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    1) Alexander the Great visited the ruins of Persepolis, the richest city in Persia. He studied carvings on the walls that depicted lands he had conquered and planned to conquer. 2) Alexander's drunk colleagues wanted revenge for damage a former Persian king did to Athens over 150 years ago. Under their influence, Alexander ordered Persepolis burned. 3) The fires destroyed the palaces but left behind the stone columns and carvings. Alexander left behind carved Persian soldiers that still stand at the site today.

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    1) Alexander the Great visited the ruins of Persepolis, the richest city in Persia. He studied carvings on the walls that depicted lands he had conquered and planned to conquer. 2) Alexander's drunk colleagues wanted revenge for damage a former Persian king did to Athens over 150 years ago. Under their influence, Alexander ordered Persepolis burned. 3) The fires destroyed the palaces but left behind the stone columns and carvings. Alexander left behind carved Persian soldiers that still stand at the site today.

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    1) Alexander the Great visited the ruins of Persepolis, the richest city in Persia. He studied carvings on the walls that depicted lands he had conquered and planned to conquer. 2) Alexander's drunk colleagues wanted revenge for damage a former Persian king did to Athens over 150 years ago. Under their influence, Alexander ordered Persepolis burned. 3) The fires destroyed the palaces but left behind the stone columns and carvings. Alexander left behind carved Persian soldiers that still stand at the site today.

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    MIDTERM EXAMINATION

    FALL 2007 Marks: 30


    ENG101 - ENGLISH COMPREHENSION (Session - 3 ) Time: 120min

    StudentID/LoginID: ______________________________

    Student Name: ______________________________

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    Center Name/Code: ______________________________

    Exam Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2007

    Instructions

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    Please read the following instructions carefully before attempting any of the
    questions:

    1. Attempt all questions. Marks are written adjacent to each question.

    2. Mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammar may be penalized in any part


    of the paper.
    6.
    3. Read the passage given below carefully before answering any question.

    4. USE A PEN FOR ATTEMPTING THE PAPER.ANY PAPER SOLVED IN


    PENCIL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Do not use any erasable material for
    attempting the paper.

    5. Do not ask any question about the contents of this examination from anyone.

    a. If you think that there is something wrong with any of the question,
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    attempt it to the best of your understanding.

    b. If you believe that some essential piece of information is missing, make


    an appropriate assumption and use it to solve the problem.

    c. Write all steps, missing steps may lead to deduction of marks.

    **WARNING: Please note that Virtual University takes serious note of unfair means.
    Anyone found involved in cheating will get an `F` grade in this course.
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    Alexander the Great had placed himself before the relief at Persepolis, the richest city in all
    Persia. He had just come through rooms in which beautiful tapestries covered the walls.
    Earlier he had seen, in one of the several palatial residences, caskets made from Lebanon
    cedar, their wooden sides engraved, and decorated with gold and silver. He had admired the
    high ceilings, supported by fluted columns that held aloft carvings of bulls and griffins.

    Now he carefully studied the figures that had been chiseled into the outer stone walls. The
    dress on some of the figures represented the attire in lands that Alexander had already
    claimed for himself. The costumes on yet other carved figures represented people in lands
    that were still part of the vast Persian Empire. These were lands that Alexander planned to
    conquer. The people shown taking tributes to the Persian King were people whom Alexander
    intended to subjugate.

    Alexander the Great was eager to move on to these distant lands, but his colleagues, who had
    downed large amounts of wine, stumbled around in a drunken stupor. Their inebriated
    minds stirred up within them a desire for revenge. They wanted to make the Persians pay for

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    the damage a former Persian king, Xerxes, had done after invading Athens, more than 150
    years earlier. Goaded by these drunken men and beguiled by members of his harem,
    Alexander the Great ordered the burning of Persepolis.
    Men and women, holding aloft flaming torches, raced up and down the terraces of Persepolis.

    Flames ignited the wooden beams of the palaces once built by Xerxes. Looters fought off the
    heat of the inferno in order to drag out gold vessels, and to tear silver rings from heavy

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    draperies.

    When the fires had died out, all that remained were the tall stone columns and the exquisite
    stone carvings on the outer walls. Alexander the Great had left, for discovery by future
    visitors, the Persian soldiers who were untouched by the leaping flames. These “Immortals”
    still march today in precise formation across the chiseled stone remains of Persepolis.

    For Teacher's use only


    Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
    6.
    Marks
    Question 11 12
    Marks

    Question No: 1 ( Marks: 2 )

    Use the information in the given passage to answer these questions:


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    Which Persian city did Alexander the Great set afire?

    Question No: 2 ( Marks: 3 )

    How did the Persians decorate the tall columns of Persepolis?

    Question No: 3 ( Marks: 2 )


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    The burning of Persepolis was intended as?

    Question No: 4 ( Marks: 3 )


    Are the ruins of Persepolis something you would like to see? Briefly comment.

    Question No: 5 ( Marks: 10 )

    Write a précis of the given passage. (Précis should be precise and must not have
    quotes from the passage)

    Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

    Choose the best option from the choices given below:


    Which of the following did Alexander the Great not find at Persepolis?

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    tapestries hanging on walls

    fluted columns

    none of the above

    Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 )

    gold vessels

    silver rings
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    - Please choose one

    Which of the following did Alexander’s men take from Persepolis?


    6.
    both a and b

    Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

    Alexander the Great set fire to Persepolis because Xerxes put a torch to:
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    Athens

    Alexandria

    Rome

    Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one


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    The Persians brought cedar from _____________________ to Persepolis.

    Lebanon
    Griffins

    Tyre

    Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

    Griffin is a creature from Greek mythology.

    True

    False

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    Question No: 11 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

    What Persian king had set Athens afire?

    Xerxes

    Alexander

    Question No: 12 ( Marks: 4 )

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    A synonym is a word with a similar or identical meaning to another. Give one synonym for
    each of the
    each word has been given to help you).
    words given below (the first le
    6.
    e.g. Necessity e……… essential

    1. commiserate c….……

    2. protest c………..
    3. venture s………..
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    4. sympathy k……….
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