AHSEC| CLASS 11| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| SOLVED PAPER - 2022| H.S. 1ST YEAR
2022
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 30
Time: 3 hours
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UNIT - I
(Reading an Unseen
Passage and a Poem)
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
When he was
born, he was named Pelevotso, but when he was growing up, everyone called him
Pele. Except his grandmother, who would say, "His full name is Pelevotso.
We must remember that."
She was his
father's mother, and she had walked half a day from her hut at the edge of a
forest to see the newborn. Ever since her husband died in a hunt, she had lived
alone, collecting jungle herbs to heal sick and wounded animals and men. People
called her 'the solitary one'.
That afternoon,
she had held the infant in her lap and said, "We'll call him
Pelevotso."
"It's a big
name for a child. Are you sure he can carry it?" Her daughter-in-law
asked.
"I know it
is a big name to carry. It means faithful to the end, and that is not easy. But
we cannot continue to give our children safe and insignificant names. It is a
way of stopping them from living powerful lives, and making sure they don't
wander too far from the village."
"It's
because we love them that we don't want them to wander too far from us,"
her daughter-in-law said.
"Yes, and
that also stops them from living a life of heroism and wisdom,” the grandmother
replied. "Pray that your son understands the meaning of his name and lives
a good life. He's destined to wander."
Her son and
daughter-in-law agreed to the name out of respect for the elder. But after she
went away, they shortened it to Pele.
Pele's village
was called Nialhuo; it was set on the western hills. Below the hills, there
were many forests where the young men learned to hunt, and two small rivers
where they fished and bathed. The older people of the village would often say,
"It's the best place to live in. We are blessed. Our young should not
think there are lands better than this to build a home. They belong here, they
must take the place of their ancestors." They feared that if the young
were not taught to love the village, it would soon be abandoned. They had seen
it happen around them.
Everyone knew of
the two ghost villages. The first had become a very rich village; abundant
harvests filled the granaries till they began to overflow. People would leave
half their harvests to rot in the fields, because there was no more space in
the village granaries. Soon they grew careless about the taboo that said that
every village must keep aside some grain after the harvest as seed-grain.
One afternoon,
when they were on their way back from their fields, the villagers saw black
clouds of field mice swarming over their granaries and homes. Not one house or
granary had been spared, and people had to abandon the village, because it is
taboo to live in a village when its food stores have been wiped out by animals
and insects.
In the second
village, the members of the upper clan killed a man from the lower clan in a
drunken brawl. The murder led to a war between the two clans and, by the end of
the seventh day, so much blood had been spilt in the village that it became
taboo to live there. The women and children filled there baskets with their
belongings and walked out, weeping loudly. The men followed them with guilty
hearts; they knew that if they had stopped the first killings they would not
have lost their homes.
Questions:
(a) State
True or False: 1/2×4=2
(i) Pele's
grandmother called him Pele. False
(ii) People
called Pele's grandmother 'the brave one'. True
(iii) One day,
after returning from the fields, the villagers saw a cloud of locusts. True
(iv) The
village Nialhuo was set on the Eastern hills. False
(b) What is
Pele's full name? 1
Ans:- Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
(c) What is
the name of Pele's village? 1
Ans:-
Pelé was born on October 23, 1940, in the small Brazilian village of Três
Corações.
(d) What
did the older people of the village often say? 2
Ans:-
In the short story "The Last Lesson" by Alphonse Daudet, the elders
of the village attended M. Hamel's last French lesson. They sat in the back of
the classroom to show respect to the teacher and to their language, which was
being taught for the last time in the village. The elders regretted not
learning French when they had the chance.
(e) How did
the first village become a ghost village? 2
Ans:-
The 300-year-old village of Saur in India became a "ghost village"
due to excessive migration. Only 12 families remain in the village, and most of
the houses are abandoned and dilapidated.
(f) How did
the second village become a ghost village? Why did the men of the second
village feel guilty? 1+1=2
Ans:-
If you're looking for information about the ghost village in Dead Men's Path by
Chinua Achebe, here's some information.
In Dead Men's
Path, the villagers are enraged by the closed footpath and tear down a building
in protest. The white inspector notes that Michael's zealousness has hurt the
village and the school.
