Date:-22 feb 2023

English Reader Test

Question 1. Answer these questions. (2 mark each)

1) What are the two ways in which the hills appear to change when the mist comes up?
2) What are the 3 qualities that played a major role in the author’s climb
3) The 8-sisters kept their window shut; how did it affect them?
4) Which university did Xuan Zang and I-Qing go to?
5) Was the boy, in your opinion right or wrong to ask Ranji to explain himself?

Question2. Answer these questions. (3 mark each)

1) What were the coins ‘saying’ to him?

2) Did the fight continue? If not, why not?
3) Describe the earth in winter season as presented by Jhon Keats in this poem?
4) How did the deer drink milk from the ground?

OR

Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn and raise It?

5) Is the boy intelligent? If so what is the evidence of it?

Question 3. Answer these questions. (5 marks)

1) Write Central Idea of the poem of the ‘School Boy’

OR

Write the central Idea of the poem ‘On the grasshopper and the cricket’

2) Who was the better swimmer? How do you know it?

3) Are the sisters unkind and cruel? Find evidence in the text to support your idea.
4) Which salient features of the ancient education system of India made it globally removed?
5) What do you understand by holistic education