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 VIVEKANANDA COACHING CENTRE 

SUB:- ENGLISH(B) ; CLASS:- XI ; SEM:- II

F.M:- 40 ; TIME:- 1HOUR 30 MINUTES.

Short Answer Type Questions 

PROSE 

1. Answer any two of the following questions :-  2×2=4

(i) How was the new vault of Elmore Bank ? Why could the door of the vault not be opened ?

(ii) How much time did Jimmy take to break the vault ? Whom did he rescue from the vault ?

(iii) What does St. John say?From where does love begin? 

(iv) What can the poor people teach us? Who is the 'Prince of peace'?

VERSE 

2. Answer any two of the following questions :-  2×2=4

(i)  " You may shoot me with your words."  What does the poet mean here ?

(ii) " I am the dream and hope of the slave " ---  What does the line suggested ? Who were the ancestors of the poet ? 

(iii)  " I call That piece a wonder, now: " --- Who created this piece of wonder ? How long did the person take for it ? 

(iv) " as if she ranked/ My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name / With anybody's gift" --Discuss the character of the speaker according to the comment ? 

Long Answer Type Questions 

PROSE 

3. Answer any one of the following questions :-  1×6=6

(i) How does 0 Henry establish a contrast between Jimmy Valentine and Ralph D Spencer? 

(ii)  What did Jimmy write to his old friend St Louis? Why did he write so? 

(iii) ‘I had the most extraordinary experience with the Hindu family that had eight children.’ – Which experience is Mother Teresa speaking of? 

(iv) Why does Mother Teresa think ‘abortion’ to the greatest destroyer of peace? How does Mother appeal to fight abortion?

VERSE 

4. Answer any one  of the following questions :-  1×6=6

(i) Analyse the various images as you found in 'Still I Rise''. 

(ii) Bring out the central Idea of the poem 'Still I Rise' .

(iii)Justify the title of the poem "My Last Duchess " .

(iv) Why did the Duke command to kill his Duchess ? 

RAPID READER

5. Answer any one  of the following questions :-  1×6=6

(i) How did the neat-herd king solve the case and give the Brahman his rights? 

(ii)   "Neither the Brahman nor his mother had any inkling of the change." --- What change is referred to here ? When did they inkling of the change ?

NON-TEXTUAL GRAMMAR 

6. Do as directed :- 1×5=5

(a) Replace the underlined word with a phrasal verb:- 

  He has ---- (publish) a new book. 

----(Write) what I am instructing.

They ----- (establish) a new school.

(b) Kolkata is not one of the safest cities in India. (change into positive degree)

(d) My father said to me ," May God reward your labour." (Narration)

WRITING 

7. Write a short paragraph with in 150 words on '' A book you have recently read " or " Importance of English  ".  10

Or, 

8.(a) Write a report with in 75 words  on the " Safe drive : save life programme  " for your school  magazine . 5

(b) Write a letter to the editor of an english daily about " reckless driving of public vehicles " with in 75 words. 5