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 TEST -04                                                                                Month – DECEMBER  2020

Class-11th                              Subject- English (Core)                            Marks-20

 


Q.01.   Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:   (2x3=6)

 

WHEN you see this title, some of you may ask, “Ranga’s Marriage?” Why not “Ranganatha Vivaha” or “Ranganatha Vijaya?” Well, yes. I know I could have used some other mouth-filling one like “Jagannatha Vijaya” or “Girija Kalyana.” But then, this is not about Jagannatha’s victory or Girija’s wedding. It’s about our own Ranga’s marriage and hence no fancy title. Hosahalli is our village. You must have heard of it. No? What a pity! But it is not your fault. There is no mention of it in any geography book. Those sahibs in England, writing in English, probably do not know that such a place exists, and so make no mention of it. Our own people too forget about it. You know how it is —they are like a flock of sheep. One sheep walks into a pit, the rest blindly follow it. When both, the sahibs in England and our own geographers, have not referred to it, you can not expect the poor cartographer to remember to put it on the map, can you? And so there is not even the shadow of our village on any map.

 

 Questions:

(a)   Why the author is saying that you must have not heard about the village?

(b)   Why do our own people forget about the village?

(c)    What other title can you suggest for this passage?

Q.02.   Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:   (1x4=4)

When did my childhood go?

 Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,

 Was it the time I realised that Hell and Heaven,

Could not be found in Geography,

 And therefore could not be,

Was that the day!

Questions:

(a) When did the author feel that his childhood has gone?

 (b) What cannot be found in geography?

(c) What according to the poem is involved in the process of growing up?  

(d) Write the name of the poem and the poet.

 

 Qu.03. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. (Any 3) (3X2 =6)             

 

 (a)  Comment on the attitude shown by Taplow towards Crocker-Harris.?

 (b)  Does Frank seem to encourage Taplow’s comments on Crocker-Harris?            

 (c)  What is the narrator’s attitude to English in the lesson  Ranga’s Marriage?          

 (d)  How do you distinguish between information gathering and insight formation?

 

 Qu.04. Answer the following questions in about 120-150 words.       (4X1 =4)              

     What do you gather about Crocker-Harris from the play?

                                                       OR              

   The school system often curbs individual talents. Discuss.                                                                          

 

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