KUHU INTERNATIONAL SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

Nasiya Colony, Gangapur City Distt Sawai Madhopur (Raj.) 8432094572

Subject - English Literature

Time - 3 Hrs.15 Min
ROLL NO.
Max. Marks. 80
General Instructions to Examinees :
1. Candidate must write first his/her Roll No. on the question paper compulsorily.
2. All the questions are compulsory.
3. Write the answer to each question in the given answer book only.
4. For questions having more than one part the answers to those parts are to be written
to gether in continuity.
5. Write down the serial number of the question before attempting it.

SECTION-A
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:.
1. In a summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery story. After a
time it became too dark for me to read easily, so I put my book down and got up to switch on the light. I was just about
to draw the curtains as well when I heard a loud cry of "Help !" It seemed to come from the trees at the end of the
garden. 1 looked out but it was now too dark to see anything clearly. Almost immediately I heard the cry again. It
sounded like a child, although I could not imagine how anybody could need help in our garden. unless one of the boys of
the neighbourhood had climbed a tree and could not get down.
2. I decided. however, that I ought to go out and have a look in the garden. just in case someone was in trouble. I took the
torch which we keep for going down into the cellar. when: there is no electric light and picked up a strong walking stick,
thinking that this might come in useful. too. Armed with these, I went cut into the garden. Once again. I heard the cry.
There was no doubt it came from the trees at the end of the garden. "Who s there '' I called out as I walked, rather
nervously down the path that led to the trees. But there was no answer. With the help of my torch, I examined the
whole of that part of the garden and the lower branches of the trees. There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came
to the conclusion that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me. But the confusion still ruled my mind resulting in a
vague fear.
3. Still feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and put away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down and begun
to read my book again when I was startled by the cry of "Help! Help!". this time rather closer. I dropped my book and
jumped. I turned around to the direction right behind my back. There, sitting on the top of a mantelpiece, was a large
green and red bird. It was a parrot! While I was out in the garden, the bird must have seen the light in my room and flown
in through the open window.
Read the passage and choose the most appropriate option form the following:
(1) Whose sound did the author hear? 1
(A) A parrot (B) A goat (C) A lion (D) A child
(ii) The sound came from. 1
(A) the river (B) the garden (C) the forest (D) nowhere
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 (iii) What was the author doing when he heard the sound? 1
(A) Sleeping (B) Watching TV (C) Reading a book (D) Playing
(iv) What effect did that sound have on the author? 1
(v) What was the actual cause of fear of the author? 1
(vi) But the confusion still ruled by mind . 1
Find words from the passage which mean the following:
(vii) Immediately [para 1] 1
(viii) Uncertainly [para 2] 1
2. I know I shall meet my fate
Some where among the clouds above;
Those that fight I do not hate.
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan's poor;
No likely end could bring them Iass;
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law nor duty bade me. fight,
No public men, nor cheermg crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove this tumult in the clouds,
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to conic seemed waste of breath.
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death
Read the poem carefully and answer the following choosing the most appropriate option from those given
below:
(1) The poet will meet his fate : 1
(A) among the forest (B) among the clouds
(C) among the crowd (D) in the rain
(ii) Whom does the poet not love? 1
(A) He hates (B) He cheers (C) He respects (D) He guards
(iii) What can drove this tumult in the clouds? 1
(A) Delight (B) Sadness (C) Hurriedness (D) Poverty
(iv) Enlist the rhyming words in the poem. 1
(v) What mood of the poet does the poem reflect? 1
(vi) waste of breath', Comment on the phrase in the light of the poem. 1
(vii) What lesson does this poem give? 1
(viii) Find the similar word of the following, from the poem: • ordered 1
SECTION-B
3. Write an essay in about 150-200 words on any one of the following topics: 8
Vande Bharat Train and Cattle Collision
Or
Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
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4. You are Karan/Kiran studying in class XII in Govt S. S. School, Bhawani Mandi. Write out a speech to be delivered
in the morning assembly of your school on the topic "How prayer enriches your mind and soul" in about 150-200
words. 8
Or
Write a report on 'Hazards of Overuse of Mobile Phone' in about 150-200 words.
SECTION-C
5. Write any 3 literary terms in about 40-50 words: 3x2=6
(i) Metaphysical Poetry (ii) Impressionism
(iii) Stream of Consciousness (iv) Interior Monologue
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present year that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall. In order to
fix a date it is necessary to remember what one saw. So now I think of the fire; the steady film of yellow light upon the
page of my book; the three chrysanthemums in the round glass bowl on the mantelpiece. Yes, it must have been the
winter time, and we had just finished our tea, for I remember that I was smoking a cigarette when I looked up and saw
the mark on the wall for the first time. I looked up through the smoke of my cigarette and my eye lodged for a moment
upon the burning coals, and that old fancy of the crimson flag flapping from the castle tower came into my mind, and I
thought of the cavalcade of red knights riding up the side of the black rock. But for that mark, I'm not sure about it; I
don't believe it was made by a nail after all; it's too big, too round, for that.
6. What did the author see on the wall ? 1
7. When did the author see it on the wall for the first time ? 1
8. What was the author doing when she saw it for the first time? 1
9. What things does she remember in order to fix the date of seeing the mark on the Wall ? 1
10. What does she fancy while looking upon the burning coals? 1
11. For what is the author not sure about ? 1
Answer the following questions in about 80-100 words:
12. "A few drops of water had become the cause of torment to Buddhist monk." Comment. [Chandalika] 6
Or
Why did Eveline decide ultimately not to elope with her boyfriend Frank ? [Eveline]
Answer any two of the following questions in about 40.50 words: 2x2=4
13. What is the essence of this fiction ? [I Sell My Dreams]
14. What are the things that mark animate things from the inanimate ? [Why the Novel Matters]
Or
What do you know about Manjula's neglected childhood ? [Broken Image]
Read the extract of the poem and answer the questions that follow:
To Mercy, Pity Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
15. What are the virtues of delight ? 1½
16. What is the difference between mercy and pity ? 1½
17. What is the relation between love and peace ? 1
18. What do we pray for in distress ? 1
19. When do we show thankfulness? 1
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 Or
Or listen to the clock towers
of any well-managed city
beating their gongs mind the clock, each slightly
off the others' time, deeper or lighter
in its bronze, beating our a different
sequence each half-hour, out of accidents
of alloy. a maker's shaking hand
in Switzerland.
15. Why can the clocktowers not show the same time ? 1½
16. What do these lines tell about ? 1½
17. Why is the city termed as 'old'? 1
18. What does the clocktowers' telling different times signify 1
19. Why do these differences occur ? 1
Answer the given following question in about 80-100 words:
20. What does the shadows being trodden signify ? [A Lecture upon the Shadow] 6
Or
Give examples from the poem to show that great poetry is a result of close observation of natural phenomena.
[Trees]
Answer the following question in about 50 words:
21. Why does the poetess refer to her childhood here ? Discuss. [Blood] 4
Or
What are the things associated with the temporal and what are associated with the eternal?
[poem by milton: On Time]
Answer the following questions in about 100 words:
22. How did the villagers welcome Captain in their village ? [A Tiger for Malgudi] 4
Or
What did the tiger feel about the owl ? [Tiger for Malgudi]
23. How did the tiger kill captain ? 6
Or
What was the condition of the city when the tiger was roaming about the city after killing Captain ?
[Tiger for Malgudil

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