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Time: Three hours Max. Marks. 50

1. Explain with reference to the context of the following passage:- (4)

Adults disdained them and children preferred to spend their money at the movies. Moreover, there were very few open spaces left for flying kites. The city had swallowed up the green maidan which had stretched from the old fort walls to the river bank.

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:- (4)

Mahatma Gandhi was looked on, by many both Indian and European, as the epitome of Hindu tradition, but this is a false judgement for he was much influenced by western ideas. Gandhiji believed in the fundamentals of his ancient culture, but his passionate love of the underdog and his antipathy to caste though not unprecedented in ancient India, were unorthodox in the extreme, and owed more the European 19th century liberalism than to anything Indian. His predecessors in revolt, the able Maratha Brahmen B.G. Tilak, and Gandhi’s inpatient liven tenant Subhas Chandra Bose, were for more orthodox in this respect.

(i) What is the false judgement about Mahatma Gandhi?

(ii) Name the greatman looked on as the epitome of Hindutradion?

(iii) Who came first in Indian politices. Mahatma Gandhi or B.G. Tilak?

(iv) Write down the names of national leaders given in this passage.

3. Answer the following questions is not more than 30 words. (4)

(i) Briefly describe the importance of the study of classics.

(ii) How does the heart describe itself?

4. Answer one of the following questions is not more than 150 words: (6)

(i) Describe the taking of the first successful photograph of the wild lion by majorbugmore.

(ii) Summarise the views of Nehruji as given in the lesson `The variety and unity of India’.

5. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with suitable words: (2)

(i) Few of us, however, have lost much ........ on our travels through forgetfulness. (money, property, opportunity)

(ii) I suppose every family has a ...... (common fellow, general fellow, blacksheep)

(iii) There is a pleasant sense of freedom about being ....... in a carriage. (Double, alone, twple)

(iv) The creator ............. for a moment. (Knelt down, felt down, reflected)

6. Answer one the following questions in not more than 150 words: (5)

(i) Why is antony successful in his speech and Burtus fails?

(ii) Trace the mistakes made by the conspirators which brought about their defeat.

7. Answer one of the following questions in not more than 30 words:- (2)

(i) Why does Caesar want calphurnia to stand in Antony’s way?

(ii) What were Caesar last wards beforedeath? why did he say so?

8. Answer one of the following questions in about 150 words:- (5)

(i) Was Gafur a cruel old man? Give reason for your answer?

(ii) Show how the child lost all interest in the fair after he got separated from his parents.

9. Answer one of the following questions in not more than 30 words:- (2)

(i) Why does the author call the correspondence with Alice a game of hide and seek?

(ii) What was the fear of the Astrologer?

10. Explain with reference to the context any two of the following stanzas:- (6)

(i) Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreang desert sand of dead habit. where the mind is led forward by the into ever widening thought and action.

(ii) Yet now despair itself is mild.

Even as the winds and waters are;

I could lie down like a tired child,

And weep away the life of care.

(iii) But a smooth and steadfast mind,

Gentle thoughts, and clam desires,

Hearts with equal love combined,

Kindle never duing fires:-

11. Give the central idea one of the following forms: (4)

(a) The song of the Free.

(b) Dover Beach.

(c) Education of nature.

12. Answer one of the following questions in about 150 words:- (4)

(i) `It is enough: mine eyes have seen enough’’. who says this when and why?

(ii) Describe the feelings of the prince after he had seen the old, the sick and the deadman?

13. Point out the figures of speech in any two of the following:- (1)

1. Belinda smiled and all the world was gay.

2. Great lard of all things, yet prey to all.

3. And beauty born of murmusing round shall pass into her face.

14. Define `Onomatopoeia’ and give in illustration of its use: (1)

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