1.Answer the following questions in 100-150words
(i) Discuss the character of ‘Shahmal’ on the basis of your study of “The Cock-¡ght.”
(ii) Write the character sketch of ‘Mriganko Babu’.
(iii) Answer any three of the following questions 80-100 words each:
(iv) Discuss absent-mindness as a virtue.
(v) What major idea is the writer trying to get across to the readers in the story—“The Sniper”?
(vi) Discuss the role of Christy’s mother who helped Christy achieve the impossible.
(vii) Describe in your own words the scene in which Box and Cox start cooking breakfast, but neither of them gets
anything to eat.
(viii) Discuss C. V. Raman’s view about patriotism.
(ix) Describe how and why did the department test Barnaby?

2. Answer the question in 80-100 words each

 (i) Discuss the message conveyed in the poem “Sunrise’.
(ii) Write the summary of the poem “When Autumn Came”.
(iii) Answer brie¢y any three of the following questions:
(iv) Quote two examples of double-talk from the poem “Once Upon a Time”.
(v) Give one example of simile from the poem “Punishment in Kindergarten”.
(vi) Who do you think the poet has personi¡ed autumn as? Why?
(vii) List out two symbols from the poem “After Apple-picking”.

(viii) Give an example of metaphor from the poem “Inklings from the Dark”.

 3. EXPLAIN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PROSE PASSAGE WITH REFERENCE AND CONTEST
(i) This wilderness of rock and light has not been tamed; it remains exalted, and sometime frightening. But it
does not have inhuman solitariness of Antarctica or the Sahara; everywhere there are small marks of human
love and prayer.
(ii) Liberty is not a personal affair only, but a social contract. It is an adjustment of interests. In matters which do

not touch anyone else’s liberty of course, I may be as free I like

 4. EXPLAIN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING STANZA WITH REFERENCE AND POINT OF CONTEST
(i) So show me, son how to laugh; show me how I used to laugh and smile Once upon a time when I was like
you.
(ii) Suddenly I called to my mind my darling son—how raptly did he listen to my bed-time tale last night: When I

told him of the agony of the oyster in her travails!

 SECTION B

5. READ THE FOLLOWING POETIC PASSAGE AND GIVE ANSWER TO AN END. 
The words are mu¤ed now, the laughing Face only a blur. The years have sped along, stopping brie¢y At beloved
halts and moving sadly on
Questions :
(i) Whose words are being referred to here?
(ii) Whose laughter is being referred to here?
(iii) What has caused the change in the words and luaughter?
(iv) How has life been to the poet since her school days?

(v) Use the word ‘blur’ in your own sentence.
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