Question

(A) Read the extract given below andcomplete the sentences that follow with the help of given options.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
(a) The poet was informed about the broken statue by.................... .
(i) Ozymandias (ii) some travellers (iii) the sculptor (iv) atraveller
(b) The legs of stone belonged to .................... .
(i) Ozymandias (ii) the traveller (iii) the statue (iv) the poet
(c) The word, 'trunk' in this context means .................... .
(i) upper part of a body (ii) part of a tree (iii) legs of the statue(iv) none of the above
(B) Read the passage given below and answer the questions thatfollow.
At least, that was what I thought then. Now I knew that SebastianShultz, the boy from the game, really did exist, I’d seen theproof in the newspaper.
(a) What had Michael thought earlier?
(b) Why is Sebastian Shultz called ‘the boy from the game’?
(c) What had Michael seen in the newspaper ?
(C) Read the extract given below and answer the questions thatfollow.
‘Shall Caesar send a lie?
Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,
To be afraid to tall graybeards the truth ?
Decius, go and tell them Caesar will not come’.
(a) Why has Decius come to Caesar’s place?
(b) What message does Caesar give him?
(c) Who are the ‘graybeards’ referred to here?

Answer 1

a) a traveller
b)the statue
c) upper part of the body