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WorksheetsGolden Test XII
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 51mins
What was much more tempting than the rule for participles?
Starting late to school
Enjoying nature and her beauty
Running away from school
The warm, bright sun
Oh, the wretches; that was what they had put up at the town-hall! – What did Franz regret about?
Not reading the bulletin-board at the town hall.
Not attending M. Hamel’s classes.
Not learning participles.
Not learning French all these days.
“…..and Hauser had brought an old primer, thumbed at the edges, and he held it open on his knees with his great spectacles lying across the pages.”
What could be the synonym of “thumbed at the edges”?
Unblemished
In tact
Worn out and soiled
Trim
"What a thunderclap these words were to me!”
What is the literary device employed here?
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
In which period,The Last Lesson is set in ?
Franco- Prussian War
German- Russian War
Persian- Russian War
Franco-American War
Which districts of France have passed into Prussian hands in the story, The Last Lesson?
Austria and Poland
Alsace and Lhasa
Alsace and Lorraine
Lorraine and Austria
Which are the main characters in the story, The Last Lesson ?
Franz and Mr. Hamlet
Francis and Herman
M. Hamel and Franz
M.Herman and Francois
For how many years M. Hamel was working in the school as a teacher?
30 years
15 years
20 years
40 years
What did M. Hamel write on the black board at the end of the class?
Vive La France
Vive La Liberté
Vive La Langue
Vive La Franco
Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting there in the back of the room. It was because they were sorry, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful service and of showing their respect for the country that was theirs no more.
Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as ‘Poor man!’?
He empathizes with M. Hamel as he had to leave the village.
He believes that M. Hamel’s “fine Sunday clothes” clearly reflected that he was not rich.
He feels sorry for M. Hamel as it was his last French lesson.
He thinks that M. Hamel’s patriotism and sense of duty resulted in his poverty.
“I never saw him look so tall”. Which of the following best captures M. Hamel on the last day of school?
cranky, miserable, dedicated, resigned
patient, dignified, emotional, courageous
calm, nostalgic, disappointed, patriotic
proud, reproachful, persistent, heroic
Franz was able to understand the grammar lesson easily on M Hamel's last class because he was...
receptive
appreciative.
patriotic
competitive
The word "Saar" in the text refers to .....................
Saar Dynasty
The French landscape
A River
The most famous Lake in France
Among the villagers sitting in the class, who was carrying the old primer
M Hamel
The former Mayor
Old Hauser
The Postman
Complete the sentence, using the most suitable word from the text:
“The order has come from (a) to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine.”
What compels the workers in bangle industry of Firozabad to poverty?
cast and ancestral profession
Karma theory and society
Bureaucrats and politicians
All of the above
Who employs the local families of Firozabad?
The glass blowing industry
Politicians
Merchants
Bureaucrats
What efforts can help Mukesh materialise his dream of becoming a car mechanic?
Hard Work
Guidance of his employer
becoming an apprentice at a garage
all the above
Saheb hailed from which place?
Delhi
Seemapuri
Green feels of Dhaka
None
What is the central theme of the story Lost Spring?
Gold in garbage
Saheb and Mukesh
Pitiable Poor children and their lost childhood
appreciation of Spring season
"But many others like the (a) in my neighbourhood remain shoeless."
Describe the irony in Saheb's name. (30-40 words)
'Garbage to them is gold.' Why does the author say so about the ragpickers?
People in Seemapuri are happy, though they have no
permanent shelter and identity but they have (a) .
What does the writer try to depict in the lesson ‘Lost Spring”?
Lost childhood
Lost adolescence
Lost homeland
Lost freedom
"The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders.” Identify the literary device used in the sentence.
contrast
metaphor
simile
personification
Their ability to dream and their initiatives have been killed by years of _________________.
money making
mind numbing toil
schooling
rag picking
For the children, the garbage is wrapped in (a) .
What is the probable reason for children remaining barefoot?
Physical illness
A tradition to remain barefoot
Perpetual state of poverty
lack of money
What two distinct worlds does the author see in the lives of the bangle makers?
Sahukars – policemen
Poor people – influential people
Middlemen – poor people
Policemen – bureaucrats
Who is I referred to in the above lines?
Alphonse Daudet
William Douglas
Anees Jung
Louis Fischer
What is the misadventure that the narrator speaks about in the given extract?
His drowning experience in the Yakima River.
His childhood experience at the California when the waves knocked him down and swept over him. There was terror in his heart at the overpowering force of the waves.
His near death experience at YMCA swimming pool when a big bruiser of a boy picked him up and tossed him into the deep end.
