CONTINUOUS AND COMPREHENSION EVALUATION

FIRST TERM SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Std. 2
Reading Time: 10:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Writing Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Upload Time: 12:30 p.m. to 01:15 p.m.
Marks: 40
Date: 21.09.2021
 All answers to be written in the JNS
notebook.
 On top of each page write:
First Line:
First and Last Name: ___________Class and Division: ________ Roll No.: _____
Second Line:
Subject: _____________________ Date: ____________ Page No.: ____
 On the first page write the Total No. of Pages used: _____
 Do not copy the questions.
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as “.pdf”. Upload the .pdf file on Edusprint.
 Only when you have completed uploading the document, click the “FINISH” button.

This paper consists of 5 printed pages.

Q1) Write the meaning of the following words:

(Write only the answers in your notebook.) [2 marks]
a) thresh – ______________________________
b) scurrying – ______________________________

Q2) Write the opposite of the following words:

(Write only the answers in your notebook.) [4 marks]
a) enormous x _________
b) busy x _________
c) forgotten x ___________
d) ripe x ___________

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Q3) Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the lessons, ‘Little Red
Hen’ and ‘The Mice and the Elephants’.

(Write only the answers in your notebook.) [6 marks]

a) The Little Red Hen lived on a ______ with her chicks, a cat, a goose and a
rat.

b) The little chicks carried the ______ to the thresher.

c) When the elephants entered the mouse _______, the mice had to go
scurrying in all directions.

d) The elephant queen lifted the little mouse king on her ______ and walked
through the _________.

e) The elephant queen remembered the _________ that the mouse king had
made, and sent for her little friend.

Q4) Who said these words and to whom?

(Write only the answers in your notebook.) [4 marks]

a) “No! My chicks and I will eat this loaf of bread.”

_________________________

b) “Please walk carefully across our colony.”

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Q5) Answer the following questions with reference to the lesson, ‘The Little
Red Hen’ and ‘The Mice and the Elephants’. [9 marks]
(Write only the answers in your notebook.)
a) What did the little chicks do to help the Little Red Hen prepare the loaf of
bread?

_________________________________________________________

b) Why did the Little Red Hen refuse to share the loaf of bread with the farm
animals?

_________________________________________________________________________

c) What happened when the elephants entered the mouse colony?

_________________________________________________________________________

d) What agreement was made between the mouse king and the elephant queen?

_________________________________________________________

e) What does the story, ‘The Mice and the Elephants’ teach us?

_________________________________________________________

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Q6) Here are the things that the Little Red Hen did in the story.
Number them in the right sequence. [4 marks]
(Write only the answers in the notebook.)
a) The Little Red Hen grinds the wheat. _______

b) The Little Red Hen bakes the loaf of bread. ______

c) The Little Red Hen plants the grain of wheat. ______

d) The Little Red Hen gathers the wheat. ______

Q7) State whether the following statements are true or false. [6 marks]
(Write only the answers in the notebook.)
a) One day the Little Red Hen found a grain of corn. ______

b) The Little Red Hen along with her little chicks hoed the field, planted the
grain and watered it each day. ______

c) The Little Red Hen cut the wheat with her beak. _____

d) Near the river on the other side of the forest, there lived a herd of elephants.
_____

e) The group of mice gnawed the ropes of the traps with their big sharp teeth.
_____

f) The elephant queen asked the herd to go in search of food. _______

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Q8) Write one word for: [5 marks]
(Write only the answers in the notebook.)
a) a place where flour is made ______

b) a large area of water that is surrounded by land ______

c) made a loud noise _______

d) a big piece of bread ______

e) kept biting ________

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