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The story “The Rattrap” is about a rattrap-selling vagabond who steals thirty kronors from an old crofter and takes refuge in a iron mill. The owner of the iron mill mistakes him for an old acquaintance and invites him spend Christmas Eve with them. They feed him and let him sleep peacefully. The Rattrap Solved… Continue reading The Rattrap Class 12 CBSE Question and Answers: 2022

About the Author- Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lagerlöf was educated at the Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm from 1882 to 1885. She worked as a country schoolteacher at a high school for… Continue reading Summary of “The Rattrap” by Selma Lagerlof – CBSE Class 12: 2022

“The Tiger King” is a story about the brave Maharaja of Pratibandapuram who was also known as the Tiger King. It was predicted that he will become the greatest warrior of all time ut he will eventually be killed by a tiger. The King had successfully killed ninety-nine tigers but he was asked to be… Continue reading The Tiger King Class 12 CBSE Question and Answer: 2022

About the Author: Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy (9 September 1899 – 5 December 1954), better known by his pen name Kalki, was a Tamil writer, journalist, poet, critic and Indian independence activist. His writings include over 120 short stories, 10 novellas, 5 novels, 3 historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews. Kalki Krishnamuthy… Continue reading Summary of The Tiger King by Kalki – CBSE Class 12: 2022

This story traces the beginning of the Civil Disobedience against the British authority in India. According to an agreement, the peasants in Muzzafarpur were supposed to grow Indigo in 15 percent of their land. A peasant named Rajkumar Shukla got Gandhi involved in this matter, who in turn negotiated terms with the British officials and… Continue reading Indigo Class 12 Questions and Answers: 2022

About Author- Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was a Jewish-American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-Communist treatise. The God that Failed (1949), a Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965… Continue reading Summary of Indigo by Louis Fischer – Class 12 CBSE: 2022

Going Places Solved Question and Answer Short Questions and Answers Why did Sophie say after returning from the school that Jansie ‘looked doubtful’? On their way to return from school, Sophie and Jansie considered the option of opening up a boutique. But Jansie looked doubtful because she knew it would take lot of money to… Continue reading Going Places Class 12 CBSE Question and Answer: 2022

About the Author – A. R. Barton is a modern writer, who lives in Zurich and Writes in English. His story, “Going Places” is  about a adolescent girl living in her fantasy world. Sophie is a hopeless romantic who takes refuge from the harsh monotony of everyday life by creating her own world full of fantasies.… Continue reading Summary of Going Places – Class 12 CBSE: 2022

The story, “Deep Waters” is  about how the writer overcame his fear of water and learned swimming. When he was three or four years old the writer had gone to the beach in California with his father. The waves the beach knocked him down and he went underwater. The experience bred a permanent fear of… Continue reading Deep Water Class 12 CBSE Question and Answers: 2022

About the Writer:  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS was born in Maine, Minnesota, on October 16, 1898, and raised in Yakima, Washington. He entered Whitman College in 1916, but his studies were interrupted by military service in World War I. Douglas was graduated from Whitman in 1920 and taught school for two years before attending law school… Continue reading Summary of Deep Water – Class 12 CBSE: 2022