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HALFYEARLY EXAMINATION 2024 -2025

CLASS X -LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
(ENGLISH PAPER -2)
Maximum Marks : 80
Time Allowed: Two hours

Youwill not be allowed to write during the first 15

This time is to be spent in reading the minutes.
question paper.
The time given at the head of this paper is the time
allowed for writing the answers.

The paper has four Sections.

Section A is compulsory - All questions in Section A must be answered.
You must attempt onequestion from each of the Sections B,Cand D and one
other question from any
Section of your choice.
The intended marks for each question or parts of questions are given in
brackets.[ ]
SECTION A.
(Attempt ALL questions from this section ) [16]

Question 1
Choose the correct answers to the questions from the given options.
(Do not copy the question. Write the correct answers only.)
(i) When Caesar arrives at the Senate House,who is worried that the plot pertaining to his assassination
has been discovered?
(a) Casca. (b) Brutus
© Trebonius. (d) Cassius
(ü) How didCaesar fill the coffers of Rome , according to Antony's eulogy?
(a) Collecting ransoms
(b)Taxing the wealthy
(c) Personal contributions
(d) Looting
(iii) The man who shares Senator Cinna's name holds what occupation?
 (a) Cobbler
(b) Lawyer
(c) Poet
(d) Carpenter should be killed?
(iv) Who does Lepidus agree to add to the listtof people who
(a) His nephew
(b) His brother
(c) His father
(d) His cousin
(v) How does Portia kill herself?
(a) Slitting her wrist
(b) Hanging herself
(c) Swallowing fire
(d) Taking poison
(vi) Who asks permision to speak at Caesars funeral?
(a) Brutus
(b) Antony
(c) Cassius
(d) Octavius
(vii) In the poem 'Haunted Houses' ,the poet, H. W.Longfellow comparesthe silence of the ghosts to
(a) Pictures
(b) Graves
(c) Libraries
(d) Cemeteries
(viii) Who can cross the bridge of light?
(a) Spirits
(b) Saints
(c) Human beings
(d) Animals
(ix) Which of the given options contains the figure of
speech that appears in the following line from
Leigh Hunt's poem "The Glove and the Lions':'Ramped and roared the lions':
(a) Your eyes are like the diamond bright.
(b) 'Rich gifts of raiment or grainof gold.'
(c) Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.'
(d) 'Suddenly the black night showed its teeth in a flash of
(x) Why did de Lorge throw the glove right in the lady's face'?
lightning.
(a) To show his love for her.
(b) To prove his valour
(c) To prove how significant she is.
(d) To show his annoyance at her vanity.
(xi) With reference to the poem,'When Great Trees Fall,
trees falI?
what happens to the small things when oreat
(a) They die due to shock.
(b) They curl up in silence.
 (c) They look up to large
(d) None of the atbove. things for shelter.
(xii) What is the theme of Maya
(a) The impact of the death ofAngelou' s poem, When Great Trees Fall' ?
a loved one on those left
(b) The effect of felling trees on behind
the environment
(c) The effect of the death of
trees on humanity
(d) The impact of natural
calamities on a
(xiii) In William Sleator's short story, The forest.
Elevator' what was Martin's fear about the elevator in his
building?
(a) It would stop suddenly.
(b) He would be trapped in it for
hours.
(c) He would be bullied by others in the
elevator.
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(xiv) Which of the following statements about the elevator in Martin's
building is NOT correct?
(a) There was poor lighting.
(b) Its walls were dirty
(c) Its doors could stay open for long.
(d) It could carry only three people at a time.
(xv) What character trait of Nana is revealed by her act of not allowing Adjoa to express her thoughts?
(a) Conservative
(b) Authoritarian
(c) Patriarchal
(d) Allof the above
(xvi) In Stephen Leacock's With the Photographer , while waiting for the photographer,the narrator
spent time
(a) examining the studio
(b) talking on his phone
(c) writing in his diary
(d) reading magazines

SECTION B
(Answer one or more questions from this Section.)
DRAMA
(JuliusCaesar by William Shakespeare)
Question 2
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :

Brutus : Not that I loved Caesar less but that Iloved Rome more.

