NSAN

(NAVI MUMBAI MERCHANTS' EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION'S)

ANCHORWALA EDUCATION ACADEMY
SECOND PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
2022-23

GRADE: 10 MARKS: 80
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LITERATURE TIME: 2 hrs
NAME OF THE STUDENT: DATE: 04/01/2023

Answers to this paper must be written on the paper provided separately.

You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.
The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.

The paper has four sections.

Section A is compulsory. All questions in Section A must be answered.
You must attempt one question from each of the Sections
B, C and D and other
questions from any Section of your choice.
The intendd marks for questions or parts of questions in brackets
are given [].

SECTIONA
(Attempt all questions from this Section)
Question1
Read the following questions and choose the most
choices given below:
appropriate response from the

1. Who limbed the walls

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of Troy in the hope of getting glimpse
a of his lover?
(a) Cressida (b) Pyramus (c) Dido (d) Troilus
2. What would happen according to Portia in her
course of law is
speech of mercy if the
followed to solve the dispute between
(a) All
of us would receive Shylock and Antonio?
justice
(b) None of us achieve salvation
(c) The merchant would not get justice
(d) The duke would not show to
mercy anyone
3 Why does Antonio think that fortune has been
kind to him?
(a) He was dying an easy death
(b) He was dying at the hands of the Jew
(c) He would not have to live a life
of lingering penance
(d) He was dying an honourable death

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4. Whom does Antonio wish farewell before
Shylock picks up the knife?
(a) Portia
(b) Duke
(c) Bassanio
(d) Shylock

5. How have the inhabitants on Venus been referred to in the story?

(a) Scientists of Venus
(b) Venusians
(c) Rocket men and women
(d) Spaceship men and women
The free bird in the
poem
(a) sings with a fearful trill demonstrates freedom and power when it
(b) claims the sky
(c) shouts on a nightmare scream
(d) stalks down its narrow
cage
7. What did
Bassanio not find in the casket he chose?
(a) Portia's portrait
(b) Portia's counterfeit
(c) a skull
(d) a scroll telling him to claim the
lady with a kiss
8. What kind of
person was Luz Long?
(a) Apathetic
(b) Amiable
(c) Arrogant
(d) Amiable and helpful

9. Bassanio rejected the gold casket

because
(a) he knew that Midas had found
(b) he found gold too shiny for his gold
taste
hard to digest
(c) he knew that outward
appearances are deceptive
(d) head been told which casket
contained Portia's
picture
10. Choose the
wrong statement
(a) Nine young athletes
(b) The fallen athlete hadparticipated
in the race
been ill for some time
(c) The fallen athlete cried over the
(d) The award committee proved to shattering
be
of his dream
generous and liberal

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11. The figure of speech in the line, Ten thousand I saw at a glance' is

(a) simile
(b) metaphor
c) hyperbole
(d) personification

12. The little match girl lost one of her slippers, what became of the other slipper?
(a) a dog took it away
(b) she threw it away
(c) a boy grabbed it and ran away
(d) none of the above

13. What is the theme of the story, The Blue Bead'?

(a) Honesty is the best policy

(b) Where there is a will, there is a way
(c) Prevention is better than cure
(d) No pains, No gains

14. What sports event is mentioned in the poem Nine Gold Medals?
(a) a 200 metre race
(b) a 100 metre race
(c) a 500 metre race
(d) a 1000 metre race

15. The bars of cage stand for

(a) pieces of metal
(b) discriminatins and restrictions
(c) hardships of the black Americans
(d) none of the above

16. Portia appeared before the Duke as a learned doctor of Rome named

(a) Bellario
(6) Daniel
(c) Balthazar
(d) Launcelot

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 SECTION B
(Answer one or more questions from this
DRAMA
Section)
(The Merchant of Venice by William
Question 2 Shakespeare)
Read the extract
given below and answer the
questions that follow.
Duke With all
my heart. Some three or four of you
Go give him courteous conduct to this
place.
Meantime the court shall
hear Belario's letter
() Who is referred to
make in the letter? 'him' in the second line? What
as

(i) Give the request does Dr. Bellario

meanings of
(a) in my stead
(6) importunity
(c) turned o'er many
(in) What do you books
(iv) How does theunderstand by 'controversy' in this
young doctor of Rome context?
appeal to Shylock
(V) What is your
opinion of the young doctor of regarding controversy? [3]3
Rome? Who is he/she?
Question3 41
Read the extract
below and answer
the
questions that follow:
Now, Balthazar,
As I have ever
So let me find found thee honest-true,
thee
And use thou all still. Take this same
In speed to the endeavour
of a man
letter,
Padua: see thou
Into my cousin's render this
() Who is Balthazar? hand, Doctor
What work is Bellario;
Why does Portia choose
Balthazar supposed to do? Balthazar to do the work
for her?
(i) Under what
pretext was Portia [3]
leaving her house?
(i) What Why?
it difficult to responsibilities does Porlia 13
run her give to
house in her
absence? Lorenzo?Why would he not find
(ii) What hints does
are their plans? Portia give to 3
Nerissa after
Balthazar's departure?
What
(iv) Do you think
in her they are
justified in doing so? 3
plan? Explain. Why? Does Portia
succeed
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 SECTION C
(Answer one or more
PROSE SHORTquestions from
STORIESthis Section)
(Treasure Trove A Collection of ICSE Poems and
Question 4 Short Stories)
Read the extract
"Now, don't go too given below and answer the questions that follow.
far", called
know. You wouldn't want the teacher after them. "You've
to get only two hours, you
) What is said to have the caught out!"
its arrival awaited
'colour of flaming bronze? Where and why was
by the
() Describe the physical children? (3]
(ii)
(in) How do the children reactappearance of Margot on Venus.
when they saw It? For how [3]
long was it seen? 3]
(iv) In what different ways does Margot describe the sun?
children tell her? What do the other
(v) Explain the main theme of the 13]
story.
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Question 5
While I was going over on the boat, allI could think about was taking home one or two of
those gold medals. Ihad my eye especially on the running broad jump. A year before, as a
sophomore at Ohio State University, l'd set the world's record of 26 feet 8-1/4 inches.
() Who was Jesse Owens? In what event did he set a
record?
(i) Who was the tall German? Did he believe in Nazi [3]
(ii) What was the
theory? Why? [3]
to be successful?
advice given by the tall German to Jesse Owens? How did it prove
(iv) Give the meaning of: [3
a) Der Fuhrer b) hot under the collar c) master race
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(v) Justify the title of the story.
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