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Garodia International Centre for Learning Mumbai

Grade 10
World Literature Paper 3 Max: 50 marks

Mid-Year Exams (2022-2023)

Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Instructions to candidates.

 Write your name in the space provided at the top of this page.
 Answer two questions in total.
Section A: answer one question
Section B: answer one question
 All questions are worth equal marks.
 This question paper consists of 10 printed pages

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 SECTION A
Answer one question from this section
Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

1. Read the following extract and then answer the question that follows it:

The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

As he helped Hatsue up, the boy remember with shame how he had lain in wait for her a
while ago, had given that whistled signal, had followed after her: even though his actions
had been prompted by the circumstances, to him they still seemed to smack of evil. Making
no move to repeat yesterday’s caress, he brushed the dirt off the girl’s clothing as gently as
though he were her big brother. The soil here was mostly dry sand and the dirt brushed off
easily. Luckily there was no sign of any damage.
Hatsue stood motionless, like a child, resting her hand on Shinji’s strong shoulder while
he brushed her. Then she looked around for the flashlight, which she had dropped. It was
lying on the ground behind them, still throwing its faint, fan-shaped beam, showing the
ground covered with pine needles. The island’s heavy twilight pressed in upon this single
area of faint light.
“Look where it landed! I must have thrown it behind me when I fell.” The girl spoke in a
cheerful, laughing voice.
“What made you so mad?” Shinji asked, looking her full in the face.
“All that talk bout you and Chiyoko-san.”
“Stupid!”
“Then there’s nothing to it?”
“There’s nothing to it.”

The two walked along side by side, Shinji holding the flashlight and guiding Hatsue along
the difficult path as though he were a ship’s pilot. There was nothing in particular to say, so
the usually silent Shinji began to talk stumblingly to fill in the silence:
“As for me, some day I want to buy a coastal freighter with the money I’ve worked for
and saved, and then go into the shipping business with my brother, carrying lumber from
Kishu and coal from Kyushi. … Then I’ll have my mother take it easy, and when I get old I’ll
come back from the island and take it easy too. … No matter where I sail, I’ll never forget
our island. … It has the most beautiful scenery in all of Japan” – every person on Uta-jima
was firmly convinced of this – “and in the same way I’ll do my best to help make life on our
island the most peaceful there is anywhere… the happiest there is anywhere. … Because if
we don’t do that, everybody will start forgetting the island and quit wanting to come back. No
matter how much times change, very bad things – very bad ways – will always disappear
before they get to our island. … The sea – it only brings the good and right things that the
island needs … and keeps the good and right things we already have here. … That’s why
there’s not a thief on the whole island – nothing but brave, manly people – people who

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 always have the will to work truly and well and put up with whatever comes – people whose
love is never double-faced – people with nothing mean about them anywhere. …”
Of course the boy was not so articulate, and his way of speaking was confused and
disconnected, but this is roughly what he told Hatsue in this moment of rare fluency.
She did not interrupt, but kept nodding her head in agreement with everything he said.
Never once looking bored, her face overflowed with an expression of genuine sympathy and
trust, all of which filled Shinji with joy.
Shinji did not want her to think he was being frivolous, and at the end of his serious
speech, he purposely omitted that last important hope he had included in his prayer to the
sea-god a few nights before.
There was nothing to hinder, and the path continued hiding them in the dense shadows
of the trees, but this time Shinji did not even hold Hatsue’s hand, much less dream of kissing
her again. What happened yesterday on the dark beach – to them that seemed not to have
been an act of their own volition. It had been an undreamed-of event, brought about by
some force outside themselves; it was a mystery how such a thing had ever come about.
This time, they barely managed to make a date to meet again at the observation tower on
the afternoon of the next time the fishing-boats could not go out.

