AHSEC| CLASS 11| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2024| H.S. 1ST YEAR
2024
ALTERNATIVE
ENGLISH
Full
Marks: 100
Pass
Marks: 30
Time:
3 hours
The
figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
GROUP-A
(Prose)
(Marks: 45)
1. Answer any ten of the following questions: 0.5x10=5
(a) What is embezzlement?
(b) Express the expression 'wet behind
the ears'.
(c) How old was Shaw during the time
of writing Life and Learning?
(d) What does 'flunked' mean?
(e) Where is Mokameh Ghat located?
(f) Who is White Sadhu?
(g) How many commandments are there in
Decalogue?
(h) Is discourtesy a legal offence?
(i) Name the fictional detective
character created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
(j) What did Stanley die of?
(k) Who translated the story, Bondiyar
into English?
(l) In whose house was the captive
kept?
2. Answer
any six of the following questions in full sentence: 1x6=6
(a) Who took a dip in the water of the
stream?
(b) The Captive shows the essence of
human understanding. (State whether True or False)
(c) Name the old college friend of the
speaker from How it Happened.
(d) By whom was the page boy kicked?
(e) What is the pseudonym of A. G.
Gardiner?
(f) Write the name of the source from
where The Queen of the Village is extracted.
(g) Explain heresy.
(h) To whom is the speech of Life and
Learning addressed?
(i) Why did Pyotr meet his friend Dr.
Fituyev?
3.
Answer any six of the following questions: 2x6=12
(a) What is referred to by 'hereditary
vice'?
(b) Define ballad
(c) Why does the author say that the
hardest part of schooling is the early part?
(d) How do the Inhabitants of Kumaon
villages get news of the outside world?
(e) On what ground was the payment for
tea taken as in suit by Kumaon-Garhwal people?
(f) What does the law say with regard
to discourtesy?
(g) Why did the narrator of How it
Happened feel no pain?
4.
Answer any four of the following questions: 3x4=12
(a) Analyse the nature of the
relationship between the captive and the young man.
(b) Summarise, after the narrator of
How it Happened, the view on foolishness.
(c) How does a pain of a wound to our
self-respect linger on?
(d) Write a short note on the
appropriateness of the title, The Queen of the Village.
(e) Explain why it is dangerous to
give up to date answers in the examinations.
(f) Why did Kondrashkin fear that
Pyotr might be sent to Siberia?
5.
Answer any two of the following questions: 5x2=10
(a) What are the various methods the
protagonist applied to avoid the marriage? Discuss.
(b) "School to me was a sentence
of penal servitude." Elaborate.
(c) Describe the episode involving the
sportsman from the time of his arrival at the machan to his departure.
(d) Based on Gardiner's encounter,
prepare a character sketch of the conductor.
(e) Comment on the significance of the
ending of the story, How it Happened.
(f) Who is the captive in the story by
the same title? Base the answer on your understanding of the story.
GROUP-B
(Poetry)
(Marks: 25)
6.
Answer any eight of the following questions: 0.5x8=4
(a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz is committed to
champion the cause of the downtrodden. (State whether True or False)
(b) Who heralds dreams in When Autumn
Came?
(c) In which capacity did Maya Angelou
work for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
(d) Where does the free bird dip its
wings?
(e) Name the manifesto of Romantic
Movement in England.
(f) In the grove of which village did
the poet recline?
(g) Who assisted Blake in his career
as engraver?
(h) What does 'distress' mean?
(i) With which disease was Moore
afflicted in his later years?
(j) To what does the poet compare his
delinked friends?
(k) The setting of the poem, The Light
of Other Days is ______. (comic/ nostalgic/traumatic) (Choose the correct
option)
7.
Answer any seven of the following questions: 1x7=7
(a) Ere _______chain has bound me.
(Fill in the blank)
(b) Identify the sort of emotion that
runs throughout The Light of Other Days.
(c) When do people pray to Mercy,
Pity, Peace and Love?
(d) Who is the poet of Songs of
Innocence and Songs of Experience?
(e) Why do the budding twigs spread
out their fan?
(f) What is linked to the fair works
of nature?
(g) Whose wings are clipped?
(h) Give the meaning of 'trade wind'.
(i) Explain 'gift of green'.
(j) Find the Christian word in When
Autumn Come which means 'revival'.
8.
