EDUCARE
ENGLISH
Standard VIII Max. Score:30
Time: 1.5 hrs
Question 1-5. Answer the following: (5x1=5)
Read the following passage from the story ‘Rosa Parks Sat Still’ and answer the
following questions.
Now when Rosa did not get up, the driver got angry. If he let her sit and left a
white passenger standing, he was breaking the law. He and his company could be
punished for it. He got up from his seat. ‘Get up and go to the back', he ordered. But
Rosa sat still. ‘I told you to get up', he said m But Rosa did not move. She did not
get up. The driver got off the bus and brought the police in. They arrested Rosa, said
she had broken the law, and sent her to jail.
The news of Rosa’s arrest soon spread all over the town. The black people of
Montgomery decided to fight for her to come out of jail. They knew they could not
fight with the police. They decided to fight with the bus-company instead. They
boycotted the buses. ‘No black passenger’, they said, ‘will use the city buses until
Rosa is free'. Instead, they went in private cars and shared the cost of taxis.
During the boycott, the bus-company lost millions of dollars. This was
because there were many, many more black bus-users than white users. Without
black passengers, buses ran almost empty.
1 Why did the driver got angry when Rosa did not get up?
2. What did the driver do when Rosa was unwilling to give up her seat?
3. How did the black people decide to fight for Rosa?
4. How did the bus boycott affect the bus company?
5. How did the black passengers make the boycott a success?
2. Read the following lines from “A Prayer in Spring” and prepare a note of
appreciation focusing on its theme, images and poetic devices. (5X1=5)
“Sitting in a porchway cool,
Fades the ruddy sunlight fast,
Twilight hastens on to rule—
Working hours are well-nigh past,
Shadows shoot across the lands;
But one sower lingers still,
Old, in rags, he patient stands, --
Looking on, I feel a thrill”.
6. Identify the theme of the poem.
7. What makes the sower linger on the field?
8. “Looking on, I feel a thrill”. Why was the poet thrilled?
9. Find out a poetic device used in the phrase “ Shadows shoot across the lands”.
10. Pick out a pair of rhyming words from the given stanzas.
11. Prepare a short Profile of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow using the given data. (5)
Born : 27 February, 1807, Portland
Nationality : American
Profession : Poet, educator.
Major Works : Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline,
Voices of the Night, etc.
Died : 24 March, 1882, Massachusetts.
Question 12 . Answer any ONE of the following. (5)
A. Prepare the character Sketch of Rosa Parks.
OR
B. The followers of Rosa Parks conducted a public campaign for her release from the jail.
The news was reported in a daily next day. What would be the news report?
13. Rosa Parks is a soft spoken lady who has obeyed all the rules and hasn’t broken any of them.
But she questioned an unfair rule by refusing to give her seat to the white. Prepare the interview
questions and its possible responses. (Minimum five exchanges). (5)
OR
While Rosa Parks sat still in the bus, the other passengers were angry. They muttered curses at
her. But she did not move or speak. She was thinking. What was Rosa thinking of?
14. What lesson do you learn from the life of the blacksmith in the poem “ The Village
Blacksmith”? (2)
15. Fill in the blanks. (3)
(a) -------------------------- I would write something. (Using If clause)
(b) Some workers were working hard in the field. (Identify the Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase)
(c) They watch football, _____________. ( appropriate question tag)
