Title KISA English Literature Q paper 2024-1 (1).pdf ✅

KARNATAKA ICSE SCHOOLSASSOCIATION ICSESTD.X PreparatoryExamination2025 Subject – LITERATURE IN ENGLISH - ENGLISH PAPER – II) Duration : 2 hrs. Maximum Marks: 8 0 Date: 9.01.2025 Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately. You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes. This time is to be spent in reading the question paper. The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers. The paper has four Sections. Section A is compulsory. All questions in Section A must be answered. You must attempt one question from each of the Sections B, C and D and one other question from any Section of your choice. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ]. SECTION A (Attempt all questions from this Section) Question 1 [16] Choose the correct answers to the questions from the given options. (Do not copy the question, write the correct answers only.) (i)When Brutus says “Cassius, be constant. Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes; For, look, he smiles, and, Caesar doth not change,” what is he doing? (a) He is reassuring Cassius. (b) He is instigating Cassius. (c) He is showing his jealousy. (d) He is showing his fear. (ii) Which term does Antony use repeatedly in his speech at Caesar’s funeral to make a mockery of Brutus? (a) judgement
(b) fault (c) honourable (d) funeral (iii) who is torn by the mob for his ‘bad verses’? (a) Cinna, a conspirator (b) Brutus, a friend (c) Cicero, a conspirator (d) Cinna, a poet (iv) Antony says about his nephew, “He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.” Which trait does he display here? (a) Envy (b) Affection (c) Ruthlessness (d) Enmity (v) Cassius accuses Antony of robbing the Hybla bees. Which of the following conditions has he not left the bees? (a) sightless (b) honeyless (c) stingless (d) soundless (vi) Which philosophy taught that men should bar all suffering with patience and courage? (a) Epicureanism (b) Stoicism (c) Roman Honour (d) Superstition (vii) Which of the following options contains the same figure of speech that appears in the line ‘Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss’ from H W Longfellow’s poem ‘Haunted Houses’? (a) Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in a sprightly dance. (b) The storm clouds angrily gathered overhead. (c) The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. (d) I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills.
(viii) Which of the following is NOT done by the mite in the poem ‘A Considerable Speck’? (a) It smelt the ink. (b) It ran in fear. (c) It crept with cunning. (d) It flew off the page. (ix) ‘Collectivistic regimenting love’ is a belief that (a) The needs of an individual are important, not a group. (b) Love is delicate and tender. (c) The needs of a group are important, not an individual. (d) Man needs a collection of feelings. (x) The ‘Great trees’ is an extended metaphor for (a) Giant rocks (b) Great souls (c) Small creatures (d) Sterile air (xi) ‘After a period, peace blooms.’It means that (a) Peace is a flower. (b) Small animals recoil into silence. (c) There is silence after trees fall. (d) Healing follows grief. (xii) Choose the option that lists the sequence of events from Stephen Leacock’s short story ‘With the Photographer’ in the correct order. 1. “No,” he went on, “I don’t care for it. I like to get the hair clear back to the superficies and make out a new brow line.” 2. He unfolded the proof of a large photograph, and we both looked at it in silence. “Is it me?” I asked. 3. “Go on, then, with your brutal work. Take your negative, or whatever it is you call it, -- dip it in sulphide, bromide, oxide, cowhide, -- anything you like. 4. The photographer rolled a machine into the middle of the room and crawled into it from behind. (a) 4,2,1,3 (b) 1,2,3,4 (c) 3,1,2,4 (d) 2,3,4,1
(xiii) Select the option that shows the correct relationship between statements (1) and (2) from Ama Ata Aidoo’s short story ‘The Girl Who Can’. Statement 1: Yes, I have won every race I ran in for my school, and I have won the cup for the best all-round junior athlete. Statement 2: Nana is right now carrying me on her knee, and crying softly. Muttering, muttering, muttering. That ‘saa’, thin legs can also be useful. (a) (1) is true and (2) is false. (b) (2) is true and (1) is false. (c) (1) is the cause for (2). (d) (1) and (2) are independent of each other. (xiv) How does William Sleator’s short story ‘The Elevator’ end? (a) on a positive note (b) in a cliffhanger (c) in an expected manner (d) in a shocking manner (xv) The atmosphere in the short story ‘The Pedestrian’is (a) stifling (b) cheerful (c) dark and foreboding (d) encouraging (xvi) The themes of the short story ‘The Last Lesson’ are (a) Emancipation of women, Patriotism (b) Patriotism, Non-conformity (c) Language: a symbol of identity, Education (d) Education, Appearance Versus Reality Question 2 SECTION B DRAMA (Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare) (Answer one or more questions from this Section.) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Antony: O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,