)Where does this scene take place?Who was the other person with Brutus when he entered the
scene?Why did he exit the scene?/3]
(G) How did Brutus address the Romans? What was his plea in the opening lines of his speech?[1+2)
(iii) What was the response of Brutus to: [3]

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 (a) Caesar's fortune
(b) Caesar's valour
0. Caesar's ambition
with regard to this
(iv) Who enters the scene as Brutus completes his speech2What does Brutus say
person?[3]
(v) What evidence is found in the scene that tells you that this person is not a friend of Brutus? (4]

Question 3
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Mark Antony: So is myhorse, Octavius.

)Where does the scene take place?What is the occasion?List the two words used by Octavius for
Lepidus just before the extract.[3]
(ii) How does Antony treat his horse?(3)
(ii) How has Lepidus been described by Antony?[3]
(iv) Antony says, Listen to great things.' What are the 'great things'? [3]
(v) State any two qualities of Mark Antony.How is Octavius different from Mark Antony?|2+2]

Section C
(Answer one or more questions from this Section.)
PROSE -SHORT STORIES
(Treasure Chest - A Collection of ICSE Short Stories and Poems)
Questions 4
Read the following extract from Ama Ata Aidoo's short story, The Girl Who Can't and answer the
questions that follow:

They say that when allof Africa is not choking under a drought, Hasodzi lies in a very fertile low land
in a district known for its good soil May be that is why anytime I don't finish eating my food, Nana
says,'You, Adjoa, you don't know what life is about...you don't know what problems there are in this
life.."

(i)What do you learn about the narrator from the above extract? [3]
(ii) What is the serious problem faced by the narrator?[3]
(iii) What is the general attitude of elders towards the problems faced by the youngster? What does the
narrator think of their response? [3]
(iv)Who are the twofavourite people of the narrator? What are the different views that these twobad
regarding the narrator 's schooling? (3]
(v) How does the
narrator show the mettle of a
Question 5 woman?{4]
Read the following extract
that follow: from Stephen Leacock's With the
Photographer and answer the questions
Tm sure it would," Isaid
him. enthusiastically, for I was glad to find the man had such a human side to
() What is the narrator sure of? What does he wish to convey
human side to him?[3] when he says that the man had such a
(1) How are the faces of the human
beings made to look better? What is the tone of the
when he says that human faces can be narrator's voice
made to look better? [3]
(iii) Which features are asked to be
(iv) What is the narrator's response improved upon and how?[3]
on seeing his photograph?[3]
(V) Does the narrator approve of the
techniques of photographers in bringing about changes in the
original photograph? Would you support the narrator's point of view? Why?[1+1+2]
SECTION D
(Answer one or more questions from this Section)
POETRY
(Treasure Chest - A Collection of Poems and Short Stories)

Question 6
Read the following extract from H.W.Longfellow's Haunted Houses' and answer the questions that
follow:

Allhouses wherein men have lived and died

Are haunted houses.Through the open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors.

(i) According to the poet, why are all houses haunted? What kind of houses are these?[3]
(ii) How can the presence of these phantoms be perceived? How do they enter our world of sense' ?
[3]
(iii) How are they different from the conventional image of spirits? [3]
(iv) Describe the image used by the poct to connect the world of spirits to the human world.[3]
(v) List any four characteristics of these phantoms.[4]

Question 7
Read the following extract from Leigh Hunt's, The Glove and the Lions' and answer the questions
that follow:

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She dropped her glove,to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;
He bowed,and in a moment,leaped among the lions wild:
The leap was quick, return was quick,he has regained his place,
Then threw the glove,but not with love,right in the lady's face'

(i) Who is 'She?Whose love did she want "to prove'? Where did she drop the glove?[3]
() What was her unspoken message when she looked at him and smiled"?What character trait has she
displayed through her action?ls it a desirable character trait?[3]
(ii) ldentify 'He' who bowed and leaped among the lions"? How did he conduct himself? [3)
(iv) What was his unexpected action, thereafter? Why did he behave in that manner?|2 +1]
(v) List two qualities of the person who leaped among the lions wild'.What does the poet convey
through this poem?[2+2]

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