NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English Hornbill The Browning Version
NCERT Solutions Class 11 English Hornbill The Browning Version
NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English Hornbill The Browning Version is designed and prepared by the best teachers across India. All the important topics are covered in the exercises and each answer comes with a detailed explanation to help students understand concepts better. These NCERT solutions play a crucial role in your preparation for all exams conducted by the CBSE, including the JEE.
NCERT TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS SOLVED
1. What do you learn about Tap low from the initial conversation between him and Mr Frank?Ans. Tap low is a boy of sixteen. He is still in the lower fifth. He can't specialise until the next term if he gets his form/division all right. Since his master, Mr Crocker-Harris has not told him the result, he will have to wait till the next day to learn his fate.
2. "You know that he's like, sir" says Tap low. What leads him to say so? What light does this throw on the man talked about?Ans. Taplow does not know if he has got his form. It is because, his master, Mr Crocker-Harris does not tell them the results like the other masters. He is a bit different. When Frank says that a rule says that form results should only be announced by a headmaster on the last day of term, Tap low says that none else except Mr Crocker-Harris pays attention to it. This shows that the man is a stickler to the rules.
3. Which course of study does Tap low prefer and why?Ans. Tap low prefers science to literature. He finds it a good deal more exciting than his play which he considers quite unpleasant.
4. How does Tap low react to Mr Frank's query? 'And you considered view is that the Agamemnon is muck?'Ans. Tap low modifies his stand. He says that he doesn't think the play is a muck. It has a good plot in fact, a wife murdering her husband and all that. His opinion is based on the way it is taught to them-just a lot of Greek words strung together and fifty lines if one gets them wrong. Thus Taplow draws a fine distinction between the study of science and literature.
5. For whom is Tap low waiting and why? How does he feel?Ans. Tap low is waiting for his master, Mr Crocker-Harris. He has come in to do extra work on the last day of term because he missed a day last week when he was ill. Since the weather is quite fine, he feels quite unhappy to be confined in a room. He might as well be playing golf.
6. How according to Tap low Mr Crocker-Harris is unlike other masters?Ans. Other masters would certainly give a chap, a form after his taking extra work, but Mr Crocker-Harris is unlike them. When Taplow asked him about his form, he told the boy that he had given him exactly what he deserved: no less; and certainly no more. Taplow is afraid that he might have marked him down, rather than up for taking extra work.
Ans. Taplow is really shocked at this suggestion. He reacts strongly and says that he couldn't cut Mr. Crocker-Harris. It has never been done during his stay there. If he did so, nobody could predict the consequences. Perhaps he would follow Tap low home or do some such extraordinary thing.
8. Why do you think, Frank envies Mr Crocker-Harris'? What possible reasons make him so unique?Ans. Frank envies Mr Crocker-Harris for the effect he seems to have on the boys in the form. They all seem scared to death of him. He wants to know what he does: whether he beats them all or does something else which is awe inspiring. Taplow informs Mr Frank that Mr Crocker-Harris is not a sadist.
9. How according to Taplow does Mr Crocker-Harris differ from other masters in his reactions towards others?Ans. Mr Crocker-Harries is not a sadist like some other masters. He does not get pleasure out of giving pain. If he were a sadist, he would not be so frightening. It would show he has some feelings, but he hasn't any. He's all dry like a nut. He seems to hate people to like him, but other masters like being liked.
10. What leads Mr Frank to comment "I'm sure you're exaggerating"?Ans. Tap low says that Mr Crocker-Harris seems to hate people to like him. Yet, in spite of everything, Taplow does rather like him. He can't help him. He thinks that sometimes Mr crocker-Harris notices it and that seems to shrivel him up even more. This observation of Tap low seems far-fetched. So Mr Frank remarks that he is exaggerating.
11. How does Tap low refute the charge that he is exaggerating?Ans. Tap low says that the other day Mr Crocker-Harris made one of his classical jokes in the class. Nobody understood it, so no one laughed. At last Tap low laughed because he knew the master had meant it as funny. He did so out of ordinary common politeness. Secondly he felt a bit sorry for him for having made a poor joke. Mr Crocker-Harris did not praise Tap low for it.
12. How did Mr Crocker-Harris react to Tap low's action of laughing at his joke?Ans. He noticed that Tap low had laughed at his little joke. He confessed that he was pleased at the progress Taplow had made in his Latin. It was clear from the fact that he had understood so readily what the rest of the form did not. Then he asked Tap low to explain the joke to the rest of the class.
13. How do Tap low and Frank react to Millie's arrival?Ans. Frank seems infinitely relieved to see Millie. On the other hand Taplow is nervous. He is unable to control his emotions and whispers to Frank if he thinks she has heard their conversation. He is afraid that if she did so and tells her husband, he'll lose his form.
14. What does Millie tell Tap low about her husband? What assignment does she offer the young boy?Ans. She tells Tap low that her husband is at the Bursar's and might be there quite a long time. If she were him, she would go. Tap low remarks that Mr Crocker-Harris had especially asked him to come. She then asks him to run to the chemist and bring medicine according to the prescription. Thus he could do a job for him. She would take the blame if he came before Tap low returned.
15. Reading plays is more interesting than studying science.Ans. Science is based on the study of some facts, concepts, principles and their application. It demands cool reasoning and concentration of mind to solve numerical problems and to balance complicated equations. One has to be alert, regular, systematic and punctual. If we miss one class, we miss the link. On the other hand, reading plays provides us more amusement. Most of the plays contain a beautiful plot and a number of characters with diverse traits. Their actions, reactions and interactions provide a lot of fun and laughter and make the reading of the play quite interesting. Witty dialogues, irony of situations and intricacies of plots make the plays full of humanity and quite absorbing. We never feel bored while reading a play. Every dialogue or action unfolds something new and we eagerly wait for what is to follow next. The study of science proves dull and cold as compared to the interesting reading of plays.