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Royal Arademy Pre-Board Examination Class: X Subject: Literature in English Session: 2022 2023 Full Marks: 80 Time : 2 Hrs. The paper has four sections. Section- A is compulsory. All questions in Section- A mustbe answered. You must attempt one questions from each of the sections B, C and D and one other question from any section of your choice.] Section - AA [Attempt all questions from this section] [16) Question 1. Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate response from the choices given below. Please do not copy the question - simply write out in correct serial order the appropriate word or phrase. A. In William Words Worth's poem Daffodils, where are the Daffodils situated? b) Beneath the trees in an orchard. d) Beside the river. a) c) Behind the forest. By the side of the lake. B. a) In the poem. I know why the caged Birdsings, the caged bird is fearful because b) No one would think about it. It doesn't think its dreams would be fulfilled. d) It cannot fly in the sky. It would never be able to be bold. c) C. In the poem Nine Gold Medals, what was the unexpected thing that happened? a) The shortest athlete among them stumbled, staggered and fell to his knees on the ground. b) The youngest athlete among them stumbled, staggered and fell to his knees on the ground. c) The eldest among them stopped to help the youngest runner. When the youngest among them fell, everyone else continued their race. d) D. In the poem Abou Ben Adhm which poetic device is used in this line : 'Making it rich and like a lily in bloom? c) Personification b) Metaphor d) No poetic device is used in this line a) Simile E. a) In the poem The Patriot, what does myrtle signify? b) Praise c) Bravery Respect F. es In the short story My Great,Olympic Prize' Jesse Qwens set a new record of - d) All of these a) 26 feet 5-5/16 inches b) 5 feet 6-7/14 inches c) 32 feet 4-4/14 inches d) 25 feet 4 - 4/25 inches in Berlin Olympics: G. How old was Kate in'An angel in Disguise? a) 7 years old b) 12 years old c) Between ten and eleven years old d) 15 years old H. IN the line taken from the short story'The Little Match gir "She crept along, shivering and hungry. the What does To slowly move backward picture of misery". a) c) To quickly move forward I. In the short a) Infant 'Crept along' mean? b) To quickly move backward d) To slowly move forward story The Blue Bead, Sibia started working since she was afan b) Toddler e) Teenager - d) 8- years old a) 4 years old in a Day,how old was Mergot when b) 5 years old c) 6 years old K. a) What does Antonio offer as a J I n the short story,'All His soul summer bond against any future infidelity c) His flesh b) His estate by she came to venus d) 2 years form Earth? old Gratiano or Bassanio? d) A chest of gold L.What fortuitous thing happens for Antonio at the end of the play? b) He marries Portia a) Shylock dies c) His ships come in d) He becomes a duke M. What does Portia believe makes the music she and Nerissa hear more beautiful? a) The lonely setting b) Her victories c) Her intellect d) The night N. What final surprise does Portia have for shylock? a) Portia tells shylock that Jessica hasmarried Lorenzo b) That Antonio's ships have all come in. c)That Balthasar is Portia in disguise d) He is under arrest for the attempted murder of a Christian. 0. Let me choose. For as I am. I 1live upon the rack." Who says these words and to whom? b) Bassanio to Portia a) Gratiano to Nerissa d) Prince of Arragon to Nerissa c) Prince of Morocco to Pertia P. a) c) What does Antonio say to Bassanio as Shylock stays adamant on receiving a 'Pound offlesh? b) To give him a Christian burial To give Shylock the money after he is gone d) To not grieve for him To take over his merchant fleat Section B [Drama: Merchant of Venice] [Attempt One or more questions from this section] - Question 2. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Antonio: Command me to your honourable wife. Tell her the process of Antonio's end; Say how I loved you. Speak me fair in death, And when the tale is told, bid her be judge Whether Bassanio had not once a love. Repent but you that you shall lose your friend, And he repents not that he pays you debt; For if the Jew do cut but deep enough, I'l pay it presently with all my heart. Bassani0 Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteemed above thy life. I would lose all-ay, sacrifice them all Here to this devil - to deliver you. 3+3+3+314] a) When does Antonio speak these lines? Do you think that the Jew had planned to kill Antonio? b) What can you understand about Antonio's present Condition from his speech? c)What does Antonio want Bassanio to do? d) Who sunbs Bassanio's