Savitribai Phule Shikshan Prasarak Mandal
Sinhgad Public Public School,Korti, Pandharpur
Unit Test – 3 (2020 – 21)
Subject : English Class – VII Marks : 40
Time : 1 hr 40 min Date : 9
th December, 2020
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SECTION – A (READING)
Q.1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions. ( 4
marks )
Dr Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has
given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he
employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration
and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent
persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of
biography that was ever exhibited.
Wherever narrative is necessary to explain, connect, and supply, I furnish it
to the best of my abilities; but in the chronological series of Johnson’s life,
which I trace as distinctly as I can, year by year, I produce, wherever it is in
my power, his own minutes, letters, or conversation, being convinced that
this mode is more lively, and will make my readers better acquainted with
him, than even most of those were who actually knew him, but could know
him only partially; whereas there is here an accumulation of intelligence
from various points, by which his character is more fully understood and
illustrated.
Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man’s life,
than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order, but
interweaving what he privately wrote, and said, and thought. Had his other
friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost
entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be seen in this
work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived.
Questions :
(i) What was Dr Johnson’s opinion on autobiographies?
(ii) According to the author, what would have happened if Dr Johnson had written his autobiography?
(iii) How does the author intend to acquaint his readers completely with Dr Johnson’s life?
(iv) In paragraph 1, the word means ‘preserved someone or something in an unalterable state’.
(a) perfect
(b) preservation
(c) frozen
(d) embalmed
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What was Dr Johnson’s opinion on autobiographies?
(ii) According to the author, what would have happened if Dr Johnson had written his autobiography?
(iii) How does the author intend to acquaint his readers completely with Dr Johnson’s life?
(iv) In paragraph 1, the word means ‘preserved someone or something in an unalterable state’.
(a) perfect
(b) preservation
(c) frozen
(d) embalmed
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