TRINITY METHODIST GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

FIRST TEST EXAMINATION

FOR THE SESSION 2023-2024
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LITERATURE
CLASS V A, B, C, D
MAX MARKS: 50 TIME: 30 minutes
Name: Roll no: Section:

Question no.1: Answer the following questions. (10)

1- Do you think the mole was enjoying the spring season? Identify the
sentence which tell the readers about mole’s enjoyment.
2- What clues are there to tell us how the water rat fell about his boat and
the river?
Question no.2: Answer the following short questions. (Any 3) (10)
1- Why do you think the father advised his son to pray to the Great Spirit for
a gift?
2- In what ways was the tribe content with their lives?
3- Did the water rat emerge quickly or slowly from his hole? How do we
know?
4- Describe how the rabbits reacted when the mole passed by the private
road.
Question no.3: Write meanings for the following words. (08)
1- Thrusting
2- Privilege
3- Excursion
4- Contented
5- Hunting
6- Battle
7- Trembling
8- Rapture
Question no.4: Make sentences. (08)
1- Rambled
2- Unlike situation
3- Thoroughly satisfactory
4- Meandered aimlessly
Question no.5: Read these lines and answer the following questions. (06)
1- I have come to test your courage, stand up.

 Who says these words and to whom?

 When are these words said?
 How is his courage tested?

2- As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, a dark hole in the
bank opposite, just above the water edge, caught his eyes

 Who is sitting on the grass and what was the dark hole that he saw?
 What does he see in the hole at first?
 What does he see later?
Question no.6: Write the missing letter to complete a word. (04)
1- M_ad_w
2- Ra_t_r_
3- W_r_io_
4- E_h_us_ed
Question no.7: Fill in the blanks. (04)
1- The mole was bewitched, entranced,
2- ‘This has been a wonderful day!’ said he, as the rat shoved off and took to
the
3- He began to pray to the
4- The two of them began to