HS ABTA 2025 – English Page 35 (Solved Answer Key),HS English ABTA Guide

HS ABTA 2025 – English Page 35 (Solved Answer Key)

HS English ABTA Guide – Page 35 Complete Solutions

HS ABTA English Sample Questions (Page 35) with Answers

Solved Question Set – HS ABTA English Page 35

HS English Exam Practice – Page 35 (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Unseen Solved)

All Grammar of ABTA 2025 -2026

PROSE

(Choose the appropriate answer for each question : 1×10=10)

1. Dehra was situated –

(a) at the end of the heavy jungles of the plains

(b) 30 kilometers from Deoli

(d) none of the above

2. Which specific physical characteristic of the basket seller drew the narrator's attention?

(a) Her bare feet and old clothes

(b) Her dark and troubled eyes

(d) Her shiny but pale looking black hair

3. The owner of the tea stall at Deoli railway station was a small and ______ man.

(a) fat

(b) tidy

(d) shrivelled up

4. Rearrange the following sentences:

(i) The station's bell clanged

(ii) The narrator ran for the moving train

(iii) The basket seller girl nodded her head

(iv) The train slid forward

(a) (i)-(ii)-(iv)-(iii)

(b) (iv)-(iii)-(i)-(ii)

(d) (i)-(iv)-(iii)-(ii)

5. The wife of Jainulabdeen was –

(a) Ashiamma

(b) Asiamma

(d) Asiama

6. What lesson did A.P.J. Abdul Kalam learn from Jainulabdeen’s words regarding troubles and suffering?

(a) One has to avoid difficulties at all costs

(b) One has to take challenges and hardships as opportunities for growth and self-discovery

(d) One has to blame God for his/her misfortune

7. Pick out the true statement:

(i) Kalam used to start his day at 4 a.m. by reading the Namaz before dawn

(ii) Jainulabdeen followed his daily routine strictly, even in his late sixties

(iii) Kalam's father was highly educated

(iv) Kalam was the only son of his parents

(a) (iv)

(b) (i)

(~~d) (ii)~~

8. Anton Chekhov's The Bet opens dupunishment

) an autumn evening

(b) a starry autumn night

(d) a dark autumn night

9. Match the Columns:

COLUMN–A (Words) COLUMN–B (Meanings)

(i) Capital punishment (a) The study of God and religious beliefs

(ii) Theology (b) Death sentence

(iii) Shaggy (c) Untidy

(iv) Renounce (d) Formal rejection (of something)

Options:c

(a) (i)-(b); (ii)-(a); (iii)-(c); (iv)-(d)

(b) (i)-(b); (ii)-(a); (iii)-(d); (iv)-(c)

(d) (i)-(d); (ii)-(c); (iii)-(b); (iv)-(a)

10. The banker's 'prisoner' was set to be 'released' –

(a) at twelve O’Clock of November 14, 1870

(b) at twelve O’Clock of November 15, 1870

(d) at twelve O’Clock of November 14, 1885

POETRY

(Choose the correct alternatives : 1×10=10)

11. What had wound round and round, "Like a huge python," the Casuarina tree?

(a) The crimson flowers

(b) A scarf

(d) A baboon

12. According to Toru Dutt, the “dirge-like murmur” of the Casuarina tree symbolises –

(a) her mournings

(b) the tree’s mournings

(d) the baboon’s mournings

13. The feelings that the poet associates with the Casuarina tree are –

(a) comfort, security and happy memories

(b) loneliness and isolation

(d) fear and danger

14. Assertion: The Casuarina tree is, and will always be very dear to the poet.

Reason: The Casuarina tree houses a lot of life forms—both animals and birds and flowers.

