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MASTER WORKSHEET (2024-2025)

ENGLISH LITERATURE- ENGLISH PAPER-II
CLASS: X TOTAL MARKS: 80
DATE: 20.11.2024 WRITING TIME: 2 HOURS
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Answers to this paper must be written on the paper provided separately.
You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.
The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.
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This paper has four Sections.
Section A is compulsory- All questions in Section A must be answered.
You must attempt one question from each of the Sections B, C and D and one other question
from any Section of your choice.
The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].
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SECTION A
(Attempt all questions from this Section.)
Question 1.
Choose the correct answers to the questions from the given options.(Do not copy the
question, write the correct answers only.) [16]

(i) “What about the mouth?” I said. In the short story by Stephen Leacock, ’With The
Photographer’, what was the narrator’s mood when he said this?
(a) Angry
(b) Sad
(c) Happy
(d) Miserable
(ii) What advice did Martin’s father give him while moving out of the elevator?
(a) To give up the fear of elevators
(b) To rise above his fears
 (c) To grow up
(d) To use the elevators of his building quite often to avoid straining his legs.
(iii) How did Adjoa’s grandmother take the news of her selection for the district sports
meet?
(a) With enthusiasm
(b) With Pride
(c) With indifference
(d) With disbelief
(iv) Identify the figure of speech used in the given line:
‘It was not unequal to walking through a graveyard .
(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Personification
(d) Metonymy
(v) Choose the option that lists the sequence of events in the correct order.
1. Go to your place quicky Little Franz. We were beginning without you.
2. My children, this is the last lesson I shall give you.
3. Everyday we have said to ourselves: Bah! I’ve plenty of time. I’ll learn it tomorrow’.
4. Don’t go so fast , bub; you’ll get to school in plenty of time!
(a) 4,1, 3, 2
(b) 4,1,2, 3
(c) 4,2, 1, 3
(d) 4,3,2,1
(vi) Which of the following lines contain the same literary device as the one in H.W.
Longfellow’s poem, ‘Haunted Houses’, “Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss.”
(a)Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.
(b) Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance.
(c)In triumph, people have dropped down dead.
(d) Lustrous tokens of radiant lives
 For happy daughters and happy wives.
(vii) In the poem, ‘The Glove and the Lions’, why were the king and his entourage ‘better
here than there’?
(a) Because the lions were fighting ferociously
(b) Because they were at a safe distance from the arena.
(c) Because they could observe the lady’s act of vanity
(d) Because the view from there was better for King Francis

(viii) According to the speaker of the poem, ‘When Great Trees Fall’, mourning for the dead
seems to intensify which of the following?
(a) Feelings
(b) Memories
(c) Desires
(d) Comfort
(ix) Why did the speaker in ‘A Considerable Speck’ refrain from killing the mite?
(a) It had a mind of its own
(b) It was too tiny to be killed
(c) It was running to save itself
(d) The poet believed that the mite had an identity of his own.
(x) According to Sukumar Ray which crash is referred to in the line, ‘you hear the crash a
mile hence’?
(a) The trees collapsing
(b) The overturning of bullock -carts
(c) The sound of Bhisma Lochan’s singing
(d) The horses stomping their feet
(xi) Why did the police car respond ‘No profession’ when Mead said he was a writer by
profession?
(a) Mead was an illiterate person
(b) It was an outdated profession
(c) The robotic car could not hear his response
(d) The car failed to comprehend what Mead said to it
(xii) What is the purpose which Cassius fears has been discovered in Act III, Scene 1, of the
play , Julius Caesar?
(a) To form a group of conspirators
(b) To murder Caesar
(c) To save Rome from Caesar
(d) To rope in Brutus for their conspiracy
(xiii) What weighed on Cinna’s mind that made him decide not to venture out of his house?
(a) Ominous occurrences of the past
(b) Death of Caesar
(c) Bad weather
(d) Superstitious beliefs
(xiv) What do the citizens of Rome offer to do after Brutus’ speech at Caesar’s funeral?
(a) Avenge the murder of Caesar
(b) To crown Brutus as king
(c) To fight for the freedom of Rome
(d) To crown Mark Antony as their king
(xv) ‘Which characteristic trait of Mark Antony is highlighted in Act III, Scene3?
(a) Passionate and patriotic
(b) Ruthless and hypocritical
(c) Faithful and loyal
(d) None of the above
(xvi) How did Portia die?
(a) By jumping from Mount Olympus
(b) By drowning in the sea
(c) By swallowing poison
(d) By swallowing burning coals
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SECTION B
(Answer one or more questions from this Section.)
DRAMA
(Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare)
Question 2.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Cassius: Chastisement!
Brutus
Remember March, the ides of March remember:
Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?
What villain touch’d his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What shall one of us,
That struck the foremost man of all this world.
(i) What is the occasion on which this speech occurs in the play? [3]
(ii) What is Cassius’ complaint against Brutus? [3]
(iii) What does Brutus accuse Cassius of? [3]
(iv) What difference in their motives for killing Caesar do you find between Cassius and
Brutus? [3]
(v) What does this extract reveal about the character of Brutus? [4]

