Section – C (31 marks) (Literature)

Question 10.
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. (1×3=3)
A. The sea holiday was her past, mine is her laughter.
Both wry With the laboured ease of loss.
Question 1.
Why are ‘both wry’?
(A) Both were happy moments which cannot be relived.
(B) Both poet’s mother and her cousin were dead.
(C) Both photograph and cardboard were torn.
(D) Both poet and her mother were not talking to each other.
Answer:
1. Option (A) is correct.

Question 2.
Which figure of speech is used in ‘laboured ease of loss’?
(A) Alliteration
(B) Transferred Epithet
(C) Personification
(D) Oxymoron
Answer:
Option (D) is correct.

Question 3.
Who is ‘her’ in the above lines?
Answer:
‘Her’ is poet’s mother who is no more.
OR

B. Was it the time I realised that Hell and Heaven,

Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore, could not be,
Was that the day
Question 1.
Which concepts are not found in geography books ?
(A) Gravity
(B) Force
(C) Hell and Heaven
(D) Constellations
Answer:
Option (C) is correct.
Question 2.
What is ‘that day’ in the poem?
(A) The day poet loses his book.
(B) The day poet loses his pencil.
(C) The day poet loses his car.
(D) The day poet loses his childhood.
Answer:
Option (D) is correct.
Question 3.
Find the word in the extract which means ‘comprehend’.
Answer:
realised

Question 11.
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. (1 x 3 = 3)
(A) My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big
turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he
looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or
children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren.
Question 1.
From which story have these lines been taken?
(A) My grandfather
(C) The Portrait of a Lady
(B) My grandmother
(D) A Photograph
Answer:
Option (C) is correct.

Question 2.
Which of these characteristics of the grandfather are shown by the photograph?
(A) Wore loose clothes
(B) Had a long beard
(C) Looked older than his age
(D) All of these
Answer:
Option (D) is correct.

Question 3.
This chapter is primarily about the author’s ………………………
(A) grandfather
(B) grandmother
(C) mother
(D) children
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
OR
B. The first leg of our planned three-year, 1,05,000 kilometres journey passed pleasantly as we
sailed down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town. There, before heading east, we took on two
crewmen – American Larry Vigil and Swiss Herb Seigler – to help us tackle one of the world’s
roughest seas, the southern Indian Ocean.
Question 1.
From which lesson have these lines been taken?
(A) Round the World in 80 days
(B) Replica of a Journey
(C) We’re Not Afraid to Die… If We Can All Be Together
(D) Photograph of a Journey
Answer:
Option (C) is correct.
Question 2.
Whose journey are the narrators trying to replicate?
(A) Captain Thames Cook
(B) Captain James Cook
(C) Captain James Crawford
(D) None of these
Answer:
Option (B) is correct
Question 3.
The narrators are preparing for the journey across in these lines.
(A) Cape Town
(B) Africa
(C) America
(D) Indian Ocean
Answer:
Option (D) is correct.
Question 12.
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. (1 x 4 = 4)
‘A. One day back there in the good old days when I was nine and the world was full of every
imaginable kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream, my cousin
Mourad, who was considered crazy by everybody who knew him except me, came to my house at
four in the morning and woke me up tapping on the window of my room.
Question 1.
What is the name of the narrator?
(A) Aram
(B) Mourad
(C) Zorab
(D) Vazire
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.

Question 2.
What was Mourad doing?
(A) Sitting on a black horse
(B) Sitting on a white horse
(C) Sitting on a huge elephant
(D) Sitting on a camel
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.

Question 3.
What was Mourad fond of?
(A) Nature
(B) Tribal beliefs
(C) Adventures
(D) Education
Answer:
Option (C) is correct.
Question 4.
Which word in the passage is an antonym of ‘unimpressive’?
(A) Imaginable
(B) Magnificence
(C) Mysterious
(D) Tapping
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.

OR
B. Do you still know me?’ I asked.
The woman looked at me searchingly. She had opened the door a chink. I came closer and stood
on the step. ‘No, I don’t know you.’
‘Tm Mrs S’s daughter.’
Question 1.
What is the name of ‘the woman’?
(A) Mrs. S
(B) Mrs. Dorling
(C) Mrs. Draker
(D) Mrs. Sen
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Question 2.
Around whose address the story evolves?
(A) The author
(B) Mrs. Dorling
(C) Mrs. Marconi
(D) Mrs. Draker
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.

Question 3.
What was the address of that woman?
(A) 26, Marconi Street
(B) 32, Dorling Street
(C) 46, Marconi Street
(D) 59, Dorling Street
Answer:
Option (C) is correct.
Question 4.
Who is the author of these lines?
(A) Marga Minco
(B) A.J. Cronin
(C) J. B. Priestley
(D) Patrick Pringle
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.

