GOVT : GIRLS DEGREE COLLEGE KUNRI DISTRICT UMERKOT

MID TERM EXAMINATION 2022-2023 (CLASS XI &XII)

ENGLISH-ll
(FOR ALL GROUPS)
TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS TOTAL MARKS: 100

SECTION - B
NOTE: ANSWER ANY SEVEN (07) OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
ALL QUESTIONS CARRY EQUAL MARKS.
Q.NO. 01 Why, in your opinion, does the author make the Potter a humorous character?
Q.NO. 02 Write a brief character sketch of Mrs oakentubb?
Q.NO. 03 When is the audience likely to begin to suspect that she might be Mrs Oakentubb?
Q.NO. 04 Why does the author consider it useless to resist industrialization?
Q.NO. 05 Explain the importance of the label on Mrs. Oakentubb’s suitcase.
Why does she hide it?
Q.NO. 06 Why it is insular for European historians to term the centuries after the fall of the
Roman Empire “The Dark Ages” ?
Q.NO. 07 What, in the author’s opinion, should Asian countries accept from the west and what
should they reject?
Q.NO. 08 How is traditional culture threatened in an age dominated by science and machinery?
Q.NO. 09 What motives has the man for murdering her?
Q.NO. 10 What, In the authors view, has been the most serious flaw in the character of the
West over the last few centuries?
SECTION-C
Q.NO. 11 Write an article of 350 to 400 words on The Re-Awakening East: an easy by Bertrand
Russel?
Q.NO. 12 Write the Reference to the context and explanation of the given stanza?

At the first infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
Then, the whining school boy,with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail,
Unwilling to school,