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Top 50 Questions CBSE Board Class 12 English Exam 2025

Top 50 Questions CBSE Board Class 12 English Exam 2025 – This section features questions meticulously compiled by expert teachers with extensive experience, based on examination trends over the past five years. These questions are likely to appear in the 2025 examination. However, we strongly recommend that you prepare the entire syllabus to ensure comprehensive readiness.

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Chapter 1: The Last Lesson

Short Answer Type Questions

Why was Franz late for school that day? Why did he think of spending the day outdoors?
When and how did M. Hamel bid farewell to the class?

Long Answer Type Questions
3. “What a thunder clap these words were to me!” – Which words, said by whom, are referred to here? Why did they have this effect on the speaker? Give two reasons.

Most Probable Questions
4. The German ban on the teaching of French strengthened the resolve of the French to learn their language. Give evidence from the text to prove or disprove the above statement.

Chapter 2: Lost Spring

Prose
5. The story “The Last Lesson” is about linguistic chauvinism. Comment on this statement.

Short Answer Type Questions
6. “Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi, yet miles away from it metaphorically.” Explain this statement.
7. Why is it dangerous for children working in the glass-blowing industry? What is unfortunate about this?

Long Answer Type Questions
8. Describe the living conditions of the ragpickers of Seemapuri.

Chapter 3: Deep Water

Short Answer Type Questions
9. How are the inhabitants of Firozabad caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and exploitation?
10. What did Douglas mean by saying, “All we have to fear is fear itself”?
11. What were the joys that Douglas felt he was deprived of?

Long Answer Type Questions
12. Describe Douglas’s experience of learning to swim by hiring a professional tutor.
13. What impression do you form of the narrator from his autobiographical account?

Chapter 4: The Rattrap

Short Answer Type Questions
14. What is the significance of the rattrap in “The Rattrap”?
15. What made the peddler finally change his ways? (Alternatively: What miracle did Edla perform in the peddler’s life? Or, how did Edla bring about a change in the peddler?)

Long Answer Type Questions
16. The story “The Rattrap” focuses on human loneliness and the need to bond with others. Comment.
17. How does the peddler interpret the acts of kindness and hospitality shown by the crofter, the iron master, and his daughter?

Chapter 5: Indigo

Short Answer Type Questions
18. What did Gandhiji mean by saying “the battle of Champaran is won”?
19. Why is Rajkumar Shukla described as being “resolute”?

Long Answer Type Questions
20. How was the Champaran incident a turning point in Gandhiji’s life?
21. Gandhiji was not loyal to abstractions; his loyalty was to living human beings. Why did Gandhiji continue his stay in Champaran even after indigo sharecropping disappeared?

Chapter 6: Poets and Pancakes

(Succeed English Core Class 12)

Short Answer Type Questions
22. Which example of national integration in Gemini Studios is given in “Poets and Pancakes”?
23. Why was Subbu considered number two at Gemini Studios?

Long Answer Type Questions
24. Kothamangalam Subbu was a “many-sided genius.” Elaborate. (Alternatively: Why is Subbu described as a many-sided genius? Give a reasoned answer.)
25. “Subbu was a troubleshooter.” Do you agree with this statement? Give an account of Subbu’s qualities of head and heart.

Chapter 7: The Interview

Short Answer Type Questions
26. Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
27. What are the views of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Lewis Carroll on interviews?
28. What was unique and distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style? (Alternatively: What do you learn about Umberto Eco’s distinctive style in his doctoral dissertation?)

Long Answer Type Questions
29. What do you think about Umberto Eco? Does he like being interviewed? Give reasons in support of your answer from the text “The Interview.”
30. Why did Umberto Eco start writing novels and when? What does Eco say about the huge success of his novel “The Name of the Rose,” in spite of it being a difficult and very serious novel?

Chapter 8: Going Places

Short Answer Type Questions
31. “Damn that Geoff, this was a Geoff thing not a Jansie thing.” Why did Sophie say so?
32. Though Sophie and Jansie were good friends, how were they basically different from each other?

Long Answer Type Questions
33. Contrast Sophie’s real world with her fantasies.
34. Compare and contrast Sophie and Jansie, highlighting their temperament and aspirations.

