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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 1

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CDC Specification Grid Section 1: Critical analysis evaluating logical arguments, distinguishing facts from opinions, detecting fallacies, and applying metacognitive reflection.

Approach Summary: "Know Thyself" serves as the foundational principle of metacognition—thinking about one’s own thought processes. In critical thinking, self-knowledge enables individuals to detect their own cognitive biases, emotional reactions, and preconceived assumptions, thereby distinguishing verifiable empirical facts from ungrounded opinions.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 2

Rating: 5 / 5

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CDC Specification Grid Section 1: Sociological examination of modern family transformations, intergenerational cohesion, and emphatic syntactic fronting.

Approach Summary: Modern socioeconomic shifts have altered traditional joint families into dispersed nuclear units, weakening immediate communal safety nets while fostering personal autonomy. Syntactic inversion (negative inversion and locative fronting) stylistically emphasizes feelings of solitude and psychological longing in literature.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 3

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CDC Specification Grid Section 1: Sports journalism analysis testing comprehension of psychological dynamics, penalty pressure, and tactical resilience.

Approach Summary: The match demonstrated that home crowd support can inspire early euphoria but can transform into paralyzing pressure if the opponent equalizes and commands midfield possession. Mancini’s triumph shows that embracing setbacks as clean-slate learning opportunities and prioritizing collective tactical joy over fear produces enduring athletic excellence.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 4

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CDC Specification Grid Section 1: Technical expository reading text testing physical comprehension of aerodynamic drag and vacuum transit.

Approach Summary: Hyperloop achieves 760 mph velocities by eliminating the two main physical forces that slow down vehicles: aerodynamic drag (by pumping air out of sealed tubes) and mechanical track friction (using magnetic levitation or air-bearing skis). It offers zero direct carbon emissions, lower operating costs than rail, and relief from urban gridlock.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 5

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CDC Specification Grid Section 1: Biographical narrative evaluation examining pedagogical effectiveness and moral courage in educational environments.

Approach Summary: Iyer’s seaside demonstration transformed an abstract, incomprehensible physics lecture into a vivid living reality by allowing students to see real birds flap wings and steer. Sastry’s stern rebuke of the communal teacher proved that bigotry in schools must be confronted immediately and decisively by community elders.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 6

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CDC Specification Grid Section 1 (Reading / Critical Thinking): Contemporary technology & financial literacy themes.

Approach Summary: QR code payments lower hardware costs (no costly POS terminals), eliminate physical currency printing and counterfeit risks, and accelerate transaction speeds. In Nepal, hurdles include digital illiteracy, intermittent cellular connectivity in rural mountains, cyber fraud risks, and high cash preference.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 7

Rating: 5 / 5

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Humour — Analytical evaluation of behavioral science and non-verbal human communication.

Approach Summary: Scott discovered that most human laughter occurs during ordinary conversation to signal agreement, mutual liking, and in-group belonging. Physiologically, laughing triggers the release of endorphins—the body’s natural opioid analgesics—which soothe muscular tension and increase pain thresholds.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 8

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Human Culture — Anthropological critique of consumerism and modern sustainable waste management.

Approach Summary: Sodaigomi stems from compact house designs lacking storage, combined with cultural demands for pristine purity and taboos against used items. In Nepal, 3Rs can be institutionalized through source segregation, decentralized composting of organic waste, and formalization of scrap-recycling enterprises.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 9

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Ecology and Environment — Exploration of environmental courage, corporate accountability, and direct action.

Approach Summary: After a traumatic car accident recalibrated her values, Hill climbed a 1,000-year-old redwood to halt clear-cutting by the Pacific Lumber Company. She survived sub-zero storms, supply blockades, helicopter intimidation, and death threats, ultimately negotiating a permanent preservation covenant.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 10

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Career Opportunities — Core competency in professional communication, self-presentation, and recruitment credentials.

Approach Summary: A CV is a biographical record of education, skills, and work experience. A staying CV emphasizes internal institutional service and administration, while a leaving CV highlights mobile research and external leadership. A CV must be tailored because different employers prioritize distinct technical and soft skills.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 11

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Hobbies — Focuses on reflective personal essay writing, sensory imagery, and psychological well-being.

