NCERT Class 12 Chapter 5 Kaliedoscope Question Answer। One Centimetre। English Medium।

Understanding the Text

1. How did Tao Ying’s son influence the way she led her life?

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2. Pick out instances from the story to show that official rules are

often arbitrary.

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3. Tao Ying was very careful about spending money. What were

her reasons for refusing the compensation offered by the temple

officials?

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4. Why was her final vindication important to Tao Ying?

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Talking about the Text

Discuss the following in pairs or in small groups

1. The way a child looks at the world is very different from that of

an adult.

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2. There is always a gap between what we really are and what we

wish to appear to be to others.

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Appreciation

1. Comment on the significance of the first sentence of the story

to its theme.

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2. Would you describe the author’s portrayal of Tao Ying’s

character in the story as sympathetic, critical or realistic?

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3. Identify the episodes that bring out the ambivalent attitude to

ethics commonly seen in human life?

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4. How effectively does the narrative technique adopted in this

story illustrate ‘unity of thought’?

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Language Work

A . Figures of Speech

a. Simile

Notice the underlined phrases in the following sentences

(i) As the doors shut her jacket is caught, ballooning up like

a tent behind her.

The comparison here is between the ballooning of the jacket

and a tent made explicit by the use of the conjunction,

‘like’.

(ii) The white of the wall looks like a virgin canvas and Xiao Ye

a painting filling up the space.