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First Term Test - Grade 11 - 2020
Name/Index No ( '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Appreciation of English Literary Texts Time: 3 Hours
Note :-
l Answer question one and four others selecting one from each section, POETRY, DRAMA,PROSE and
FICTION.
Part - I
1 - Section A
Answer all questions.
Read the following extracts and answer the questions given below each extract.
^1& 'I have also learned to say 'Good bye'
When I mean 'Good riddance!'
(a) Name the work in which these lines appear. Name the writer.
(b) Who speaks these lines? What is the tone of the speaker?
(c) How would you comment on the qualities of the speaker? (05 marks)
^2& 'And Richard Cory, one calm summer night
Went home and put a bullet through his head'
(a) Name the work in which these lines appear. Name the writer.
(b) What is the effect created by these lines?
(c) What massages are given through this action of Richard Cory? (05 marks)
^3& 'She will dance so lightly that her feet will not touch the floor, and the courtiers in their grey
dresses will throng round her. But with me she will not dance, for I have no red rose to give her'
(a) Name the work in which these lines appear? Name the writer.
(b) What is the context?
(c) What kind of relationship is there between the speaker and 'she'? (05 marks)
^4& 'We all realized that what some of our fellow Sri Lankans experienced every day for nearly 30
years'
(a) Name the work in which these lines appear. Name the speaker.
(b) Who are referred to as 'we'? What helped them to come to this realization?
(c) What qualities of 'we' are shown here? (05 marks)
^5& 'Stop worrying about the supper. You have got to come. Let's play together.'
(a) Name the work in which these lines appear. Name the writer.
(b) Who is the speaker? To whom are these lines spoken?
(c) What is the relationship between these two? What qualities of the speaker are
depicted here? (05 marks)
^6& 'I had a violent row with Kuritsin and nearly threw him out of the window, Mazugo has something
the matter with his bowels, and this woman has 'a state of mind'.
(a) Name the work in which these lines appear. Name the writer.
(b) Who is the speaker? Where is he?
(c) What are the feeling of the speaker? (05 marks)
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Section B
Answer questions in either A, B or C.
(a) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below it.
Gradually his reading of the Bhagawad Gita was replaced by the blue air mail letters. From their study he
formed a picture of America and was able to speak with authority on the subject of American landscape,
culture and civilization. He hardly noticed to whom he spoke; anyone on the road seemed good enough.
His acquaintances feared that he was afflicted with the Talking Disease.
(i) Who is referred to as 'he'? What is the situation? (02 marks)
(ii) How could he talk about America with many details? (02 marks)
(iii) Write the meaning of the following in your own words.
(a) speak with authority
(b) acquaintances (02 marks)
(iv) Describe 'his' character as reflected in the above extract. (04 marks)
Or
(b) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below it.
By the vague light of a tallow candle which was thrust into a bottle, he made out the main features of the
loathsome den, and also occupants of it. Two frowzy girls and a middle aged woman cowered against the
wall in one corner, with the aspect of animals habituated to harsh usage and expecting and dreading it now.
From another corner stole a withered hag with streaming grey hair and malignant eyes.
(i) Who is referred to as 'he'? What is the situation? (02 marks)
(ii) What kind of life is spent by the people here? (02 marks)
(iii) Write the meaning of the following in your own words.
(a) loathsome den
(b) withered hag (02 marks)
(iv) What themes of the novel are reflected in the above extract? (04 marks)
Or
(c) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below it.
Putting down the things in my hands was in slow motion, because the hands had gone stiff under the
weight and took time to move. The gunny bag stiff and bulging with the provisions stood upright on the
ground and the mirror was placed on its face against the bag and Tony released for a moment of my waist
first sat on his hind legs and then stretched himself full length from paw to tail-end panting and drooling at
the mouth but looking quite pleased with himself.
(i) Where is the speaker? What is the situation? (02 marks)
(ii) Why had his hands gone stiff? (02 marks)
(iii) Write the meaning of the following in your own words.
(a) bulging
(b) pleased (02 marks)
(iv) Comment on the qualities of the speaker as shown in the above extract. (04 marks)
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Part - II
POETRY
(Answer one question only)
^2& 'The poem. A Bird Came Down the Walk reveals how a simple action of bird watching leads the
observer to gain a mature experience of nature.' Do you agree?
^3& 'War creates no victory, but loss and misery.' Support this statement paying a close reference to the poem,
War is Kind.
^4& Examine how the poet brings out social injustices in the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
^5& 'The Clown's wife warns us not to judge people by looking at their frontal decorative figures.' Justify this
statement taking examples from the poem, The Clown's Wife.
^6& What makes The Camel's Hump a humourous poem? Support your answer with examples from the
poem.
DRAMA
(Answer one question only)
^7& Do you agree to say that in the play, The Bear, both Popova's and Smirnov's adamant and chauvinistic
qualities contribute to humour?
^8& Comment on the character of Tsu in the play, Twilight of a Crane. How does her character differ from
the other characters?
PROSE
(Answer one question only)
^9& 'In the short story, The Nightingale and the Rose, Wilde criticizes his society as a place which lacks
humanity.' Discuss.
^10& What qualities of Nicholas make him smarter than his aunt? Support your answer with examples from the
short story, The Lumber Room.
^11& Analyze how the Sri Lankan cricket team responds to the terrorist attack in the extract The Lahore
Attack. What morals are conveyed through their responses?
^12& 'Wave creates a vivid picture of human helplessness in front of nature' comment.
FICTION
(Answer one question only)
^13& 'Mali's character in the novel, The Vendor of Sweets depicts an unguided youth who missed the parental
love and support.' Discuss.
^14& 'True leaders never change their good values under any circumstance.' How true is this statement
according to the behavior of Edward Tudor and Tom Canty in the novel, The Prince and the Pauper?
^15& Comment on the challenges faced by the speaker during his childhood in the novel, Bringing Tony
Home. What themese are discussed through them?
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