Section-B

I|I.
Creative Writing Skills (20 Marks
All the names and address used in the questions are fictitious. Resemblance, if any, is purely
coincidental.
1. Attempt ANY ONE from A and B given below.
(5
A. You are Arun/Anita, a member of the Residents' Welfare Association of Saraswati Viha.
New Delhi. You wish to help thechildren of your housingsociety with their oral
Communication skills. You have planned a one month course for meeting this purpose.
Draft a notice to be displayed at your Society Bulletin Board in not more than 50words,
giving all the necessary detailsof the course.
OR
B. You are the Health Secretary of the Students' Council of your school. Drafta notice in no
more than 50 words for the school notice board informing the students of Class XII to enrol
for a week long cleanliness drive organised by your sch0ol that is scheduled to start from
2ndOctober.
2. Attempt ANY ONEfrom A
and Bgiven below. (5
A. Youare the Secretary of HaryanaCivil Medical Doctors' Association, 2345 Sector 15,
Panchkula. You have organised a seminar on AIDS for the members of the association and
invited aspecialist guest speaker. Draft an invitation for publication in the newspapers.
(50words)
OR

B. Your parents havecompleted 25 years of happy married life. Invite your aunt,living in
Hyderabad, to join you in the Silver Jubilee Celebration of their marriage at your
residence. (50 words)
Attempt ANY ONE from A and B given below.
A. Write a letter to the Editor of a National Daily suggesting possible ways to eliminate the
'Menace of Dowry'which has led to many deaths and suffering of women. You are
Kamal/Komal. You can use the folowing clues. (120-150 words)
 Clues
. Atrocities committed on women
.
.
Multi-dimensional strategy required
Mechanism ofeffective reporting
, In case of offence, strict action to be taken
OR
B. You sawthe following advertisement in a National Daily. Youthink you are eligible toapply
forthe post mentioned. Write an application in response tothe advertisement.
Finance
Applications are invited by Sundaram Business Services, a division of Sundaram
Limited, for the post of Head HR, a middle management position, reporting to the hedu o
the Division in Chennai. The applicant should be around 37 years of age witn a
postgraduate qualification in HR from areputed institution, He/She should have a
conversant with the best
minimum of five years of experience in HR functions. Should be performance
a robust
HR practices in the industry and should have implemented
incentive schemes. Apply, with full
monitoring/appraisalsystem and productivity linked
Sundaram Business Services, No. 05,
particulars within a week to chief HR Manager.
Shanti Colony, Anna Nagar, Chennai-04. (5)
and B given below.
4.Attempt ANY ONE from A of life. Whatever we experience or learn here serves
to be a minifield Learnt on
A. The sports field is said us for life. Write an article on 'More Lessons are can
experience to Sarika/Sandeep. You
as an invaluable Classroom' in 120-150 words.You are
the
the SportsField than in
use the following clues.
understanding
Clues
Cooperation, teamwork, leadership " Tolerance and
" Healthy life
religious prejudice
" Nocaste and
OR
the Diwali season. Many noted
concert was held in your city during
occasion. Write areport coveringthe
musical
B. Aglittering musicians were present tograce the Correspondent for 'The Indian
and budding words. You are Yash Khullar, Staff
event in 120-150 following clues.
use the
Express'. You can
Clues the concert
Idea behind
organising performing inthe concert
and artists
Describe the venue performing in the concert
attending and without bursting crackers.
Celebrities be celebrated
Diwali can
Teaches how
 Section-C
Literature
(40 Mar
IV. Read the given extracts to attempt the questions with reference to context.
1. Attempt ANY ONEof two extracts qiven.
A. "When Aunt isdead,
herterrified hands will lie.
Still ringed with odeals she was mastered by.
Thetigers in the panelthat she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.'" (Aunt Jennifer's Tigen
() What makes the tigers proud and unafraid?
(a) They embody the grandeur and supremacy of animals in the wild.
(b)They symbolise authority and are 'topaz denizens of green':
(c) They represent Aunt's repressed desires for freedom and power.
(d) They are a product of Aunt's imagination and colonial experience.
(ii) Identify the phrase from the extract, that suggests the following.
Aunt Jennifer was entrapped in her
marriage.
(i) Which of the followingCANNOT be inferred from the
la) Aunt Jennifer's tigers will keep her alive in given extract?
everyone's
(b) Aunt Jennifer feels oppressed and constricted in her memory.
(c) Even in death, Aunt Jennifer cannot escape marriage.
patriarchal
(d)Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance as a lasting symbol of her subjugation.
desires.
(iv) Complete the following analogy.
Ringed :Wedding ring : :Marriage
(v) On the basis of the extract, choose the correct option
below. with reference to (1) and (2) given
(1) Immortality of the artist is a theme of thepoem.
(2) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers are an art form which will
(a) (1) is true, but (2) is false survive.
