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JSS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, DUBAI Mock I Examination, 2023-2024 Grade: X Duration: 2hrs Max Marks:80 Date: 26/10/23 ENGLISH LITERATURE 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 reading the question paper. The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets. This paper has four sections. Section A is compulsory- All questions in Section A must be answered. You must attempt one question from each of the Sections B, C and D and one other question from any Section of your choice. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets []. SECTION A (Attempt all questions from this section.) Question1 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.) (16) (i) What did Sibia's last meal consist of? (a) chapatti, green vegetable and rice (b) chapatti, green chilli and urad dal. (c) chapatti, green chilli and rancid butter. (d) chapatti and pulav 1 (ii) Choose the figure of speech in the given line : "His dreams and his efforts dashed in the dirt." (a) Repetition (b) Alliteration (c) Metaphor (d) Simile (iii) In the poem I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings the first stanza is meant to show: a) the thrill of being free to live your life as you please b) the caged bird's feelings of despair and hopelessness c) the beauty of the sun's rays d) how a bird flies free and claims the sky (iv) Choose the option that lists the sequence of events in the correct order. 1. Joe sighed in relief - he realized that this meant his wife no longer resented Maggie's presence. 2. After supper, Joe went to the bedroom where Maggie lay waiting. 3. Joe looked in through the window and saw Maggie in conversation with his wife Jane. 4. He entered the house noisily and Jane hurried into the kitchen to make his supper. (a) 1, 2, 3, 4 (b) 2, 4, 1, 3 (c) 1, 3, 2, 4 (d) 3, 1, 4, 2 (v) What did Sibia look at when she passed before the sweetmeat stall? (a) paper grass (b) glass beads (c) golden bangles (d) brilliant honey confections 2 (vi) Which of the following lines contain the same literary device as the one in Ten thousand saw I at a glance, in Wordsworth s Daffodils . (a) A hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and, on thy forehead, gaze; (b) A fair breeze blow, the white foam flew The furrow followed free, (c) Frail as a dragon-fly s wing (d) because I could not stop for Death (e) He kindly stopped for me - (vii) Choose the figure of speech in the given line :"But give me your sun from yonder skies!" (a) Hyperbole (b) Personification (c) Metaphor (d) Simile (xiii) Queen Dido stands near the wild sea bank with a willow in hand. What does it symbolize? (a) Forsaken love (b) Forever love (c) Eternal love (d) Unconditional love (ix) Choose the figure of speech in this line :"The Church - spires flamed, such flages they had" (a) Hyperbole (b) Metaphor (c) Simile (d) Alliteration (x) What according to Portia would happen if Shylock dropped Antonio's blood? (a) all his wealth and possessions will be forfeited. (b) he will be sent to jail. (c) all his property would go to the state (d) all his property would go to Antonio. 3 (xi) What terms does the poet use to refer to the Angel? (a) vision (b) presence (c) sweet accord (d) both a and b (xii) The Blue Bead is ____________. (a) sand-worn glass (b) a rock (c) a marble (d) precious stone (xiii) How does Shylock show his avarice now when his scheme of revenge fails? a) He would give Antonio all his property. b) He will accept the offer of money which was made at first. c) He would convert himself to Christianity. d) He would forgive Antonio. (xiv) The free bird demonstrates freedom and power when it(a) Stalks down the narrow cage (b) Claims the sky (c) Sings a fearful trill (d) Fly high in the sky (xv) Select the option that shows the correct relationship between statements (1) and (2) from All Summer in a Day . 1. One day, while in the school shower room, Margot had clutched her hands to her ears and covered her head, screaming and refusing to let the water touch her. 2. Margot realized that she was different from the others and that the children knew this difference and stayed away. (a) 1 is a contradiction of 2 (b) 1 is an example of 2 4 (c) 1 is independent of 2 (d) 1 is the cause for 2 (xvi) The fickle mindedness of his fellow men made the central character in Browning s poem The Patriot feel 1. ambitious 2. disillusioned 3. bitter 4. optimistic (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 4 (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4 . SECTION B (Answer one or more questions from this Section) DRAMA (The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare) Question 2 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Shylock: Shall I not have barely my principal? Portia: Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture, To be so cut taken at thy peril, Jew. (i) What is the forfeiture Portia mentions? How will it prove perilous for Shylock? (ii) (3) What does Portia go on to tell Shylock about the laws of Venice, as applicable for a foreigner? (3) (iii) How does Gratiano mock Shylock at this point? 