NCERT Class 12 Chapter 3 Kaliedoscope Question Answer। A Wedding in Brownsville। English Medium।

Page no. 25

1. Who were the Senciminers?

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2. Why did Dr Margolin not particularly want his wife

to accompany him to the wedding?

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Page no. 29

1. What is the Hippocratic oath?

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2. What topic does the merry banter at the wedding

invariably lead to?

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Page no. 34

1. Who was the woman that Dr Margolin suddenly

encountered at the wedding?

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2. What were the events that led to his confused state

of mind?

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Understanding the Text

1. What do you understand of Dr Margolin’s past? How does it

affect his present life?

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2. What was Dr Margolin’s attitude towards his profession?

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3. What is Dr Margolin’s view of the kind of life the American

Jewish community leads?

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4. What were the personality traits that endeared Dr Margolin to

others in his community?

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5. Why do you think Dr Margolin had the curious experience at

the wedding hall?

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6. Was the encounter with Raizel an illusion or was the carousing

at the wedding-hall illusory? Was Dr Margolin the victim of the

accident and was his astral body hovering in the world of

twilight?

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Talking about the Text

Discuss in small groups

1. Fiction often deals with human consciousness, rather than

with the reality of existence.

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2. The ways in which survivors of holocausts deal with life.

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Appreciation

1. Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement in France

between the two World Wars. Its basic idea is that the

automatic, illogical and uncontrolled associations of the mind

represent a higher reality than the world of practical life and

ordinary literature. Do you think this story could be loosely

classified as surrealistic? What elements in this story would

support the idea?

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2. Comment on the technique used by the author to convey the

gruesome realities of the war and its devastating effect on the

psyche of human beings through an intense personal

experience.

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