All of these
"I crossed to oblivion, and the curtain of life fell". What does 'oblivion' mean?
stupefied
changing room
unconsciousness
death
The instructor took out his fear as
he put a belt around him.
he tied rope attached to the belt went through a pulley that ran on an overhead cable.
He held on to the end of the rope, and they went back and forth across the pool
all the above
The Yakima River was treacherous as:
it was very deep
it's water was too salty
the rapids were strong enough to sweep him
it was very long
''But it held me firmly in its grip. Here ''ít'' refers to":
terror of water
desire to learn to swim
desire to have an instructor
desire to practise a lot
''My breath was gone". Here it means:
the author lost his life
the author was too frightened
the author almost lost his life
the author was taken aback
Douglas dived off a dock at .........
Lake Wentworth
Triggs Island
New Hampshire
Stamp Act Island
The boy who threw Douglas into the pool was ........years old.
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
When did Douglas finally conquer his fear?
when his instructor gave his approval
when he tried swimming alone at different places
when he was able to put his face under the water
when he tried different strokes on his own in the pool
Why did Douglas have an aversion to water from the beginning?
because he used to have nightmares of drowning in water
because he wasn't able to learn to swim
because he didn't like the taste of water
because he was knocked down by a wave
In the poem 'Aunt Jennifer's Tiger', “Fingers Fluttering” is
A Metaphor
An Alliteration
A Simile
An Assonance
"sleek chivalric certainty" of the tiger means ?
tiger moving in his cage
tiger trying to be chivalrous
ensure tiger in the cage
totally free movement of the tigers
Why did Aunt Jennifer embroider tigers on the panel?
All the three statements
to express her supressed feelings
to express her strenghths
to express her fighting spirit of a warrior
What issue does the poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers address?
extinction of tigers
constraints of married life a woman experiences
constraints of women as a poet
Constraints on aunt's embroidery
The poem 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' is written by
Elizabeth Arden
Adrienne Rich
Kamla Das
Sarojini Naidu
'The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band' is a subtle reference to:
Male oppression
suppression at the hands of her husband
the heavy gold ring
the huge gold wedding band
Aunt Jennifer's 'terrified hands' means:
Hard and bitter experiences of married life
scared hands
wrinkled hands as she is married to uncle
soft and nice hands because of her happy marriage
"Bright topaz denizens of a world of green."
What is the "World of green" here?
the green embroidery panel
the forest depicted on the panel
green revolution
Aunt Jennifer painted the panel green
Aunt Jennifer is afraid of
the ferocious tiger
men beneath the tree
male captors
her chauvinistic husband
Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Robert Frost
Lord Byron
What does Frost present in the poem A Roadside Stand?
the lives of poor deprived people with understanding and in a sympathatic way
the lives of people who stand on busstand
lives of travellers
the lives of poor people who live in the country
Why was roadside stand built?
so that people can wait there
to make a bus stop there
to earn money from polished city traffic
all the statements are true
What does the expression 'flowers of cities' in the poem 'The Roadside Stand' refer to?
city people
city cars
flowers growing in the city
The pleasures of cities
What is being sold at the roadside stand?
anything you may ask for
petrol and diesel
local produces
furniture and pottery
What is the childish longing that the poet refers to?
to travel to the city and buy a house to live in the city
to travel the city showrooms and shop
to interact with city people
hope of getting some financial help from the polished city traffic
Who are the 'Greedy Doers' ?
the polished city dwellers
the government
the bureaucrats
the rural people
Why are the city people called greedy?
Because of their appearance and manners
because they do not stop at the stand when they travel in their polished cars
because of their selfish interests
because they buy anything from the roadside stand
How do city people harm the poor rural folk?
by making false promises
by misguiding and depriving them of their sleep
by making false promises
by making them live in the city near the big malls
What does polished traffic refer to?
city people
smartness of city people
insensitive attitude of city people and their gentle appearance
city people lacking sympathy though they travel in clean polished cars
Dad (a) us to school every morning. (drive)
The teacher (a) a photo of us while we were climbing up a tree. (take)
The police officer asked me:
"How fast .......... when you .......... the old lady in front of you. (drive/see)
(a)
Bear (a) in tropical forest (live)
The train (a) at 5:30 PM. (leave)
My uncle (a) tomorrow. (arrive)
I (a) the movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire. (see)
My father (a) my grandfather last week. (visit)
I (a) A R Rehman at the concert. (see)
If it (a) , we shall get wet. (rain)
I (a) to play the guitar. (learn)
I (a) my work. (finish)
They (a) since four o'clock. (pay)
Babar (a) Rana Sanga at Kanawha. (defeat)
Aristotle (a) , " It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
