Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, Gandhinagar

SECOND UNIT TEST - 2021/22

Standard: 12 (Science Stream) Subject Code: 006

Subject: English (FL) Medium: English

Time Allotted: 1 Hour Total Marks: 25

Instructions: -

[1] There are 3 sections in this question paper.

[2] Maintain the sequence of questions while answering them.

SECTION A
Read the following passage and the questions given below it. Choose the correct answer. [04]

The make-up room had the look of a hair-cutting salon with lights at all angles around half a dozen
large mirrors. They were all incandescent lights, so you can imagine the fiery misery of those
subjected to make-up. The make-up department was first headed by a Bengali who became too big
for a studio and left. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian who was assisted by a Dharwar
Kannadiga, an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and the usual local Tamils. All
this shows that there was a great deal of national integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan
began broadcasting programmes on national integration. This gang of nationally integrated make-up
men could turn any decent-looking person into a hideous crimson hued monster with the help of
truck-loads of pancake and a number of other locally made potions and lotions. Those were the days
of mainly indoor shooting, and only five per cent of the film was shot outdoors.

Questions:

1. The artists getting the make-up done had to suffer due to the ____________.
a. hair-cutting salon c. lights
b. mirrors d. make-up
2. To ‘become too big’ means to become _____________.
a. overconfident in one’s skill c. master in one’s field
b. successful d. aggressive
3. The tone of the writer while describing the make-up artists is ___________.
a. sadistic c. manipulative
b. witty d. callous
4. The term ‘national integration’ refers to ______________.
a. awareness of a common identity amongst the citizens of a country
b. non-compliance of a common identity amongst the citizens of a country
c. rebellious belief of a common identity amongst the citizens of a country
d. ignorance of a common identity amongst the citizens of a country

Answer the following questions in about four to five sentences each. (any two) [04]

5. What work did the ‘office boy’

do in the Gemini Studios? Give reasons for his disappointment.
6. Name one example to show that Gemini studios was influenced by the plays staged by MRA.
7. How did Asokamitran discover who the English visitor to the studios was?
 SECTION B
Read the following stanza and answer the questions in brief. [04]

The little old house was out with a little new shed
In front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped,
A roadside stand that too pathetically pled,
It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread,
But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports
The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint.

Questions:

8. Where is the shed positioned?

9. What does the roadside stand plea for?
10. How does the money support cities?
11. Mention the figures of speech used in the first line of the stanza.

Answer the following questions in about four to five sentences. (any two) [04]

12. List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem ‘A Thing of Beauty’.
13. Why is ‘grandeur’ associated with the ‘mighty dead’ in the poem ‘A Thing of Beauty’?
14. What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet, Robert Frost, refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?

Answer the following questions in about four to five sentences. (any two) [04]

15. Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his
wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?
16. How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home
even when he knew he could not stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?
17. What is your stance regarding the two endings to the Roger Skunk story?

SECTION C
Do as Directed. [05]

18. There were no firmly established film producing companies or studios. (Choose the correct
affirmative sentence)
a. There were some firmly established film producing companies or studios.
b. There was a absence of firmly established film producing companies or studios.
c. There were only a few firmly established film producing companies or studios.
d. There were any established film producing companies or studios.

19. He had the ability to look cheerful at all times, _____ ? (Choose the correct question tag)
a. had he
b. hadn’t he
c. did he
d. does he
20. His success in films overshadowed and dwarfed his literary achievements. (Choose the correct
passive voice sentence)
a. His literary achievements was overshadowed and dwarfed by his success in films.
b. His literary achievements were overshadowed and dwarfed by his success in films.
c. His literary achievements had been overshadowed and dwarfed by his success in
films.
d. His literary achievements has been overshadowed and dwarfed by his success in
films.

21. He could never do things on his own. (Choose the correct interrogative sentence)
a. Could he never do things on his own?
b. Couldn’t he ever do things on his own?.
c. Could he always do things on his own?
d. Could he ever do things on his own?

22. The message of the plays were usually plain and simple homilies, but the sets and costumes were
first-rate. (Choose the correct sentence beginning with ‘Though...’)
a. Though the message of the plays were usually plain and simple homilies, but the
sets and costumes were first-rate.
b. Though the message of the plays were usually plain and simple homilies and the sets
and costumes were first-rate.
c. Though the message of the plays were usually plain and simple homilies, the sets
and costumes were first-rate.
d. Though the message of the plays were usually plain and simple homilies the sets and
costumes were first-rate.