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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

  1. Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?
  2. While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during wartime, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?
  3. What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty, or simply self-absorption?
  4. How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home even when he knew he could not stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?
  5. Dr. Sadao was compelled by duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?
  6. There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalty. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read.
  7. Why is Antarctica the place to go to, to understand the earth’s present, past, and future?
  8. ‘Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.’ What is the relevance of this statement in the context of the Antarctic environment?
  9. What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
  10. ‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
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