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ICSE Class X Board Exam 1993 : English Paper 2 (English Literature)

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ENGLISH Paper 2 - 1993 Literature in English (Two Hours) Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately. You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes. This time is to be spent in reading the question paper. The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers. Attempt five questions in all. You must attempt one question from each of the Sections A, B and C and any two other questions. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ]. S ECTION A - DRAMA Shakespeare : Julius Caesar Question 1 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Cassius : I know not what may fall; I like it not Brutus : M ark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body. You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, But speak all good you can devise of Caesar, And say you don't by our permission; Else shall you not have any hand at all About his funeral, And you shall speak In the same pulpit where to I am going, After my speech is ended. (i) State what Cassius does not like. What is the reason for Cassius's dislike? [2] (ii) Earlier, Brutus assured Cassius that he would take precautions before Antony is allowed to speak at the funeral of Caesar. State two of the precautions Brutus said he would take in this regard. [4] (iii) Enumerate the condition laid down by Brutus on Antony before the latter was allowed to speak in Caesar's funeral. [5] (iv) Narrate briefly the prophecy of Antony over the corpse of Caesar. [4] (v) Give five of the statements put forward by Antony in his funeral speech which roused people against the conspirators. [5] Question 2 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: "Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? M any a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat, The livelong day, with patient expectation To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome". (i) Who speaks these words? From which place in Rome is he speaking? [2] (ii) Who is accused of rejoicing in the extract? How does the speaker conclude that they are rejoicing? [3] (iii) What does the speaker ask the "accused of rejoicing" to do for their ingratitude? [3] (iv) Give the meaning of the following: "What tributaries follow him to Rome. To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels ?" [2] (v) What had the "people accused of rejoicing" done when Pompey passed through the streets of Rome? [3] (vi) What does Flavius ask, later, the "People accused of rejoicing" to do for their fault of rejoicing at Caesar's victory? [4] (vii) What did Flavius ask the speaker to do after the latter went towards the Capital? [2] (viii) Why did the speaker hesitate in carrying out the direction given by Flavius? [1]

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