SAGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
CLASS – XI (REVISION
WORKSHEET-13)
SUBJECT – ENGLISH (ENG-301)
I. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
She used to wake me up in the morning and get me ready for school. She
said her morning prayer in a monotonous sing-song while she bathed and
dressed me in the hope that I would listen and get to know it by heart; I
listened because I loved her voice but never bothered to learn. it. Then she
would fetch my wooden slate which she had already washed and plastered
with yellow chalk.
1. Who looked after the narrator?
A His Grandmother
B His Mother
C His Father
D Both B and C
2. Where did they both live?
A In a village
B In city
C In a metropolitan city
D None of these
3. Find out the antonym of ‘Monotonous’ from the following:
A Dull
B Boring
C Obsolete
D Exciting
4. What did his grandmother always hold in her hands?
A Rosary
B Wooden Slate
C Food for Narrator
D All of these
II. “Now she’s been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived
And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all
Its silence silences”
1. Who does she refer to?
A The poet’s dead aunt
B The poet’s dead mother
C The poet’s dead cousin
D The poet’s sister
2. Why is there nothing to be said regarding the poet’s mother’s
passing?
A The poet is perplexed
B When her mother passed away, the poet was not in her senses
C The death of the poet’s mother has left a deep void in the poet’s heart
D The poet and her mother did not get along well
3. The phrase “events that change your life, over which you have no
control” is synonymous to which word in the extract?
A Silences
B Circumstances
C Situation
D Circumstance
4. What does the author feel in the last phase?
A pain and grief
B happy and nostalgic
C sad and nostalgic
D pain and nostalgic
III. Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.
Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness,
Q1 What effect is produced at the branch end with the sitting of the
mother goldfinch bird on it?
Q2. Why is the mother goldfinch bird ‘alert’ while entering the
thickness?
Q3. Which figure of speech is used to describe the movement of the
mother goldfinch bird?
Q4. What does the word ‘twitching’ mean?
IV. And who art thou? Said I to the soft falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here Translated:
I am the poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upwards to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether Changed, and yet
the same.
Q1. What do you understand by the phrase ‘Strange to tell’?
Q2.How has the answer been conveyed to us and what is it?
Q3. Why does the rain call itself ‘eternal’?
Q4. Explain ‘vaguely formed’.
V. IN July 1976, my wife Mary, son Jonathan, 6, daughter Suzanne, 7, and I
set sail from Plymouth, England, to duplicate the roundthe-world voyage
made 200 years earlier by Captain James Cook. For the longest time, Mary
and I — a 37-year-old businessman — had dreamt of sailing in the wake of
the famous explorer, and for the past 16 years we had spent all our leisure
time honing our seafaring skills in British waters.
Q1. Name the chapter from which the extract has been taken.
Q2. Name the author of the given lines.
Q3. Mention all the family members as given in the above extract.
Q4. What do you understand by the term “voyage”?
VI. Carter—Howard Carter, that is — was the British archaeologist who in
1922 discovered Tut’s tomb after years of futile searching. Its contents,
though hastily ransacked in antiquity, were surprisingly complete. They
remain the richest royal collection ever found and have become part of the
pharaoh’s legend. Stunning artefacts in gold, their eternal brilliance meant
to guarantee resurrection, caused a sensation at the time of the discovery —
and still get the most attention. But Tut was also buried with everyday things
he’d want in the afterlife: board games, a bronze razor, linen
undergarments, cases of food and wine.
Q1. Who found King Tut’s mummy?
Q2. What was the mummy laden with?
Q3. Why were kings laden with riches?
Q4. What is artefact?
VII. Answer the following questions in about 40-50 words:-
Q1. What message does the play ‘Mother’s Day’ convey about family
dynamics?
Q2. Discuss how the poems "Childhood" by Markus Natten and "Father to Son" by
Elizabeth Jennings explore the transition from childhood to adulthood and the
emotional complexities involved
Q3. Examine how the author uses contrasts between the past and present to deepen the
impact of the narrator's memories of ‘The Address’. How does this technique reveal
the narrator’s emotional and psychological journey?
Q4. Discuss the psychological transformation that Dr. Andrew Manson undergoes during
the night, and how it shapes his future in the lesson ‘Birth’.
Q5. Why has the poet compared the rain to a song?
Q6. What happened after Aram rode the horse alone?
Q7. How does the author describe the character of Mourad?
Q8. What was the fate of the contents of Tut’s mummy?
Q9. “Then let me do it.” What did Mrs Fitzgerald want to do?
Q10. What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease of
loss.” With reference to the poem ‘A Photograph’.
VIII, Answer the following questions in about 60-80 words:-
Q1. What according to the poem is involved in the process of growing up?
Q2. Bring out the hypocrisy that the adults exhibit with regard to love with
reference to the poem ‘Childhood’.
Q3. “I have done something; oh, God! I’ve done something real at last.”
Why does Andrew say this? What does it mean?With reference to the lesson
‘Birth’.
Q4. What values do you learn from goldfinch in the poem?
Q5. The story is divided into pre-War and post-War times. What hardships
do you think the girl underwent during these times?With reference to the
lesson ‘The Address’.
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