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Karnataka 1st PUC English Model Question Paper 10 with Answers

Time: 3 Hrs. 15 Mins.
Max. Marks: 100

Instructions

• Follow the prescribed limit while answering the questions.
• Write the correct question number as it appears on the question paper.
• One mark question attempted more than once will be awarded zero.
• For multiple-choice questions choose the correct answer and rewrite it.

I. Answer the following in a word, a phrase, or a sentence each. (12 × 1 = 12)

Question 1.
Whom did the judgment favor in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’?
Answer:
The elephant.

Question 2.
What does ‘cage’ stand for in the poem ‘The School Bby’?
Answer:
‘Cage’ stands for school.

Question 3.
Mara tied the medicinal creeper to a nearby tree because
(a) it could be easily located.
(b) it needed the support of a tree.
(c) he was asked to do so.
Answer:
(a) it could be easily located.

Question 4.
Why did the narrator in ‘Oru Manushyan’ begin to sweat?
Answer:
He had lost his wallet and had to pay for his food.

Question 5.
What would happen, if we do not regain our sanity about money according to the speaker of the poem ‘Money Madness’?
Answer:
People would kill each other for money.

Question 6.
How many subjects do Babar Ali’s students study?
Answer:
Ten subjects.

Question 7.
The speaker says ‘Do not ask of me, my love, that love I once had for you.’ Because
(a) his beloved is not as beautiful as she was.
(b) he has realized that there are other sorrows around him demanding his attention.
(c) he has found a more beautiful lady love.
Answer:
(b) He has realized that there are other sorrows around him demanding his attention.

Question 8.
Name the river mentioned in ‘The Watchman of the Lake’.
Answer:
Veda.

Question 9.
What does the phrase ‘The harvest of my womb’ refer to in ‘The Farmer’s Wife’?
Answer:
Her children.

Question 10.
Who was considered as ‘a a constant offense’ to the slaveholder’s mistress?
Answer:
The slave son was born to her husband (mulatto).

Question 11.
What did the old woman expect from the tourists for her service?
Answer:
A fifty paise coin.

Question 12.
Mention one of the things that Nicola and Jacopo did to earn money.
Answer:
They polished the shoes of tourists and others to earn some money.

II. Answer any eight of the following in a paragraph of 50-70 words each : (8 × 4 = 32)

Question 13.
With what plan of action did the man build a new house in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’?
Answer:
The man was fed up with the animals occupying and taking over the houses each time he built one. So, he thought of a plan and accordingly built a big house. All the animals coveted that and quarreled for occupying it. When they were all inside, he set fire to that house and all the animals got killed.

Question 14.
Why does the boy find school life uninteresting in ‘The School Boy’?
Answer:
The poet William Blake relevantly argues on the education of the children. He says that the boy is very happy being with nature and he learns freely in nature as he loves to rise happily in the sworn morning. But when he thinks of school, his happiness disappears and he feels the school is a prison. The boy does not think freely in the school The poet excellently says that the boy sits in the school in fear and anxiety and he questions how he can learn the subjects. When the child loses his happiness he doesn’t show interest in learning and it becomes a major obstacle for his mental and physical growth.

The poet emphasizes nature. He says, the boy gets happiness in the singing of a bird and watching the huntsman, Nature is the sweet company to him. But when the boy enters formal schooling, he spends the time in irritation and anxiety. The poet stresses on free-learning and informal schooling, that is learning in nature. That helps to widen his mental horizon and physical growth. The poet is not arguing against education but discourages formal schooling and encourages informal learning. He gives valuable advice to the parents to give a lot of sweet memories of learning in childhood so that the child gets ãll round development and ensures the future of the nation.

Totally, the poem is an excellent attempt to bring out the torture felt by the children at formal schooling. The poem gives the message to discourage formal schooling and encourage free learning for children.

