1. The caged bird in 'I Know why 'The Caged Bird Sings' is an analogy created in relation to which of the following?

2. In Robert Brownings  poem, ' The Patriot', the reception that the narrator is getting today is ______________to what he received a year ago.

3. When the little girl lit the third match, she saw:

4. __________________________ said that"whenever a star falls, a soul goes up to God".

5. After helping the woman to the Gujar encampment, Sibia returned to retrieve the___________

6. Sibia used_________________ to treat the woman's injuries

7. Where did Portia send Balthasar to get the lawyer's clothes and introduction letter from her cousin?

8. What was the name of Shylock's late wife?

9. The diamond that cost Shylock 2,000 ducats was bought from________________________

10.  Complete the dialogue: "you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise______________________

11. Read the following extract from The Merchant of Venice (Act 3) and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate response from the choices given below:

Lorenzo: Even such a husband

Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.

i. Where does the scene take place?

12. Portia is being referred to as a good wife here.Which of these does not justify this idea?

13. Launcelot's comment about the price of pork rising depicts

14. The conversation that follows this extract is____________________

15. Portia caused the whole ring fiasco to:

16. Read the following extract front Act 3 of 'The Merchant of Venice' and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate response from the choices given below:

Portia: I pray you, tarry.

Pause a day or two

Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong

I lose your company.

i. Who beseeches whom to marry?

17. What is the person being requested to delay?

18. Portia address these times as ;

19. What news does Bassanio get later in the scene?

20. From where were Antonio's ships coming?

21. Read the following extract from the short story, The Little Match Girl' and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate response from the choices given below:

It is true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home, but they were not of much use.

i. Why were the slippers not of much use?

22.  Whom did the slippers belong to?

23. The little girl lost her slippers running across the street to avoid two___________________ coming towards her with haste

24. What happened to the little girl's slippers?

25. Which Of these best describe the last night before the New Year?

26. Read the following extract from the short story, 'The Blue Bead' and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate response from the choices given below:

He came to rest in the glassy shallows, among logs, and balanced there on tiptoe on the rippled sand.

i. The crocodile was___________ the length of a tall man.

27. There were ______________lying stuck around the stones until someone came to dislodge them and send them on their way.

28. The word closest in meaning to 'rippled' in the above line is:

29. The crocodile keeps its nostrils above the water to breathe the_________________

30.  "The crocodile had no need to hide himself" Why?

31. Read the following extract from the poem, 'I Know why the Caged Bird Sings' and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate response from the choices given below:

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

i."The bird stalks down his narrow cage" because he:

32. Explain: "...can seldom see through its bars Of rage"

33. The cage is a multi-layered image symbolizing the _________________faced by the African Americans

34. The fact that the caged bird has 'clipped' wings and 'tied' feet reflects how marginalized communities are often stripped of their__________________

35. The word closest in meaning to the word 'stalks' in the above extract is:

36. Read the following extract from the poem, 'The Patriot' and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate answer from the choices given below:

Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun

To give it my loving friends to keep!

Nought man could do, have I left undone:

And you see my harvest, what I reap

This very day, now a year is run.

i. Who are the"loving friends" mentioned here?

37. A year ago, the_________________ seemed to blaze because of the colourful flags hoisted atop them.

38. The word closest in meaning to, 'harvest' in the above extract is:

39. Few people observed the narrator from the_________________

40. Which of these is not a state of the narrators mind in this poem?