Snake and the mirror

1. The doctor described the snake as the one

(a) Not very poisonous
(b) Taken with its own beauty
(c) Thick and ugly
(d) That had bitten the thief

2. What did the doctor do immediately after reaching his friend’s house?
(a) Smeared oil all over his body and took a bath
(b) Drank a glass of water
(c) Took medicines
(d) Narrated the incident of the snake

3. How did the doctor’s wife actually look like?

(a) Thin
(b) Fat
(c) Short
(d) None of the above

4. Why did the doctor smile at himself?

(a) for looking into the mirror
(b) for his smart looks
(c) for his helplessness and foolishness
(d) none

5. What does the word meagre in the lesson mean?

A) Big
B) Huge
C) Very little
D) Small

Lines Written in Early Spring

1. Where is the poet sitting?

(a) River side
(b) In a wood
(c) In a boat
(d) In a house
2. Who hopped and played around the forest?
(a) Children
(b) Rabbit
(c) Birds
(d) Cats
3. Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem.
(a) Abcb
(b) Aabb
(c) Abab
(d) Free verse poem
4. ‘I heard thousand blended notes’ pick out the figure of speech in this line.
(a) Personification
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Simile
(d) Refrain
5. Who is the poet?
(a) William Butler Yeats
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) William Words Worth
(d) William Blake

Project tiger

1. Who is ring master mentioned in the story.

(a) Goopy
(b) Bagha
(c) Satyajit Ray
(d) Thorat
2. Where does shooting takes place?
(a) Notun gram
(b) Marcus square
(c) Calcutta
(d) Chennai
3. Alfred hitch cock’s which film mentioned in project tiger?
(a) Animals
(b) Birds
(c) Sparrows
(d) The tiger
4. In which project Satyajit Ray need a tiger?
(a) Goopy gyne and Bagha byne
(b) Pather Panchali
(c) Thieves
(d) Charulatha
5. Where did the producer get tiger from?
(a) Zoo
(b) Asian circus
(c) Jumbo circus
(d) Bharat circus

My sister’s shoes

1. Who are the protagonists of this film?

(a) Akbar and Ali
(b) Ali and Junk collector
(c) Rahim and Akbar
(d) Ali and Zahra
2. From where did Ali lose his sister’s shoes?
(a) Akbar’s shop
(b) Way to home
(c) Vegetable store
(d) Play ground
3. What did Ali buy from Akbar’s shop?
(a) Tomato
(b) Nan
(c) Chapatti
(d) Potato
4. Why did Ali and Zahra communicated through notebook?
(a) They were dumb
(b) Their parents were strict
(c) Not to hear their parents
(d) Their parents warned them to keep silence
5. What did Ali reply to Zahra when she say ‘I will tell dad about lost shoes’?
(a) He will beat Zahra
(b) He will beat both of us
(c) He will beat me
(d) He will scold both of us

Blowin’ in the Wind

1. What is mean by blowin' in the wind?

(a) Whispering
(b) Soul is every where
(c) the answer is every where
(d) Strange Fruit
2. What does the word ‘white dove’ symbolize?
(a) Love
(b) Kind
(c) Passion
(d) Peace
3. What does the word ‘cannon balls’ represent?
(a) Peace
(b) War
(c) Violence
(d) Truth
4. What does the word ‘mountain’ represent?
(a) Ego
(b) Smartness
(c) Fault
(d) Unique
5. Pick out an instant refrain from the poem.
(a) How many road must a man walk down
Before you call him a man
(b) How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn’t see
(c) The answer is my friend blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
(d) None of the above

The best investment I ever made

1. Who is the narrator of the story?

(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) John S
(c) Mrs John S
(d) AJ Cronin
2. What was the profession of John S?
(a) Solicitor
(b) Teacher
(c) Trainer
(d) Doctor
3. Why did John S and his wife go to New York?
(a) To visit their parents
(b) Holiday trip
(c) Business tour
(d) To visit settlement houses
4. How did AJ Cronin help John S?
(a) He gave advice
(b) Give a helping hand
(c) Gave 7 pound and 10 shillings
(d) Gave 10 pound and 7 shillings
5. Where did John S and AJ Cronin meet for second time?
(a) New York
(b) Park
(c) Bus bay
(d) Ship board

Ballad of father Gilligan

1. Why did the poor man send for Father Gilligan?

(a) To perform anointing sick
(b) To meet a poor man
(c) For the sake
(d) None of the above
2. Find a word from the poem which means the same as ‘mourn’.
(a) Grieve
(b) Happy
(c) Speak
(d) Pleasant
3. Why did the priest cry out ‘Mavrone, mavrone’?
(a) The speaker meant that he had not grumbled from his heart. His body was
extremely tired so he grumbled.
(b) In grief as he could not go the sick man’s for performing the last rites.
(c) When the sick man’s wife saw the priest, she was surprised because her husband had
already received the last sacrament from the priest and had died happily.
(d) All of the above
4. What does the expression ‘flock’ means?
(a) People
(b) People in the parish
(c) Group
(d) Mob
5. Why did the priest sad?
(a) Half of the parishioners were in their bed
(b) An epidemic spread out in his parish
(c) Half of the parishioners were died
(d) All of the above

Danger of a single story

1. What is the main point that Adichie makes in her speech when she describes her
experience of reading Western children's books?

(a) She is emphasizing that the characters are similar to her.

(b) She is describing how the stories made her want to taste ginger beer.
(c) She is explaining how she only read a 'single story' then and therefore wasn't
aware of the possibility of different narratives.
(d) She is arguing that she should not have read those stories as a child.

2. How did reading books by African writers affect Adichie?

(a) It exposed her to different stories, specifically ones she could relate to. It made her
grateful for the American and British stories she grew up with.
(b) It made her grateful for the American and British stories she grew up with.
(c) It encouraged her to write about characters from a variety of cultures.
(d) It made her realize how relatively few African writers there were.

