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S.No Unit Qns Total

marks

Prose-12 marks Lesson 1 A Wrong man in Workers’ Paradise 1 1

Lesson 2 The Elixir of Life 2 2
Lesson 3 The Gift of the Magi 2 2
Lesson 4 Louis Pasteur, 1 1
Lesson 5 What is moral Action? 2 2
Lesson 6 The Eyes are not Here 1 1
Lesson 7 The Girl who was Anne Frank 2 2
Lesson 8 The Pie and the Tart 1 1
Poetry-12 marks Poem 1 To Pair of Sarus Cranes 2 2
Poem 2 Abraham Lincoln’s Letter 2 2
Poem 3 Vachana 1 1
Poem 4 A Poison Tree 1 1
Poem 5 The stolen Boat 2 2
Poem 6 Buttoo 2 2
Poem 7 CLM 2 2
Non-Detail- 2 marks Non-Detail 1 Karna 1 1
Non-Detail 2 Ulysses and the Cyclops 1 1
Grammar Grammar 14 14
Total 40 Qns 40 Marks

1. When Jean comes begging to the cake shop, Marion says:

A) Here take some food and money
B) Why don’t you come tomorrow?
C) My husband is out and I have nothing for you
D) Go to the other street
2. Nile Valley is the creation of
A) River
B) Earth quake
C) Flood
D) Deluge

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 3. What does Della buy after leaving Mme. Sofronie?
A) Food for dinner
B) A set of combs
C) A watch chain
D) A curling iron
4. The man believed the couple seeing of the girl to be her
A) Friends
B) Uncle and aunt
C) Parents
D) Siblings
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5. What cannot be found in Workers’ Paradise?

A) Leisure
B) Idle men
C) Silent torrents
D) Busy farmers
6. Dronacharya demands ____________from Buttoo
A) His head as Gurudhakshina
B) His life as Gurudhakshina
C) His bow and arrow as Gurudhakshina
D) His thumb as Gurudhakshina
7. Who was the only survivor from Anne’s family
A) Anne
B) Anne’s father
C) Anne’s mother
D) Anne’s sister
8. The most dominant feeling of the poet in the poem C.L.M is:
A) A feeling of guilt
B) A feeling of sorrows
C) A feeling of ingratitude
D) A feeling of anger
9. Manly wisdom excels:
A) Angry
B) Sharpness
C) Brutish force
D) fashioned
10. According to Hume’s words, the Sarus Cranes
A) Exhibit great grief for their dead partner
B) They certainly pair for life
C) A widowed bird pines away and dies
D) All the above sentences are true
11. “And man’s lust roves the world untamed”, Here man’s ‘lust’ refers to
A) Man’s beastly sexuality
B) Man’s lust for power over women
C) ‘A’ only
D) Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
12. The Maggi the wise men, brought gifts to
A) Della and Jim
B) Baby Jesus
C) King Solomon and Queen Sheba
D) People in Bethlehem

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 13. The teacher should move the students away from ___________
A) Courage
B) Laughter
C) Patience
D) Jealousy
14. In 1854 Pasteur was appointed head of a college of science at
A) Lille
B) London
C) Paris
D) Nice
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15. What grew larger in stature?

A) The boat
B) The sea
C) The peak
D) The cave
16. What according to the author is the divine ‘amrita’?
A) Water
B) Snow
C) Ice
D) None of these
17. Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, here the word ‘listen’ refers to:
A) An order
B) An appeal
C) A request
D) An advice
18. Shakespeare says _____________________-
A) Love born out of the profit motive is no love
B) Love born out of the profit motive is true love
C) Love born out of the profit motive is natural love
D) Love born out of the profit motive is non-moral love
19. Kripa well-versed in the rules of ________ Combat, stepped between them and addressed
Karna.
A) Triple
B) Double
C) Single
D) Square
20. Let him learn early that the bullies are easiest to __________
A) Leak
B) Lick
C) Speak
D) Sleep
21. What happened when the speaker expressed his anger?
A) He was given back in the same coin
B) His anger ended
C) His anger grew
D) His enemy was killed
22. The dead crane was picked up
A) Like dirty laundry bag
B) On hands and jaws
C) By the scruff of the neck
D) With a stick

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 23. In the poem ‘The Stolen Boat’ the boy’s imagination, the mountain moves towards him in a
________ manner:
A) Lively and graceful
B) Friendly and amicable
C) Threatening and menacing
D) Nervous and sporadic
24. “Till you learn to form your own opinions and express them, I do not care much what you
think of me”, said
A) M.K.Gandhi
B) Wendell Phillips
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C) Daniel Webster
D) St Francis Xavier
25. Rash promises even ends is strife. ‘By saying this Drona is
A) Warning Buttoo of unpleasant
B) Offering Buttoo a chance to change his stance
C) Hinting that his demand for recompense could be damaging or destructive to Buttoo
D) Regretting the rash promise he had made to Arjuna.
26. When was the diary given to Anne?
A) 11th Birthday
B) 12th Birthday
C) 13 Birthday
D) 14 Birthday
27. He’s going to stay in Chamrajnagar for ten days.
The correct question to get the underlined words as answer is:
A) How often I he staying in Chamrajnagar?
B) How long is he staying in Chamrajnagar?
C) What time is he staying in Chamrajnagar?
D) When is he going to stay in Chamrajnagar?
28. India won the match. The figure of speech used here.
A) Simile
B) Synecdoche
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
29. Our boys will win this football match. The appropriate question tag to be used here is:
A) Didn’t they?
B) Won’t they?
C) Will they?
D) Do they?
30. I saw _______ old man on _____ road. The articles to be used here are:
A) The, the
B) A, the
C) An, the
D) An, a
31. Sudha Chandran danced gracefully. The part of speech of the underlined word is:
A) Noun
B) Adjective
C) Adverb
D) Preposition.

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 32. Ravi said, “I was reading a novel today.” The reported form of this sentence is
A) Ravi said that he has been reading a novel that day.
B) Ravi said that she has been reading a novel that day.
C) Ravi said that he had been reading a novel that day.
D) Ravi said that he had been reading a novel on that day.
33. Which of the following is a simple sentence?
A) He was ill but he attended the office.
B) In spite of being ill, he attended the office.
C) He was ill yet he attended the office.
D) Though he was ill he attended the office.
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34. Very few cities are as big as Mumbai. The superlative degree of this sentence is:
A) Mumbai is bigger than most other cities.
B) Mumbai was one of the biggest cities.
C) Mubai was bigger than most other cities.
D) Mubai is one of the biggest cities.
35. Veeresh is reading a novel. The passive form of the above sentence is:
A) A novel had been read by Veeresh.
B) A novel is being read by Veeresh.
C) A novel has been read by Veeresh.
D) A novel was being read by Veeresh.
36. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair:
Lure: attract : : Sprout: ________
A) Calm
B) Develop
C) Enormous
D) Annoyed
37. Identify the correct pair of homophones in the following:
A) Pane-Pane
B) Aisle-Eel
C) Gate-Greet
D) Sweet-Seat
38. Give one word for the following: “Gradual recovery from illness.”
A) Convalescence
B) Autopsy
C) Physiognomy
D) Antidote
39. He has_________ after ten days.
A) Come by
B) Come round
C) Come into
D) Come about
40. Identify the sentence with the right punctuation.
A) The Sun who, came out in the morning, gave a clear message now it’s a
day.
B) The sun who came out in the morning gave a clear message, now it is a
day.
C) The Sun, who came out in the morning, gave a clear message, now it is a day.
D) The sun who came out in the morning gave a clear message; now it is a
day.

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