5 (3) (iv) What mercy does Antonio offer to Shylock? (v) (3) How does Shylock react to the duke s decision on his punishment? What are your feelings for Shylock at this point in the play? Give reasons. (4) Question 3 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Bassanio: Sweet Portia, If you did know to whom I gave the ring, If you did know whom I gave the ring, And would conceive for what I gave the ring, And how unwillingly I left the ring, When naught would be accepted but the ring, You would abate the strength of your displeasure. (i) Where does the scene take place? What was the importance of the ring in the relationship between Portia and Bassanio? Name the other couple for whom the ring created much trouble? (3) (ii) To whom had Bassanio given the ring? What made him give the ring? (3) (iii) What were the three reasons stated by Portia that would have prevented Bassanio from parting with the ring? (3) (iv) A little later Lorenzo says, Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way of starved people . Give the meaning of manna . What was the manna dropped by the fair ladies in the way of starved people? (3) (v) State any two qualities of Portia portrayed in this scene, giving relevant examples. (4) SECTION C (Answer one or more questions from this Section) PROSE SHORT STORIES (Treasure Trove- A Collection of ICSE Poems and Short Stories) Question 4 Read the following extract from Norah Burke s story The Blue Bead and answer the questions that follow: 6 Chattering as they went, the women followed the dusty track toward the river. On their way, they passed a Gujar encampment of grass huts where these nomadic glaziers would live for a time until their animals had perhaps finished all the easy grazing within reach, . (i) Why were the women going to the river? What were the dangers they encountered on the way? (3) (ii) Where were the men and boys from the camp? Explain why Gurjars are called the "men in the wandering Pastoral Age". (3) (iii) Describe the struggle between the woman and the crocodile? (3) (iv) On seeing the woman being attacked by a crocodile, what was Sibia's first thought? Show how Sibia came to help the woman immediately. (3) (v) How does the story denote the struggle for survival. Justify (4) Question 5 Read the following extract from Hans Christian Andersen s short story The Little Match Girl and answer the questions that follow: It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed through the streets. (i) Write about the setting of the story and how/ why it is important? (3) (ii) Where was the girl sitting and why did she not dare to go home? (3) (iii) With reference to the story bring out the class differentiation. (3) (iv) How is the story interspersed with didactic elements? (3) (v) What visions did the girl see on burning the matchsticks? How were they important to her? (4) SECTION D (Answer one or more questions from this Section) POETRY SHORT STORIES (Treasure Trove- A Collection of ICSE Poems and Short Stories) Question 6 Read the following extract from the poem I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and answer the questions that follow: The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream 7 till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. (i) What are the two obvious metaphors used in the poem? What does the contrast between the states of these birds reveal? (3) (ii) The poet has used some objects of nature as symbols. What are they? (3) (iii) Explain- But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. What does the encaged bird sing about? (3) (iv) Give the meaning of:a. downstream b. current c. claim the sky (3) (v) Comment on the universal appeal of the poem. (4) Question 7 Read the following extract from the poem The Patriot by Robert Browning and answer the questions that follow: Thus I entered, and thus I go! In triumphs, people have dropped down dead. Paid by the world, what dost thou owe Me? God might question; now instead, Tis God shall repay: I am safer so. (i) Identify the poetic device in the given line and explain. Thus I entered, and thus I go! (3) (ii) How can one see the faith of humans in God in the poem? Explain. (3) (iii) How has Browning used allusion in the poem? Explain. (3) (iv) Can the poem be taken as interpretation of human fickleness? Justify. (3) (v) Explain the difference between the welcome and departure scene from the poem. (4) ******************************** 8
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