Modern Heroes - Questions Book 2

Questions from Modern Heroes (1-5)

No. 11: First Year at Harrow
1. The writer says that the examiners ask questions that students cannot answer not those tht they can answer. Is thecomplaint just?
2. What sorts of questions are asked by your examiner ?
3. Why did Churchill not do well in examinations?
4. How did Churchill do his Latin paper?
5. Churchill was taught English at Harrow and not Latin and Greek. Was it a gain or lost?
6. What good did Churchill's three years of stay at Harrow do to him?
7. In after years, how did the knowledge of English stand in good stead for Churchill?
8. Write an appreciation and criticism of Churchill's views in regard to the study of Latin, Greek, and English and their value in earning a lilving?

No. 12: 2- Hitch Hiking Across the Sahara
1. Give an idea of the size of the Sahara. How does the writer compare it with England?
2. What had Christorpher's mother to do with his desire to see distant places?
3. How did Rober Christorpher manage to get a seat in the weapons carrier?
4. What was the most noticeable feature of the desert city named Ghardaia?
5. How did they manage to drive the heavy truck in the tracless desrt with its soft sand?
6. What did the driver tell Christopher about three Englishmen who had attempted to aross the desert?
7. Give an account of the little town, named El Golea, and compare it with In-Salah?
8. What do you know of Professor Claude Balanguernon?
9. How did Professor Claude Balanguernon save Christopher's life towards the end of hitchhiking?
10. Describe Christopher's journey through the land of Thirst and Death?

No. 13: 3- Alexander
1. What are antiseptics and what is the antiseptic method?
2. What was the chief defect of the antiseptic method?
3. What is the role played by the white cells in the blood of a human body?
4. Give an account of the early life of Fleming?
5. How did Fleming discover Penicillin better than chemical antiseptics?
6. In what respect penicillin is better thatn chemical antiseptics?
7. What do you know of the Oxford Team?
8. How did the Oxford team make penicillin more effective?
9. Write a note on penicillin as a wonder drug?
10. Was Fleming not proud of his discovery of penicillin?
11. Why couldn't penicillin have been discovered in the resarch laboratories of America?
12. Fleming's achievement paved the way for other discoveries in the medical field. What are they?