(b) (2) is true, but (1) is false
(c) (2) is the reason for (1) (d) Both (1) and (2) are false
(vi) Will Aunt Jennifer be able to escape the
oppressive society?
OR
B Isaw my
mother, beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
of acorpse and realised with pain
that she was as old as she looked
(i) Choose the option that displays the (My Mother at Sixty S
(a) I'm as happy as Ican be. same poeticdevice as used in the extract.
(b) Life is a roller coaster ride.
(c) Nature is God's gift to us.
(d) The dazzling divas enchanted all.
(ii) What does 'ashen face'
signify?
(a) To show the poet's fears
(c) Pale and lifeless face of poet's (b) To tell aging is painful
mother (d) To show old age
(ii) What is the tone of the poem towards the
(a) Sad end?
(b) Hopeless (c) Cheerful
(iv) Answer in One Word. (d) Resignation
For the poetin is the pain of
 On+he basis of
given below. the extract, choose the correct
(v)
option with referenceto the two statements(1)
(1) The poet does not want to
(2)The poet feels that
go away from her
her mother.
(a) (1) can be inferred from mother would die soon.
the
(b))(2) can be inferred from the extract but (2) cannot.
extract but
(c) Both (1) and (2) can be inferred from (1) cannot.
the
and can be inferredextract.
A) (2) is the reason for (1)
from the extract.
Which ofthe following is an apt
(a) The Pain of Loss
title for the extract? (1)

(c) IDon't Want to Go (b) The Never tnt1ng Fear

(1)
(d) My AgingMother
2. Attempt ANY ONE of two extracts given. (1 x4 =4)
A. Thhe Maharaja and the dewan held deliberations over this issue. As aresult, a telegram
was despatched forthwith to a famous British companv of jewellers in Calcutta. "Send
samples of expensive diamond rings of different designs." (The Tiger King)
() Complete the following sentence appropriately, with reference to the extract.
The rings were gifted to (1)
(i) Why were the deliberations held? (1)
(a) to find out a way to procure tigers (b) to please the British officer
(c) to save the kingdom from usurpation (d) to gain favours from the British
(1)
(i) How many rings were received from the company? (1)
(iv) What was the condition of the Maharaja and the dewan?
(a) Relaxed (b) Hopeful
(c) Tensed (d) Happy
OR
until Ifelt the cold blades of the scissors
B. Icried aloud, shaking my head allthe while spirit.
one of my thick braids. Then Ilost my
against my neck and heard them gnaw off suffered extreme indignities. People had
was taken from my mother I had
Since the day I the air like a wooden puppet. And now
my long
stared at me. I had been tossed about in I moaned for my mother, but no one came
like a coward's! In my anguish now I
hair was shingled with me, as my own mother used to do; for
reasoned quietly
to comfort me. Not a soul driven by a herder.
(Memoriesof Childhood)
little animals
was only one of many (1)
appropriately.
(i) Complete the sentence important because in the narrator's community,
The shingling of hair was hair was cut?
(1)
feel when her long
(i) What did Zitkala Sa (b) Victimised
(a) Oppressed (d) Both (a) and (b)
This
(c) Delighted mourners, and shingled hair by cowards!"
"Among our people, short hair was worn by (1)
(m)
statement is an example of (b) an opinion
(a) a belief (d) a fallacy
little
(c) a myth tone when she says, "I was only one of many
describethe author's (1)
(iv) How would you herder"? (1x6= 6)
animals driven by a
3. ONE of two extracts given. everybody else at the Studios radiated
Attempt ANY and acouple of clerks, worshipped Gandhiji but
office boys wore khadi and
A. Barring thepre-requisite for poetry. Most of them political thought of any
kind.
leisure, a appreciation for
the faintest
beyond that they had not
 communist
term
Communism' A
compuncion about killinwas a
orNaturally,
man-he
and
they were
his children;
had n0
ignorant filiallor
people.
avese to
he Wasallalways out
the
to cause
conjugal love; he had no
and spread unrest and violeno among
godles
h
Such notions, which prevailed everywhere else in South \ndia a
khadi-clad poets of.
time also, naturally, floatedabout
(i) Evidence
Pick the option that soo
of it was
vaguely
usesforthcoming.
among the
Gemin Stu,
the samne fiqure of speech as Acommunist is a goless man
injustice,
when it is a fight against
(a) She is as determined as Gandhi against 'Hinsa' or violence.
(b) She is a Gandhi when she raises her voice for deliverance.
(c) She, like Gandhi, feels that the Earth is cryingfollower of Gandhi.
(d) She lives a life of opulence and calls herself a
reference to the two
(iü) Based on the extract, choose the correct option with
below.
(1) At Gemini Studios, the poets had a profound knowledge about communists.
(2) Communists were Tesponsible for anarchy and discontent intheecountry.
statements gve.
