Class xii semester III Question 1 Answer Key
1. Despite his disadvantages, what qualities did Kalam’s father possess?
(a) inner wisdom
(b) inmost wisdom
(c) innate wisdom
(d) inert wisdom
✅ Ans: (c) innate wisdom
2. Adversity always presents opportunities for —
(a) retrospection
(b) inspection
(c) suspicion
(d) introspection
✅ Ans: (d) introspection
3. The water sanctified by Kalam's father was carried home for —
(a) offering prayer
(b) invalids
(c) old people
(d) little children
✅ Ans: (b) invalids
4. During his period of confinement, the lawyer was deprived of the right to cross the —
(a) garden
(b) boundary
(c) threshold
(d) town
✅ Ans: (c) threshold
5. The Bet is a story about —
(a) a banker and a doctor
(b) a lawyer and a doctor
(c) a banker and a lawyer
(d) a doctor and a farmer
✅ Ans: (c) a banker and a lawyer
6. Who informed the banker that the lawyer had escaped from the cell?
(a) Watchman
(b) Prisoner
(c) Gardener
(d) passerby
✅ Ans: (a) Watchman
7. How far was Deoli from Dehra?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 50 miles
(c) 30 miles
(d) 70 miles
✅ Ans: (c) 30 miles
8. How long does the train stop at Deoli?
(a) A few seconds
(b) A few minutes
(c) Half an hour
(d) It does not stop at all
✅ Ans: (b) A few minutes
9. Assertion: The narrator (The Night Train at Deoli) never forgets the girl at Deoli.
Reason: ?
(a) She gave him a gift
(b) She reminds him of his childhood
(c) She promised to meet him later
(d) She represents a moment of unfulfilled desire and mystery
✅ Ans: (d) She represents a moment of unfulfilled desire and mystery
10. What happened at Deoli station generally?
(a) A lot of activity
(b) Many people boarded
(c) Nothing ever happened
(d) All trains skipped it
✅ Ans: (c) Nothing ever happened
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Poems
11. A creeper climbs the casuarina tree like a —
(a) Python
(b) scarf
(c) rope
(d) tail
✅ Ans: (a) Python
12. What is the tone of the poem Our Casuarina Tree?
(a) Angry and resentful
(b) sarcastic and mocking
(c) bittersweet and nostalgic
(d) playful and lighthearted
✅ Ans: (c) bittersweet and nostalgic
13. “The grey baboon sits statue-like alone” contains which rhetorical device?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Simile
(c) Metaphor
(d) Apostrophe
✅ Ans: (b) Simile
14. What does the poet associate the casuarina tree with?
(a) Childhood memories and lost loved ones
(b) The struggles of life
(c) The beauty of urbanization
(d) The horrors of colonial rule
✅ Ans: (a) Childhood memories and lost loved ones
15. What is the poetic form of Our Casuarina Tree?
(a) A sonnet
(b) A free verse
(c) A lyrical poem
(d) An epic poem
✅ Ans: (c) A lyrical poem
16. What is the speaker in Ulysses longing for?
(a) A peaceful and quiet retirement
(b) New adventures and experiences
(c) The comfort of his family
(d) Forgiveness for his past mistake
✅ Ans: (b) New adventures and experiences
17. “I will drink / Life to the lees…” — What does the phrase mean?