Question 13.
Answer the following questions in 40-50 words each. (3 x 2=6)
(a) What opinion did the grandmother form of the English school in the city?
OR
Give a brief description of the narrator’s boat. How had the narrator equipped and tested it?
Answer:
The grandmother didn’t like the English school in the city. She was sad as they didn’t teach
anything about God and scriptures at the school. Nor was she interested in Science. She hated
music lessons given in the school.
OR
The narrator’s boat was called ‘wave-walker’. It was a beautiful 23-metre-long, 30-ton wooden
hulled ship. It had been professionally built. They had spent months fitting it out and testing in the
roughest weather they could find.
(b) Why does the poet feel that Heaven and Hell are not real places?
OR
Why do you think, the poet says nothing about her mother’s death?
Answer:
As the speaker grew mature, he acquired reasoning power. He realised that Hell and Heaven
could not be found in Geography books or Atlas. Since they could not be located anywhere in the
world map, he concluded that they did not exist. He would believe only what he could see and find.
OR
The poet has no words to express her reaction to this solemn and painful incident. Death silences
everyone. The extensive quietness and prevailing gloom silences her.
Question 14.
Answer any one of the following questions in about 40-50 words: (3 x 1=3)
“This was the part that wouldn’t permit me to believe what I saw,” What part does the narrator hint
at in the story. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse?
OR
Why did the narrator go to number 46, Marconi Street in the story “The Address” ?
Answer:
When the narrator begins the story, he is feeling nostalgic. He was then nine years old. The world
seemed to him full of every kind of splendour that he could imagine. Life appeared to him as a
delightful and mysterious dream.
OR
This was the address of the woman who carried their valuables from her home for safety during
war time. So, the narrator went there to claim the belongings of her mother.
Question 15.
Answer any one of the fotlowing questions in about 120-150 words: (6 x1=6)
What problems did Howard Carter face in regard to King Tut’s mummy? What did he do to solve
them?
Answer:
At last Howard Carter, the British archaeologist, discovered King Tut’s burial chamber and his gold
coffin in 1922. When he opened the last coffin, he found that the ritual resins had hardened. It had
cemented Tut to the bottom of his solid gold coffin. He tried to loosen it by putting the mummy in
the scorching sunshine.
But it did not happen. Then he said the material had to be chiseled away from beneath the limbs
and trunk. It was to he done before it was possible to raise the King’s remains. Carter said that the
thieves would rip the mummy apart to get the gold. So his men removed the mummy’s head and
severed nearly major joint. Then they reassembled the remains on a layer of sand. They put the
mummy in a wooden box.
OR
How does the rain describe herself in the poem ‘The Voice of the Rain
Answer:
The rain calls itself the poem of earth. It is everlasting and perpetual. It is something that cannot
be touched. It originates from the land and the deep sea. Then it rises upward to heaven where it
changes its forms into a cloud, yet remains the same in quality. From the sky it pours down on
earth to wash the dry thin particles and dust layers of the earth. The rain helps the unborn seeds
to sprout. These seeds lay hidden and unborn under the layer of earth. Rain gives back life to its
origin making it pure and beautiful.

Question 16.
Answer any one of the following questions in about 120-150 words: (6×1=6)
Describe the narrator’s second visit to Mrs. Dorling’s house.
Answer:
The narrator’s first visit to Mrs. Dorling’s house was ‘n vain. She decided to try for a second time.
This time a girl of about fifteen opened the door to her. Her mother was not at home. The narrator
said that she would wait for her. Following the girl along the passage, the narrator saw their old
fashioned iron candle-holder hanging next to a mirror. The girl made her sit in the living room and
went inside.
The narrator was horrified to find herself in a room she knew and did not know. She found herself
in the midst of familiar things which she longed to see again but which oppressed her in the
strange atmosphere. She dared not look around her.
The woollen table cloth, the cups, the white tea-pot, the spoons, the pewter plate, everything was
full of memories of her former life. Suddenly the objects linked with her former life lost their value
in strange surroundings. They too appeared strange to her. She no longer had the desire to
possess them. She got up, walked to the door and left the house.
OR
Throw light on Mrs. Fitzgerald’s efforts to reform Mrs. Pearson’s family.
Answer:
Mrs. Pearson does not have the courage to stand up for her rights. Therefore, Mrs. Fitzgerald
suggests a novel approach— exchange of personalities. Now, as Mrs. Pearson, with the
personality of Mrs. Fitzgerald, she puts the plan of formation in action. She smokes, drinks and
plays cards. All this is unusual for the family She further shocks them by being tough with them in
words and action.
She asks them to look after themselves. She clearly tells them that she has already worked for
more than eight hours that day. She tells them plainly how they behave at home and work place.
She is equally blunt with Mt George Pearson, who goes away every evening to the club, leaving
his wife alone at home.
She reveals to him how the people at club make fun of him. In short, she makes them realise their
responsibility toward the mother. In the end she performs the exchange of personalities once
again. Thus, Mrs. Fitzerald makes the family members of Mrs. Pearson learn that she deserves
respect and responsible behaviour from them.