(a) (1) is true, but (2) is false. (b) (1) is false, but (2) is true.
(d) Both (1) and (2) can be
(c) Both (1) and (2) cannot be inferred. inferred.
(u) Replace the underlined word with its antonym from the extract.
The quotation covers all the expenses, including boarding and lodging.
(iv) Why do you think leisure is a pre-requisite for poetry?
(a) Poetry means freedom of expression. (b) One can enjoy poetry when
(c) In order to wite there's
poetry, one needs free tme. (d) Poetry means freedom from work. tirs free
(v) The people at the Gemini Studios has not the faintest appreciation for political thoucbs
Why does the narrator say so?
(vi) What evidence is being talkedabout in the extract?
OR
B. "She thinks money grows on trees, don't she,
Dad?' said little Derek, hanging on the hac
of his father's chair. Their mother sighed.
and wondered at the Sophie watched her back stooped over the sint
incongruity of the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings. The
delicate-seeming bow and the crooked back.
and the small room was steamy from the stoveThe evening had already blacked in the windo.
and cluttered with the
his vest at the table and the dirty heavy-breathing man in
washing piled up in the corner. Sophie
her throat. She went to look for her
brother Geoff. felt a tightening
(i) "Sophie felt a tightening in her throat." Pick the option (Going Place
Context. that lists Sophie's feelings in this
1. Anxious
2. Annoyed 3. Uneasy
Codes 4. Terrified
(a) 1and 3 (b) 2 and 3
(iü) (c) 1 and 4
Rewrite the sentence by replacing the (d) 2 and 4
The evening had already underlined
blackedin the phrase with its inference.
(iii) On the basis of the windows.
given below.
extract, choose the correct option with
(1) Sophie wants to live an
reference to the two state
(2) Her family knows that she
affluent life.
is all about
la) (1) can be
inferred from the extract, but (2)
(b) (1) cannot be inferred from the
extract,
daydreaming only.
but
cannot.
(c) (1) is true, but (2) is false. (2) can.
(d) (2) is the reason for (1).
 What,oan be we make out
() about the
v)Whydid Sophie's mother sigh?
financial condition of the family from the extract? (1)
Choosethe option
that (1)
thinks money grows on supports contention coming through
trees,
the Derek's dialogue, "She
don't she,
(a) Derek thought his sister to be Dad?". (1)
(b) Derek had no faith in Sophie's unreasonable at times.
abilities to open a
(c) Deerekthought of his sister as boutique.
someone who was
happy about Sophie's habit ofnotdayrealistiC.
(d) Derek was not at all
Answer.ANY FIVE of the dreaming.
following in about 40-50
words thing'".
6)"Damn that Geoff, this was a Geoff thing not a Jansie each. Why (5 x 2=10)
did Sophie say so?
(Going Places)
(2)
(i) Howisthe mother tongueimportant to a person? What does M Hamel, the teacher say
about it? (The Last Lesson) (2)
a Describe the two significant roles of money in the
(The Roadside Stand) lives of the poor people.
(2)
(iv) What do we learn about the crofter's nature from the story The Rattrap? (2)
w) The poet does not directly mention about the fear of her mother's death and yet she is
successfully able to convey the same through different poetic techniques. Discuss.
(My Mother at Sixty-Six) (2)
lwi) Do we experience things of beautyonly fora short moment ordo they make a lasting
experience on us? (A Thing of Beauty) (2)
(2 x 2= 4)
W.Attempt ANY TWO of the following in about 40-50 words each.
(i) The Maharaja justified his actions based on the maxim. "You may kill even a cow in
self-defence, so there would be noobjection to killing tigers in self-defence."
(2)
Do you think it is right to justify our actions in this way?
(Memories from Childhood) (2)
(ü) How did Zitkala-Sa try to prevent the shingling of her hair?
save the prisoner's life.
(ii) Sadao and Hana have a moral compass which wages them to (2)
Do we allneed this moral compass? Why?
about 120-150words each. (1 x5=5)
. Answer ANY TWO of the following in of
Humour enlivens the drudgery of life. Variety is thespice of life and the varied accountand
) serves to make the reading interesting
events and personalities in the Gemini Studios
life. Taking the cue from the lesson Poets and
humour guotient in one's banter
also add to the can be achieved through light-hearted
Pancakes, discuss how calmness of the mind
(5)
|humour. OR
poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
your opinion, what slence does the
) Kead the given guote. In
break? -Adrienne Rich
silence that had to be overCome.
GVery poem breaks a (1 x5=5)
following in about 120-150 words each.
.Answer ANY TWO of the the title Onthe Face of It. (5)
i)
Discuss the relevance of OR
power. How does the author employ the
the conceit of those in
fi) The Tiger King is a satire on
inthe story?
literary device of dramatic irony