NAME- Time - 3 hours

ROLL NO.- M.M. - 80

PERIODIC ASSESSMENT-3rd
SESSION-2018-19
CLASS-IX
SUBJECT- ENGLISH

LITERATURE

1. READ THE PASSAGE GIVEN BELOW AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS (10)
Of course, I found George’s and Harris’s eighteen times over, but I couldn’t find my own. I
put the things one by one, and held everything up and shook it. Then I found it inside a
boot. I repacked once more.
Questions:
(a) How many times did the auther find George’s and Harris’s brush?
(b) What did the author do when he couldn’t find his own?
(c) Where did he find it?
(d) When did he repack his bag?
(e) Who is the author of this story? Write the name of the story.

2. READ THE EXRTACT GIVEN BELOW AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS (10)
“ this requires some little reflection ; perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck”.
Questions:
(a) Whose requires does have some little reflection?
(b) Who says these lines and by whom?
(c) What could bring him luck?
(d) From which poem these lines have been taken? Write the name of poet also.
(e) Who are the main characters in this poem?

3. SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (30-40 words) (20)

BEEHIVE
(a) How many characters are there in the story “packing”?
(b) What was the most spitiual and proud moment for Santosh Yadav?
(c) How and when did Sharapova reach the pinnacle?
(d) What happened when the author ‘s wife went to meet Baba in the zoo?
(e) When was Gieve Patel born? Write his famous plays.
MOMENTS
(a) Why did the author keep visiting the remains of his house?
(b) Do you think the feeling of depression Johnsy has is common among teenagers?
 (c) Why does Bill Bryson fill with wonder?
(d) Why is his finger bleeding? What is his wife’s reaction?
(e) Why did the narrator walk around school like a zombie?
4. LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (100-150 words) (10)
(a) Write the critical appreciation of the poem ‘On Killing a Tree’.
(b) Write a character-sketch of Behrman.
GRAMMAR
CHANGE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES INTO PASSIVE VOICE 10
(a) Do they speak french?
(b) Was he reading a book?
(c) Compose this letter.
(d) One should respect one’s elders.
(e) I did not praise anybody.
REARRANGE THE FOLLOWING WORDS IN MEANINGFUL SENTENCES 10
(a) Elephant / land/ animal / present / largest / is / day / the / of / the
(b) The / Indian / English / exploited / the / farmers
(c) Petroleum / world / all / in / over / great / is / demand / the
(d) Aware of/ diseases/ communicable/ should/ we/ be
(e) After 100 years/ have/ memory/ elephants/ things/ strong/ to recall/even

CHANGE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES INTO INDIRECT SPEECH 10

(a) He says”, Honesty is the best policy.”
(b) She said,” Mahesh will be reading a book.”
(c) He said to me,” May you live long.”
(d) She said,” where is your father”?
(e) The students said,” Alas! I wasted my time last year.”