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ICSE - Model Question - X - For The Year - 2010.: Sample Paper - 2010 Class - X Subject - English
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Q.3. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follows :
Sternlawgiver! Yet thou dost wear.
The Godhead’s most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair.
As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on bed.
And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from
wrong;
And the most ancient heavens ; through thee, are fresh and strong.
(i) Who are the two different aspects of Duty that are shown in the first two
lines of the extract? [3]
(ii) What is the most beautiful thing that you see in Duty? [3]
(iii) What have flowers and stars to do with Duty? [3]
(iv) What do the last two lines of the extract suggest? [3]
(v) How is this passage different from the rest of the poem? What request
does the poet make to Duty? [4]
Q.4. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follows :
So shall thy chastened spirit yearn.
To speak from its blind prayer release,
And, Spent and pardoned, sure to learn
The simple secret of My peace
Will teach thee of My quickening grace,
Life is a prism of My light, And Death the shadow of My face.
(i) When the soul is cleansed and chastened of all desire what does it speak?
What would be the state of mind of the soul? [3]
(ii) Who is ‘I’ in the fourth line of the extract? What is that person planning to
do? Why? [3]
(iii) What does God has to say about life and death? [3]
(iv) What is the supreme knowledge? When and where can this knowledge be
found? [3]
(v) What does the poem mean to you? [4]
Q.5. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follows :
‘What shall I say to him?’ though Bikousky. ‘He isn’t listening. It is obvious that
he doesn’t attach any importance to his offence or to my arguments. What can I say to
touch him? The lawyer rose and walked about the study. ‘In my day these questions were
settled with singular simplicity, he reflected.
(i) How were such questions settled in the childhood of Bikousky? What does
he say about such solutions? [3]
(ii) What is the topic on which Bikousky has a dialogue with Seriozha? [3]
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(iii) How did the mother of Bikousky save such problems? What do you think
about the solution offered by mother? [3]
(iv) What is advisable for an educator of today to do while scribbling on his
business paper? Give one incident from the story to indicate that Bikousky
loved his son? [3]
(v) What did the father do to prevent the son from scribbling on his business
papers? Give one incidence from the story to indicate that Bikousky loved
his son? [4]
Q.6. In what way does the author give a character sketch of his grandmother? [16]
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