Should Wizard Hit Mommy

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NCERT Class 12 English Core Chapter wise Solutions

Flamingo – Prose

• 1: The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
• 2: Lost Spring (Anees Jung)
• 3: Deep Water (William Douglas)
• 4: The Rattrap (Selma Lagerlof)
• 5: Indigo (Louis Fischer)
• 6: Going Places (A. R. Barton)

Flamingo – Poetry

• 1: My Mother at Sixty – Six (Kamala Das)
• 2: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (Stephen Spender)
• 3: Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)
• 4: A Thing of Beauty (John Keats)
• 5: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Adrienne Rich)

Vistas – Supplementary Reader

• 1: The Third Level (Jack Finney)
• 2. The Tiger King (Kalki)
• 3. Journey to the end of the Earth (Tishani Doshi)
• 4. The Enemy Pearl (S. Buck)
• 5. Should Wizard hit Mommy (John Updike)
• 6. On the face of It (Susan Hill)
• 7. Evans Tries an O-level (Colin Dexter)

NCERT Solutions class 12 English Core Vistas Should Wizard Hit Mommy

Read and Find Out

1. Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story telling?

1. What possible plot line could the story continue with?

1. What do you think was Jo’s problem?

Reading with Insight

1. What is the moral issue that the story raises?

2. How does Jo want the story to end and why?

3. Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?

4. What makes Jack feel caught in an ugly middle position?

5. What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?

6. Why is the adult’s perspective on life different from that of a child?