Question 3.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Antony: O Masters! If I were dispos’d to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage ,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who , you all know, are honourable men.
I will not do them wrong; I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you
That I will wrong such honourable men.
But here’s a parchment with the seal of Caesar;
I found it in his closet, ‘tis his will.
(i)Describe the reaction of the citizens to Antony’s previous speech. [3]
(ii)Quote the words that Antony uses in the extract that suggest what he is provoking the
citizens to do. [3]
 (iii)Why does Antony not read out Caesar’s will to the citizens , even though he mentions
it. [3]
(iv)What does Antony say the citizens would do if they heard Caesar’s will? [3]
(v)What do the citizens want Antony to do now? [4]

SECTION C
(Answer one or more questions from this Section.)
PROSE-SHORT STORIES
(Treasure Chest - ICSE collection of Poems and Short Stories)
Question 4:
Read the following extract from Ray Bradbury’s short story, ‘The Pedestrian’ and answer the
questions that follow:
Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his
house. And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows,
and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest
glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.
(i) Who is ‘he’ referred to in the extract? Why would he walk for hours and miles?[3]
(ii) Why does he say that ‘it was not equal to walking through a graveyard’? [3]
(iii) Explain the meaning of ‘faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers ‘in
your words. [3]
(iv) Who are described as ‘gray phantoms’? Why? [3]
(v) How are the houses he passes by different from his own house? Suggest an
alternative title for the short story. [4]
Question 5:
Read the following extract from Alphonse Daudet’s short story, The Last Lesson’ given
below and answer the questions that follow:
How it must have broken his heart to leave it all, poor man; to hear his sister
moving about in the room above, packing their trunks! For they must leave the country
next day.
But he had the courage to hear every lesson to the very last .After the writing, we had a
lesson in history, and then the babies chanted their ba, be, bi, bo,bu.

(i) Who is referred to by Franz as the poor man? According to Franz, what must have
broken the poor man’s heart? Why were they supposed to leave the country? [3]
(ii) Why did he hear every lesson to the very last? What did it reveal about him? [3]
 (iii) Who was old Hauser ? Why was he present in the class? [3]
(iv) Why did old Hauser’s voice tremble with emotion? Why did the listeners want to
laugh and cry at the same time? [3]
(v) ‘Franz said,’Ah, how well I remember it, that last lesson! Explain briefly, what
was the last lesson. [4
SECTION D
(Answer one or more questions from this Section.)
POETRY
(Treasure Chest - ICSE collection of Poems and Short Stories)
Question 6:
Read the following extract from Leigh Hunt’s poem, ‘The Glove and the Lions’ and answer
the questions that follow:
Ramped and roared the lions, with horrid laughing jaws;
They bit, they glared, gave blows like beams, a wind went with their paws;
With wallowing might and stifled roared they rolled on one another;
Till all the pit with sand and mane was in a thunderous smother.
(i) Describe the fight of the lions according to the extract. [3]
(ii) What makes Francis remark, “We’re better here than there”? What does it tell you
about Francis? [3]
(iii) Describe the scary scene inside the arena. [3]
(iv) Identify and name any two poetic devices used in the extract. [3]
(v) Who is Francis? What is he doing here? What does this tell you about the setting
of the poem? [4]

Question 7:
Read the following extract from Sukumar Ray’s , ‘The Power of Music’ given below and
answer the questions that follow:
The welkin weeps to hear his screech , and mighty
Mansions tumble
But now there comes a billy goat, a most sagacious fellow,
He downs his horns and charges straight, with
Bellow answ’ring bellow.
(i)Who weeps in this extract and why? Which figure of speech is used in the ‘welkin
weeps’? [3]
(ii) What happens to ‘mighty mansions’? Which natural object met the same fate as
mansions earlier in the poem. [3]
(iii) How did the most sagacious fellow grant the world the golden gift of silence? [3]
(iv) Who all would have thanked the billy goat? Why? [3]
(v)How does this extract support the theme of the poem? [4]

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