Model Questions – 01
Class - XI
Time: 3 Hours
Full Marks: 80
A. Tick the right choice: (Marks 1 × 6 = 6)
1. Leela’s mother was unable to tell her a story when requested because –
(a) She did not know any
(b) Her mind was preoccupied with thoughts of Sidda
(c) She was too sleepy to narrate a story
(d) She did not want to indulge Leela just then
2. “These she thrust into her mouth” –Here ‘these’ refers to –
(a) Betel leaves and other things
(b) Chapattis
(c) Mango pickle
(d) Nuts
3. Ralph Spencer was –
(a) The phoenix that arose out of Jimmy Valentine’s ashes
(b) A pretty thief
(c) An alibi
(d) The banker
4. Mother Teresa believes that our lives have to be ‘woven in prayer’ in order –
(a) to help us make money
(b) to learn how to weave and pray better
(c) to be able to understand and share
(d) to teach us to weave
5. Nandalal Bose feels that contemporary Indian art does not get recognition until –
(a) it is endorsed by senior artists
(b) it finds approval by foreign markets
(c) it is taught in school
(d) It is supported by local government
6. Leela’s mother could not tell her any story because she –
(a) knew no story
(b) was mentally disturbed
(c) felt sleepy
(d) found Leela slept away
B. Choose the option that best answers the given questions. (Marks 1 × 4 = 4)
1. What is Mr. Sivasanker’s first impression of Sidda?
(a) Mr. Sivasanker’s first impression of Sidda is that he doesn’t seem a bad sort.
(b) Mr. Sivasanker finds Sidda to be evasive.
(c) Mr. Sivasanker thinks that Sidda is untidy
(d) Mr. Sivasanker suspects that Sidda could be a criminal
2. Why are Sir Mohan Lal and Lady Lal not traveling together even though they are booked in the same train –
(a) The ere were no ticket available in the same compartment
(b) Men and women are not allowed to travel together in the older days.
(c) Mr. Mohan Lal likes to travel inter-class and Lady Lal prefers the first class
(d) Mr. Mohan Lal likes to travel the first-class and Lady Lal prefers the inter-class.
3. How does Ben Price realize that jimmy Valentine is the mastermind behind the burglaries? –
(a) Ben Price knows that Jimmy always drills several holes when he cracks a safe
(b) Ben Price sees Jimmy leaving Jefferson City on the day of one of the burglaries
(c) Jimmy leaves an autographed note for Ben at the spot of each crime
(d) Ben recognizes Jimmy’s unique style of breaking the combination knob in all the burglaries
4. What is ‘Holy Communion’? –
(a) the crucification of Christ
(b) the resurrection of Christ
(c) the birth of Christ
(d) the last supper of Christ
C. Answer any two of the following questions in about 300 words: (Marks 5 × 2 = 10)
1. Do you think that art can in fact, be separate from the experience of reality?
2. Retrace Jimmy Valentine’s course of action from the moment he is granted Parole to the time he reaches his room.
3. Write a short paragraph on Mother Teresa’s experience at the old-age home where she found the inmates unhappy despite being well provided for.
4. What is the relationship between Mr. Sivasanker and Sidda? Trace the differences in their relationship at the beginning of the story and at the end of the story?
D. Tick the right choice from the alternatives given: (Marks 1 × 6 = 6)
1. The poet enhances London by using –
(a) Superlatives
(b) Highlights of the city
(c) Details in architecture
(d) References in royalty
2. “These The focus of the stanza 2 of the poem ‘Meeting at the Night’ falls on –
(a) the perfect understanding between the lovers
(b) the secrecy of the meeting
(c) the passion of the lovers
(d) the openness of the meeting
3. The Rose is widely accepted as a symbol of –
(a) sorrow
(b) love
(c) passion
(d) beauty
4. The title includes Ptolemy to bring in connotation of–
(a) man and the universe
(b) astronomy
(c) contrast between Rome and Mexico
(d) the night sky
5. The lines ‘O Chanticleer, your clarion blow; the day is near’ refer to –
(a) a rooster and a man in an Orchestra
(b) the crowing of the rooster at dawn
(c) a man blowing a trumpet in an orchestra
(d) the rooster blowing trumpet in an orchestra
6. The lines “And his dark secret love/Does thy life destroy” represent –
(a) the innocent nature of the rose
(b) the world-wide nature of the worm
(c) the actual relationship between the rose and the worm
(d) the cruel nature of the worm
E. Choose the option that best answers the given questions. (Marks 1 × 4 = 4)
1. What is the object of the poet’s celebration in the poem ‘Upon the Westminster Bridge’? –
(a) Earth
(b) Nature
(c) Britain
(d) London
2. Where does the meeting of the lovers take place –
(a) at the beloved’s house
(b) at the lover’s house
(c) in the garden
(d) in the poem
3. What Biblical reference does the poem ‘The Sick Rose’ contain –
(a) of the Fall of Man
(b) of the judgment of Man
(c) of the Punishment of Man
(d) of the Disobedience of Man
4. What kind of ‘Brotherhood’ is established?–
(a) between man and God
(b) between man and man
(c) between man and woman
(d) both (a) and (b)