Answer any three of the following questions: 2x3=6
(a) What happens to the leaves in
autumn?
(b) Why is the caged bird found
standing on the 'grave of dreams'?
(c) What grieved the speaker's heart
in early spring?
(d) Name the different human forms
represented by 'virtues of delight'.
(e) Why are the cheerful hearts now
broken?
9.
Answer any one of the following questions: 3
(a) Is the poem, The Divine Image
purely religious? Give reasons to support your answer.
(b) Identify any three poetic devices
used in Lines Written in Early Spring. Contextulise them.
(c) Bring out the central idea of the
poem, The Caged Bird.
10,
Answer any one of the following questions: 5
(a) How does the poet depict autumn
through a series of image of violence?
(b) Show how Lines Written in Early
Spring illustrates Wordsworth's theory of poetry.
(c) Explore the theme of friendship as
reflected in The Light of Other Days.
GROUP-C
(Grammar and Composition?
(Marks: 20)
11.
Make sentences with any two pairs of words to illustrate the difference in
meanings between them: 2x2=4
allusion-illusion
bridal-bridle
book-book
advice-advise
stationary-stationery
piece-peace
12.
Identify five nouns and five adjectives in the paragraph give below: 0.5x10=5
He returned to the forest and lived
there alone. He had an old robe and a small bowl and sometimes he would enter
the city to beg for alms. He became aware for the first time of the extreme
suffering around him. He witnessed the poor and those without clothes, those in
severe pain, the fear in young children. He saw the victims of political wars
and brutality. He was discovering how tormented we are.
13.
Fill in the blanks of any five of the following conditional sentences with
correct tense forms: 1x5=5
(a) If the weather _______(clear) up,
the plane will take off.
(b) Unless you visit Gaza you
______(not understand) the crisis out there.
(c) Provided you came earlier, you
_______(meet) the celebrity.
(d) If he had known the fact, he
______(protest) against the injustice.
(e) Had the girl been sincere, she _______(win)
the first prize.
(f) Try hard now or you
_______(suffer).
(g) If the criminal does not speak the
truth, he _______(punish).
(h) I wish I _______(accept) the
offer.
14.
Write a precis of the following passage and add an appropriate title to it:
5+1=6
In primitive times, when the human
population of the globe was small, such problems did not arise. Agriculture, it
is true, was practiced in ways that exhausted the soil for a time, but there
were usually new vacant lands available; and if there were not, the corpses of
enemies sufficed as fertilizers. The system was 'conservative' in the
physicist's sense. That is to say, energy on the whole accumulation as fast as
it was used. Now, this is not the case white scientific technique continues.
All this, however, you may say, is
distant and doubtful: we have more pressing matters to consider. This is true,
and I will proceed to consider some of them.
The problem which most preoccupies the
public mind at the present moment is that of scientific warfare. It has become
evident that, if scientific skill is allowed free scope, the human race will be
exterminated, if not in the next war, then in the next but one or the next but
two-at any rate at no very distant date. To this problem there are two possible
reactions: there are those who say, "Let us not allow war to become too
scientific. We cannot perhaps go back to bows and arrows, but let us at any
rate agree with enemies that, if we fight them, both sides will fight
inefficiently." For my part, I favour the former answer, since I cannot
see that either side could be expected to observe an agreement not to use
modern weapons if once war had broken out. It is on this ground that I do not
think that there will long continue to be human beings unless methods are found
permanently preventing large-scale wars.
GROUP-D
(Drama)
(Marks: 10)
15.
Answer any three of the following questions: 1x3=3
(a) Who is Gerald Croft?
(b) With which organisation was Sybil
Birling associated?
(c) Mention the year in which the play
is set.
(d) Where was the victim girl taken
towards the end of the play?
(e) An Inspector Calls is primarily a/
an ________(suspense/ sociological/ absurd) play. (Choose the correct option)
16.
Answer any one of the following questions: 2
(a) Is the title, An Inspector Calls
suitable? Give your opinion.
(b) How did Mr. Birling deal with the
issue of pay hike demanded by his employees?
(c) "Public men .... have
responsibilities as well as privileges." Explain.
17.
Answer any one of the following questions: 5
(a) Comment on the way in which women
and men are viewed in the play.
(b) Who is your favourite character in
the play? Give a character sketch of him/her.
(c) How do you assess the confusion
created through the identity of the Inspector?
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