themes.
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