Chapter 9: My Mother at Sixty-Six

Short Answer Type Questions
35. What is the significance of the parting words of the poet and her smile in “My Mother at Sixty-Six?”

Poetry
36. Why has the mother been compared to the “late winter’s moon”?
37. How did Kamala Das put aside the thought of her mother’s old age?

Chapter 10: Keeping Quiet

Short Answer Type Questions
38. What is the exotic moment the poet Pablo Neruda wishes for?
39. According to the poet, what can human beings learn from nature?
40. Why is Pablo Neruda against “total inactivity”?

Top 50 Questions CBSE Board Class 12 English Exam 2025

Chapter 11: A Thing of Beauty

Short Answer Type Questions
41. How is a thing of beauty a joy forever?
42. Why is “grandeur” associated with the “mighty dead”?
43. According to Keats, what spreads the pall of despondence over our dark spirits? How is it removed?

Chapter 12: Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger

Short Answer Type Questions
44. What is suggested by the phrase “massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band”?
45. Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting through this difference?
46. How do “denizens” and “chivalric” add to our understanding of the tigers’ attitudes?
47. Why do you think Aunt Jennifer’s hands are fluttering through her wool in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull? (Alternatively: How does the poet use the image of “fingers fluttering through the wool” to highlight Aunt Jennifer’s victimisation?)

Chapter 13: The Third Level

(Succeed English Core Class 11)

Short Answer Type Questions
48. What does the third level refer to? What is the significance of the third level?

Long Answer Type Questions
49. How does Charley, the narrator, describe the third level at Grand Central Station?

Supplementary
50. How did Charley reach the third level of Grand Central? How was it different from the other levels?

Chapter 14: Tiger King

Short Answer Type Questions
51. Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
52. How did the tiger king acquire his name?
53. When did the Tiger King stand in danger of losing his kingdom?

Long Answer Type Questions
54. The story is a satire on those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?
55. The Maharaja justified his actions based on the maxim “You may kill even a cow in self-defence. There could certainly be no objection to killing tigers in self-defence.” Do you think it is right to justify our actions in this way? Elaborate.

Chapter 15: Journey to the End of the Earth

Short Answer Type Questions
56. What was the objective of the “Students on Ice Programme”?
57. Why is Antarctica and its understanding important for the survival of the world?

Long Answer Type Questions
58. How was the “Students on Ice” programme an attempt to equip the future generation with knowledge to save Earth?
59. In what ways is the research on Antarctica helpful in the study and understanding of the Earth’s past and future, according to the author of “Journey to the End of the Earth”?

Chapter 16: The Enemy

Short Answer Type Questions
60. Why was Dr. Sadao not sent to the battlefield?
61. In what context does Hana remember General Takima? What does she infer?
62. What dilemma did Dr. Sadao face?

Long Answer Type Questions
63. To choose between professional loyalty and patriotism was a dilemma for Dr. Sadao. How did he succeed in betraying neither?
64. How did Dr. Sadao rise above narrow prejudices of race and country to help a human being in need?
65. Dr. Sadao was a patriotic Japanese as well as a dedicated surgeon. How could he honour both the values?

Chapter 17: On the Face of It

Short Answer Type Questions
66. What qualities of Mr. Lamb attracted Derry to him?
67. Who was Derry? What problems did he have?

Long Answer Type Questions
68. The lesson “On the Face of It” is an apt depiction of the loneliness and sense of alienation experienced by people on account of a disability.
69. How did Mr. Lamb’s meeting with Derry become a turning point in Derry’s life?

Chapter 18: Memories of Childhood

Short Answer Type Questions
70. When did Bama first come to know of the social discrimination faced by the people of her community?
71. How did Zitkala-Sa try to prevent the shaving of her hair?
72. What advice did Annan offer Bama?

Chapter 19

Short Answer Type Questions
73. “I felt like sinking to the floor,” says Zitkala-Sa. When did she feel this way and why?

Long Answer Type Questions
74. What kind of discrimination did Bama and Zitkala experience? How did they respond to their respective situations?
75. What are the similarities in the lives of Bama and Zitkala, though they belong to different cultures?
76. Untouchability is not only a crime, it is inhuman too. Why and how did Bama decide to fight against it?