ASSEB| CLASS 11| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2025| H.S. 1ST YEAR
2025
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 30
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate
full marks for the questions
GROUP-A
(Prose)
(Marks: 45)
1. Answer any ten of the following questions: 1⁄2x10=5
(a) What is a
'stag party?
(b) What makes
school life irksome?
(c) What is the
meaning of 'forgery?
(d) "There
was a time when German boots were not divided into rights and lefts." (Write
True or False)
(e) What is
ghooral?
(f) Is
discourtesy a legal offence?
(g) Where is
Mokameh Ghat?
(h) What is a
'panegyric?
(i) Who was
Perkins?
(i) Who is the
author of The Captive?
(k) How many
sharp curves did Claystall Hill have?
(l) Which bird
does the captive think of?
2. Answer any six of the following questions: 1x6=6
(a) Who is the
suitor of the story, The Suitor and Papa?
(b) Where is the
place located which is described at the beginning of the story, The Captive?
(c) How many
daughters did Kondrashkin have?
(d) What is
referred to as the 'object' by the captive?
(e) What is the
name of the vehicle mentioned in the story, How it Happened?
(f) How do the
villagers plough the narrow fields?
(g) Whom did the
narrator see after gaining consciousness after the crash?
(h) Who was
Homer?
(i) Whom does
Gardiner 'feature' in his essay as a perfect example of polite social
behaviour?
3. Answer any six of the following questions: 2×6=12
(a) Why did Kondrashkin
call Pyotr dishonest?
(b) Why did
Pyotr say that he was unworthy of Nastya? How did Kondrashkin react to it?
(c) Why does
Shaw call himself 'an educated man?
(d) How do the
inhabitants of Kumaon village get news about the outside world?
(e) What is the
penalty for a person for being uncivil?
(f) Why did the
narrator feel no pain in the story, How it Happened?
(g) What is the
food offered to the captive in the headman's house?
(h) Describe the
dress of a high-caste hill woman.
4. Answer any four of the following questions: 3x4=12
(a) Why did Dr.
Fituyev refuse to give Pyotr the certificate he wanted?
(b) Why does
Shaw think that he has not grown up yet?
(c) Give a brief
description of the vehicle mentioned in the story, How it Happened.
(d) What kind of
victory is preferable? How would the liftman have scored a more effective
victory?
(e) Why did the
villagers send Corbett a telegram? Why did it take him long to arrive at the
village?
(f) How did
Captain Batra offer his respect to the boy? What did the boy say he would do if
the circumstances changed?
5. Answer any two of the following questions: 5x2=10
(a) How does
Shaw argue that a routine, supposed to suit everybody, actually suits nobody?
(b) Comment on
the title of the story, The. Queen of the Village.
(c) Describe the
character of Kondrashkin in the light of his responses and reactions when Pyotr
visits his place to say goodbye.
(d Write, in
your own words, the incident in the bus involving the bus conductor and the
author.
(e) Describe the
drive undertaken by the narrator from the station to his home in the story, How
it Happened.
(f) Write about
the journey undertaken by the captive and the young man.
GROUP B
(Poetry)
(Marks: 25)
6. Answer any eight of the following questions: 2x8=4
(a) Who is the
poet of Caged Bird?
(b) What does
the word 'clipped' mean in the poem, Caged Bird?
(c) Who remains
undisturbed by the 'single moan of protest' in the poem, When Autumn Came?
(d) Who are exiled
from their song in Autumn?
(e) Where was
the speaker on that Spring day?
(f) What grieved
the speaker's heart in Lines Written in Early Spring?
(g) When do
people pray to Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love?
(h) Which of the
virtues has a human face?
(i) In which
stage of life is the poet at present?
(j) What does
the word 'slumber' mean in the poem, The Light of Other Days?
(k) Pick out a
'sad memory' of the poet from the poem, The Light of Other Days.
7. Answer any seven of the following questions: 1x7=7
(a) What did the
caged bird do inside the cage?
(b) What happens
to the leaves in Autumn?
(c) What kind of
thoughts overpowered the sweet mood of the speaker in Lines Written in Early
Spring?
(d) What does
the poet mean by the 'gift of green?
(e) What do people
return to the virtues of delight?
(f) Who is seen
as God's child and care?
(g) To what does
the poet compare his friends in the poem, The Light of Other Days?
(h) Why are the
'cheerful hearts' now broken in the poem, The Light of Other Days?