Question 15.
What was the story behind Mara’s loss of teeth in ‘Around a Medicinal Creeper’?
Answer:
Once Mara had laid a trap in the forest, to catch rabbits. The next morning, when he had gone to check, there was no animal in the trap. He decided to brush his teeth as there was a stream nearby. He broke a small stick from a nearby plant to brush and while doing a third or fourth time, he had felt a sour taste in the mouth. He wanted to try another stick but before that, he wanted to rinse his mouth. He took some water from the stream and when he spat it out, a few teeth touched by the stick also tumbled out. He had lost the teeth on one side of his mouth.

Question 16.
How does the stranger come to the help of the narrator in ‘Oru Manushyan’?
Answer:
Once, the narrator went to a restaurant with fourteen rupees in his wallet kept in the pocket and ate a full meal consisting of chapatis and meal curry. He drank tea. The bill was eleven annas. He searched his pocket to pay the bill but was shocked that his wallet was not in his pocket and someone had stolen it. When he said the same to the oner. the owner caught him by the lapeLs and ordered him to pay up. But as he did not have any moue’, he offered to keep his coat there and later ouId bring some money and claim the coat. But the owner asked him to take òff all his clothes. When he was removing them with great humiliation, a stranger came and helped the narrator by paying his bill.

Question 17.
Bring out the contrast between the suffering of mankind and the beauty of mankind in ‘Do Not Ask of Me, My Love’?
Answer:
The suffering of mankind is one side of life where some do not get food easily and shelter and clothes are distant dreams. They also struggle even to get their daily bread. They suffer from diseases also. On the other side, things are brighter for people who have money to spend on and everything. They do not bother about poverty and the problems of the poor but always think*about their status and pleasures that money can bring and life for them is beautiful.

Question 18.
What does Mara the watchman, reveal to the King on the night of the storm?
Answer:
Mara revealed the King of the appearance of Goddess once again in his dreams in an angry mood. She had threatened that river Veda would overflow and destroy the villages. Mara’s pleading to spare them was of no avail. As she did not relent, Mara asked her permission to go and inform the King and to wait for his return, which she agreed to. Mara told the King to kill him so that he could not return and the Goddess will have to wait for his return and the villages will be saved.

Question 19.
In what way does the farmer’s widow intend to solve the problem?
Answer:
The farmer’s widow resolves to live for the sake of her children. Though the farmer had committed suicide, she does not become a coward to die. Moreover, she has the responsibility of looking after their children and their future. In order to take care of her children, she must be alive. So she decided to live for the sake of her children.

Question 20.
Give an account of how Babar Ali’s school grew out of a game.
Answer:
Babar Ah started school at the age of nine. In fact, his school “Anand Siksha Niketan” grew out of a game. Initially, the children used to play with Babar as a teacher. Ill’s friends had never seen the inside of a school. so they enjoyed playing students, They ended up learning arithmetic and enjoying it In 2002, this game got institutionalized with a strength of eight. Word spread and the numbers grew. Many friends of Ah and Non-Government Organisations. IAS officers and local cops donated rice for midday meals. At last, Government took the initiative to provide rice to the school. Now the school has 800 students in total. with 10 volunteer teachers teaching for classes one to eight, it is a godsent Opportunity for the poór children of the neighboring villages.

Question 21.
Describe the acts of courage of the two boys during the war.
Answer:
Their father had been killed during the war with Germany and a bomb had destroyed their home. They hated the Germans and when a secret resistance movement was formed they joined it even at that tender age. Their youth and small size along with their intimate knowledge of the neighboring hills made them immensely valuable. They were used to carry messages to the forces of liberation and to ferret out information on the movements of the German troops.

Question 22.
Why does the speaker want to be a tree?
Answer:
The speaker wanted to be a tree because no one would discriminate against it and birds wouldn’t ask to what caste it belonged and sunlight would (approach) embrace it and its shadow wouldn’t be termed polluted. It can make friendship with the cool breeze, and raindrops would not go back by thinking that it is untouchable. The tree would feel happy with the touch of a sacred cow and it would get the opportunity of providing shelter for the hundred thousand Gods said to be residing in the cow. The tree can become pure in it is cut into dry pieces and burnt in the holy fire and can help the sinless dead body by becoming a bier on the shoulders of four good men.