F. Answer any two of the following questions: (Marks 5 × 2 = 10)
1. Justify the title of the poem ‘Brotherhood’.
2. Give the substance of the poem ‘Daybreak’.
3. How does Blake paint the girl in the poem ‘The Sick Rose’?
4. “In fiery ringlets from their sleep
As I gain the cove with pushing prow” –What does these lines suggest?
G. Tick the right choice. (Marks 1 × 3 = 3)
1. the third prophecy of the witches on Macbeth was that he would be –
(a) the king of Scotland
(b) the king of Glamis
(c) the king of Cawdor
(d) the king of Norway
2. Iagowanted Othello to be jealous of –
(a) Cassio
(b) Montano
(c) Desdemona
(d) Iago himself
3. The fishermen sold Antipholus and Dromio to –
(a) Duke of Menaphon
(b) his mother
(c) his father
(d) Duke of Ephesus
4. The ‘drappled fools’ are–
(a) wild deer
(b) some poor fools
(c) the Duke’s followers
(d) venomous toad
5. The person who assured Viola that he had seen her fasten himself to a strong mast when the ship split was –
(a) Olivia
(b) Orsino
(c) the Captain
(d) Sebastian
H. Choose the option that best answers the given questions. (Marks 1 × 2 = 2)
1. Whose children would be kings hereafter according to the witches’ prophecy –
(a) Duncan’s children
(b) Macbeth’s children
(c) Malcolm’s children
(d) Banquo’s children
2. Who possessed Othello’s confidence most? –
(a) Cassio
(b) Montano
(c) Brabantio
(d) Iago
3. Who ordered her servants to bind her husband with ropes? –
(a) Adriana
(b) Luciana
(c) an unknown lady
(d) a maid servant
4. Who wished Orlando had been the son of any other man?–
(a) Duke Frederick
(b) the banished Duke
(c) Sir Rowland de Boys
(d) Rosalind
I. Answer any one of the following questions: (Marks 5 × 1 = 5)
1. Describe the appearance of the three witches. What was the prophecy of the witches about Banquo? How was the second prediction of the witches about Macbeth accomplished?
2. What prayer did Othello draw from Desdemona? What did Desdemona wish hearing Othello’s story of life?
3. What was the cruel law that was made in the State of Ephesus? Why was Aegeon brought before the Duke and what did the duke say?
4. Why does Celia want Rosalind to stay with her and not to follow her father into banishment? What was Duke Frederick’s reply after hearing Celia pleading for Rosalind?
5. Describe in brief how Viola reached the court of Duke Orsino?
J. (a) Fill in the blanks with proper form of verbs in the brackets. (Marks 1 × 3 = 3)
1. She ________ (make) him squat on the floor with a pencil.
2. Sir Mohan Lal _______ (throw) out his chest smoothed his Baliol tie.
3. “My precious darling!” ______ (wail) the mother.
(b) Rewrite the following sentences as directed. (Marks 1 × 4 = 4)
1. Mr. Adams tells her to do so. (Change the voice)
2. “Can’t you do something, Ralph?” said Annabel. (Change the Narration)
3. Paz was a Mexican writer. Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Combine into a single Relative Sentence)
4. Once they have _______ their work they will move on to another project. (Use a Past Participle word to fill in the blank)
(C) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. (Marks 1 × 3 = 3)
1. The next morning Jimmy took breakfast ________ the Admases.
2. It must have been a terrible sacrifice ________ him.
3. Can you tell me the way _______ metro.
K. Write a story with the following hints. (Marks 10)
Hints: A farmer’s daughter went to market with a can of milk ------ given two day-dreams ------being rich ------ rejects all the suitors -------- nods her head proudly ------- the consequences.
Or, Write a paragraph on Problems of Teenagers with the help of the following hints”
Hints: Who are teenagers ------ their problems ------how their problems created ----- how can they be solved ----- conclusion.
L. Draft a newspaper advertisement on behalf of a coaching center coaching of XI –XII students for science subjects. (Marks 10)
Or, Write a Commercial leaflet on opening a ‘Fashionable Garment Centre.’
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