OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL, DUBAI

TERM 2 EXAMINATION
FEB –MARCH 2024
ENGLISH

Grade: 7 Max. Marks: 10

Date: Time: 30 Mins
Name of Student: ___________________________________________________ Section: ____

General Instructions:
Part A – Multiple Choice Questions
Choose the most suitable response from the given options for each of the questions

SECTION A (Prose)

Read the passage on silver and answer the questions from 1-6:
Slavery in the North
In 1806, 9-year-old Isabella Baumfree and her family lived on the property of Charles
Ardinburgh of Ulster County in New York. When Ardinburgh died, Isabella found her mother in
tears.
"Mau-mau, what makes you cry?" Isabella asked.
"Oh, my child, I am thinking of your brothers and sisters that have been sold away from me,"
her mother replied.
Soon after, Isabella too was separated from her mother. She was auctioned—along with other
slaves, horses, and cattle—and purchased for $100. She was sold again and again, from master
to master, until she was emancipated in 1828.
Students of history know Isabella better by the name she chose as an adult—Sojourner Truth.
Truth was an abolitionist. She spoke out against slavery. But what some people may not know is
that Truth was one of thousands of slaves who were bought, sold, and forced to do labor in the
North.
"Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery in the North," Alan Singer, a professor
of education at Hofstra University, told Senior Edition. "We associate slavery with the South,
even though the biggest importer of slaves—after South Carolina—was New York City."
Historians are beginning to bring slavery in the North into the spotlight. The New York Historical
Society recently presented an exhibition on slavery in that state. Singer, who travels the country
to talk to students about slavery in the North, wants people to remember that slavery was a
national institution.
The slave trade helped finance the Industrial Revolution in many major Northern cities, such as
Boston and New York City. The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid growth in the use of
machinery in the early 1800s. Many U.S. businesses got their start with profits from slave-
produced goods and the slave trade.

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It is important to understand how slavery affected the entire country, because its effects linger
through discrimination, Singer says. "Kids see slavery as something that happened in the deep
past," he told Senior Edition. "I want children to know that we still live with the effects of that
slavery society."

1. According to the passage, what might some people not know about Sojourner Truth?
(0.5 Points)
a) She was a slave in the North.
b) She was emancipated in 1828.
c) She was sold for 100 dollars.
d) She was an abolitionist.

2. According to the passage, what was one effect of slavery in many major Northern cities? (0.5
Points)
a) Slavery slowed the growth of many U.S. businesses in the Northern cities.
b) Slavery put an end to the Industrial Revolution in the Northern cities.
c) Slavery stopped the growth of machinery in the Northern cities in the 1800s.
d) Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in the Northern cities.

3. Historians are trying to draw attention to slavery in the North. What evidence from the
passage best supports this statement? (0.5 Points)
a) Thousands of slaves were bought, sold, and forced to do labor in the North.
b) Kids see slavery as something that happened a long time ago, according to Singer

c) The New York Historical Society presented an exhibition on slavery in that state.
d) Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid growth in the use of machinery in the early
1800s.

4. What can you conclude about Sojourner Truth after reading the passage? * (0.5 Points)

a) She knows Alan Singer.

b) She was shy and quiet.
c) She lives in New York.
d) She was outspoken.

5. Read this sentence from the passage: “We associate slavery with the South, even though the
biggest importer of slaves—after South
Carolina—was New York City.”
As used in this sentence, what does the word “associate” mean? * (0.5 Points)

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 a) explain
b) judge
c) mourn
d) connect

6. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

Many people associate slavery with the South, _____slavery was in the North too, says Alan
Singer. * (0.5 Points)

a) but
b) for
c) because
d) until

SECTION B (Poem)

Read the poem The Railway Train and answer questions 7-10.

The Railway Train

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,

Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a star,
Stop — docile and omnipotent —
At its own stable door.

7. What kind of transportation is this poem about? * (0.5 Points)

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 a) a railway train
b) a car
c) an airplane
d) a subway train

8. What does the poet describe over the course of the whole poem? * (0.5 Points)

a) the different parts that make up a train

b) the reasons why a train is making a journey
c) the different parts of a train’s journey
d) the different mountains a train travels through

9. Read these lines from the poem:

And then a quarry pare
To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
What is the train doing in these lines? * (0.5 Points)

a) making a hooting noise as it goes through a quarry

b) going into an underwater tunnel
c) reciting a poem as it continues on its journey
d) squeaking against the train tracks as it slows down

10. The poem as a whole is comparing a train to a horse. Which words from the poem best
support this conclusion? * (0.5 Points)

a) “neigh” and “stable”

b) “crawl” and “hooting”
c) “lick” and “feed”
d) “mountains” and “roads”

SECTION C (GRAMMAR)

11.The robbers__________________by the police.

Which option completes the sentence grammatically? * (0.5 Points)

a) have arrested
b) have been arrested
c) was arrested
d) had arrested

12. Complete the following sentences in reported speech.

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'Did Mark pass all his exams. He asked if Mark ____________all of his exams. * (0.5 Points)

a) had passed
b) has passed
c) passed
d) will pass

13. Mini was in such a hurry that she hit her leg against a table and broke her toe nail,
Mother then asked, "Where’s the fire, Mini?”
What is Mini’s mother really asking? (0.5 Points)
a) Do you need to visit a doctor?
b) Shall we burn down the table?
c) Do you want to set the house on fire?
d) Is there a real need to rush like this?

14. Due to the floods in this region, food and medical supplies have become scarce. People
have to make do with whatever is left. Which word can replace the word 'scarce' in the above
sentence?
a) limited
b) damaged
c) borrowed
d) distributed

15. Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

a) The teacher asked, “Have all the students completed the test”?
b) The teacher asked, “Have all the students completed the test.”
c) The teacher asked, “have all the students completed the test?”
d) The teacher asked, “Have all the students completed the test?”

16. Which of the following sentences has a grammatical mistake?

(0.5 Points)

a) Either Aryan or his sister drives the car these days.

b) A range of mobile phones was displayed in the shop.
c) Keerti, not Priya, loves going to the Italian restaurant.
d) A big packet of chips were ordered for the birthday party.

17. Sia had worked very hard this year. Sia topped her class.
Choose the BEST way of rewriting these two sentences by combining them into one. * (0.5
Points)
a) Sia had worked very hard this year while she topped her class.
b) Since Sia had worked very hard this year, she topped her class.
c) Sia had worked very hard this year unless she topped her class.

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 d) Provided Sia had worked very hard this year, she topped her class.

18. When you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something humans do, it is known as
“Personification”. Which sentence conveys this? (0.5 Points)

a) Felix Francis’ friends fried fryums for Friday’s food.

b) The oil spill in the road made it as slippery as greased glass.
c) The huge waves rose high up spreading its arms to welcome us.
d) My mother told me not to chew my food like a cow at the dinner party.

19. Choose the pair of words that would complete this sentence meaningfully.
With tears in his eyes, he thanked me, hugging me warmly.
I was___ and a bit ______by his show of affection. (0.5 Points)

a) forgiven, annoyed
b) honoured, accepted
c) slipping, shocked
d) comforted, surprised

20. As Mahesh was unable to complete his first paper of the annual exams on time, he was
depressed and was fast losing confidence.
But his class teacher's advice was__________ for Mahesh. He learnt to divide his time properly
and was thereafter, able to complete his papers well on time.
Choose the expression that can complete the sentence correctly. (0.5 Points)

a. a cheap shot
b. a shot in the arm
c. before it will be a while the seed becomes a sapling.
d. before the seed becomes a sapling it will be a while.

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