SSLC PREPARATORY TEST FOR CLASS-X (ENGLISH)

 

SSLC PREPARATORY TEST FOR CLASS-X - 2023

SUBJECT: ENGLISH                                    MARKS: 50                           TIME: 1½ Hour

(PROSE & POETRY)

1.      Choose and write the correct answer (Any Three):                                                   1×3=3

a)      Who was on “Sealed orders”?

i)                    Captain Smollett                                                    iii) Jim

ii)                  Squire Trelawney                                                   iv) Long John Silver

i)                    Mr. Darby                                                              iii) Mr. Morgan

b)      Who would start a mutiny according to Smollett?

i)                    Jim Hawkins                                                          iii) sea pirates

ii)                  The ship’s crew                                                     iv) Mr. Arrow

c)      How did Major Morris get the paw?

i)                    He purchased it from the Fakir.

ii)                  He stole it from his friend

iii)                He got it from his friend who died after the last wish

iv)                He got it from an abandoned place

d)      Whose address is Central Lakeview – 5971?

i)                    Mr. Morgan                                                                        iii) The Prince of Wales

ii)                  The Tupper            s                                                           iv) Mr. Darby

e)      Who was the last person to make it fourteen people finally?

i)                    The Prince of Wales                                              iii) Oliver Farnsworth

ii)                  Bodyguard of the Prince                                        iv) The tuppers

 

2.      Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow (Any Two):                      3×3=9

a)      “She seems a clever craft; more I can’t say”

i)                    Who is the speaker?

ii)                  Who is the speaker speaking to?

iii)                What is the “clever craft”?

b)      “What are you holding me for? Let go. I must open the door?”

i)                    Who is the speaker?

ii)                  Who is holding the speaker?

iii)                Why must the person “open the door”?

c)      “He is beneath my notice! I hate him!

i)                    Who is the speaker?

ii)                  Who is ‘he’ referred to here?

iii)                Why does the speaker hate “him”?

3.      Answer the following questions in 30-40 words (Any Four):                                    2 × 4 = 8

a)      Where is the ship Hispaniola heading to?

b)      Why does Captain Smollett warn of resigning?

c)      Why was Mrs. Pringle angry with Elaine?

d)      Why is Mrs. Pringle so upset when she learns Mr. Farnswoth will be unable to attend the dinner?

e)      Why does Herbert suggest they ask for precisely two hundred pounds?

f)       Why did the Fakir put on a spell on the Monkey’s Paw?

 

4.      Answer the following in 80-100 words (Any Two):                                        8 × 2 = 16

a)      Why is the captain displeased? What suggestions does he make to Squire Trelawney?

b)      Narrate the incident of the night when Mrs. White forced her husband to ask the second wish. How did Mr. White act intelligently?

c)      How does Mrs. Pringle react when she learns that the Prince of Wales had come to her party? How did her opinion change about Oliver?

d)      What news did the stranger come with to the White family? Why did Mr. White faint?

5.      Choose and write the correct answer (Any Three):                                       1 × 3 = 3

a)      Why are the sailors singing shanties?

i)                    Because of the rising tides

ii)                  Because another ship was advancing towards them

iii)                Because the sailors were happy

b)      What does the growing of the sweet pea indicate?

i)                    Beginning of summer                                            iii) Beginning of Autumn

ii)                  Beginning of winter

c)      “O listen! For the _______ profound”. Fill in the blank.

i)                    Vale                                   ii) ocean                                   iii) Hebrides

d)      Where did the Nightingale’s song have its effect?

i)                    Persian seas                                   ii) Arabian sands                      iii) Indian lands

e)      When was the poet happy?

i)                    When she was in America                         ii) When she was on the Coast of Maine

ii)                  When she was in Mexico

 

6.      Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:                              3 × 3= 9

a)      Will no one tell me what she sings? –

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

i)                    What is the poet asking to tell him?

ii)                  Who is “she” referred to here?

iii)                What is the meaning of “plaintive”?

b)      The music in my heart I bore,

Long after it was heard no more.

i)                    Whose music is the poet speaking of?

ii)                  Why is the music in the heart of the poet?

iii)                What is heard no more and why?

c)      Dread the bell in ‘the fog’ outside

i)                    What does ‘dread’ mean?

ii)                  Why would a bell be rung when it is foggy?

iii)                What might happen to a ship off the coast of Maine if they didn’t hear the fog bell?

7.      Answer the following in 80-100 words (Any two):                                        6 × 2 = 12

a)      How does the city make the poet feel and why? Why is she unhappy? How does the poet describe the sights and sounds?

b)      How does William Wordsworth show that the song sung by the Solitary reaper was really enchanting and beautiful?

c)      Who is the solitary reaper? How does the reaper’s song affect the poet?

 

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