English Literature Prelim Paper

GOKULDHAM HIGH SCHOOL& JUNIOR COLLEGE
I PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION -03-01-2023]

ENGLISH PAPER 2
(LITERATURE IN ENGLISII)
(Prescribed Textbooks)
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Maximum Marks: 80
Time Allowed: Three hours
(Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutes for onlyreadtng tiepaper.

They must NOT start writing duringthis tim
Answer all questions in SectionAmd Section B.
The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ 1.
SECTION A - 20 MARKS
Question 1
Choose the correet options forthe folowing questions: [10

(i) When was Ferdinand supposed to complete his task?
a) At six olock
b) Before morning
cAfterthrece glasses.
d Before sunset.
iArieltells Prospero, They smote the air', rogarding Caliban, Stephano and
rinculo He means-
a beat the air when it blew in thoir faces.
b) picrcing their cars with music.

c) freezing their bones with aches.
d) brushing it like teeth.
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the end of the play-
the following line for Caliban at
(i Prosperg says
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this thing of darkness I
acknowledge mine.
here?
What quality of Prospero is reflected
a) Rude.
b) Mean.
c) Loving.
d) Intelligent.
step in
(iv) In the Caliban, Trinculo, Stephano plot against Prospero,What was theirst
the plan of action?
a). Cut his throat
b). Abduct his daughter

c. Snatch his books
d). Imprison Aricl
the beginning of the short

(v) What are we told about the machine of Klausner at
story, The Sound machine?
a) It is a black box.
b) It is three fect long
c)It looks ikea child's coffin.

d All ofthe above.
(vi) In theshortstory, ToBuild a Fire, the man's companion
was ....
a) Theold timer at Sulphur Creck.

b) His mates.
A usky.
d) No one
Meadows in the
(Si) In the short story, The Singing Lesson, who called Miss
mistresses' room?
a) Monica.
b) Mary Beazley.
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not
Pire, the old man from the Sulphur Creck though
In the short
(present story, To Build a
but plâyed a pivotal role because..

Mrs L. Mallard says
she would weep
(1) In the short story The Story of an Hout, because
tender hands folded in death
again on seeing her husband's kind and
at half pástsix
Klausner called Dr. Scott
(VI1) In the short story, The Sound Machinc,
in the morning because
(vi) In the poem, Crossing the Bar, the poet has chosen sunset and evening star as
the setting of the pocm because.
ix)In the poem, Dover Beach the poet describes the world asadarklingplain.
because
Makers, the poet decläres that music makers
are
In the poem, We are the Music
The dreamers of dreams because
SECTION B-60 MARKS

The Tempest: Willianm Shakespeare
Question 3
condition of the prisoners
I n Act V of "The Tempest how does Ariel describe the
and expresses his sympathy for Prospero'senëmies? 5
failure?
i How did the conspiracy of Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo become a
Comment on the comic elementunderlying in this cpisode.
(ii) (a) Referring closcly to the Banquet scene mention what role did
Ariel play in
that? Brieflydescribeiisspeech of retribution. [101
OR
his
I nAct 5ofthe play the readers notice Prospero's fury being replacedin by than
forgiveness and reconciliation which indeed proves "the rarer action is virtue
engeance." Discuss [10
ECIHOES: PROSE
Question4
n the story To Build a Fire what made the protagonist build a fire for the third time
and what became ofit? 51
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The
Comment on the portrayal of the strife of Miss Meadows in the short story
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(1)
Singing Lesson. 151
between B. Wordsworth
(a) What do you think about the invisible bond shared
and the young boy? Why did B. Wordsworth negate his story at the end? (10
OR
(b) Referring closcly to the short story The Sound Machine, describe theidea which
Klausner was obsessed with and the destiny of his mechanical deviae Doyou believe
that Klausner succeeded in his experiment (give reasons)? (10
REVERIE: POETRY
Question 5
) The poem, Crossing the Bar, 'is a journcy from life to death, a complete surrender
to the Pilot', discuss.
Music makers the movers and shakers, change makers. How is this
(ii) The are
conveyed in the poem We are the Music Makers? 51

(ii) (a) Depict the rules of swinging thebirches closely following the depiction of
Robert Frost in the poem 'Birches 10]
OR
(b) Matthew Arnolddepictedthe turmoil of the Victorian era through the poem
Dover Beach', he also suggested the solution to achieve solace in the midst of chaos
Discuss [10]
RS'H'9
G.
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GOKULDHAM HIGH SCHOOL& JUNIOR COLLEGE

I PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION -03-01-2023]

Time Allowed: Three hours

(Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutes for onlyreadtng tiepaper.

Answer all questions in SectionAmd Section B.

Choose the correet options forthe folowing questions: [10

b) picrcing their cars with music.

This paper consists of5 printed pages.

a). Cut his throat

b). Abduct his daughter

d). Imprison Aricl

the beginning of the short

b) It is three fect long

c)It looks ikea child's coffin.

a) Theold timer at Sulphur Creck.

This paper consists of 5 printed pages.

but plâyed a pivotal role because..

The dreamers of dreams because

SECTION B-60 MARKS

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conveyed in the poem We are the Music Makers? 51

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