Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follo

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 Multiple Choice QuestionsShort Answer Type

1. Fill in the blanks choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below.
Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.
There are four trees in the garden. _________branches sway in the breeze. The children play_______ the trees. Some of the girls_________ sleeping in the shade of the trees.


a)     (i) There    (ii) Their      (iii) Every     (iv) An

b)     (i) under    (ii) over       (iii) above    (iv) in

c)     (i) is          (ii) was         (iii) are       (iv) have 

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2.

The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each marked line. Write the error and its correction as shown in the example.

 

Error

Correction

I went to the pool then no one

e.g.

then

when

was there. The place being quiet.

a)

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A water was still, and the tiled

b)

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bottom was so white and clean

c)

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as a bathtub. I was timid for going in alone.

d)

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3.

Read the dialogue given below and complete the paragraph that follows. Write the correct answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.

Doctor: Have you got the tests done?
Karna: No, I have not.
Doctor: Get them done today itself.

The doctor asked Karna (a) ___________________. He replied that (b) ________________. The doctor asked _______________.

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4.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
'Were these people pulling his leg? Was the whole thing a gigantic hoax? A meek harmless man like him and they had to drag him into the middle of the city to make a laughing stock out of him.'
(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) Why does he think that he is being made a 'laughing stock'?
(c) What does the word 'hoax' mean?

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5.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
Caesar shall forth; the things that threaten'd me
Ne'er look'd on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished.
(a) Where is Caesar planning to go?
(b) What are the 'things' that threaten him?
(c) What does the word 'vanished' mean?


a)    Caesar is planning to go to the senate at the Capitol.
b)    The ‘things’ refers to his enemies.
c)    The word ‘vanished’ means the act of disappearing.

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6.

Why did the poet have to wait near the water trough? 

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7.

What did Sebastian write in the final e-mail he sent to Michael?

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8.

Why did the wedding guest beat his breast?

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9.

What quality of King Ozymandias does the poem reflect?

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10.

Why did Cassius tell Brutus not to allow Antony to speak on Caesar's funeral?

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