2. Read the following poem given below and on the basis
of your reading, answer the following questions:
Strange fits of
passion have I known,
And I will dare
to tell,
But in the
lover's car alone,
What once to me
befell.
When she I
loved looked every day
Fresh as a
rose in June,
I to her
cottage bent my way,
Beneath an
evening moon.
Upon the moon I
fixed my eye,
All over the
wide lea;
With quickening
pace my horse drew nigh
Those paths so
dear to me.
And now we
reached the orchard-plot,
And, as we
climbed the hill,
The sinking
moon to Lucy's cot
Came near, and
nearer still.
In one of those
sweet dreams I slept,
Kind Nature's
gentlest boon!
And, all the
while, my eyes I kept
On the
descending moon.
My horse moved
on; hoof after hoof
He raised, and
never stopped:
When down
behind the cottage roof,
At once, the
bright moon dropped.
What fond and
wayward thoughts will slide
Into a Lover's
head!
"O
mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy
should be dead!"
Questions:
(a) What has
the poet known? 1
Ans:- In
the poem "Strange fits of passion have I known", the speaker has
experienced "strange fits of passion". The speaker says that he will
only describe these fits of passion to his lover alone, which implies that the
nature of these fits is perhaps sexual.
(b) Upon what
did the poet fix his eyes? 1
Ans:- In
the poem “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known,” the speaker fixes their eyes
on the moon as if it were a compass leading them to their lover.
(c) Where did
the poet sleep? 1
Ans:- In
the poem "To Sleep" by William Wordsworth, the poet lies sleepless in
his city house.
(d) How did the
poet's horse move? 2
Ans:- In
Robert Frost's poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", the
horse signals the poet to move on by shaking the harness bells.
UNIT-II
(Poetry and Prose)
(Poetry)
3. Answer either (a) or (b):
(a) But believe
me, son.
I want to be
what I used to be
When I was like
you. I want
to unlearn all
these muting things.
Most of all, I
want to relearn
how to laugh,
for my laugh in the mirror
shows only my
teeth like a snake's bare fangs!
(i) Answer
any two of the following questions: 1×2=2
(1) Who is
the 'son' referred to in the passage?
Ans:-
The "son" in the poem "Father to Son" by Elizabeth Jennings
is the father's grown-up son.
(2) What
does the speaker want to relearn?
Ans:- In
the poem Once Upon a Time, the speaker wants to relearn how to laugh. The
speaker wants to relearn how to laugh and smile as he did in his childhood. The
speaker wants to relearn his lost habits and asks his son to help him laugh
like he used to.
(3) What
are the 'muting things' in the present context?
An:- In
the poem Once Upon a Time by Gabriel Okara, "muting things" refers to
the poet's lost emotions and innocence. The poet has learned to smile without
feeling, and has adopted behaviors that mute his true feelings.
(ii)
Explain the reasons behind the speaker's desire of unlearning'. 3
Ans:-
The speaker in the poem "Once Upon a Time" by Gabriel Okara desires
to unlearn all the things that he has learned as an adult. He feels that he has
lost his true self and has become artificial and mechanical. He wants to
relearn how to be innocent and passionate, like his young son.
There are
several reasons for the speaker's desire to unlearn. First, he feels that the
things he has learned as an adult have made him dishonest and fake. He has
learned to laugh with only his teeth, to shake hands without his heart, and to
say "Goodbye" when he means "Good riddance." He has learned
to conform to the expectations of others, even if it means sacrificing his own
true feelings.
Or
Why, do you think, the poet
finds snake's bare fangs in the mirror? 3
Ans:- The poet finds
snake's bare fangs in the mirror because he has forgotten to laugh with real
feeling and pleasure. He feels his smile as fictitious, insincere, and
hypocritic. He feels such a smile is dangerous. The comparison of his teeth to
snake's fangs makes false, mask-like smile seem dangerous.
The poet wants
to relearn to laugh because his laugh in front of the mirror shows his teeth
like a snake's bare fangs. He wants to relearn from his little son.
(b)
Continuous as the stars that shine
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