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MODEL PAPER, 2011-12
ENGLISH LITERATURE CLASS XII
Time : 3hrs. 15 min. Max. Marks 80

General Instructions :
1. All the questions are compulsory.
2. Write answers of all questions in your answer book.
3. Write down the correct serial number of each question before attempting it.
4. Solve all the parts of the question at one place only.

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Section 1 : READING
Q1 . Read the following extract from Gandhi ji’s autobiography and answer the questions that follow: –
Let no one imagine that my experiments in dancing and the like marked a stage of indulgence in my life. The reader will have noticed that even then I had my wits about me. That period of infatuation was not unrelieved by a certain amount of self-introspection on my part. I kept account of every farthing I spent, and my expenses were carefully calculated.
Every little item such as omnibus fares or postage or a couple of coppers spent on newspapers, would be entered, and the balance struck every evening before going to bed.
Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end. As I kept strict watch over my way of living, I could see that it was necessary to economize. I therefore decided to reduce my expenses by half. My accounts showed numerous items spent on fares. Again my living with a family meant the payment of a regular weekly bill.
So I decided to take rooms on my own account, instead of living any longer in a family, and also to remove from place to place according to the work I had to do, thus gaining experience at the same time. The rooms were so selected as to enable me to reach the place of business on foot in half an hour, and so save fares. Before this I had always taken some kind of conveyance whenever I went anywhere, and had to find extra time for
walks. The new arrangement combined walks and economy, as it meant a saving of fares and gave me walks of eight or ten miles a day. It was mainly this habit of long walks that kept me practically free from illness throughout my stay in England and gave me a fairly strong body.
Thus I rented a suite of rooms; one for a sitting room and another for a bedroom. This was the second stage. The third was yet to come.
These changes saved me half the expense. But how was I to utilize the time? I knew that Bar examinations did not require much study, and I therefore did not feel pressed for time. My weak English was a perpetual worry to me. I should, I thought, not only be called to the Bar, but have some literary degree as well. I inquired about the Oxford and Cambridge
University courses, consulted a few friends, and found that, if I elected to go to either of these places, that would mean greater expense and a much longer stay in England than I was prepared for. A friend suggested that, if I really wanted to have the satisfaction of taking a difficult examination, I should pass the London Matriculation. It meant a good deal of labour and much addition to my stock of general knowledge, without any extra expense worth the name. I welcomed the suggestion.
- M. K. Gandhi
(i) Of what did M.K. Gandhi strike a balance every evening, before going to bed? - 2 Marks
(ii) Write any two advantages that Gandhi ji gained by taking rooms on his own. 2 Marks
(iii) What were the advantages of preparing for the London Matriculation? 2 Marks
(iv) Why did Gandhi ji not feel pressed for time? 1 Mark
(v) What was Gandhi ji’s perpetual worry? 1 Mark
Q2. Read the following extract from the poem Sindhu written by Toru Dutt and answer the questions that follow.
"Oh why does not our child return?
Too long he surely stays."--
Thus to the Muni, blind and stern,
His partner gently says.
"For fruits and water when he goes
He never stays so long,
Oh can it be, beset by foes,
He suffers cruel wrong?
"Some distance he has gone, I fear,
A more circuitous round,--
Yet why should he? The fruits are near,
The river near our bound.
"I die of thirst,--it matters not
If Sindhu be but safe,
What if he leave us, and this spot”,
Poor birds in cages chafe.
(i) Why did the child leave his parents? 2 Marks
(ii) Which word in the extract means the same as “roundabout or deviating from a straight course”? 1 Mark
(iii) Mention two fears which trouble the mother? 2 Marks
(iv) Who do you think are the poor birds? 1 Mark
(v) Which line tells you about the physical disability of the child’s father? 1 Mark

Section 2 : WRITING
Q3. Write an essay (in about 150-200 words) on the topic ‘Education comes not from books but from practical experience.’ 8 Marks
OR
Nowadays the news papers are replete with news of road accidents. Nobody feels safe while travelling the roads. Write an essay in about 150-200 words describing the causes of road accidents and the measures to prevent them.
Q4. As a member of the welfare committee of your colony you are to deliver a speech in the general body meeting on ‘noise pollution in the colony’. Write the speech in about 150-200 words. You should call yourself – ‘Kamal’ if need be. 7 Marks
OR
Your school (Gyan Mandir, Kota) organised a blood donation camp on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. Write a report on the camp for your school magazine. You are Samir/Samira reading in class XII. (Word limit: 150-200 words)

