1. M.

Hamel believed that his students’ parents were not anxious enough to
have their children learn and preferred to put them to work so as to have
more…

(A) a little more money

(B) a little more help

(C) a lot more granary

(D) a lot more mills

2. According to M. Hamel, the French language was the most beautiful

language in the world; that must be guarded and never forgotten.

(A) the simplest, the most logical

(B) the soundest, the most reasonable

(C) the clearest, the most logical

(D) the clearest, the most interesting

3. Vive La France means…

(A) Live long France

(B) Living in France

(C) Leave France

(D) Lively France

4. Saheb-e-Alam did not go to school because…

(A) he preferred rag picking

(B) there was no school in his neighbourhood

(C) he wanted to sell tea

(D) he was not interested in studies

5. Savita, a young girl in a drab pink dress, sits alongside an elderly woman,
… in the chapter Lost Spring.

(A) soldering pieces of glass

(B) rolling chapatis

(C) cooking dinner

 (D) listening to songs

Question 6:

…… is content to dream of cars that he sees hurtling down the streets of his
town.

(A) Saheb

(B) Mukesh

(C) Anees

(D) Ragpicker

Question 7:

Douglas' introduction to the Y. M. C. A. swimming pool revived

(A) pleasant memories and childhood fantasies

(B) unpleasant memories and childhood fantasies

(C) pleasant memories and childhood fears

(D) unpleasant memories and childhood fears

Question 8:

...said, "All we have to fear is fear itself."

(A) William Douglas

(B) Roosevelt

(C) Gilbert

(D) Mr. Terror

Passage for Questions 9-11:

 Once upon a time there was a man who went around selling small rattraps
of wire. He made them himself at odd moments, from the material he got by
begging in the stores or at the big farms. But even so, the business was not
especially profitable, so he had to resort to both begging and petty thievery
to keep body and soul together. Even so, his clothes were in rags, his cheeks
were sunken, and hunger gleamed in his eyes.

Question 9:

The business of selling the rattraps was quite

(A) profitable

(B) unprofitable

(C) convenient

(D) odd

Question 10:

Here, 'to keep body and soul together' means

(A) to manage to keep alive

(B) to take care of body for the soul

(C) to depend upon thievery

(D) to eat to feel good

11. Hunger gleamed in his eyes means:

(A) his eyes were hungry

(B) his eyes were shining due to hunger
(C)there was expression of sadness in his eyes
(D) there was expression of feeling hungry displayed on his face
12. The writer of The Rattrap is:

(A) Alphonse Daudet

(B) Selma Lagerlof

(C) Anees Jung

(D) Louis Fischer

13. Where did Miss Williamsson learn about the tramp’s reality?

(A) At the forge

(B) At the station

(C) At church

(D) At home

14. December 1916 annual convention of the Indian National Congress party
was held in:

(A) Lucknow

(B) Tirhut

(C) Champaran

(D) Muzzafarpur

15. Gandhiji chided the lawyers:

(A) for not supporting the sharecroppers

(B) for misguiding the sharecroppers

(C) for not counselling the sharecroppers

(D) for collecting big fee from the sharecroppers

16. Pancake was a brand name of………. Material.

(A) make-up

(B) plastic

(C) edible

(D) clothing

17. The ……. Has become a common place of journalism.

 (A) debate

(B) interview

(C) correspondence

(D) criticism

18. ……… was the professor at the University of Bologna in Italy.

(A) Mukund Padmanabhan

(B) David Lodge

(C) Christopher Silvester

(D) Umberto Eco

19. “Going Places” explores the theme of adolescent fantasising and:

(A) individual identity

(B) self consciousness

(C) hero worship

(D) peer pressure

20. Sophie day dreams about:

(A) Geoff

(B) Danny Casey

(C) Jansie

(D) Tom Finney

21. Kamala Das’ poem “My Mother at Sixty-six” is a good example of a:

(A) lyrical idiom

(B) sonnet

(C) haiku

(D) limerick

22. Identify the figures of speech in the line “She looked again at her wan,
pale as a winter’s moon.”

(A) Tautology and Antithesis

 (B) Oxymoron and Simile

(C) Tautology and Simile

(D) Climax and Irony

23. The line “While at sixty-six, her bones, a beast of prey, swarm over their
lives’ appean” in the poem:

(A) My Mother at Sixty-six

(B) A Thing of Beauty

(C) Keeping Quiet

(D) A Roadside Stand

24. Select the correct figure of speech that appears in the line, “When
everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.”

