Important Questions for CBSE Class 11 English Woven Chapter 2 - My Three Passions

A. Very Short Answer Questions  (1 Mark) 

1. Word – Meaning from the Given Chapter. 

1. Hither and Thither

Ans: Various directions, to this or that place

2. Unfathomable 

Ans: Incapable of being fully understood or explored

3.  Abyss

Ans: Deep or seemingly bottomless chasm

4.  Reverberate 

Ans: Can be repeated several times as an echo.

2. Fill in the Blanks.

1. I Have _____ to Understand the ______ of Men.

Ans: wished, hearts.

2. There is Always _______ That Brought Me Back to the _____. 

Ans: A pity, earth. 

3. True – False.

1. The Passions Were Like Storms That Hit Harder Over Deep Oceans.

Ans: False

2. Shivering Consciousness Looks Over the Rim of the World. 

Ans: True

3.  The Haphazard Version of Figure of the Heaven Was Imagined.

Ans: False

4.  Echoes of Happiness and Love Reverberate in the Hearts. 

4. What is Meant by the Wayward Course? 

Ans: The wayward course refers to a course in which it is very difficult to predict and it defines the turning away from what is right.

5. What is the Verge of Despair? 

Ans: The verge of despair is the verge of something that is going to come and close to getting its experience.

B. Short Answer Questions  (2 Marks) 

1. What Governed the Narrator’s Life?

Ans: The narrator’s life was governed by the three passions – the longing for love, the search for knowledge and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. 

2. What was the Pythagorean Power? 

Ans: The Pythagorean power is the power by which a number holds control over the flux. It is mainly used in arithmetic equations and calculations.

3. What was Brought Back to the Earth? 

Ans: There was always a pity that was going over the mind of the narrator. This pity always brought the narrator back to the earth.

4. What Could be Good for Human Life? 

Ans: The prefiguring vision of heaven in a mystic miniature manner, that the saints and poets have also imagined, may appear to be good for human life.

5. What Filled the World and With What? 

Ans: The whole world was full of poverty, pain, and loneliness that brought negativity not towards an individual but towards the entire nation and the whole world.

C. Short Answer Questions  (3 Marks)

1. What was Sought by the Narrator Firstly? 

Ans: The narrator sought love for the first time because it brought ecstasy in such a way that he would often sacrifice all the rest of his life for the few hours left for joy and happiness. It also helps to alleviate loneliness, which occurs when a person's shivering consciousness gazes over the world's rim into the cold, lifeless abyss.

2. What Did the Narrator Sought Next and Why? 

Ans: The narrator seeks joy and happiness around the world as it relieves terrible loneliness as well. He could sacrifice the rest of his life just for a few hours of this joy and happiness, which initially came from love.

3. What the Narrator Wished With Equal Passion? 

Ans: The narrator seeks knowledge with equal passion. He wished hard to understand the hearts of men. He wished to understand why the stars shine. He also tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power, i.e., the power by which a number holds control over the flux.

4. What did love and knowledge lead to?

Ans: Love and knowledge that the narrator has achieved, as far as they were possible, always led upwards towards the heavens. Love and knowledge create joy and happiness, and when they lead to heaven, pity brings them back to the earth.

5. What Did the Narrator Find in His Life? 

Ans: The narrator described his life in terms of love, happiness, joy, knowledge, and human life. He found his life worth living and he was very glad to live it again if any chance was offered and asked him to choose his life accordingly and live accordingly.

D. Long Answer Questions  (5 Marks)

1. What were the Passions and With What Were They Compared As? 

Ans: The narrator had three passions that were very simple yet overwhelmingly powerful, and these governed him. The three passions were the desire for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for mankind's suffering. These passions were like winds that blew the narrator in different directions, on a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, until he was on the verge of despair.

2. Why Did the Narrator Call the Passions Simple? 

Ans: The passions were called simple because the living of the narrator was also simple, free-living and he was driven by the normal and desires of ordinary and simple people. He just felt that love provided bliss, that he yearned for the vast ocean of basic understanding, and that when mankind hurt, his heart melted. He believed in a free thought mind and simple living with considerable desires.

3. What Do You Understand by the “Union of Love”?

Ans: The narrator sought love first because of the ecstasy. He was ready to sacrifice a few hours of the rest of his life for this joy. It was sought because it relieved loneliness, and it was sought finally because of the "union of love". In the "union of love", the narrator saw the prefiguring vision of heaven in a mystic miniature manner that the saints and poets also imagined. This appeared to be beneficial for human life as well. This also appeared to be beneficial for human life. This was the narrator's least favourite aspect of love.

4. What Human Life Should be Off? 

Ans: Love and knowledge were simple passions that led to joy and happiness. They also led upwards towards heaven. But always a pity was brought by the narrator back to the earth. Echoes of the cries of unbearable pain reverberate in the heart of the narrator. Children in famine, helpless old people as a despised burden to their sons, victims tortured by oppressors, and the entire world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

5. How Do the Passions Affect the Narrator’s Life? 

Ans: According to the narrator, love brings ecstasy to life. He believes love to be magnificent, for which he can sacrifice the rest of his life just to have joy and happiness around him. Knowledge made him understand the hearts and lives of people. Pity made him realise the pain, poverty and loneliness in human life. These passions made him realise the importance of life and gave him a certain direction in his life. These passions made him rule over his actions as well.