The Shri Ram School Moulsari Campus

First Term Examination 2017-18

Class XII
Elective English
Time 3 hrs
M. M 100

• Answers must be written on the paper provided separately.

• You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
• This time is to be spent in reading the question paper. The time given at the head
of the paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.
• The question paper contains 2 printed sides.

Note: Attempt five questions, covering all three of the prescribed textbooks. If you answer two
questions on any one book, do not base them both on the same material.
All working, including rough work, should be done on the same sheet as the rest of the answer.
Credit is given for textual detail and for the candidate’s own response.
Candidates are requested to be precise and to avoid unnecessary detail.
The intended marks for questions are given in brackets.
Please use separate answer sheets for each of your teachers and write the name of the subject
teacher on top of the answer sheet.

SECTION A – NOVEL
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD – HARPER LEE

1. Discuss the childhood world of Jem, Scout, and Dill and their relationship with Boo Radley
in Part One of the novel. [20]

2. Describe the incident of the mob outside the jailhouse with a reference to its presentation
of the theme of racism and innocence of children. [20]

3. Contrast the character of Ms. Maudie Atkinson and Aunt Alexandra and the relationship
Scout shares with both. [20]

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 SECTION B - DRAMA
DEATH OF A SALESMAN – ARTHUR MILLER

4. In Act 1 of the play, Biff and Happy’s conversation in the bedroom, followed by Willy’s
flashback into their childhood years, provides a tremendous insight into their characters.
Discuss. [20]

5. The scene with Howard (Act 2) helps to evoke sympathy for Willy Loman as a tragic
figure. Comment. [20]

6. Analyse Linda’s role in the play as evident in Act 1. [20]

SECTION C – POETRY
NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY VERSE

7. Comment on the symbolic value of the Bavarian Gentians in D.H. Lawrence’s poem of
the same name. [20]

8. Critically analyze any one of the following poems: [20]

W.H. Auden’s The Shield of Achilles.

OR
Ted Hughes’ Ravens.

9. How is the theme of time and continuity explored in Seamus Heaney’s At a Potato
Digging? [20]

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