(A) Antithesis

(B) Metonymy

(C) Euphemism

(D) Oxymoron

25. In the poem, Neruda talks about the necessity of quiet introspection and
creating a feeling of mutual understanding among human beings.

(A) Keep Quiet

(B) Keep Silence

(C) Keeping Silence

(D) Keeping Quiet

26. What will never pass into nothingness according to John Keats?

(A) A thing of beauty

(B) Beautiful friends

(C) Beautiful relationships

(D) A thing from nature

27. According to Keats, we ……… to bind us to the earth.

(A) dance in joyousness

 (B) wreath a flowery band

(C) observe the nature keenly

(D) live peacefully

28. From where does the endless fountain of immortal drink pour unto us
according to Keats?

(A) From the mid forest brake

(B) From the green world

(C) From trees, old and young

(D) From the heaven’s brink

• Read correct following stanza and choose the correct answers for the
questions 29 and 30:

The little old house was out with a little new shed,

In front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped,

A roadside stand that too pathetically pled,

It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread

29. A roadside stand is erected for

(A) earning money

(B) gaining sympathy

(C) attracting the people

(D) stopping traffic

30. “A roadside stand that too pathetically pled” means

(A) country people urge city people to buy things from them

(B) country people are happy to exhibit their goods

(C) country people are proud of their little new shed

(D) country people want to stop the speeding traffic as it is risky

31. Who are referred to as “bright topaz denizens of a world of green” by
Adrienne Rich?

(A) Giraffes

(B) Cats

(C) Leopards

(D) Tigers

32. In her poem, Adrienne Rich addresses the of married life a woman
experiences.

(A) bliss

(B) constraints

(C) free expression

(D) autonomy

33. Charley comes across the third level at the

(A) New Haven

(B) Grand Central Station

(C) New York Central

(D) Hartford Railroads

34. Who uttered the words, “Ignorance of the human body is the surgeon’s
cardinal sins, sirs!”?

(A) Sadao’s wife

(B) Sadao’s American professor of anatomy

(C) Sadao himself

(D) Sadao’s General

35. The Tiger King was born in the hour of the

(A) Tiger

(B) Bull

(C) Buffalo

(D) Lion
36. The name of the Russian Research vessel boarded by Tishani Doshi was

(A) Russian Shokalskiy

(B) Adventure Shokalskiy

(C) College Shokalskiy

(D) Akademik Shokalskiy

37. “Memories of Childhood” presents episodes from the lives of women

from marginalized communities.

(A) autobiographical

(B) biographical

(C) nostalgic

(D) epistolary

38. The stranger made no attempt to dissimulate. (Affirmative)

(A) The stranger made every attempt to dissimulate.

(B) The stranger refrained from making any attempt to dissimulate.

(C) The stranger made all attempts to dissimulate.

(D) The stranger refrains from making any attempt to dissimulate.

39. The place was quiet. (Interrogative)

(A) Wasn’t the place quiet?

(B) Weren’t the place quiet?

(C) Didn’t the place become quiet?

(D) Do you think the place was quiet?

40. Do you know anything about cars? (Assertive)

(A) I know everything about cars.

(B) I know nothing about cars.

(C) I know a little bit about cars.

(D) I know something about cars.

41. He only stared at the young girl in boundless amazement. (Exclamatory)

(A) What only in boundless amazement he stared at the young girl!

(B) Oh! In boundless amazement he stared at the young girl!

(C) How only in boundless amazement stared he at the young girl!

(D) How only in boundless amazement he stared at the young girl!

42. Select the correct synonym for: solemn

(A) sober

(B) serious

(C) humorous

(D) gentle

Question 43:

Select the correct antonym for: treacherous

(A) safe

(B) traitorous

(C) deceitful

(D) risky

Question 44:

Gandhi……… to go first to Muzzafarpur, which was en route to Champaran

ran.

(A) decide

(B) decision

(C) decisive

(D) decided

Question 45:

The ironmaster assumed that he felt embarrassed because of his………

clothing.

(A) miserly
 (B) miser

(C) miserable

(D) miserably

Question 46:

You do preach worse than a parson. (Change the Degree)

(A) A parson does not preach as bad as you.

(B) A parson does not preach as worse as you.

