KALLIVAYALIL PAPPAN MEMORIAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

&JUNIOR COLLEGE

MUNDAKAYAM EAST

UNIT TEST : 2018

STD: X ENGLISH TIME: 1hr

MARKS: 30

(I) Read the extract and answer the questions that follow: (1x4=4)

“Now he understood the meaning of love and separation.

He could no longer enjoy the sportsman’s pleasure and laughter”

1. Who is referred to?

2 what do you mean by sportsman’s pleasure?

3 How was real love growing in Ali’s heart?

4 Who is the author of the story?

(II) 5 Imagine that you are Miriam, the daughter of Ali. You have learnt about how
miserable your father in through acquaintance. You decide to write a letter to your
father at once. (1x5=5)

III Answer the following questions. (5x3=15)

6 Who was Ali? Where he did go daily?

7 Explain Ali’s dictum, “The whole universe is built up through love and grief of
separation is inescapable”.

8 What impression do you form of the postmaster after reading the story, The letter?

9 ‘Ali displays qualities of love and patience’, explain?

10 Why did Ali give up hunting?

11 You are clerk, Lakshmi das who received the five gold coins from Ali. Write a diary
describing your feelings from the time you received the coins to the time you laid the
letter on Ali’s grave? (1x5=5)