Approach Summary: Walking provides kinesthetic rhythm, emotional solitude, and geographic orientation. The author transitioned from chaotic childhood roads in Kathmandu to orderly Sydney, using pedestrian exploration of Petersham to find permanent companionship and overcome loneliness in alien landscapes.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 12

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Animal World — Dr. Lewis Thomas’s essay deconstructing human egoism through marine biological symbiosis.

Approach Summary: Dr. Thomas proves biological uniqueness is universally shared by every organism for self-preservation. The nudibranch and medusa exchange roles between host and parasite until they fuse, demonstrating that life is fundamentally interdependent and cooperative.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 13

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CDC Curriculum Unit: History — Exploration of architectural passion, disaster response, and civilian heroism during the 9/11 attacks.

Approach Summary: Frank revered the towers with the passionate fascination of a poet admiring Dante. On 9/11, his blueprint knowledge allowed him to navigate damaged stairwells and free trapped workers on the 88th floor. He refused to evacuate with his wife and died when the tower collapsed.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 14

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Human Rights — Analysis of systemic oppression, generational trauma, and the restorative ethics of forgiveness.

Approach Summary: The author realized his father was a broken victim of the dehumanizing apartheid regime, which produced frustration that exploded domestically. "I am sorry" is hardest to say because it requires dismantling pride and ego. Forgiveness is essential because it frees the victim from the poison of hatred.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 15

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Leisure and Entertainment — Evaluates students’ ability to analyze community-based tourism, historical architecture preservation, and the contrast between urban and rural quality of life.

Approach Summary: Bandipur is called a living museum because it has preserved 18th-century Newar architecture, cobbled streets, and authentic cultural life without vehicular intrusion. Bypassed by the Prithvi Highway, enterprising locals and Himalayan Encounters restored decaying houses into lodges and cafes, creating a clean, pollution-free eco-tourism haven.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 16

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CDC Literature Section: O. Henry’s satirical storytelling, situational irony, character dissociation, and critique of hyper-mechanized labor in modern financial systems.

Approach Summary: O. Henry depicts Maxwell as a dehumanized, high-pressure machine consumed by stock tickers. The momentary lilac fragrance awakens his suppressed human heart, prompting a desperate proposal to Miss Leslie, only for the tragicomic twist to reveal they were already married the previous evening.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 17

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CDC Curriculum Unit: War and Peace — Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s representation of Partition violence, communal morality, and the clash between Western legalism and local village codes.

Approach Summary: Meet Singh embodies moral contradiction by defending a known violent bandit on religious scriptures out of communal loyalty; Iqbal represents alienated Western intellectualism unable to engage local reality; Jugga is the feared outlaw whose ancestral code of honor challenges simplistic classifications of good and evil.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 18

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Music and Creation — Explores resilience, artistic transcendence, Helen Keller’s philosophy of sensory impairment, and Beethoven's creative will.

Approach Summary: Deafness isolated Beethoven from conversation, causing paranoia and suicidal despair in 1802. Overcoming this through his Heiligenstadt resolution that art demanded his survival, he internalized sound, revolutionary composing masterpieces like Symphony No. 9 in complete physical silence.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 19

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Migration and Diaspora — Analyzes the sociological phases of migration, statutory reincorporation, and contemporary Nepali citizenship debates.

Approach Summary: Dediasporization is the process where migrants reacquire homeland citizenship, undergo generational hostland assimilation, or reinscribe into a transnation-state. The three aspects are forward motion, diasporic incorporation, and backward return motion. NRN dual citizenship balances economic investment and skill transfer against geopolitical security and constitutional equity.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 20

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CDC Curriculum Unit: Power and Politics — Assesses comprehension of Audre Lorde’s landmark critique of racial bias in white feminist theory, intersectionality, and the archetype of Afrekete.

Approach Summary: Lorde challenges Daly for portraying white women as creative goddesses while reducing non-white women solely to passive victims of patriarchal mutilation. Feminist solidarity must be intersectional because ignoring race and class reinforces white supremacist structures under the guise of sisterhood.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 21

Rating: 5 / 5

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CDC Literature Grid (Short Stories): Flags Tim Winton’s Neighbours as a core text exploring multicultural integration, overcoming ethnic prejudice, and lived human solidarity.

