UBIS INSTITUTE COACHING CLASSES

INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL EXCELLENCE

PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION 2022-23
Paper: English Class: XII Dated: 15-05-2023
Time: 3 Hours Max Marks: 100
(SECTION - A)
(MCQs)
Q1. Choose the most appropriate answer:
i. The broken-dam rumors begins on 12 march:
a) 1913 A.D. b) 1914 A.D c) 1915 A.D d) 1923 A.D
ii. The book “Past and Present” is written by:
a) Oscar Wil b) Carlyle c) Bertrand Russell d) Einstein
iii. Liaquat Ali Khan visited the U.S in?
a) 1950 A.D b) 1951 A.D c) 1949 A.D d) 1948 A.D
iv. The miller promised gives his to hans?
a) Plank of wood b) Wheel spokes c) Wheel Barrow d) Bicycle
v. A kettle of Fish is?
a) A fish in aquarium b) A cooked fish
c) A difficult state of affair d) A comfortable situation
vi. Twenty minutes with Mrs. Oakentubb is written by:
a) Oscar Wilde b) Frank Arthur c) Thurber d) Einstein
vii. Achilies is the great warrior:
a) Greek b) Italian c) French d) British
viii. Is the capital city of the kingdom of Ruritania:
a) Zenda b) Strelsau c) Tyrol d) Dresden
ix. The prisoner of zenda is in fact Rudiof, King of:
a) England b) New Zealand c) Ireland d) Ruritania
x. Lines from Ulysses is written by:
a) John Milton b) John Keats c) Lord Alfred Tennyson d) Thomas Grey
xi. Mono theist means faith and trust on:
a) Two friends b) One friends c) Many Gods d) One God
xii. Mrs.Oakentubb was driving at a speed of and hour:
a) Sixty miles b) Forty miles c) Seventy miles d) Fifty miles
xiii. Novel “ The Prisoner Of Zenda” was published in :
a) 1993 b) 1896 c) 1893 d) 1894
xiv. As you like its „is a famous play by Shakespeare‟ it is a:
a) Love sonnet b) Tragedy c) Comedy d) Satire
xv. I told him to get his haircut. (Change the voice):
a) He was told to get his hair cut by me b) He is told to get his haircut by me
c) He had told to get by me his hair curt d) He told by me to get his hair cut
xvi. The heroine of “Prisoner of Zenda” is::
a) Ophellia b) Protia c) Flavia d) none of these
xvii. Ulysses represents a human:
a) Weakness b) Greed c) Curse d) Struggle
xviii. Life requires water, light and moderate:
a) Climate b) Environment c) Temperature d) Planet
xix. The poem “Samson Agonists” is taken from:
a) Modern drama b) Medieval drama c) Greek drama d) none of these
xx. The lesson, “Space Ship” one is:
a) Melodrama b) Science fiction c) Short story d) none of these

(SECTION - B)
(SHORT ANSWERS)
Note: Answers any 08 of following questions, each questions carry 05 marks:.
Q2. How did Liaquat Ali Khan justify the oration of Pakistan?

Q3. What is the attitude of Albert Einstein about the human freedom?`

Q4. How did Samson take revenge from the philistines?

Q5. What motive has the man for murdering Mrs. Oakentubb?

Q6. How does the panic appear to have started the lesson “The Day the Dam Broke”?

Q7. What great adventure is Ulysses proposing to his men?

Q8. Does Bertrand Russell welcome cultural uniformity or not? How does he justify his attitude?

Q9. Who is Poseidon?

Q10. Define novel, What king of novel “Prisoner of Zenda” is?

Q11. What is Albert Einstein‟s attitude to war?

Q12. Why did Princess Flavia prefer duty to love?

Q13. What is the message of the play “The Silver Box”?

Q14. Highlight at least three qualities of “The man of life upright”?

Q15. What is Einstein‟s attitude to leadership?

(SECTION - C)
(LONG ANSWERS)
Note: Attempt any 2 questions carry 16 marks each.
Q16. Explain the following with reference context:
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree‟s shade
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Q17. Write the critical appreciation of the any one of the following:
i) Twenty Minutes with Mrs. Oakentubb ii) The Seven Ages of Man
iii) Black Michael and Rupert of Hentzau

Q18. Write the character sketch of any one of the following:

i) Madame Mauban ii) Princess Flavia iii) Colonel Sapt
Q19. Write an essay on any one of the following:
i) Mobile phones is a necessarily or a fad ii) Merit and Demerit of science
iii) How curt the corruption

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