(a) Wasting time
(b) Living fully
(c) Sleeping deeply
(d) Escaping reality
✅ Ans: (b) Living fully
18. How does the poem Ulysses end?
(a) With Ulysses bidding farewell to his son
(b) With Ulysses preparing for his final voyage
(c) With Ulysses expressing regret for his actions
(d) With Ulysses deciding to stay in Ithaca
✅ Ans: (b) With Ulysses preparing for his final voyage
19. What does Ulysses compare himself to in the poem?
(a) a rusty sword
(b) a caged bird
(c) a ship lost at sea
(d) a lion
✅ Ans: (a) a rusty sword
20. How does Ulysses describe his past adventures?
(a) As dull and uneventful
(b) As noble and inspiring
(c) As difficult and tragic
(d) As ordinary and mundane
✅ Ans: (b) As noble and inspiring
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Play – Riders to the Sea
21. What is one of the main subjects in Riders to the Sea?
(a) adventure
(b) suffering
(c) romance
(d) wealth
✅ Ans: (b) suffering
22. What do Cathleen and Nora hide in the loft to avoid distressing Maurya?
(a) A piece of rope
(b) A letter from Michael
(c) A bundle of clothing
(d) a broken oar
✅ Ans: (c) A bundle of clothing
23. How does Nora identify the stocking?
(a) By the red thread
(b) By the number of stitches and a dropped stitch
(c) By Michael’s name
(d) By a tear in the heel
✅ Ans: (b) By the number of stitches and a dropped stitch
24. What kind of a play is Riders to the Sea?
(a) a poetic play
(b) a tragic play
(c) a farce
(d) both (a) and (b)
✅ Ans: (d) both (a) and (b)
25. Which family member is never shown alive in the play but is important to the plot?
(a) Michael
(b) Bartley
(c) Maurya’s husband
(d) Cathleen
✅ Ans: (a) Michael
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Grammar & Composition
26. Split the sentence: I watched her as the platform slipped away.
(a) I watched her. But the platform slipped away.
(b) I watched her. So, the platform slipped away.
(c) The platform slipped away. Yet I watched her.
(d) The platform slipped away. So, I watched her.
✅ Ans: (c) The platform slipped away. Yet I watched her.
27. Join into a complex sentence:
My father had neither much formal education, nor much wealth. Yet he possessed great innate wisdom.
(a) As my father had neither much formal education, nor much wealth, he possessed great innate wisdom.
(b) Though my father had neither much formal education, nor much wealth, he possessed great innate wisdom.
(c) My father had neither much formal education, nor much wealth, because he possessed great innate wisdom.
(d) Though my father possessed great innate wisdom, he had neither much formal education, nor much wealth.
✅ Ans: (b) Though my father had neither much formal education, nor much wealth, he possessed great innate wisdom.
28. Join into a simple sentence:
I went down to the spring well. I stood there saying a prayer to myself.
(a) Saying a prayer to myself, I stood there to go down to the spring well.
(b) Going down to the spring well, I stood there saying a prayer to myself.
(c) Having gone down to the spring well, I stood there saying a prayer to myself.
(d) Having gone down to the spring well, I stood there to say a prayer to myself.
✅ Ans: (b) Going down to the spring well, I stood there saying a prayer to myself.
29. I have always tried to emulation my father. (Correct the error)
(a) emulate
(b) emulate with
(c) emulating
✅ Ans: (a) emulate
30. Change the narration: She said, “Are you sure you don’t want a basket?”
(a) She asked if I am sure I don’t want a basket.
(b) She asked if I was sure I want a basket.
(c) She said that she wants to buy a basket.
(d) She asked me if I was sure I don’t want a basket.
✅ Ans: (d) She asked me if I was sure I did not want a basket.
Comprehension Passage
31. The given extract is a —
✅ Ans: (a) story
32. Assertion: The Giant did not despise the winter now. Reason:
✅ Ans: (a) He knew that the spring was sleeping
33. Which of the following statements is true?
✅ Ans: (d) Both (a) and (b)
34. In the farthest corner of the garden, there was a tree “covered with —
✅ Ans: (d) lovely white blossoms
35. On the palms of the child, were the marks of —
✅ Ans: (b) love
36. The word ‘awe’ means —
✅ Ans: (a) reverential feel
37. Who hath dared to wound thee? The finite verb tense —
✅ Ans: (d) None of these (archaic present form)
38. He hastened across the grass, and came near to the child. Sentence type —
✅ Ans: (c) Compound Sentence
39. He did not hate the winter now. Passive form —
✅ Ans: (b) was not hated
40. “I may take the big sword and slay him”. The speaker is —
✅ Ans: (c) The Giant
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