Question

HAR GHAR PATHSHALA, HP

First Terminal Assessment

Class 10 + 1

Paper- English

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your test.

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Principal, keeping in view norms of social distancing.

SECTION- 1 (LITERATURE)

Q.-1 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:-

The cardboard shows me how it was

When the two girl cousins went paddling,

Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,

And she the big girl — some twelve years or so.

(i) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.

(ii) What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote?

(iii) Who were the two girls?

(iv) Who has been said to be the big girl? Why?

OR

The Laburnum top is silent, quite still

In the afternoon yellow September sunlight,

A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.

Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup

A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.

(i) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.

(ii)What has been said about the laburnum top?

(iii) Which season has been described here? How can you say so?

(iv) Where does the goldfinch land? 4X1 = 4

Q.-2 Answer any two of the following questions in about 30 words each:-

(i) What has the camera captured?

(ii)To what is the bird’s movement compared? What is the basis for the comparison?

(iii) What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Mention three ways in which the author’s grandmother spent her days after he grew up.