(a) Assertion is true but Reason is false

(b) Assertion is false but Reason is true

(d) Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion

15. If Creeper : Python, then Water-lilies :

(a) Rain

(b) Snow

(d) Gold

16. Tennyson's Ulysses is none other than –

(a) Thor

(b) Odysseus

(d) Apollo

17. In Ulysses the phrase “soft degrees” means –

(a) Gradually

(b) Gently

(d) None of the above

18. Match the Columns:

Person Quality/Characteristic

(i) Ulysses (a) Great

(ii) Telemachus (b) Blameless

(iii) The residents of Ithaca (c) Savage

(iv) Achilles (d) Old

Options:

(a) (i)-(a); (ii)-(c); (iii)-(b); (iv)-(d)

(b) (i)-(d); (ii)-(b); (iii)-(c); (iv)-(a)

(d) (i)-(d); (ii)-(c); (iii)-(b); (iv)-(a)

19. It is expected that Telemachus would rule his subjects with –

(a) prudence

(b) cruelty

(d) experience

20. Ulysses : Telemachus :: ?

(a) Old-age

(b) Love of (sea) voyages

(c) The rulers of the savage people

(d) God-like status

DRAMA

(Choose the correct alternatives : 1×5=5)

21. Synge's Riders to the Sea depicts the life and struggle of the people of the –

(a) North Coast of Ireland

(b) South Coast of Ireland

(d) West Coast of Ireland

22. Maurya has lost ______ sons to the sea.

(a) two

(b) four

(d) six

23. Match the Columns:

Persons/Characters Relation(s)

(i) Cathleen (a) One of Maurya's sons

(ii) Nora (b) Youngest son of Maurya

(iii) Bartley (c) Maurya's younger daughter

(iv) Michael (d) Maurya's elder daughter

Options:

(a) (i)-(a); (ii)-(b); (iii)-(c); (iv)-(d)

(b) (i)-(d); (ii)-(c); (iii)-(b); (iv)-(a)

(d) (i)-(d); (ii)-(c); (iii)-(a); (iv)-(b)

24. The gray pony symbolises –

(a) good luck

(b) mother’s affection

(d) brother’s guidance

25. Pick out the statement which is not correct:

(a) Patch, along with his father and grandfather, were lost forever, all together

(b) The spinning wheel indicates the continuity of life

(d) Bartley looked for a rope, which is to be used as bridle on the red mare

UNSEEN PASSAGE

(Read the passage and answer the following :

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

There is an old Persian story of an aged man, lame and leaning on a staff. One stormy evening he appeared at the door of Abraham's tent. He was received with the usual hospitality. But Abraham observed that the stranger ate and did not pray, asking no blessings for food. Being surprised, Abraham asked him why he didn't worship the God of Heaven. The old man said that fire was his God and he worshipped no other God. Hearing this, Abraham was angry and drove him out into the night.

As soon as he was gone, God called Abraham and asked where the stranger was. He replied, "I drove him out because he did not worship thee." God answered him and said, "I have made him suffer these hundred years; couldst thou not put up with him one night?" Upon this Abraham brought him back and entertained him hospitably.

1×10=10)

31. According to the passage, the old man had a defect in his –

(a) eyes

(b) legs

(d) head

32. The word staff means –

(a) worker

(b) helper

(d) tight fitting

33. According to the passage, the stranger was the worshipper of –

(a) God

(b) Sun

(d) Water

34. In the passage, the term turned up means –

(a) appeared

(b) leaned

(d) observed

35. The day on which the old man appeared at Abraham’s tent was marked by –

(a) natural calamity

(b) political agitation

(d) peaceful ambience

36. The behaviour of the stranger that surprised Abraham was that –

(a) he prayed before his food

(b) he ate with great hunger

(d) he did not pray before taking his food

37. “I have made him suffer – –” Mention the form of the underlined verb.

(a) Present indefinite tense

(b) Present continuous tense

(d) Present perfect tense

38. “I have made him suffer these ______ years.”

(a) 10

(b) 100

(d) 5

39. Hearing of his worshipper, Abraham drove him out. The phrasal verb drove out means –

(a) banished

(b) vanished

(d) captivated

40. “As soon as he was gone, God called upon Abraham.”

Convert into a negative sentence. Choose the correct one:

(a) No sooner than he was gone, God called upon Abraham

(b) No sooner had he gone, God called upon Abraham

(d) None of these

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