The poem describes the sense of equality present in nature, Sunlight and cool breeze treat everybody with love and spread their sweetness to all without discrimination. Unlike some humans who feel polluted getting in contact with the untouchables, nature has no such sense of superiority. All are equal in their eves.

The poem also presents social discrimination, as the speaker is much humiliated by the social discrimination and wanted to become a tree to escape from discrimination in society. He feels the safety, purity, and generosity, and helping nature of a tree more than in human beings. In society, a man without thinking of helping others thinks which is pure and which is polluted. He neglects and discriminates against some and appreciates others in name of caste, creed, and religion. So this practice is meaningless and the practice must be prohibited to sustain equality in society.

III. Answer one of the following in about 200 words. (1 × 6 = 6)

Question 23.
The details given by Frederick Douglass about his mother depict a mother’s, deep love. Substantiate.
Answer:
Frederick Douglass’s mother was a slave to Captain Anthony who was rumored to have sired Frederick. It was the practice of white masters to sexually exploit the female slaves and the children born out of this follow the condition of their mothers. By this cunning arrangement, the slaveholder sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father.

It was a common custom in those parts to part these children from their mothers at a very early age, by selling the mothers off to some other farm and placing the child in the cure of an old woman too old for field labor. Douglass’s mother was hired by a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from his place. She worked as a field hand and she made her journeys to see her son in the night after the day’s work, traveling on foot. Whipping was the penalty for not being in the field at sunrise and so, she could spend only very little time with her son and had to return. Not much communication ever took place between them. She died when he was about seven.

She underwent all these hardships just to spend a few hours once in a while with her son, putting him to sleep and just lying next to him. She could not enjoy caring for him, or nursing him, or watch him grow. This shows a mother’s deep love for her child, which they had no means to express otherwise, under such terrible conditions.
OR
Comment on the collective money madness as described in the poem ‘Money Madness’.
Answer:
The poem Money Madness by D.H. Lawrence focuses on how a man becomes more materialistic and loses the values and sentiments in society. He respects money over relationships. Society goes on to measure a man in Venus of money. A man who does not have money does not get respect from society and those who have money get respect and are obeyed by all. So to get all these social statuses, the man gives much importance to money and he never helps other fellow beings who may be in difficulties.

The poet says that man has this money madness and it is widely spread among men. Fie affirms that if society goes behind money, individuals to goes behind the same. He confirms that no man gives a pound without pain and no man gives ten pounds without trembling, and the man loses his generosity. Man makes money. but money makes man and many things. So, the man fears more and tries to accumulate it and respects it instead of other men. The poet also warns that money-less people should not be treated with neglect and should not be treated based on status.

The poet fears for mankind that if it measures another man only in terms of money, there would be no future for human relationships. If people do not regain sanity about money. certainly, money has got men down to become its slaves. So. the poet offers a genuine solution that bread shoúld be free, shelter should be free and fire should be free to all the people in the world.

In the overall view of the poem, the poet worries about man’s greed for money and offers a better solution for a better tomorrow.
or
Nicola and Jacopo bring nobility to human life. Explain.
Answer:
War is the element of mass destruction and history has plenty of examples of total annihilation of cities and populations. But. it can only destroy physical structures like houses. buildings and of course humans, It can never crush the spirit of the survivors, as in the case of the boys, Jacopo and Nicola.

They had lost everything in the war including their father and their house. But, their indomitable spirit, toughens them to face the situation bravely, do their might in the freedom struggle, and later take care of their sister’s treatment by the sheer dint of their hard work and determination.

They stand out as shining examples for their courage in the face of adversities and in a way. war has lost to them and they have emerged victorious.

IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it. (10 × 1 = 10)

Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he could marry the farmer’s daughter.

Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. So the cunning moneylender suggested that they let providence decide the matter.

He told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father’s debt would be written off. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be written off. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail. They were standing on a pebble-strewn path in the farmer’s field.