3. How did the discovery of African writers help Chimamanda?

(a) To know about people like her also exist in literature
(b) To make out different versions of single story
(c) A and B
(d) A only
4. Find out the African writers mentioned in Adichie’s speech.
(a) Chinua Achebe and Camara laye
(b) Chinua Achebe and Langston Hughes
(c) Camara Laye and Wole Soyinka
(d) Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe
5. ----------- was houseboy in Adhichie’s house?
(a) James
(b) Michel
(c) Fide
(d) John
The scholarship jacket

1. Martha lives with her grandparents because her parents…

(a) are too poor to feed children
(b) do not live near school
(c) died when she was 6
(d) live with her grandparents
2. _____In the past, the scholarship jacket has always gone to a student
a. With financial need.
b. Who is popular with the teachers.
c. who has earned the highest grades
d. Whose parents are well respected in the community.

3. Martha believes she should get the scholarship jacket because she________
(a) is smarter than everyone else.
(b) wants it very much.
(c) Was the class valedictorian
(d) won’t get a sports jacket.
4. The principal’s behaviour at the end of the story suggests that he _________
(a) does not agree with the Board’s decision.
(b) does not like Martha very much.
(c) has not given the Board’s policy much thought.
(d) is ready to give it to Martha.
5. By grandpa saying that he wouldn't pay for the jacket means
(a) it is not worth the money.
(b) a real award should not have to be bought.
(c) Martha did not deserve it
(d) None of the above

Poetry
1. What was Pablo Neruda's original name?
(a) Pablo
(b) Neftali Recardo Rayes Bosalto
(c) Marc
(d) Antonio
2. Pick out personification from the following line.
(a) And it was at that age … Poetry arrived.
(b) in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
(c) it came from, from winter or a river.
(d) or returning alone,
3. Pick out a word from the poem which means extremely small.
(a) Infinitesimal
(b) Perforate
(c) Riddle
(d) Winding
4. Pick out an instant alliteration from the poem.
(a) with arrows, fire and flowers,
(b) the winding night, the universe.
(c) palpitating plantations
(d) shadow perforated,
5. __________ is the rhyme scheme of the poem.
(a) Free verse poem
(b) Abab
(c) Aabb
(d) Abcb

Never Never Nest

1. Who wrote ‘The Never Never Nest’?
(a) Bernard Shaw
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Harold Pinter
(d) Cedric Mount
2. What is mean by ‘Never-Never’?
(a) Hired
(b) Follow
(c) Nothing
(d) Empty
3. Who represent consumer society in this play?
(a) Jack
(b) Jill
(c) Aunt Jane
(d) Nurse
4. Who gave financial assist to jack?
(a) Jill
(b) Aunt Jane
(c) Jill’s parents
(d) Aunt Jane’s husband
5. Who did Jane send the cheque to?
(a) Aunt Jane
(b) Nurse
(c) Doctor
(d) Lawyer

VANKA
1. How old is Vanka at the time depicted in the story?
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 9
2. What is the name of Vanka's master in Moscow?
(a) Alayakhin
(b) Zhivarev
(c) Constantin Makarich
(d) Olga
3. When does Vanka write his letter?
(a) In the morning when his master gives him a few minutes to eat alone
(b) At night, when his master and other members of the household are at church
(c) During the afternoon, when he is taking a break for a lunch
(d) At dawn, when the rest of his master’s household is just waking up
4. What is the name of Vanka's grandfather?
(a) Konstantin Makarich
(b) Zhivarev
(c) Palegaya
(d) Olga
5. Did Vanka’s letter reach to his grandfather? Why?
(a) No. there is no exact address on the envelope
(b) Yes. Post master will take it to his grandfather
(c) No. because he can’t write
(d) No. there are lot of spelling mistake in it

Mother to son
1. Who wrote mother to son?
(a) Robert frost
(b) William Blake
(c) Langston Hughes
(d) WB Yeats
2. What does the expression ‘splinters and boards torn up’ means.
(a) Difficulties in life
(b) Easy way of life
(c) Dream of poet
(d) Sadness of poet
3. In the "Mother to Son", the mother compares her life to a _____
(a) river
(b) road
(c) staircase
(d) journey
4. Who is the speaker of the poem.
(a) Langston Hughes
(b) Poet
(c) Mother
(d) Poet’s mother
5. The mother tells her son
(a) to be more carefree.
(b) to make more money.
(c) to not fall in love.
(d) not to give up.

The Castaway
1. castaway means ___________
(a) hire
(b) new
(c) ship
(d) wreck
2. How do Sharat's feelings about Nilkanta help develop the theme of the passage?
(a) Sharat is pleased by Nilkanta's presence because his wife is happy
whenNilkanta is near.
(b) Sharat is pleased that his family will be able to help Nilkanta.
(c) Sharat becomes aggravated by Nilkanta's daily activities and lifestyle.
(d) Sharat becomes increasingly jealous of Nilkanta's relationship with his wife.
3. What is one possible reason why Kiran takes "a warm interest" in the Brahmin boy?
(a) He is can actor and can entertain while he is there.
(b) She uses the Brahmin boy to make Sharat jealous.
(c) He is handsome and more patient with her than Sharat.
(d) She has narrowly escaped death too and can relate to his experience.
4. How does the author introduce additional depth to the conflict between the husband
and wife?
(a) by having Sharat and his mother desiring for the guest to leave
(b) by explaining why the wife was very ill
(c) by using a stormy evening as the initial setting
(d) by describing a character who arrives by unusual circumstances
5. Who wrote the story the castaway?
(a) AJ Cronin
(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Arabindo ghosh