Approach Summary: Winton shows that practical kindness (gardening advice, hen-house repair) and shared biological milestones (pregnancy, childbirth) transcend linguistic barriers. The closing line highlights that abstract modernist literary theory on alienation collapses before the transcendent warmth of lived communal love.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 22

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CDC Literature Grid (Short Stories): Kate Chopin’s psychological realism examines female interiority, social decorum, and suppressed desire in 19th-century society.

Approach Summary: Mrs. Baroda experiences a clash between her sudden physical attraction to Gouvernail and her internalized Victorian duty as a respectable married woman. Her final statement—"I have overcome everything!"—is delightfully ambiguous: either she has conquered her prejudice to become a courteous hostess, or she has conquered her moral fear of respectability to pursue her desire.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 23

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CDC Literature Grid (Short Stories): Anita Desai’s tragic realism critiques the shifting balance of power in Indian families and the clash between Western clinical detachment and traditional filial piety.

Approach Summary: The title is deeply ironic. Rakesh begins as the ideal dutiful son who touches his father’s feet, but as a doctor, his obsession with prolonging his father’s biological life strips Varma of culinary joy, dignity, and autonomy, driving the old man to curse his medicine and beg for death.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 24

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CDC Literature Grid (Short Stories): H.G. Wells’s suspense fiction evaluates moral retribution, poetic justice, and the devastating consequences of imperialist greed.

Approach Summary: Wells uses Chang-hi’s dying smile, Hooker’s recurring nightmare, and the discovery of a decaying corpse in the clearing to foreshadow lethal danger. Poetic justice is delivered when the murderers succumb to the very poison-thorn trap engineered by their victim, dying beside the useless gold.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 25

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CDC Literature Grid (Short Stories): Lu Xun’s My Old Home is a flagship text on social stratification, rural decay, lost innocence, and the existential definition of hope.

Approach Summary: Young Runtu was vibrant, brave, knowledgeable about nature, and equal to Xun; adult Runtu is weathered, impoverished, and numbed by taxes and famines. His address "Master!" marks the tragic barrier of feudal hierarchy. Hope is defined as a road: it does not exist pre-formed, but is created when many people walk together.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 26

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CDC Literature Grid (Short Stories): Assesses Shankar Lamichhane’s stream-of-consciousness narrative, contrasting romanticized tourism with the raw reality of poverty and disease.

Approach Summary: The tourist perceives Kathmandu as an exotic fairy tale of peaceful stupas and timeless art. The guide brings him to a rustic cottage to witness a child paralyzed by polio. The child’s wide, unblinking eyes symbolize the raw, inescapable reality of human suffering that surpasses cold stone monuments.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 27

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CDC Literature Grid (Short Stories): Gabriel García Márquez’s canonical magical realist fable explores human cruelty, institutional religious hypocrisy, and the commercialization of the supernatural.

Approach Summary: Márquez combines mundane household life with fantastical elements (a winged old man, a spider girl). Instead of revering the celestial visitor, Pelayo and Elisenda cage him in a chicken coop and charge admission; Father Gonzaga subjects him to sterile Latin dogma; and the crowd tortures him with branding irons.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 28

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Poems): Emily Dickinson’s lyrical nature allegory exploring human life, perceptual knowledge, and the mystery of mortality.

Approach Summary: Dickinson contrasts sunrise and sunset through differences in tone, certainty, and imagery: sunrise is radiant, knowable, and energetic representing life and youth, whereas sunset is quiet, mysterious, and unknowable representing death, rest, and eternity.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 29

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Poems): Dylan Thomas’s hymn from Under Milk Wood celebrating divine grace upon imperfect humanity.

Approach Summary: The speaker prays for mortals as "poor creatures born to die" because human existence is fragile and precarious ("touch-and-go"). Thomas views human nature realistically as morally complex ("not wholly bad or good"), trusting in divine mercy that sees our best side.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 30

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Poems): Julia de Burgos’s flagship feminist text asserting female agency against conservative oppression.

