Maharishi Vidya Mandir

First Terminal Examination (2021-2022)

Class- XII
ENGLISH
PAPER 2
(LITERATURE IN ENGLISH)
Maximum marks: 80
Time allowed: Three hours
(Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutes for only reading the paper)
ALL QUESTIONS ARE COMPULSORY
The marks intended for questions are given in brackets [ ]

SECTION-A

Select the correct option for each of the following questions :- [14x2=28]
1. How does Prospero feel at the union of Ferdinand and Miranda, when struck by love?
a) Secretly happy
b) Angry
c) Extremely sad
d) Indifferent
2. Apart from Caliban and Stephano who else is present in ACT III, scene ii?
a) Sebastian
b) Miranda
c) Prospero
d) Trinculo
3. According to Caliban when is the time for Prospero to sleep?
a) Morning
b) Afternoon
c) Evening
d) Night
4. How does Miranda react to the news that Ferdinand is a prince?
a) She seems unconcerned
b) She is excited
c) She is disgusted
d) She is awed
5. What title does Stephano assume in ACT III, scene ii?
a) King of Naples
b) Lord of the Tempest
c) Lord of the island
d) King of the island
6. What does Caliban say that he himself, Stephano and Trinculo must do to take away the
power from Prospero?
a) Fight with him physically
b) Steal his books on magic
c) Abduct Miranda
d) Throw him out of his cell
7. When Ariel makes the banquet disappear, what do the men do?
a) Draw their swords
b) Laugh
c) Run away
 d) Clap loudly
8. On what note does the short story, “The Story of an Hour” end?
a) Irony
b) Horror
c) Humour
d) Symbolism
9. Who had brought the message of Mr. Mallard’s death to Mrs. Mallard’s household?
a) Friar John
b) Robert
c) Josephine
d) Richards
10. With reference to the short story, “To Build a Fire” what is the name for a newcomer in the
Yukon Valley?
a) Debutante
b) Outsider
c) Chechaquo
d) Entrant
11. What kind of a dog travels with the man in the journey?
a) A husky
b) A hound
c) A wolf
d) An English Cocker- Spaniel
12. In “Crossing the Bar”, who/what does the “Pilot” symbolize?
a) God
b) The captain of the ship
c) The crew
d) The speaker
13. Where does the speaker wish to escape in the poem, “Birches”?
a) Remote village
b) A modern city
c) Imaginary world
d) An alien land
14. In the poem “The Darkling Thrush”, the poet mourns the passing of ______ century.
a) 16th century
b) 18th century
c) 14th century
d) 19th century

SECTION-B
THE TEMPEST
Question 1
Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:- [6]
A. Caliban: “I say by sorcery he got this isle;
From me he got it. If thy greatness will
Revenge it on him- for I know thou dar’st,
But this thing dare not”-
i) To whom is Caliban speaking? [1]
 ii) Who got this island by sorcery? [1]
iii) According to Caliban who should now be the legal owner of the island? [1]
iv) What does Caliban demand Stephano to do as a part of his revenge plan? [2]
v) Give the meaning of the word ‘sorcery’ used in the above quoted extract? [1]

B. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:- [6]
Sebastian: “A living drollery!
Now I will believe
That there are unicorns; that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix throne;
One phoenix
At this hour reigning there”
i. Who is Sebastian? [1]
ii. What are ‘unicorns’ as referred to by Sebastian? [1]
iii. What is meant by ‘living drollery’? [1]
iv. What strange thing happens when Alonso and his noblemen decide to have the
banquet? [2]
v. Give the meaning of the word ‘phoenix’, as used in the context of the above quoted
extract. [1]
Question 2
Answer the questions briefly:- [3x4=12]
i. How did Ferdinand declare his love for Miranda in Act III, sc i?
ii. Why couldn’t Miranda see the faces of many people in her life?
iii. With reference to Act III, sc ii state what Caliban has to say about the sounds on the island?
iv. What was the purpose of Prospero in bringing Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian to the isolated
island?

ECHOES- SHORT STORIES

Question 3
Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:- [5]
“The fire was a success. He was safe. He remembered the advice of the old timer……”
i. Who is ‘he’? [1]
ii. What advice had the old- timer given to him? [2]
iii. Under which tree did the man build the fire? [1]
iv. Where should the man have ideally built the fire? [1]
Question 4
With reference to the short story, “The Story of an Hour”, answer the following questions:- [5]
i. What kind of a patient was Mrs. Mallard? [1]
ii. Describe the face of Mrs. Mallard. [2]
iii. What is the predominant theme of this story? [2]
Question 5
Answer the following questions briefly:- [2x3=6]
 i. How was Brently Mallard supposed to have died?
ii. Give any 2 characteristic features of the unnamed protagonist with reference to Jack
London’s, “To Build a Fire”.

REVERIE- POETRY
Question 6
Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:- [6]
“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea”

i. What is about to begin at ‘sunset’? [2]

ii. To which planet does the ‘evening star’ hint at? [1]
iii. What is the journey across the bar symbolic of? [2]
iv. Give the meaning of the word ‘moaning’, as used in the above quoted extract. [1]

Question 7

Answer the questions briefly:- [2x3=6]

i. Mention any 2 physical attributes of the thrush, with reference to the poem, “The Darkling
Thrush”.
ii. With reference to the poem, “Birches”, answer why was swinging the best sport for the young
boy?