Musaeus College

Colombo 07
British Curriculum
Grade 7

Candidate Name:

English Literature
April 2023
2 hours

No additional materials are needed.

INSTRUCTIONS Poetry

Novel
● Answer all questions. Total
● Use a black or dark blue pen.
● Write your name in the box at the top of the page.
● Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
● The total mark for this paper is 100.

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 Poetry

1. Read the given extract carefully and answer the following questions.
A. The Echoing Green by William Blake.
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring.
The sky-lark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells’ cheerful sound.
While our sports shall be seen
On the Echoing Green.
A. What is mentioned as green in the above extract? What does the green echo with? [2m]
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B. What time of the day is at the beginning of the poem? [2m]
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C. What does the poet do in the first stanza? [2m]
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D. Write the rhyming scheme of the above stanza. [2m]
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E. Identify the central theme of the above stanza. [2m]
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F. Identify the following literary devices from the given extract. [2*4=8m]
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 G. What happens to the ‘Echoing Green’ at the end of the poem? Write two changes that
occur along with this in the last stanza. [5m]
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H. What does the poet talk about in the poem “Echoing Green”? Provide examples from the
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B. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—

Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all.

i. Who is the speaker of this poem? [2m]

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ii. Who is referred to as ‘he’ in the above extract? [2m]
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iii. What does the speaker find funny about this ‘he’? [2m]
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 iv. Write a simile mentioned in the above extract. [2m]
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v. He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play,

And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he’s a coward you can see;
I’d think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

a. Comment on the speaker’s attitude towards this ‘he’ in the above stanza. Give examples
from the poem to your answer. [6m]
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C. What is the moral message given to the society in the poem, ‘The Bees’ by William
Shakespeare? Explain your answer with reference to the poem. [8m]

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2. Identify the literary devices used in each sentence. [2*10=20m]

i. Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds,

Of flowers of chivalry and not of weeds!

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ii. This morning had friendly greetings for peaceful sleepers.

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iii. The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky,

A glimpse of the moon like a half-closed eye.

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iv. Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.

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v. Blind fools of fate and slaves of circumstance,

Life is a fiddler, and we all must dance.

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vi. Janet murmured the answer under her breath.

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vii. The captain couldn’t keep the men in the cabin.

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viii. And therefore, I went forth, with hope and fear

Into the wintry forest of our life;

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 ix. My mother’s kitchen was like a holy place: you couldn’t wear your shoes, you had to sit

there at a certain time, and occasionally we’d pray.

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x. Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty.

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Novel - Matilda

1. Read the given extract carefully and answer the questions.

i. “A fine writer will always make you feel that”

“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand, Sit back and allow the words to wash
around you, like music.”
➢ Who is speaking to whom in the above extract?
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ii. “If you don’t like it then don’t eat the food in this house. It’s bought with the profits”
➢ Who is speaking to whom in the above extract?
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iii. “Ow-w-w!’ ‘Don’t do that! Let go! You’ll take half the skin off my forehead!”
➢ Who is speaking to whom in the above extract?
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iv. “You can’t make it talk,’ ‘You have to be patient. It’ll talk when it feels like it.”
➢ Who is speaking to whom in the above extract?
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v. “You’ve got a nerve talking to your father like that. Now keep your nasty mouth shut so we
can all watch this programme in peace.”
➢ Who is speaking to whom in the above extract?
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2. Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood neglect Matilda and do not treat her with love and care. Express
your opinion on this statement. Provide examples from the text to your answer.
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3. Write a character profile of Mr. Wormwood. What do you think about his personality?
Provide examples from the text to your answer. [10m]

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