Bhilai Public School

Unit Test- I, 2022-23

Subject: English
Class: XII
Time: 40mins MM: 25
Instruction: Attempt all the questions.

Q 1 Answer the following questions on the basis of the given extract: (06)
Driving from my parent’s home to
Cochin last Friday morning,
I saw my mother, beside me,
Doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
of a corpse
i. Name the poem and the poetess?
ii. Where was the poetess going to and with whom?
iii. What did the daughter notice inside the car?
iv. How old is poetess mother?
v. What is the feeling of the poetess after seeing her mother?
vi. What is the meaning of the world ‘corpse’.

Q 2 You have found an expensive geometry box in the school playground. Draft a
notice not more than 50 words for the school notice board. (05)

Q 3 Short answers: (08)

i. Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
ii. What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
iii. What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?
iv. What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?

Q 4 Long answers (06)

i. How can we keep our language alive? Discuss your views.
ii. Write character sketch of M. Hamel.

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