Model 38. HS 2nd Yr. Unit Test. (Sep 2025)

HS 2nd Year
Subject- ENGLISH
(Total Marks- 50)


1. Answer any 10 of the following questions: (1x10=10)
  
a. Which natural beauty of Assam impressed Rowntree the most?
b. What was the poet’s childhood fear in “My Mother at Sixty Six”?
c. Where does Saheb originally hail from?
d. What is the name of the river mentioned in “The Last Lesson”?
e. Who is Darek?
f. At what age did the Tiger King kill his first tiger?
g. What prophecy was made about the Tiger King?
h. Name the book from which “Memoirs of a Chota Sahib” is taken.
i. Name some traditional games played during Magh Bihu.
j. What is the name of Geoff’s younger brother?
k. What are mahseers?
l. Where did Gandhi stay in Muzzafarpur?


2. Answer any five questions from the following: (2x5‎ = 10)

a. ‘Garbage to them is gold’. How do ragpickers of Seemapuri survive?
b. Describe the irony in Saheb’s name?
c. Why did Gandhi ji feel that taking the Champaran case to the court was useless?
d. What does the term Domahi means? What do people usually have for lunch on that day?
e. Why did the Tiger King marry a girl from another state? 
f. Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than anyone else?
g. What was the story Sophie told Geoff about Danny Casey?


3. Answer any two of the following questions: (2x5=10)

a. Describe the exploitation of the indigo sharecroppers by the British landlords. How did Gandhi help them?
b. How does the author describe the natural wealth of Assam in the essay?
c. What is Kati Bihu’s significance? How is Kati Bihu celebrated in Assam?
d. How did Dr. Sadao and Hana save the life of the injured American soldier?
 e. Why did Zitkala-Sa cry on her very first day in the land of apples.



4. Change the voice of any three of the following sentences: (1x3=3)

    a. Rina completed the homework.
    b. They will sing the song.
    c. She wrote a letter.
   d. The thief has been arrested by the police.
   e. He has solved the problem.


5. Change the form of any two of the narration in the following sentences: (1x2=2)

     a. They said that they were going to 
Mumbai the next day.
     b. She said, “I cannot attend the party today because I have to visit my grandmother in the hospital.”
     c. He said to the boys, “ Let us start at once, otherwise we may miss the train”.



6. You are Rani/ Ravi. You have seen an advertisement for the post of a Sales Executive in a reputed company. Write a job application, along with your detailed resume, to the Regional Director of the company in response to the advertisement applying for the post. (1x10=10)


7. You are the secretary of the Eco-Club of your school, write a notice about a Tree Plantation Drive to be organised by your school. (1x5‎ = 5)

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