12th Eng Class Test 25 MARKS, Zero period Set-2

M.R.CITI PUBLIC SCHOOL BALACHAUR

Class Test

Class XII                              Sub. English 

MM.25.                             Time :  01 Period

Q1.Read The given Extract and answer the questions. (1x6=6 Marks)

‘I saw my mother. beside me,  doze, open mouthed, her face  ashen like that of a corpse and realised with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away, and looked out at YoungTrees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes.

(a)Identify the phrase that indicates youthful energy.

(b)Which thought is the poet trying to put away?

(i) missing the flight (ii) fear of losing her mother

(iii) leaving her mother behind

(iv) reaching Cochin

© The poet's mother is described as 'open mouthed' because

(i) she is curious (ii) she is surprised

(iii) she was dead (iv) she was dozing

(d) Complete the following analogy:

children spilling metaphor ::  :

personification.

(e) The sight of the trees and the children helped the poet……..

 (f)In the given stanza, the phrase 'realised with pain' indicates the poet's……

(i) anxiety (ii) desperation (iii) troubled past

(iv) ill-health

Q2.Read The given Extract and answer the questions.(1x6=6 Marks)

‘What a thunderclap these words were to me! Oh, the wretches; that was what they had put up at the town hall! ‘

(a) Who is the speaker of the words which were a 'thunderclap'?

(i) Franz (ii) M. Hamel (iii) Hauser( iv) The blacksmith

(b) Choose the antonym of 'put up.                   (i) Build (ii) Erect (iii) Create (iv) Ruin

(c) Who does 'me' in the above lines refer to?d) Which words were a 'thunderclap' for the person?

(e) What had been put up at the town hall?    (f) The word 'wretches' means

Q3. Answer the following questions given below any five  2x10=10 Marks

A. Who did M hamel blame when Franz was unable to answer a question on French participle?

B. Describe the manner in which M Hamel paid the farewell to his students and the elderly Men of the town?

C. What a thunderclap these words were to me ! What were the words that shocked and surprised little Franz?

D. What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?

E. Why has the mother been compared to the late winter's moon? 

F. Why has the poet thought in the image of the merry children spilling out of their homes?

Q4.You are Vineet/Vikram, School Pupil Leader of Rani Laxmi Bai Senior Secondary School, Gwalior. Draft a notice for your school notice board in not more than 50 words inviting the names of the students who want to participate in the cultural programme organised in aid of the victims of the recent Assam floods. (4Marks)

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