1.Read the lines given below and answer the questions by choosing the correct option given after each.                                                                                                            [1x10=10]

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.

(i) Where was Mrs. Mallard sitting at this time?

(ii)How was the atmosphere outside compared to that inside the room?

(iii) Where were Mrs. Mallard’s eyes fixed at this time?

(iv) Why was the ‘joy’ of Mrs. Mallard, monstrous?

v) What was the joy which Mrs. Mallard welcomed with open arms?

(vi) What did Josephine think that Louise was doing in her room?

(vii) What is the meaning of exalted perception?

(viii) From the story, what can be inferred about Mrs. Mallard’s relationship with her husband?

(ix) What emotion does Louise NOT FEEL in the course of the story?

(x) What is the resolution of the story, “The Story of an Hour”?

2. Fill in the missing information from the story, “To Build a Fire”? [1x5=5]

(i) The man built the fire under a ___________tree.

(ii) In the story, fire is used as a symbol of___________.

(iii) The dog in the story represents ____________.

(iv) The dog expects the man to ___________________.

(v) During the course of the story, the man changes from being _________.

SECTION C-REVERIE-POETRY. Choose the correct option after each question.                                                                                                                                                                               [1x10=10]

3. (i) In the poem, ‘The Darkling Thrush’, what comprises the death-lament of the dead century?

(ii) Who is the poet of the poem, ‘The Darkling Thrush’ ?

(iii) When was the poem, “The Darkling Thrush” written?

(iv) Between which two things is the conflict present in the poem, “Birches”?

(v) In the poem ‘Birches’, what does the poet imagine the cause of bending of the birch trees to be?

(vi) What is NOT the desire of the poet as expressed in the poem, “Birches”?

(vii) What kind of poem is “Crossing the Bar”?

(viii) In the poem, “Crossing the Bar” which of the following does the evening bell refer to?

(ix) What deeper meaning is expressed in the phrase, “Crossed the bar”?

(x) In the poem, “Crossing the Bar”, what does the phrase ‘sunset and evening star' represent?

4. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct option.                                                                                                                                [1x10=10]

I don't know where it's likely to go better

I'd like to go by climbing birds tree,

And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk

Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,

but dipped its top and set me down again.

That would be good both going and coming back.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. 

(i) According to the poet, which place is it best to be in?

(ii) Why does the poet want to go about climbing a birch tree?

(iii) What does the act of the birch tree setting the poet down again, signify?

(iv) In this poem, what does the poet compare the bending of the trunk of the birch trees to touch their leaves on the ground ,to?

(v) In this poem, what is heaven used as a metaphor for?

(vi) What is the act of climbing on the birch tree by the boy, considered by the poet as?

(vii) In the poem, “Birches”, whom does the poet represent?

(viii) In this poem, what is life on earth compared to?

(ix) What does the line, “That would be good both going and coming back” metaphorically refer to?

(x) What would the poet gain out of the act of climbing and swinging on the birch trees?

5. Given below are lines from the poem “The Darkling Thrush”. Fill in the gaps in the lines choosing from the options given after each line.                                                        [1x5]

(i) The Winter’s ________ made desolate

(ii) The _________ eye of the day

(iii) So little cause for _________

(iv) The ancient pulse of _____________

(v) The tangled _________ scored the sky