12th Eng Long Test-25 M Miscellaneous CBSE Based questions

Long Test for class-XII English 

MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER

Q1:Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

But I was not finished. I still wondered if I would be terror-stricken when I was alone in the pool. I tried it. I swam the length up and down. Tiny vestiges of the old terror would return. But now I could frown and say to that terror, "Trying to scare me, eh? Well, here's to you! Look!" And off I'd go for another length of the pool.

1. Find the analogy of 'trace':

(a) vestige (b) stark (c) frown (d) scare

2. Did the narrator actually speak to the terror?

3. What quality can be seen in the author?

(a) Courage (b) Terror (c) Fear (d) All of these

4. Who had pulled him in the swimming pool?

5. How was narrator once taken back?

(a) unconscious (b) terrified (c) joyful

(d) all of the above

6. The boy pulled him into pool due to:

(a) grudges (b) fun (c) mistakingly (d) none of these

Q2- Answer any five questions out of six 2x5=10

A.Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?

B. How did the instructor “build a swimmer” out of Douglas?

C.How did Douglas make sure that he conquered the old terror?

D.Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler?

E.Did the peddler respect the confidence reposed in him by the crofter?

F.What made the peddler think that he had indeed fallen into a rattrap?

Q3.Attempt any one of the two.A or B 1x5=5m

A..“All l have to fear is fear itself” Have you ever had a fear that you have now overcome? Share your experience with your partner.

B.The reader’s sympathy is with the peddler right from the beginning of the story. Why is this so? Is the sympathy justified?

Q4.Attempt any one of the two.A or B

A.Your club is going to organise an interclass singing competition. Write a notice inviting names of the students who want to participate in it. Give all the necessary details. You are Navtej/Navita, Secretary, Music Club, Akash Public School, Agra. 1x4=4 M

Or

B.As Principal of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Lucknow, draft notice in not more than 50 words informing students of the change in school timings with effect from the 1st of October. State valid reasons for the change.