ASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL, KP – V, GN

CBSE Question Bank

CLASS: XII SUBJECT: ENGLISH (301)
VISTAS
4. THE ENEMY Marks
1. How did Dr. Sadao ensure that the American soldier left his house but he himself 2
remained safe and secure? (2011)
2. Why did Hana wash the wounded soldier herself? (2011, 2012) 2
3. How did Dr. Sadao plan the American prisoner’s escape? (2011) 2
4. Did Hana think the Japanese tortured their prisoners of war? Why? (2012) 2
5. What help did Dr. Sadao seek from Hana while operating on the wounded white 2
man? (2012)
6. Who sent a messenger to Dr. Sadao? What for? (2012) 2
7. What forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritable with his patient? (2013) 2
8. In what context does Hana remember the cruel nature of General Takima? 2
(2013)
9. How nearly had Dr. Sadao missed marrying Hana? (2013) 2
10. In what condition was the American sailor when Dr. Sadao found him? (2013, 2
2015)
11. Do you think Dr. Sadao’s final decision was the best possible one in the 2
circumstances? Why/Why not? Explain with reference to the story, ‘The Enemy’.
(2013)
12. Why did Dr. Sadao treat the American soldier even though it was an unpatriotic 2
act on his part? (2014)
13. Why did the General not order immediate arrest of Dr. Sadao who had sheltered a 2
white man? (2014)
14. How did Hana help Dr. Sadao? (2014) 2
15. What was Sadao’s father’s dream for him? How did Sadao realise it? (2015) 2
16. Dr. Sadao was a patriotic Japanese as well as a dedicated surgeon. How could he 2
honour both the values? (2015)
17. Dr. Sadao faced a dilemma. Should he use his surgical skills to save the life of a 2
wounded person or hand an escaped American P.O.W. over to the Japanese
police? How did he re-solve this clash of values? (2015)
18. How did the arrival of the prisoner destroy the peace of Sadao’s home? (2015) 2
19. What was his father’s chief concern about Dr. Sadao? (2016) 2
20. Why was Dr. Sadao not sent abroad along with the troops? (2016) 2
21. Where, when and how did Dr. Sadao meet Hana? (2016) 2
22. What did Dr. Sadao understand more about the wound on peering into it? (2016) 2
23. What dilemma did Dr. Sadao face? (2017) 2
24. How did the writer indicate that Dr. Sadao’s father was a very traditional and 2
conventional man? (2011, 2019)
25. Why does Hana believe that the American prisoner is a ‘menace, living or dead’? 2
(2020)
26. Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What 5
made Hana, his wife Sympathise with him in the face of open defiance from the
domestic staff? (2011)
27. What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was 5
it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or simply self-
absorption? (2011)
28. Draw a character sketch of the old General in the lesson, ‘The Enemy’. (2011) 5
29. How did Dr. Sadao rise above narrow prejudices of race and country to help a 5
human being in need? (2011)
30. What impression do you form about Dr. Sadao as a man and as a surgeon on 5
yourSCHOOL,
LPS GLOBAL reading the chapter ‘The Enemy’?
NOIDA 1 (2012)
31. Why did Sadao Hoki go to America? Narrate his experiences there. (2012) 5
32. Why did Sadao help the American soldier to escape? How did he do it? (2012) 5
33. Dr. Sadao was more a dutiful doctor than a loyal citizen. Substantiate the 5
statement by quoting suitable evidence from the story,’The Enemy’. (2012)
34. Do you think Dr. Sadao’s final decision was the best possible one in the 5