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HAZARATPUR HIGH SCHOOL
2nd Semester Examination – 2025
Class-XI
Subject – ENGLISH
Time – 2 Hrs FM-40
1. Answer any 2(Two) questions from PROSE and any 2(Two) questions from VERSE of the following questions, each in about 40 words : 4×2=8
PROSE
(i) What does Jimmy’s suitcase contain ?
(ii) When was ‘Of Studies’ written and published ?
(iii) What do the flowers symbolize in ‘The Garden Party’ ?
(iv) What is Mother Teresa’s point of view about drug addiction among young people ?
POETRY
(v) What was the original title of the poem ‘My Last Dutchess’ ? Where did the initial title first appear ?
(vi) What do the fast two lines of the poem ‘Still I Rise’ signify ?
(vii) Why did the Duke keep the portrait of his late wife curtained?
(viii) Who is the speaker of the poem ‘Still I Rise’ ?
2. Answer any 1(One) question from PROSE and any 1(One) question from VERSE of the following questions, each in not more than 120 words : 6×2=12
(i) What arrangements were being made for the garden party ?
(ii) “Mr Ralph D Spencer, the phoenix that arrows from Jimmy valentines asses……”– Who is Ralph D Spencer ? What is phoenix ? Why has the comparison been made ?
(iii) “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing
an exact man.”— what are the uses of reading conferences and writing according to Francis Bacon as expressed in ‘Of Studies’ ?
(iv) Explain ‘My Last Duchess’ as a dramatic monologue ?
(v) Analyse the various images as found in ‘Still I Rise’ ?
3. Answer any 1(One) of the following questions in not more than 120 words : 5×1=5
(i) How did the cowboys play at royalty ? 5
(ii) “But she had apparently become quite a different person.”– Who had become a ‘different person’ ? What were the changes? What was the observer’s reaction to it? 1+2+2
(iii) What is a folk tale ? What traits of a folk tale are present in “The Man Who Wished to be Perfect’ ? 2+3
4. Do as directed : 1×5=5
(i) They ________ (swim) in the pool when the wind _______ (start) blowing hard. [Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the verbs given in brackets] ½×2=1
(ii) She asked me if I was going to college. [Change into direct speech] 1
(iii) Kolkata is not one of the safest cities in India. [Change into positive degree] 1
(iv) Write what I am dictating. [Rewrite the sentence by replacing the underlined word with an appropriate phrasal verb] 1
(v) She was unhappy. She did not blame anyone. [Join using adverb clause] 1
5. Write a paragraph in about 150 words on ‘The Duties and Responsibilities of a Student’ using the given points : 10
Points : (Student life, prime time of life — studies, the principal duty — respect for the elders and love for the youngers — social activities during vacations — makers of a nation.]
OR
6. Attempt both of the following : 5 x 2=10
(i) Write an application for leave to the headmaster / headmistress of your institution. (Word limit: 75 words)
(ii) Write a report on the ‘Celebration of Rabindra Jayanti in your school’.
(Word limit: 75 words)