Section 3 : GRAMMAR
Q5. In the following passage each line has an error. Edit the passage by copying the wrong word / inappropriate expression, striking it off and writing beside it the correct / appropriate word as shown in the first line as an example :- 5 Marks
Thanks to the growing interest for fitness in
(i) and health that peoples are taking _____
(ii) this days that we find several health centres _____
(iii) and clubs not only spring up in _____
(iv) every locatities, but also doing well _____
(v) in there new venture. But unfortunately such _____
(vi) clubs are not within everybodies reach. _____
(vii) Their fee are high and the centres _____
(viii) suffer from lack in equipment and many _____
(ix) other essential facilities. Some centre do _____
(x) not even have proper trainers, which know _____
their job.
Q6. Read the paragraph below and complete the report that follows :-
The policeman said, "Boy, I am doing my duty at my post now, and do not expect me to go and help the old lady who has fallen down.” The little boy replied, “Doesn’t helping people in need form a part of the policeman’s duty?” The boy further said, “If you really cannot do anything about this I will carry the lady to the hospital myself.”
Report:-
When the policeman told the boy that he ...........1………. at his post .…2...., and that he should not be expected to go and help the old lady who ………3……..…………………………., the boy challengingly asked whether helping ………………4………………form a part of the policeman’s duty. He further said that he would carry the lady to the hospital himself if the policeman …………………5…………………. 5 Marks
4. Section - Textual Questions
Q7. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:-
Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from. Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided. And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed
Margaret Mary Alacoque. He had been a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word: ‘He is in Melbourne now’.
(i) Who has been referred to as ‘she’ in this passage? 1 Mark
(ii) Why would she ‘never see again those familiar objects’? 1 Mark
(iii) Who was in Melbourne? 1 Mark
OR
Rather to my relief the sight of the mark interrupted the fancy, for it is an old fancy, an automatic fancy, made as a child perhaps. The mark was a small round mark, black upon the white wall, about six or seven inches above the mantelpiece.
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.... If that mark was made by a nail, it can’t have been for a picture, it must have been for a miniature—the miniature of a lady with white powdered curls, powder-dusted cheeks, and lips like red carnations.
(i) What is the old fancy?
(ii) Why was it improbable for a picture to have hung from that ‘nail’?
(iii) Pick out the word from the extract which means imagination.
Q8. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:-
When everything that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine
About the supreme Throne
Of him, whose happy-making sight alone,
When once our heav’nly guided soul shall clime,
Then all this Earthy grossness quit,
Attir’d with Stars, we shall for ever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.
(i) Name any two things that are not affected by time. 1 Mark
(ii) Find the word from the extract which is a synonym for- ‘dressed’ 1 Mark
(iii) Who does the soul win over in the race against Time? 1 Mark
OR
Who is the final winner in the race against Time)
And all the snake-gods in the shrine
Have lichen on their hoods.
O it hurts me she cried,
Wiping a reddened eye
For I love this house, it hurts me much
To watch it die.
When I grow old, I said,
And very very rich
I shall rebuild the fallen walls
And make new this ancient house.
(i) Who has been referred to as ‘she’ in the third line? 1 Mark
(ii) What is the cause of her sorrow? 1 Mark
(iii) Spot the use of personification as a figure of speech in this extract. 1 Mark
Q9. Answer the questions in about 100 words each :- (any two) 12 Marks
(i) The craft of a master story-teller lies in the ability to interweave imagination and reality. Do you think that the story "I Sell my Dreams" illustrates this?
(ii) How does the dramatic technique suit the theme of the play" Chandalika"?
(iii) What are some of the risks that film making involves?
Q10, Answer questions in about 50 words each:- (any four) 12 Marks
(i) What were Harry’s reasons for coming to meet old Hagberd?
(ii) Discuss Kubla Khan as a fragment. What do you think has made it a lasting literary piece?
(iii) What does the "Weak witness of thy name" refer to in the poem- "On
Shakespeare” by Milton ?
(iv) What is the posture the celebrity adopts when the camera is on and when it is off?
(v) Dr. Margolis wished to marry Raizel at the wedding in Brownsville. What made him realize that he could not do so?

Section 5 : FICTION
Q11. Answer the following in about 60 words each:- (any one) 4 Marks
How does the tiger eventually attain freedom from Captain?
OR
What is the profound question often asked? Has the hermit found the answer to that?
Q12. "The self styled higher-animal-man is no better than the animals of the jungle and at times he is worse than them". Prove with help of examples from the text in about 100 words. 6 Marks