FIRST UNIT TEST, JULY 2022

CLASS- VI SET – A
SUBJECT – ENGLISH M.M. – 40
INSTRUCTIONS

1. Read the paper carefully.

2. Attempt all the sections.
3. Don’t use whitener.
4. Don’t overwrite.

 Section – A (READING SKILLS) – 10 MARKS

 Section – B (WRITING SKILLS) – 08 MARKS
 Section – C (GRAMMAR) – 10 MARKS
 Section – D (LITERATURE) – 12 MARKS
 SECTION – A (READING SKILLS) (10)

Q 1. Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions.

My next pet was a pigeon, the most revolting bird to look at, with his feathers pushing
through the wrinkled scarlet skin, mixed with the horrible yellow down that covers baby
pigeons and makes them look as though they have been peroxiding their hair. Because of
his fat and ugly appearance, we called him Quasimodo. Since he had an unorthodox
upbringing, without parents to teach him, Quasimodo became convinced that he was not
a bird at all, and refused to fly. He walked everywhere. He was always eager to join us in
anything we did.

He would even try to come for walks with us. So, you had to either carry him on your
shoulder, which was risking an accident to your clothes, or else you let him walk behind. If
you let him walk, then you had to slow down your own pace to suit his, for should you get
too far ahead, you would hear the most frantic and imploring coos and turn around to find
Quasimodo running desperately after you.

Q 1. The narrator describes the pigeon as a ‘revolting bird’ because

(a) He could not fly

(b) He had to be carried everywhere

(c) He had wrinkled skin covered with yellow feathers

(d) He was fat

Q 2. Quasimodo got his name because

(a) He was fat and ugly

(b) He was attractive

(c) He could not fly

(d) He loves behaving like human beings

Q 3. We know that Quasimodo was always eager to go on walks because

(a) He walked everywhere

(b) He did not know how to fly

(c) He complained loudly if he was not taken along

(d) He always copied whatever humans did

Q 4. Quasimodo protested when he was

(a) Left at home

(b) Lifted on human shoulders

(c) Taken for a walk

(d) Left behind during walks.

Q 5. What was the next pet of the speaker?

(a) Lion

(b) Pigeon

(c) Tarantula

(d) Honey Badger

Q 2. Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions.

Venice is a strange and beautiful city, in the north of Italy. It is not one island but a group
of one hundred and seventeen islands. These small islands are, near one another. There
are about four hundred old stone bridges, joining the islands of Venice. In this city, there
are no motor cars, no horses and no buses. This is because Venice has no streets.
Everyone must go by boat from one place to another. The boats sail on one hundred and
fifty canals or ‘waterways'. The water touches the walls and steps on the buildings. The
men of Venice are very good sailors. They have long boats with flat bottoms, called
‘Gondolas’. But, today, we can also see plenty of motor boats in Venice.

Q 1. Where is Venice located in Italy?

(a) east
(b) north
(c) west
(d) south

Q 2. Venice is a group of ………………. islands.

(a) one hundred seven
(b) one hundred seventy
(c) one hundred seventeen
(d) one hundred and seventy
Q 3. Which is the mode of transport in Venice?
(a) car
(b) motor
(c) bus
(d) boat

Q 4. How many ‘waterways’ are there in Venice?

(a) One hundred and fifty
(b) Fifty
(c) One hundred
(d) Two hundred

Q 5. Give the opposite of ‘beautiful’.

(a) handsome
(b) lovely
(c) ugly
(d) scary

SECTION – B (WRITING SKILLS) (08)

Q 3. Draft a poster on ‘SAVE WATER ‘for spreading awareness among the

people. (03)
Q 4. Write an application to the principal of your school requesting her to re-
issue of school I.D. Card. (05)

SECTION – C (GRAMMAR) (10)

Q 5. Identify the kind of sentences. (02)

(Assertive/Imperative/Interrogative/Exclamatory)
1. Please Lend me your pen.
2. Jhanvi lives in a big city.

Q 6. Change these positive sentences into negative forms. (02)

1. We were at home yesterday.
2. He will listen to the teacher.

Q 7. Identify the nouns. (02)

1. Mr. Gupta is an excellent teacher.
2. The boy was attacked by swarm of bees.

Q 8. Write the abstract noun forms of these words. (02)

1. Brilliant
2. Infant
3. Happy
4. Wise

Q 9. Identify subject and predicate. (02)

1. Many birds hibernate in winter.
2. There were five dogs howling at the moon.
 SECTION – D (Literature) (12)

Q 10. Extract (03)

I let them rest from nine till five,

For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch and tea,
For they are hungry men.
Answer the following questions.
1. Name the poem and the poet.
2. When does the speaker give them rest?
3. Give rhyming words.

Q 11. Explain this line with reference to context. (03)

Whatever Daedalus needed; King Minos provided without question.

a. What was provided by the King to Daedalus?

b. How did Daedalus feel about his imprisonment?
c. What is the name of the chapter?

Q 12. Answer the following question. (06)

1. Who is the person small who does not let her servants rest at all?

2. What was Daedalus famous for?

3. What did the father do in the memory of his son?