(i) To whom does
the poet plead for mercy in the poem,
(j) When Autumn
Came?
(k) What is the
speaker's faith about the flowers?
8. Answer any three of the following questions: 2x3=6
(a) What do you
understand by the expression 'ebony bodies naked?
(b) What does
the free bird do downstream?
(c) What is the
significance of the primrose tufts and periwinkle in the poem, Lines Written in
Early Spring?
(d) Name the
different human forms represented by virtues of delight'.
(e) What is
meant by the expression 'ere slumber's chain has bound me' in the poem, The
Light of Other Days?
9. Answer any one of the following questions: 3
(a) What does
the caged bird symbolize?
(b) What is
Wordsworth's belief regarding Nature's holy plan?
(c) Comment on
the central idea of the poem, The Divine Image.
10. Answer any one of the following questions: 5
(a) Compare and
contrast the conditions of the caged bird and the free bird.
(b) How does the
poet create the impression that autumn is a time of silence?
(c) How does the
poem, The Light of Other Days portray the emotions of the poet? Why does he
feel like 'one who treads alone?
GROUP-C
(Grammar and
Composition)
(Marks: 20)
11. Make sentences with any two pairs of words to
illustrate the difference in meanings between them: 2×2=4
(a)
Principal-Principle
(b)
Accept-Except
(c)
Affect-Effect
(d) Brake-Break
(e) Sell-Sale
(f) Dairy-Diary
12. Identify Ave nouns and five adjectives in the
paragraph given below: 1⁄2x10=5
A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam was a multifaceted personality, a statesman and visionary, and above all
a good human being. He was a brilliant scientist and modern thinker. When I
joined him as Press Secretary after ten days of his becoming President, at his
very first meeting he gave me his vision of a developed India. He spoke of how
he wanted to make Rashtrapati Bhavan a people's place where voice of the
millions of downtrodden people of India would be heard and action taken.
13. Rewrite any five of the following conditional
sentences with correct tense forms: 1×5=5
(a) If it
(rain), I will not go to play.
(b) If she (not
work) hard, she will fail to reach her goal.
(c) If you had
asked me to do it, I (do) it.
(d) If I had
been you, I (not agree) to the proposal.
(e) He (stay)
here until you return.
(f) If Rahul
(try) hard, he would have got the job.
(g) If I (be)
you, I would not want to be a doctor.
14. Write a précis of the following passage and add an
appropriate title to it: 5+1=6
Self-reliance is
the pilgrim's best staff, the worker's best tool. It is the master key that
unlocks all the difficulties of life. Help yourself and heaven will help you'
is a which receives daily confirmation. He who begins with crutches will
generally end with crutches. Help from within always strengthens but help from
without invariably enfeebles the recipient. It is not by the use of corks,
bladders and lifebuoys that you can best learn to swim but plunging
courageously into the waves and buffeting them. To wait until some charitable
man passes by, to stand with arms folded sighing for a helping hand, -is not
the part of any manly mind. The habit of depending upon others should be
vigorously resisted. since it tends to weaken the intellectual faculties and
paralyse the judgement. The struggle against adverse circumstances has, on the
contrary, a bracing and strengthening effect like that of the pure mountain air
on the enfeebled frame. This is a lesson which, now-a-days, is not taught in
schools and colleges. To us it seems the vice of modern systems of education
that they lay down too many royal roads' to knowledge. Those impediments which
formerly compelled the student to think and labour for himself are now most
carefully removed and he glides so smoothly along the well-beaten highway that
he pauses not to heed the flowers on either side.
GROUP-D
(Drama)
(Marks: 10)
15. Answer any three of the following questions: 1x3=3
(a) Who is Edna?
(b) On what
occasion is the family dining at the beginning of the play?
(c) Where does
the investigation take place?
(d) What is the
name of the mother of Sheila Birling?
(e) Who is the
chairperson of the Brumley Charity Organization?
(f) Who had
taken the name of Daisy Renton?
16. Answer any one of the following questions: 2
(a) What is the
initial reaction of Mr. Birling to the manner of the Inspector's questioning?
(b) What was the
purpose of showing the photograph of Eva Smith by the Inspector?
(c) What was the
nature of the relationship between Eva and Mrs. Birling?
17 Answer any one of the following questions: 5
(a) Comment on
the title of the play, An Inspector Calls.
(b) Write why
Sheila feels that she has been let down by her family.
(c) Give a
character sketch of Inspector Goole.
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