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Pre- Module Evaluation

Time: 45 minutes Marks: 100

Answer all the questions This paper has 02 pages

Question 01:
Select one of the following (either the poem or the passage) and write a comment.
I. Write a commentary of the following poem in not more than two pages. (25 Marks)

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone

Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

II. Write a comment on the following passage, paying attention to any salient (important)
feature evident in the passage.
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“ ‘Shall I succeed in my present search or not? Answer this and go. Otherwise I will not let you go till you
disgorge all your coins’. The astrologer muttered a few incantations and replied, ‘all right. I will speak.
But will you give mea rupeeif what I say is convincing? Otherwise I will not open my mouth, and you
may do what you like’. After a good deal of haggling the other agreed. The astrologer said, ‘you were left
for dead. Am I right?’ ”

From “An Astrologer’s Day by R.K. Narayan

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