THE WOODS HERITAGE SCHOOL

First Term Examination

Class – XI Subject – English Language MM:80

Attempt four questions in all. Question 1 from shakespear’s ‘The Tempest’ is compulsory. You must do your other
three questions from the three books you have read.

Section A
The Tempest

Question 1
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions on both extracts (a and b)
a) Boatswain: Do you not hear him? You mar our labour. Keep your cabins- you do assist the storm.
Gonzalo: Nay good be patient.
Boatswain: When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin,
silence! Trouble us not.
Gonzalo: Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
I. Who has just spoken before the given passage? Who else are present there now? [2]
II. What has happened to cause this mood? [2]
III. What is the Boatswain doing now? How does he feel now? [2]
IV. What do you think of the man, the way he speaks to others? [2]
V. What is the significance of the remark, “when the sea is”? [2]

b) Miranda: O! I have suffered with those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel- who had no doubt, some
noble creature in her-
Dash’d all to pieces! O, the cry did knock against my very heart-
Poor souls, they perish’d.
I. Who else are there with her? Where are they? [2]
II. What has she requested the person spoken to just before the passage? What has been
happening now? [2]
III. Who have suffered according to the speaker? What has actually happened to them? [2]
IV. What does ‘A brave vessel’ mean? From where was she coming? Do the ‘Noble creature’s
deserve to be called ‘poor souls’? Give reasons. [2]
V. What comes in her life a little later? How does she feel about that person? [2]

Section B
Attempt three questions from this section. Do one question each from the three books you have read.

The Tempest
Question 2
Discuss ‘The Tempest’ as a tragic- comedy and describe the suitability of this title. [20]

Question 3
Explain the circumstances in which Act I scene I opens and the reaction of different people on board
the ship. [20]
 Reverie- A collection of Poems
Question 4
What is a fable? Discuss the poem; ‘The Spider’ and the ‘Fly’ as a fable. [20]

Question 5
Describe ‘John Brown’ as an anti war poem. [20]

Echoes – A Collection of Stories

Question 6
a) Why could Salvatore not marry his fiancée? [6]
b) Why Salvatore was rendered unfit for further military service? [6]
c) Which quality of Salvatore appeals to you the most? Why? [8]

Question 7
Gessler brothers are skilled workers; still they suffer slow starvation. What accounts for their failure to
survive? Illustrate from the story ‘Quality’. [20]