Annual Examination (2021-22)

Class-VI
Duration: 2 hour English Literature Max.marks:80
Reading Time: 10 minutes

QI. Word Meanings:- [10]

1. vicar 2. exploded through the door 3. fervent 4. shiuli 5. cronies
6. upbraid 7. arbiter 8. queer 9. hobbled 10. hover

QII. Answer the following questions:- [10]

1. Why did Alagu’s heart sink when Jumman was appointed Sarpanch?
2. Who were the three men who came into the visitor’s room? Why had they come?
3. Why was the visitor angry?
4. What was the little group of people at the Coach and Horses talking about?
5. Why did Jumman’s aunt threaten to call the panchayat?

QIII. Read the sentences and answer the questions:- [20]

A. “Look here, my good woman.”
1. Who said this and to whom?
2. Why did the speaker say so?
3. Where are they at this moment?
4. Why was the listener angry with the speaker?

B. “I have reason to take you to court and prison.”

1. Who is ‘I’ and ‘you’ here?
2. What were the reasons?
3. On what condition ‘you’ was ready to go to court?
4. Was ‘I’ able to take him to court? Give reason.

C. “You sold me a half-dead animal.”

1. Who said this and to whom?
2. Which animal they are talking about?
3. What happened to the animal?
4. When did the speaker promise to pay for the animal?

D. “The scent of the morning service in the temple

comes to me as the scent of my mother.”
1. Who said this?
2. What comes as the scent of the mother?
3. Name the poem and the poet. [2]

E. “My little horse must think it queer”

1. Who is ‘my’ here?
2. Why did the little horse find it queer?
3. Name the poem and the poet. [2]
QIV. Make Sentences:- [5]
1. distant 2. collapsed 3. robbed 4. shake 5. enmity
QV. Give one word answer:- [10]
1. Name the author of the story ‘The Mysterious Visitor’. …………………
2. Name of the man who wished to settle scores with Jumman …………………
3. A tune seems to hover over the child’s …………………
4. Sweets or candies on sticks …………………
5. Who was lying on the ground without movement? …………………
6. The poet was standing between the woods and …………………
7. What did Alagu bought one day? …………………
8. Name the author of the story ‘The Voice of Conscience’. …………………
9. How much land was given by Khalajan to Jumman? …………………
10. Very happy and excited …………………
QVI. Who said this to whom:- [5]
1. “Jumman and I are old friends.”
2. “You have no reason to hit me in this way.”
3. “What is the reason that you have not been giving me my money?”
4. “Who knows how long this old woman will live.”
5. “All it is, is empty clothes.”

QVII. Define Simile with an example:- [3]

QVIII. Give the meaning of the following idiomatic expressions:- [5]

1. turn a deaf ear

2. shook the foundations
3. back to the wall
4. exchanged hot words
5. behind someone’s back
QIX. Give one word for the following:- [5]
1. a gathering of people in a church-
2. people gathered in a theatre to watch a movie-
3. people watching a fight in the street-
4. people gathered in a stadium to watch a game-
5. a noisy group that cannot be controlled-
QX. Give the meaning of following phrasal verbs:- [5]
1. run into problems
2. run for
3. run out of
4. run over
5. run away from
QXI. Give the rhyming words for the following words:- [2]
1. snow 2.deep