Final Year Examination

English Literature

Grade: Vl, Section: ______________ Time Allowed: 2 hours

Name: __________________________ Maximum marks: 70

Date: ___________________________ Marks obtained: ________

Section A: Prose /40

Q1. Character Analysis: Charles Wallace

In A Wrinkle in Time, appearances are almost always deceiving – so it's what's

inside that counts. For example, Charles Wallace looks like a normal five-year-old
boy, but the way he thinks reveals him to be advanced beyond his years.

Give a detailed character analysis of Charles Wallace’s persona, Is he a dynamic

or static character? How? What examples can you provide to state your answer?

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Q2. Theme: Good vs Evil

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the eternal boxing match! In this corner, in
gleaming white, is Good! Facing off from the other corner, sporting black gloves
filled with nails, is Evil! Which will win?

A Wrinkle in Time focuses on the fight.

How can one decide whom to trust? To what extent is evil a matter of personal
responsibility in the novel? What role do individual choices have in the
propagation of evil, according to the novel? ( /10)

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Q3. Describe Mrs. Who. What peculiar habit does she have? ( /2)

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Q4. Why is Calvin so happy to have met the Murrys, even though he is popular at
school? What do you think he means when he says that everybody likes him “for
all the most unimportant reasons”? What do you think he considers more
important than these reasons? ( /2)

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Q5. Explain the meanings of two important quotes spoken by Mrs. Who:
“Experience is the mother of knowledge” and “Small is the earth to him who looks
from heaven.” Think about how these ideas can be applied to life. ( /2)

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Q6. How are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which distinguished from one
another? Do you have a favourite? If so, who and why? ( /2)

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Q7. In your opinion, who is the most courageous character in A Wrinkle in Time?
Explain your choice. ( /2)

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Q8. What challenges does the Murray family face by living in a community that
doesn’t understand them or particularly trust them? Do you believe the people
around them are justified in feeling the way they do about them? Why or why not?
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Q9. Describe the planet of Camazotz. ( /2)

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Q10. When the man with red eyes tries to take over the children’s minds, whom
does Meg scream for and why? ( /2)

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Q11. Charles Wallace seems well and happy, just as the man with red eyes says he
is. How does Meg know that Charles Wallace’s mind and heart have been taken
over? ( /2)

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Q12. How important do you think love is in the world? Is it more important to love
or be loved? ( /2)

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Section B: Seen Poetry /20

Directions: Read the following poems and answer the questions that follow:
The Laughing Heart
-- by Charles Bukowski
Your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
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there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

Q1. Explain what you think the line “don’t let it be clubbed into dark submission”
means (look to the rest of the poem for context clues) ( /2)

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Q2. When the speaker says ‘the gods will offer you chances’ what sort of chances
is the speaker referring to? ( /2)

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Q3. What does the speaker mean in the line ‘you can’t beat death/ but you can beat
death in life, sometimes’? ( /2)

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Q4. In general, what do you think this poem is about? What is the point of the
poem? ( /2)

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Q5. The poem ends with the lines “you are marvellous/ the gods wait to delight/ in
you.” Marvellous means beautiful, wonderful, one of a kind. In which ways are you
marvellous? In the future, what kind of marvellous things do you imagine will
happen to you? ( /2)

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A Bird came down the walk

~by Emily Dickenson

A Bird came down the Walk—

He did not know I saw—
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,

And then he drank a Dew

From a convenient Grass—
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass—

He glanced with rapid eyes

That hurried all around—
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought—
He stirred his Velvet Head

Like one in danger, Cautious,

I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home—

Than Oars divide the Ocean,

Too silver for a seam—
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.

Q1. What is the speaker watching throughout this poem? ( /2)

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Q2. Read lines 9-13 of the poem. Based on this evidence, what can you conclude
about how the bird is feeling? ( /2)
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Q3. Read these lines from the poem:

He stirred his Velvet Head

Like one in danger,
Cautious, I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home-
Than Oars divide the Ocean,

What does the phrase "rowed him softer home" mean here? ( /2)

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Q4. How do the bird's feelings change over the course of the poem? Use evidence
from the text to support your answer. (PEEZL Technique) ( /4)

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Section C: Unseen Poetry /10

Directions: Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
Nothing Gold Can Stay

~by Robert Frost

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of the most popular and critically respected American
poets in history. His poems frequently employ rural scenes from the New England
countryside.

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

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 So Eden*

sank to grief,

So Dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

* The Garden of Eden, also known as Paradise, is (according to the Christian

Bible) the place where Adam and Eve lived before they sinned and were cast out
of Eden by God.

Q1. Answer the following to create an understanding of the poem ( /3)

Form:
1. How many lines?
2. How many stanzas?
3. Does it create a rhyming scheme ?

Words:
4. Is figurative language used?
5. Do any of the words create an image??

Theme:
6. What is the poet trying to tell the reader?

Q2. What does the colour “gold” most likely represent in the poem? ( /1)

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Q3. Give an example of the following poetic devices from the poem: ( /4)

Alliteration:
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Q4. According to this poem, should we value our youth? Why? ( /2)

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