Approach Summary: Burgos depicts the conflict between patriarchal conformity and female liberation: conforming was an inauthentic "game of hide and seek with my being", whereas declaring her feet "made of nows" provoked backlash from the desperate "old guard", culminating in the epiphany "I was my own route".

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 31

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Poems): Ben Okri’s postcolonial utopian sonnet celebrating human brotherhood, resilience, and transnational enlightenment.

Approach Summary: Okri calls for global solidarity against poverty, using the "meridian line" to represent global migrants and marginalized humanity, and the "mountain rope" simile to illustrate mutual interdependence and collective ascent into an enlightened awakening age.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 32

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Poems): Dr. Abhi Subedi’s postmodern verse dramatizing empathy, urban alienation, and political trauma in Kathmandu.

Approach Summary: Subedi uses the oxymoronic title "Soft Storm" to represent an inner tempest of empathy and weeping compassion amidst modern Kathmandu’s callous "seamless city" and "mad time", redefining softness as active moral rebellion against dehumanization.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 33

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Essays): Oliver Sacks’s autobiographical defense of intellectual freedom, libraries, and tactile print culture.

Approach Summary: Sacks values physical libraries because active self-directed exploration engages deep intrinsic curiosity, unlike passive classroom lectures ("in one ear and out the other"). He was horrified when college libraries discarded thousands of classic physical books under the illusion that digital screens are permanent.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 34

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Essays): Stephen L. Nock’s sociological analysis of marital norms, self-regulation, and civic capital.

Approach Summary: Nock defines marriage as an institution because its rules originate outside the couple and are socially enforced. Marriage curbs boundless desires in affluent societies, organizes male ambition, and generates vital social capital through networks of trust and reciprocity.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 35

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Essays): Bertrand Russell’s philosophical essay distinguishing scientific knowledge from moral wisdom.

Approach Summary: Russell defines knowledge as the acquisition of detailed facts, data, and scientific expertise, whereas wisdom consists of a sense of proportion, moral judgment, awareness of ends, and emancipation from narrow prejudices. Knowledge without wisdom merely multiplies human capacity for destruction.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 36

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Essays): Yuval Noah Harari’s critique of religious and cultural egotism, advocating civilizational humility.

Approach Summary: Harari critiques the common delusion of cultures and religions claiming they are the center of cosmic history and the sole inventors of human morality. He shows morality is an evolutionary universal and argues that overcoming self-centered nationalistic arrogance is crucial for international climate and security cooperation.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 37

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - Essays): Samuel Moyn’s historical inquiry into the limitations of human rights amidst widening economic disparities.

Approach Summary: Moyn observes that while human rights successfully established basic civil protections and minimum socioeconomic floors, they remained indifferent to extreme wealth concentration and structural economic inequality, functioning merely as a powerless companion to market deregulation.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 38

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - One Act Plays): Ferenc Molnár’s drawing-room comedy analyzing theatrical deception, psychological manipulation, and dramatic irony.

Approach Summary: The Actress masterfully invents an elaborate psychological theory claiming that earnest men pretend to pursue glamorous actresses only to arouse jealousy in their neglected wives. The gullible Famous Woman believes the ruse and departs reconciled, whereupon the husband emerges from the Actress’s bedroom, revealing total dramatic deceit.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 39

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - One Act Plays): August Strindberg’s naturalistic family drama examining sacrifice, maternal misrepresentation, and redemption.

Approach Summary: Durand endures his daughters’ contempt because their deceased mother slandered him. When total destitution looms, he reveals the truth to his daughter Adèle, drinks poison, and ignites the boarding house so his daughters will collect his life and fire insurance, using fire as a symbol of purification and ultimate paternal sacrifice.

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Exam Preparation QuestionClass 12 • Compulsory English • Unit 40

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CDC Specification Grid Section 2 (Literature - One Act Plays): Bhimnidhi Tiwari’s historical satire exposing Rana feudal tyranny, absurd royal privilege, and human subjugation.

Approach Summary: Tiwari exposes the grim irony of feudal Nepal where the king’s pet bull enjoys sumptuous food and royal medical treatment, while common peasants face execution if the bull dies. Jitman and Gore are forced to pretend the dead bull is alive to escape capital punishment, illustrating how royal vanity dehumanized working citizens.

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