As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles. The girl put her hand into the money bag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.

“Oh, how clumsy of me,” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked. “

Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the moneylender dared not admit his dishonesty; the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.

Question 24.
What was the misfortune of the farmer?
Answer:
Owing to a large sum of money to the village moneylender.

Question 25.
Which proposal of the moneylender horrified the farmer and his daughter?
Answer:
His proposal of marrying the farmer’s daughter for writing off the farmer’s debt.

Question 26.
How could the girl save her father?
Answer:
The clever girl had noticed the money lender putting two black pebbles in the bag, and wisely took one pebble out and let it fall among all the other pebbles on the path. As it was not possible to spot the one she had dropped, she suggested that whatever colored pebble was in the bag, was opposite to what she had chosen. As it was a black pebble in the bag, it was assumed that she had chosen a white one. In this way, she saved her father and herself.

Question 27.
What trick did the moneylender play while putting the stones into the bag?
Answer:
He had put two black pebbles only.

Question 28.
What did the girl do with the pebble she had taken out from the bag?
Answer:
Let it fall among the other pebbles on the path.

Question 29.
“An impossible situation was changed into an advantageous one” by
(a) the act of providence.
(b) the cleverness of the girl.
(c) chance.
Answer:
(b) the cleverness of the girl.

Question 30.
Choose the word from the passage which suggests that the girl had a keen observation.
Answer:
Sharp-eyed girl.

Question 31.
Add a prefix to the word ‘honesty’ to form its antonym.
Answer:
Dishonesty.

Question 32.
The expression “written off’ means
(a) already written.
(b) canceled.
(c) repaid.
Answer:
(b) canceled

Question 33.
The moneylender’s ……………. (suggest) was accepted by the farmer. (Fill in the blank by adding a suitable suffix to the word given in brackets.)
Answer:
The moneylender’s suggestion was accepted by the farmer.

V. A. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions given in brackets. (1 × 4 = 4)

Question 34.
Babar wakes up every morning ……………. 7 and starts his day …………….. doing some household chores. Then he takes ……… autorickshaw first and later walks to ……….. school where he is a class XII student. (a, an, by, the, at, on)
Answer:
Babar wakes up every morning at 7 and starts his day by doing some household chores. Then he takes an auto-rickshaw first and later walks to the school, where he is a class XII student.

B. Fill in the blanks with the suitable form of the verbs given in brackets. (1 × 4 = 4)

Question 35.
The Goddess stood before me. Her dresses ………. (be) wild, her eyes …………..(gleam) with a strange light. She ………… (have, splash) her forehead with vermilion.
Answer:
The Goddess stood before me. Her dresses were wild, her eyes gleamed with a strange light. She had splashed her forehead with vermilion.

C. Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject. (1 × 3 = 3)

Question 36.
The man ………….. (went/goes) near the hut. It ……………(was/were) occupied by the lords of the Jungle. He went away and …………..(built/build) a better one.
Answer:
The man went near the hut. It was occupied by the lords of the Jungle. He went away and built a better one.

D. Correct the following sentences and rewrite them. (2 × 1 = 2)

Question 37.
One of the boy was 12 years old.
Answer:
One of the boys was 12 years old.

Question 38.
‘When you came?
Answer:
When did you come?

E. Rewrite as directed. (6 × 1 = 6)

Question 39.
The man came to……….(seas/cease) the narrator’s humiliation. (Fill in the blank with the appropriate words given in brackets.)
Answer:
The man came to cease the narrator’s humiliation.

Question 40.
The (separate) of mother and child was inevitable. (Complete the sentence with the right form of the word given in brackets.)
Answer:
The separation of mother and child was inevitable.

Question 41.
religion 7 man’s / true / is / education . (Rearrange the segments to form a meaningful sentence.)
Answer:
Education is man’s true religion.

Question 42.
The narrator was asked to accompany the man. (Add a question tag.)
Answer;
wasn’t he?