1. How does Mishima strikingly portray Hatsue and Shinju at this moment in the
novel?

2. Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:

Watching for Dolphins by David Constantine

In the summer months on every crossing to Piraeus

One noticed that certain passengers soon rose
From seats in the packed saloon and with serious
Looks and no acknowledgment of a common purpose
Passed forward through the small door into the bows
To watch for dolphins. One saw them lose

Every other wish. Even the lovers

Turned their desires on the sea, and a fat man
Hung with equipment to photograph the occasion
Stared like a saint, through sad bi-focals; others,
Hopeless themselves, looked to the children for they
Would see dolphins if anyone would. Day after day

Or on their last opportunity all gazed

Undecided whether a flat calm were favourable
Or a sea the sun and the wind between them raised
To a likeness of dolphins. Were gulls a sign, that fell
Screeching from the sky or over an unremarkable place
Sat in a silent school? Every face
After its character implored the sea.

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 All, unaccustomed, wanted epiphany,
Praying the sky would clang and the abused Aegean
Reverberated with cymbal, gong and drum.
We could not imagine more prayer, and had they then
On the waves, on the climax of our longing come

Smiling, snub-nosed, domed like satyrs, oh

We should have laughed and lifted the children up
Stranger to stranger, pointing how with a leap
They left their element, three or four times, centered
On grace, and heavily and warm re-entered,
Looping the keel. We should have felt them go

Further and further into the deep parts. But soon

We were among the great tankers, under their chains
In black water. We had not seen the dolphins
But woke, blinking. Eyes cast down
With no admission of disappointment the company
Dispersed and prepared to land in the city.

2. How does Constantine convey the idea of disappointment in his poem

Watching for Dolphins?

3. Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it:

When I awoke in the faint light of dawn, with the parrots screeching outside, he had
already got up and left the room. Looking out, I saw him standing, statuesque, in
front of the house on the small strip of ground I keep cleared between it and the
jungle. I thought he was contemplating departure, but I dressed and went out, and
he was still there, inspecting the fringe of the dense vegetation, in which huge
heavy hornbills were noisily flopping about.

I called him and fed him with some meat I had in the house. I hoped he would
speak, tell me why he had come and what he wanted of me. But though he looked
at me thoughtfully with his large, lustrous eyes, seeming to understand what I said,
he did not answer, but remained silent all day. I must emphasize that there was no
hint of obstinacy or hostility in his silence, and I did not resent it. On the contrary, I
respected him for his reserve; and, as the silence continued unbroken, I gave up
expecting to hear his voice. I was glad of the pretext for using mine and went on
talking to him. He always appeared to listen and understand me.

The leopard was absent during much of the day. I assumed that he went hunting
for his natural food; but he usually came back at intervals, and seldom seemed to
be far away. It was difficult to see him among the trees, even when he was quite
close, the pattern of his protective spots blended so perfectly with the pattern of
sun-spots through savage branches. Only by staring with concentrated attention
could I distinguish him from his background; he would be crouching there in a

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 deep-shaded glade, or lying extended with extraordinary grace along a limb of one
of the giant kowikawas, whose branch-structure supports less robust trees, as well
as countless creepers and smaller growths. The odd thing was that, as soon as I'd
seen him, he invariably turned his head as if conscious that I was watching. Once I
saw him much further off, on the beach, which is only just visible from my house.
He was standing darkly outlined against the water, gazing out to sea; but even at
this distance, his head turned in my direction, though I couldn't possibly have been
in his range of vision. Sometimes he would suddenly come indoors and silently go
all through the house at a quick trot, unexpectedly entering one room after another,
before he left again with the same mysterious abruptness. At other times he would
lie just inside or outside, with his head resting on the threshold, motionless except
for his watchful moving eyes, and the twitching of his sensitive nostrils in response
to stimuli which my less acute sense could not perceive.

3. How does Kavan explore the theme of connection in her short story A Visit?

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 SECTION B
Answer one question from this section
Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

AMY TAN: The Bonesetter’s

Daughter

4. How does Tan vividly portray the relationship between LuLing and GaoLing?

From Songs of Ourselves Volume 2

5. How does William Barnes vividly contrast peace and danger in his poem The
Storm-Wind.

From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2

6. Explore how the writer vividly portrays characters from different backgrounds in
one of the following stories:

• A Doll’s House (Katherine Mansfield)

• Mrs Sen’s (by Jhumpa Lahiri)
• The Gold Watch (by Raj Anand Mulk).

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