(C) You do not preach as bad as a parson.

(D) You do not preach as worse as a parson.

Question 47:

What is meant by this? (Change the Voice)

(A) What do you mean?

(B) What does this mean?

(C) What was the meaning of this?

(D) What did you mean by this?

Question 48:

I started writing novels by accident,………? (Choose the correct question tag)

(A) didn’t I?

(B) wasn’t I?

(C) hadn’t I?

(D) don’t I?

Question 49:

He stops at the door of one such house and pushes it open. (Choose the
correct Simple Sentence)

(A) Stopping at the door of one such house, he pushes it open.

(B) Stopping at the door of one such house, he pushed it open.

(C) He stops at the door and pushes it open.

 (D) Having stopped at the door, he pushed it open.

Question 50:

He was too afraid to go near water. (Remove ‘too’)

(A) He is so afraid that he cannot go near water.

(B) He was so afraid that he could not go near water.

(C) He was very afraid that he cannot go near water.

(D) He was very afraid of water.

SECTION-A

I. Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each: (Any

Three)
1. Why should child labour be eliminated and how? Present your
views based on the story, Lost Spring.
2. How did the instructor “build a swimmer” out of Douglas?
Answer with reference to “Deep Water”.
3. The Peddler comes out as a person with a subtle sense of
humour. How does this serve in lightening the seriousness of the
theme of the story and also endear him to us?
4. What caused the lack of communication between the Englishman
and the people at Gemini Studios?
5. Bring out the difference between Sophie and Jansie.

SECTION-B

II. Answer the following questions in one sentence:

For once on the face of the Earth
Let’s not speak in any language,
Let's stop for one second
And not move our arms so much
It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
 In a sudden strangeness

6. What does the poet want us to do?

7. How has the poet described the moment without restlessness and worries?

III. Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each: (Any
Four)

8. What is the kind of pain and ache that Kamala Das feels?

9. List the things of beauty mentioned by John Keats in his poem.

10. Do you think Pablo Neruda advocates total inactivity and death? Explain.

11. What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?
Clarify your views giving substantial examples with reference to the poem, “A
Thing of Beauty”.

12. Describe the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand.

13. Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from
her own character? What does this difference suggest?

• Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each: (Any Two)

14. How did the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was
supposed to decide his fate?

15. “The world’s geological history is trapped in the struggle.” How is the
study of this region useful to us?

16. Do you think the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?

17. What is it that draws Derry to Mr. Lamb in spite of himself?

Section C:

•Rectify the errors:

Gandhiji and the lawyers now proceed to conduct

18. Error: _______ Correction: _______

a far-flung inquiring into the grievances of the farmers.

19. Error: _______ Correction: _______

The hole area throbbed with the activity.

20. Error: _______ Correction: _______

• Rewrite the sentences using the correct meanings of the given

phrases/idioms:

21. I never saw him look so tall, (grown physically taller, look very confident,
stood on the chair).

22. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of

poverty, (a situation of always being poor, an all-empowering poverty, a not
so stable state of poverty).

23. It had never existed for any other purpose than to set baits for people,
(have obstacles, set a goal for, offer temptations).

• Report the following into indirect form of narration:

24. “I am thinking of this strange house,” said the young girl. “He walks and
walks the whole year long, and there is probably not a single place in the
whole country where he is welcome and feels at home. Wherever he turns he
is chased away.”

Section D:

25. Study the following chart and interpret it in 6 to 7 sentences:

Person’s monthly expenditure.

IMAGE OF A PIE CHART

OR

25. Paraphrase the following poem:

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;

If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools.

26. You are Disha/Dipak Munshi. Apply with a resume for the post of a
Workshop Manager in ABC Car Company, GIDC, Gandhinagar.

Section E:

27. Write an email to the Municipal Commissioner complaining him/her about

the non-functioning of street lights in your area. [04]

OR

27. Write an email to your friend describing your experience of Himalayan

trekking camp.

28. Write an Essay in about 250 words on any One of the following topics:
[06]

(A) Is it necessary to explore space?

[yes/no – about space – its importance – various missions – your views]

(B) Entrance Exams – A Corridor to Advance Studies:

[Necessity of Entrance Exams – its preparation – fear of it – your views]

OR

28. On the occasion of Youth Day Festival in your school, you are invited as
the chief guest. Prepare a speech for the same in about 200 words.