Question 43.
She made her journey to see her child in the night. (Change into a question beginning with the right form of ‘do’.)
Answer:
Did she make journeys to see her child in the night?

Question 44.
The German Elite Guard established its headquarters in Verona. (Frame a question so as to get the underlined word as the answer.)
Answer:
Where did the German Elite Guard establish its headquarters?

VI A. Refer to the following list of events and answer the questions set on it. (1 × 4 = 4)

College Union Day

Event	Time
Inaugural function	09:00am to 11:00am
Prize Distribution	11:00am to 12:15pm
Cultural Programmes	(a) Songs and Dances 12:15pm to 02:00pm (b) Lunch Break 02:00pm to 03:00pm (c) Fish Pond 03:00pm to 04:00pm

Question 45.
(i) How long will the inaugural event last?
Answer:
For 2 hrs.

(ii) When will the prize distribution begin?
Answer:
At 11 am,

(iii) The cultural programs will take place
(a) in the morning,
(b) in the afternoon,
(c) at night.
Answer:
(b) in the afternoon

(iv) What is the time allotted for Fish Pond?
Answer:
3 pm to 4 pm (1 hr).

B. Write a letter to the Principal of Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, inviting him/her and the staff to attend the Cultural Day Programme of your College.

Question 46.
Your letter should contain the following points.

• date and time of program
• venue of the program
• list of a few items in the program

Answer:
Prajwal
Vidya PU College
Tumkur

25th July 2014

The Principal
Sarvodaya Vidyalaya
Bangalore

Sub: Invitation for cultural programs

Dear Sir,
Regarding the above subject, you are cordially invited to attend our cultural programs along with your faculty and staff on 5th August 2014 at 12 p.m. The programme is held at Vidya PU College, Tumkur.

The list of programs is given below for your kind information.
(a) Songs and dance 12:15 pm to 02:00 pm
(b) Lunch Break . 02:00 p.m to 03:00 pm
(c) Fishpond 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm.

We will be awaiting your presence.

Thank you

Yours faithfully
Sd/-
[PRAJWAL]

VII. A. Match the expressions under column A to their corresponding language function under B: (1 × 5 = 5)

Question 47.

A. Expressions	B. Functions
1. Hello, Good Morning.	(a) expressing sympathy.
2. Shankar, this is Mahesh	(b) greeting
3. Thank you so much.	(c) introducing
4. What a pity!	(d) expressing gratitude
5. What you say may be right, but	(e) disagreeing

Answer:

A. Expressions	B. Functions
1. Hello, Good Morning.	(b) greeting
2. Shankar, this is Mahesh	(c) introducing
3. Thank you so much.	(d) expressing gratitude
4. What a pity!	(a) expressing sympathy.
5. What you say may be right, but	(e) disagreeing

B. Complete the dialogue: (1 × 4 = 4)

Question 48.
Customer: ………… I’ve got a complaint to make.
Manager: Tell me ……………..?
Customer: I’ve been waiting for the past twenty minutes but no one seems to attend to this table.
Manager: ……………..I’ll send someone at once.,
Customer: ……………………………………………
Answer:
Customer: Excuse me. I’ve got a complaint to make.
Manager: Tell me, sir, what is the problem?
Customer: I’ve been waiting for the past twenty minutes but no one seems to attend to this table.
Manager: Please wait. I’ll send someone at once.
Customer: Please do it quickly. Thank you.

C. Dialogue Writing : (1 × 3 = 3)

Question 49.
Naveen has won the championship at the district-level athletics meet. His friend Kiran compliments him. Write a dialogue between Naveen and Kiran. The dialogue should cover the following points:

• About his training
• About his victory

Answer:
Kiran: Congratulations, you have achieved it.
Naveen: Thank you.
Kiran: How did you train yourself for victory.
Naveen: Kiran, every day I practiced for 6 hours, and my self-confidence also helped me to win.
Kiran: How do you feel about your victory?
Naveen: Victory is not the end, it is just the beginning. I have to win at State and National levels.
Kiran: All the best!
Naveen: Thank you.