claims and how? e) What does Bassanio claim to do for Antonio? What does it tell you about their friendship? stion 3. Read the extract given below and answerthe questions that follow: Duke With all my heart. Some three or four of you Go give him courteous conduct to his place Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter. Clerk letter I am very sick; but in the a young doctor of Rome instant that your messenger came in loving visitation was with me between the Jew and his name is Balthazar. I acquainted him with the cause in controversy Antonio the merchant. We turned o'er many books together:; he is finished with my opinion (reads): "Your grace shall understand, that receipt of your commend. learning, the greatness where of I cannot enough stead. in importunity, to fill up-your grace's request my 3 + 3 1 3 1 3 + 4 which. bettered with his comes with him, at my the at own Who is'him in the above lines? Why has he come there? What does Dr. Bellario request in his letter to the Duke? does the doctor show? Who in reality in the young doctor of Rome? What qualities the appeal? What appeal does the young doctor make to Shylock? Does Shylock accept What is the Controversy' referred to in the above lines? a) b) c) d) e) [Attempt Section-C [Prose] or more questions from any One this section Question 4. Read the extract Her bare feet from The Blue Bead and smudged out the wriggle mark of snakes in the dust; mosquitoes among b) c) d) e) answer the question that follow there was a thin singing of malaria 34343t3147 the trees now. Who is 'Her' in the extract? What emotion was she feeling? At what time of the day this incident took place? Where was she heading to? What al was she carrying? before this? What does 'smudged out' mean in the extract? What two things happened just What did she fail to notice on her way? Why?? Whom does she meet after this extract? What thing does she hide from the person she meets? Why? Question S5. Read the extract from Ray Bradbury's short story. All summer in a Day given below and answer the questions that follow herself be moved only by him and nothing else. He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let them go away. And this was because she edge away from her, they would not look at her. She felt They would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, about happiness and life and blinking after them and did not follow. When the class sang songs did her lips move as she the summer when they sang about the sun and games her lips barely moved. Only watched the drenched windows. And then of course, the biggest crime of all was that she has come her only she stood five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the was four in Ohio. sun and the way the sun was snd the sky was when she And they, they had been on Venus all their lives, and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the colour and heat of it and the way it really was. But Margot remembered. [3+343 +3+47 a) b) c) d) e) What was "biggest crime' that has been referred to in the above passage? Why did Margot remember about her time on Earth? What does she remember? Why was Margot buillied by the other children? Did Margot interact with other children? When did she react and how? How is Margot different from all other children on planet Venus? Section D [Poetry] Attempt any One or more questions from this section Question 6. Read the following extract from Nine Gold Medals and answer the questions that follow He gave out a cry of frustration and anguish His dreams and his efforts dashed in the dirt But as sure as I'm standing here telling the story. Now it's a strange one but here's what occurred. a) b) Who is 'he' referred to in the above lines? Why did he cry out? [3343t 3t9] c)What is the 'strange' event referred to in the above lines? d) e) What do you think were 'his dreams? Where they dashed in the dirt? What according to you is the underlying message of the poem? Question 7. Read the extract from Abou Ben Adhem given below and answer the questions that follow: The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light And showed the names whom love o God had blest And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. 3t3+343+17 a) The word next night'indicates that something had happened the previous night. What had happened b) the previous night? Describe the angel in Abou Ben Adhem. c)Explain'a do? great wakening light. Do you think the angel did what Abou Ben Adhenm had requested him to d) What happened when the Angel visited Adhem the second time? What does it reveal? e) Do you think that the poem is call for universal brotherhood? Give reasons for your answer.
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