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The document is a revision worksheet for Class X English Literature at The Shri Ram School, Moulsari Campus, for Term 1 of the 2025-2026 academic year. It includes multiple-choice questions and short answer questions related to a narrative about a photographer and a poem titled 'Haunted Houses'. The worksheet aims to assess students' understanding of themes, character analysis, and literary devices.

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The document is a revision worksheet for Class X English Literature at The Shri Ram School, Moulsari Campus, for Term 1 of the 2025-2026 academic year. It includes multiple-choice questions and short answer questions related to a narrative about a photographer and a poem titled 'Haunted Houses'. The worksheet aims to assess students' understanding of themes, character analysis, and literary devices.

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The Shri Ram School, Moulsari Campus

Term 1 – 2025-2026
Class X; English Literature
UT Revision Worksheet

Q1. Tick the correct option:

i. What did the narrator mean when he said about the photographer that –
“he had the dim eye of a natural scientist”?

a. The photographer was a scientist in his approach.


b. The photographer was like a naturalist in his approach.
c. The photographer was critical and clinical in his approach.
d. The photographer was comical in his approach.

ii. Why was the narrator glad when he heard the photographer say, “the
face would be better three-quarters full”?

a. He felt the photographer had accepted him with his facial flaws.
b. He felt the photographer thought that he was very handsome.
c. He thought the photographer had identified the better profile for his
face.
d. He felt the photographer was very critical of his facial flaws.

iii. According to the poet, the ghosts in the poem, ‘Haunted Houses’ are:

a. harmless and inoffensive.


b. critical and condescending.
c. quiet and comfortable in their places.
d. influential and intimidating.

Integrity Sensitivity Pursuit of Excellence Pride in One’s Heritage


TSRS/ML/T1/X/English Literature/UT/RWS/2025-26 Page 1
iv. Pick out the option that carries the same figure of speech as in the line
“From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands.”.

a. “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun.”


b. “I heard it hitting the high leaves, and I was happy.”
c. “Hope is the thing with feathers.”
d. “I wandered lonely as a Cloud.”

Q2. Answer the following questions. Each question carries 3 marks.

a. What is the significance of the magazines at the photographer’s studio?


Give two examples from the text that show how the narrator was aware of
his physical imperfections.
b. Describe the ‘improvements’ suggested and implemented by the
photographer in the narrator’s photograph. Did they have the desired
effect?
c. Throw some light on the characters of the photographer and the
narrator. How were they very different from each other?
d. In the poem, Haunted Houses, how does the speaker dispel the common
perception of ghosts? Pick out an expression and point out the figure of
speech that the speaker uses to describe the phantoms.
e. How does the speaker use the images of the moon and the sea to suggest
a connection between the human world and the spirit world?
f. What does the poet mean by the expression, ‘this perpetual jar’? What
are the ‘opposite attractions’ that the poet mentions? Explain.

Integrity Sensitivity Pursuit of Excellence Pride in One’s Heritage


TSRS/ML/T1/X/English Literature/UT/RWS/2025-26 Page 1

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