Class 11 English Suggestion 2nd Semester:

Of Studies

Short Type Questions Answers [2 Marks] 

Answer the following questions in not more than 40 words: [ 2marks]

1. Who is the author of the essay ‘Of Studies’? What type of essay is ‘Of Studies’?

2. According to Bacon, what do studies serve for?

3. What are the benefits and drawbacks of studies?

4. What does Bacon mean by ‘Studies serve for delight’ in ‘Of Studies’?

5. When do books give us pleasure?

6. Why does Bacon say that studies can be best enjoyed in ‘privateness and retiring’?

7. What does Bacon say about the importance of order in study?

8.  How does Bacon view the role of leisure in study?

9. What is the chief use of studies for ornament according to Francis Bacon?

10.  What does Bacon mean to suggest when he says, ‘studies serve for ability’?

11. What makes the erudite frame policies:

12. What do we expect from the learned men?

13. What is the difference between ‘expert men’ and ‘learned men’?

14. What is the danger of reading too much?

15. Why does Bacon consider it ‘sloth’ if one spends too much time in studies?

16. What does Bacon say about the purpose of reading in his essay ‘Of Studies’?

17. What is Bacon’s opinion on making judgments wholly by rules, in his essay ‘Of Studies’?

18. What does Bacon say about the ‘humour of a scholar’?

19. How are studies and experience correlated?

20. When do studies become meaningful in life?

Long Type Questions Answers [ 6 marks]

Answer the following questions in not more than 120 words: [ 6 marks]

1. Why is the title of the essay ‘Of Studies’ by Francis Bacon appropriate?

2. What is the central idea of Bacon’s ‘Of Studies’?

3. What is the theme of Bacon’s essay ‘Of Studies’?

4. “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.”Where has the sentence been extracted? Who wrote the essay? What does the essayist mean to say here?

5. “They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience:…”-Where is the line taken from? What do you mean by ‘they’? Explain the quoted line.

6. “studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they are bounded in by experience!” Where is the fine taken from? Who is the author? Explain the thought hidden in this line.

7. How do crafty men, simple men and wise men view study? What should be the ideal approach towards study?

8. “…that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.” Which are referred to as ‘them’? What kind of ‘wisdom’ is spoken of here ? How is wisdom ‘won by observation’?

9. What should be the style of reading books on different subjects? How does it help us for a meaningful existence?

10. What are the benefits of study? What are its disadvantages? Each 5 points

11. What is the use of studies, as propagated by Bacon in his ‘Of Studios’?” 

12. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some low to be chewed and digested,” Where is the above sentence extracted from? Explain the analogy.

13. “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”- Who made the above-mentioned aphoristic comment and where? Elaborate the sentence to unravel its meaning.

14. How do history, poetry, mathematics, philosophy. logic and rhetoric help to make a man sound and complete?

15. “Abeunt studia in mores.”-From where is the line taken? Who is the author? Explain the thought hidden in the line.