(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?
Answers
A (i) a traveller
b ozymandias
c upper part of the body
(A). The given extract are from the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelly.
a. a traveler
b. the statue
c. upper part of the body
(B). The given extract are from the story “Virtually True”
a. Earlier Michael thought that Sebastian was the part of game.
b. Sebastian Shultz is called ‘the boy from the game’ because Michael met him in the game for the first time.
c. Michael saw a newspaper headlined “Miracle Recovery” which says that Sebastian recovered from coma.
(C). The given extract is taken from “Julius Caeser”.
a. Decius has come to Caesar’s place to bring him to the senate’s house.
b. Caesar gave a message to Decius that he would not attend the senate’s house that day.
c. Gray beards referred to the senior members of the senate’s house.