Class Test -25m XI English
Long Test Q1. Read the extract and answer the following questions A.. This child is built to my design Yet what he loves I cannot share. Silence surrounds us. I would have him prodigal, returning to His father’s house, the home he knew, Rather than see him make and move His world. I would forgive him too, Shaping from sorrow a new love. 6m Q1. What kind of child had he desired to design? Q2. Why does the speaker say ‘this child’ not my child Q3. Explain: ‘Silence surrounds us’. Q4. What does the father want his son to do? Q5. What is the father prepared to accept? Q6. What does the father not want his son to do? Q7. What would the father do to shape a new love from sorrow? B. He could not walk and could not see, So old (and therefore wise) was he- But in a quavering voice he said, ‘The culprit must be punished. Truly, the arch it was that banged The crown is off, and it must be hanged’. To the scaffold the arch was led When suddenly a Councillor said – ‘How can we hang so ...