CARMEL ACADEMY, WADDHAMNA

PERIODIC TEST- I (2021-2022)

Subject: English Date :28.07.2021
Class X Marks : 20

1 What did Lencho hope for?

(a) A good shower of rain for his crop.
(b) A new motorcycle
(c) A tractor
(d) None of the Above

2 Who read the letter sent by Lencho?

(a) His Wife
(b) The Postmaster
(c) One of the farmer
(d) The Godlowers.

3 Why did Lencho need money?

(a) To buy a tractor
(b) To save his family from hunger
(c) To buy a new phone.
(d) To buy a buffalo.

4 What did Lencho think of the post-office employees?

(a) bunch of crooks
(b) rude
(c) unhelpful
(d) proud

5 How much money was the postmaster able to arrange?

(a) 100 pesos
(b) Nil
(c) 1000 pesos
(d) 70 pesos

6 How much money did Lencho ask for?

(a) 100 pesos
(b) 1000 pesos
(c) 10 pesos
(d) 500 pesos

7 Which crop was growing on Lencho’s fields?

(a) Corn
(b) Barley
(c) Rice
(d) None of the above

8 How does Nelson Mandela define the meaning of courage?

(a) Triumph over fear
(b) Triumph over love
(c) Triumph over selfish
(d) Triumph over poverty
9 Which party did Mandela join?
(a) Indian National Congress
(b) African National Congress
(c) National African Party
(d) he did not join any party

10 What was the effect of the fall of the dust of snow on the poet?
(a) Changed his luck.
(b) Changed his colour
(c) Changed his job.
(d) Changed his mood.

Answer the following questions in one sentence.

11 What does Mandela mean by “an extra ordinary human disaster’’?

12 Which does Mandela think is natural to love or to hate?
13 Write one figure of speech used in the poem Fire and Ice?
14 Why did the poet mention a crow as the one who changed his mood ?

15 What does Nelson Mandela mean by ‘my own eighth decade as man’?
Answer the following question in your own words.(word limit :100 words)

16 Imagine the post master who helped Lencho thought of writing a letter to Lencho, think of another
conclusion to the story and write down the new conclusion with this idea.