English_Mid Year Qn Pool.pdf - model question papers

6Read the following lines from ‘In the Country’ and answer the questions that follow. 4Can I admire the statue great,When living men starve at its feet?Can I admire the park's green tree,A roof for homeless misery?When I can see few men in need,I then have power to help by deed,Nor lose my cheerfulness in pity-Which I must do in every city.For when I am in those great places,I see ten thousand suffering faces;Before me stares a wolfish eye.Behind me creeps a groan or sigh.1 What attitude of the poet is revealed here?2 Write the rhyme scheme followed in the stanzas.3 Pick out the line that conveys the intensity of suffering faces,4 What does the expression 'wolfish eye' signify?Read the lines from the poem 'The Himalayas' and answer the questions that follow: 4At that timeI am seventeen, and have just startedto wear a sari every day.Swami Anand is eighty nineand almost blind.His thick glasses don't seem to work,they only magnify his cloudy eyes.Mornings he summons mefrom the kitchenand I read to him until lunch time.One day he tells me'you can read your poems now'. ;I read a few, he is silent.Thinking he's asleep, I stop.But he says, 'continue.'I begin a long onein which the Himalayas riseas a metaphor.1 What change can you notice in the speaker on the days referred to in these lines?2 What purpose do the glasses serve for Swami Anand?3 Why did the speaker stop reading her poem?4 The narrator reads out a poem before Swami Anand. What idea do you get about her poem?7Compiled and page set by Tom Thomas LF HS Vadakara Koothattukulam Page 5