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Gujarat Research Society s Jasudben M. L School, Khar. ASSESSMENT November December 2020. Std. Date : 02 12 2020. : X Subject: Literature in English Time : 2 hours Marks : 80 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 from the three sections You must attempt at least one question from each of the Sections A, B and C and not more than two other questions from the same sections you have already compulsorily chosen. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ] Start a new question on a new page. (This paper has 5 printed sides) SECTION A DRAMA Answer one or more questions from the following play. The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare Question 1 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Bassanio: Shylock, do you hear? Shylock: I am debating of my present store; And, by the near guess of my memory, I cannot instantly raise up the gross . (i) Where are Bassanio and Shylock? Why has Bassanio come to Shylock? Who has [3] sent Bassanio? (ii) In the previous scene, to whom and in what manner had Bassanio appealed for a loan? [3] (iii) Why does Shylock decline Bassanio s invitation to dinner? [3] (iv) What kindness does Shylock offer Bassanio and Antonio? Mention the conditions of [3] this offer. -2(v) How do Antonio and Bassanio react to this offer made by Shylock? What aspect of his [3] character does Bassanio reveal in this reaction, which he reveals again later in the play? Question 2 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Portia: To these injunctions everyone doth swear That comes to hazard for my worthless self. Arragon: And so have I address d me. Fortune now To my heart s hope! - Gold, silver and base lead. (i) Who had tried his luck in trying to choose the correct casket before the prince of [3] Arragon? Which casket had that suitor chosen? Mention one point he made in favour of this casket? What did he find inside the casket of his choice? (ii) What are the injunctions the prince of Arragon was obliged by oath to obey? Who had [3] set these injunctions and with what purpose? (iii) What is the inscription on the golden casket? How do the actions of the martlet [3] illustrate this inscription? (iv) Which casket does the prince of Arragon finally choose? What had he called this [3] casket while reading its inscription? What does he find in this casket? Which casket actually contains Portia s portrait? What is the inscription on this casket? (v) Who enters soon after? What does he say about the young Venetian who has just [4] arrived? What has the young Venetian brought with him? Question 3 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Antonio: But little: I am arm d and well prepared Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well! Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you; For herein Fortune shows herself more kind. (i) Where is Antonio at this moment? To what question does Antonio respond with the [3] words But little ? Who has asked this question? (ii) Just before addressing Antonio, the person asking the question had made a request to [3] another person present there. What was the request? Who was the request made to? What was this person s response to this request? (iii) Why does Antonio say For herein Fortune shows herself more kind. ? [3] -3(iv) What does Antonio instruct Bassanio to do in the same speech? [3] (v) What was Bassanio s response to Antonio? On what note does Antonio conclude his [4] speech? What does this reveal about Antonio s attitude to life and death? SECTION B POETRY Answer one or more question from this Section. A Collection of Poems Question 4 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: All right! you ll cry. All right! you ll say But if we take the set away, What shall we do to entertain Our darling children? Please explain! - Television, Roald Dahl (i) What important lesson does the poet say he has learnt at the start of the poem? [3] Mention one derogatory name he calls the television set. (ii) What scenes does the poet say he has seen in houses which have televisions? [3] (iii) How does so much television viewing affect the beloved tot ? [3] (iv) How did the children in the past keep themselves occupied and entertained? [3] (v) What does the poet advise readers to do at the end of the poem? What does he [4] assure them will happen if they followed his suggestion? Question 5 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Six humans trapped by happenstance - The Cold Within, James Patrick Kinney (i) What does happenstance mean? Describe the conditions that these six humans [3] faced? Explain the significance of the given line. (ii) What did each one possess? How could it have been used? Explain its symbolic [3] significance. (iii) What did the next man in this group notice? How did he behave and why? [3] (iv) Who was the opportunist in the group? How can you say so? Give an example [3] of an Oxymoron in this poem. -4(v) Explain the significance of : [4] Their logs held tight in death s still hands Was proof of human sin. What message does the poet wish to convey in this poem? Question 6 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line - Daffodils, William Wordsworth (i) Who is the speaker? What had he been doing? Why does he mention cloud ? What is this indicative of? [3] (ii) Describe the sight that greeted his eyes? [3] (iii) What is the Milky Way ? Explain the given extract. [3] (iv) How did he feel when he witnessed this scene? In what context does he mention waves ? [3] (v) What is the theme of the poem? How does the last stanza highlight this? [4] SECTION C - PROSE Answer one or more questions form this Section: A Collection of Short Stories Question 7 Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow: I did this and returned over the bridge. There were not so Many carts now and very few people on foot, but the old man was still there. (i) What was the task assigned to the narrator? Describe the bridge mentioned in the extract. Why did he approach the old man? [3] (ii) Describe the scene at the bridge just a little while before. [3] (iii) Where was the old man from? What else did the old man share about his life? [3] (iv) How was the old man s appearance? What did he mean by I am without politics ? Why did he have to leave his home? [3] -5(v) What did the narrator want the old man to do? Why was the old man hesitant to [4] do what the narrator asked him to do? Question 8 Idleness, vice and intemperance had done their miserable work, and the dead mother lay cold and still amid her wretched children. She had fallen upon the threshold of her own door in a drunken fit and died in the presence of her frightened little ones. (i) How was this woman treated by the villagers? What was their immediate reaction to her death? [3] (ii) What information does the story give about the dead woman s children? [3] (iii) What future was decided for the older children? Why was it suggested that the youngest go to the poorhouse? [3] (iv) What kind of a person was Joe Thompson? How did he end up taking the youngest child home? [3] (v) Explain with reasons who you consider to be an angel in disguise in this story? [4] Question 9 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches of the eastbound B. & M. Express. (i) Describe the two newcomers in the coach and young woman, opposite whom they went and sat. [4] (ii) In the conversation between the young woman and the handsome young man (of the pair sitting opposite) what information does one get about them? [4] (iii) What is the central theme of the story? Explain the significance of Hearts and Hands in the story, in context of the theme? [8] _____________________x________________x______________________
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