HS 2nd Year Half Yearly Exam Questions Paper Baksa District

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HS 2nd Year Pre final Question Paper 2023

Sub: English

2023

Class: 2nd Year

Time: 3 hours

Full Marks: 100

(Textbook: Prose sections 50 marks)

1. Give a short answer of following questions: 1x10=10

(a) What did Franz think 'for a moment ?'

(b) What is the name of the river mentioned in "The Last Lesson ?"

(c) What is "Lost Spring" about ?

(d) Who is Saheb ?

(e) Give an English equivalent of 'Karam'.

(f) Who was Rajkumar Shukla ?

(g) Where was Champaran ?

(h) What did M. Hamel write at the end of the class ?

(i) Who is the "Chota Sahib" in the "Memoirs of a Chota Sahib" ?

(j) What are ghats ?

2. Answer the following questions: 2x10=20

(a) What is a marboat and how is it operated ?

(b) Give a brief description of the forest bungalow at Kulsi ?

(c) What did M. Hamel say about the French Language ?

(d) Why were the old men of the village sitting in the back of the room ?

(e) What is the irony inherent in Saheb's full name ?

(f) Where does Saheb work after giving up rag-picking ?

(g) What is the significance of bangles in an Indian Society ?

(h) Why did Gandhi choose to go to Muzzafarpur first before going on to champaran ?

(i) What did the judge do when Gandhi refused to furnish bail ?

(j) What is the 'great trouble' with Alsace ?

3. Answer the following questions: 4×5=20

(a) What was the long-term contract between the English landlords and the sharecroppers of champaran ? Why did the Sharecroppers protest against this agreement ?

(b) Describe the character of the North Bank of Kamrup district referred to in the lesson 'Memoirs of a Chota Sahib.

(c) Describe the miserable plight of the people of Firozabad.

(d) Describe the unusual things that Franz noticed on the day of the last lesson.

(Textbook: Poetry section: 25 Marks)

4. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

(e) "Driving from my parent's home to cochin last

Friday morning, I saw my mother,

beside me doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that Of a corpse

(i) Where was the poet driving to ? 1

(ii) What did she notice when her mother sat beside her ? 1

(iii) Find words from the passage that mean "sleep lightly" and "dead body" 1

(iv) Why was her mother's face like that of a corpse ? 1

(b) "Those who prepare green wars,

Wars with gas, wars with fire,

Victory with no survivors,

In the shade, doing nothing"

(i) What are the different kinds of wars mentioned by the poet in the passage ? 1

(ii) What kind of victory do they achieve ? 1

(iii) What should the warmongers do ? 1

(iv) Find words in the passage that mean "those left alive" and "win". 1

(c) "No, in country money, the country scale of gain,

The requisite lift of spirit has never been found,

or so the voice of the country seems to complain,

I can't help owing the great relief it would be,

To put these people at one stroke out of their pain

And then next day as I come back into the sane,

I wonder how I should like you to come to me.

And offer to put me gently out of my pain."

(i) Where do these lines occur ? 1

(ii) Why has the requisite spirit never been found ? 1

(iii) What does the voice of the country people seem to say ? 1

(iv) What will be of great relief for the poet ? 1

(d) "Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing

A flowery band to bind us to the earth,

Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth

Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,

Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways

Made for our searching: Yes, inspite of all,

some shape f beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits.

(i) What do we do everyday ? 1

(ii) What removes the pall from the dark spirits ? 1

(iii) What is the message expressed in these lines ? 2

5. Answer the following questions: 2×4=8

(a) What is the message that Keats wants to convey through. "A thing of Beauty ?"

(b) What is considered to be "an exotic moment" in keeping Quiet ?

(c) How did the travellers on the highways react to the roadside stand ?

(d) What is the significance of the parting words of the speaker and her smile in "My Mother at sixty six" ?

Advanced writing skill: 26 Marks

6. You are Mahesh/Manika, the cultural Secretary of Noonmati Bapuji Govt. Higher Secondary school You are planning to organize an inter-school debate competition. Write a notice for the school notice boards inviting names of students willing to participate. (word limit:50) 6

Water is precious and each one of us must stop its wastage. Prepare a poster in not more than 50 words urging people to employ various methods of rain water harvesting in their own locality. 6

7. Prepare a speech to be delivered in the morning Assembly of your school on the topic "The World Environment Day". You are Pritam/Priya of Sunrise Academy, Guwahati. 10

Your District Administration has celebrated Silpi Divas at the District Library auditorium recently. Prepare a report on it in 100-125 words to be published in "The Assam Tribune". 10

8. Your are Rahul/Rabina of Nalbari. You have seen an advertisement for the post of a Science Teacher in Tezpur High School. Write a letter to the president of the Managing committee of the school applying for the post. Give your detailed bio-data as well. 10

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