OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL, Al WARQA A, DUBAI REVISION ENGLISH GRADE: 10 SEC

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1 OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL, Al WARQA A, DUBAI REVISION ENGLISH NAME: GRADE: 10 SEC TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA I 1. Read the following extract and answer the questions: Nicola, the way you and Jacopo work, you must earn quite a bit. You spend nothing on clothes. You eat little enough. a) Who is the speaker of the above lines? b) What work is referred to in the above lines? c) Why did the speaker get the feeling that the boys were not spending any money? 1. Read the following extract and answer the questions I had already told Luigi he might take the day off. However I answered, I ll drive you out myself. a) Who was Luigi? b) Where did the boys wish to go? c) Why did the speaker offer to drive himself? When the war was over and we had peace at last, they came back to their beloved sister. And they found her a) Who are they referred to? b) Who is the beloved sister? c) In what condition did they find their sister? Of course, everything is so difficult now, food so scarce and dear. We could not keep going unless we charged a fee. a) Who is the speaker and who is the listener? b) Why was food so expensive? c) For what purpose does the speaker need to charge a fee?

2 4. Read the following extract and answer the questions They couldn t do it better, I agreed. a) Who is I and who are they? b) What great things had the above mentioned people done? c) Do you think the speaker is earnest in his saying? II. Answer the following in about words 1. Why did the two boys survive only on black bread and figs, despite making a decent earning? 2. What scene did the narrator see through the glass portion? 3. What traits of the boys attracted the narrator to them? 4. What were the hardships followed by Nicola and Jacopo? 5. Why didn t the two boys disclose their problems to the author? III. Value Based Question 1. How does the story, Two Gentlemen of Verona promise hope for society? Write your answer in about words. MRS. PACKLETIDE S TIGER I. 1. Read the following extract and answer the questions In a world swayed by hunger and love, Mrs. Packletide was an exception, her motives were largely governed by a) How was Mrs. Packletide an exception? b) What were her motives? c) What governed her motives? Favoured rendezvous of an animal of respectable antecedents. a) Explain Rendezvous b) Point out the humour in the above statement c) What were the qualifications of the animal mentioned? Louisa adopted a protective elder sister attitude towards money in general. a) Explain protective elder sister attitude b) What does the above reflect about Louisa s character? c) How did Louisa manipulate this quality of hers?

3 4. Read the following extract and answer the questions Mothers carrying their babies home through the jungle after the day s work in the field hushed their singing lest they might curtail the restful sleep of the venerable herd-robber. a) What were the steps taken by the mothers for the animal? b) Point out the literary device in venerable herd-robber. c) How did all this care benefit the animal? 5. Read the following extract and answer the questions The luncheon party she declined, there are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous. a) Explain repressed emotions b) Why did Loona decline the invitation? c) How do such emotions become dangerous? II. III. Answer the following in about words 1. What was Loona s adventure? How did Mrs. Packletide react to it? 2. What were the two reasons for which the villagers agreed to help Mrs. Packletide? 3. Bring out the similarities between the characters of Loona Bimberton and Mrs. Packletide. 4. How did Ms. Mebbin exploit Mrs. Packletide? 5. Why was Mrs. Packletide compared to Nimrod? Value Based Question False vanity ends up in loss. Justify the statement on the basis of the chapter Mrs. Packletide s Tiger. THE LETTER I. 1. Read the following extract and answer the questions Beholding the wooden arch of the building, the old man was filled with joy that the pilgrim feels when he first sees the goal of his journey. a) Name the building with the wooden arch b) Why was the old man filled with joy at its sight? c) Why is the old man compared to a pilgrim? But when the evening of his life was drawing in, he left his old ways and suddenly took a new turn. a) Explain Evening of life drawing in b) What were the man s old ways? c) What new turn did his life take? Why?

4 Allah is there, and in his presence I am giving you this money. When it comes, you must forward my Miriam s letter to me. a) Whom is the speaker addressing? b) What is the reason for giving the money? c) What is the speaker expecting from the listener? II Answer the following in about words 1. Do you think the post master was justified in calling Ali a pest? What was Ali s reaction to this accusation? 2. Why did coachman Ali give up his favourite sport? 3. Draw a comparison between Ali and the post master as fathers. 4. How did the post master s attitude towards Ali eventually change? 5. Why did the postmaster want to deliver the letter personally to Ali? III. Value Based Question 1. Ali s wait for his daughter s letter extends beyond his grave. Bring out the truth of this statement by referring to the lesson The Letter. A SHADY PLOT I. 1. Read the following extract and answer the questions We re been called out of beds a little too often in recent years and now we re through. a) Who have been called constantly? b) What is unnatural about their being called? c) What is the person s complaint? I just came to tell you to stop bothering us for assistance, we re going on strike. a) Who is I referred to? b) What was the assistance being offered? c) Why are they going on strike? Someone has been trying to communicate with John through.. Ouija.. Someone with the name of Helen. a) Who is Helen? What was her relation with John? b) What is Ouija board? What is its purpose? c) How can one communicate through the Ouija?

5 II. Answer the following in about words a) Why is the ghost fed up of Ouija board fanatics? b) What controversy was caused in the parlour by the name of Helen? c) Lavinia entered the narrator s room with a solid finality. What was her purpose? d) What reasons are given by Lavinia for not getting rid of Ouija board? e) How did Lavinia react after facing Helen? III. Value Based Question Beliefs in spirits rather than one s own rational thinking and scientific outlook is an obstacle to development of an individual. Explain. DRAMA JULIUS CAESAR I.1. Read the following extract and answer the questions. What can be avoided whose end is proposed by the mighty Gods? a) Who makes the above comment? b) Discuss the context of the above remark? c) Do you believe that the speaker s belief is justified in the end? How? And many lusty Romans Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it And these she applies for warnings a) Identify the speaker and the listener. b) What do the warnings indicate? c) How does the above remark prove to be true? O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils Shrunk to this little measure a) Identify the speaker b) Why is Caesar lying so low? c) Why have his achievements come to naught according to the speaker? 4. Read the following extract and answer the questions Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight: Thrice hath Clapurnia in her sleep cried out, Help, ho! they murder Caesar! Who within? a) Who is Calpurnia? b) What does the disturbance in the sky indicate?

6 c) Does Calpurnia s dream come true? 5. Read the following extract and answer the questions That was the unkindest cut of all For when the noble Caesar saw him stales Ingratitude, more strong than traitors arms Quite vanquished him. a) What was the unkindest cut? Who gave it? b) Whose sight pained Caesar the most? Why? c) What is ingratitude according to Antony? II. Answer the following in about words 1. Brutus was not shrewd and foresighted enough upon the conspiracy and killing. Discuss how his miscalculations affected the conspirators. 2. What are the contents of Caesars will that Mark Antony refers to? 3. How does Caesar react to Cimber s pleading to recall his brother from banishment? III Value Based Question a) Caesar s dead body could accomplish what could not be in his life time. Discuss the strategic importance of Caesar s body and how it is exploited to the maximum. b) Antony in his speech presents Caesar as a paragon of virtue and patriotism. Discuss the glowing tributes he paid to Caesar in his funeral speech. c) Brutus character is a conflict between nations honour and Caesar s friendship. Discuss how he resolves the conflict and why he is unsuccessful. EXTENDED READING HELEN KELLER Answer the following in about words. 1. The arrival of Miss Sullivan was the most important day in the life of Helen Keller. Explain. 2. How did Helen realize that she was different from other people? Or what made Helen angry at times? 3. Give a pen portrait of the following: a) Helen Keller b) Ann Sullivan c) Graham Bell d) Helen s parents.