English Literature [Official]
Marks: 100 CISCE
ISC (Commerce)
ISC (Arts)
ISC (Science)
Academic Year: 2019-2020
Date: मार्च 2020
ISC (Commerce)
ISC (Arts)
ISC (Science)
Academic Year: 2019-2020
Date: मार्च 2020
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(Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutes for only reading the paper, They must NOT start writing during this time.)
Answer one question from Section A and four questions from Section B.
In Section B choose questions on at least three textbooks which may include EITHER Shakespeare’s The Tempest OR Bernard Shaw’s Candida
Note:
You are required to select questions on one play only, EITHER The Tempest OR Candida in Sections A and B.
The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].
Section - A (Answer one question)
THE TEMPEST - Shakespeare
[30]1. | Choose two of the passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions that follow:[10]1. (a)
Answer briefly the questions that the passage follows:
| Prospero: | This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by th’ sailors. Thou, my slave, As thou report’st thyself, was then her servant, And for thou wast a spirit too delicate To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands, Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, By help of her more potent ministers And in her most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine..... |
- What leads Prospero to talk about the ‘blue-eyed hag’? [1]
- Why was she brought to this island? [2]
- What account do we get of Ariel’s suffering in the cloven pine? Who had saved him and how? [2]
- How does Prospero describe the hag’s son? [2]
- What does Prospero threaten to do to Ariel now? What effect does his threat have on Ariel? [2]
- Give the meanings of the following words in the context of the passage: [1]
abhorr’d, cloven
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[10]1. (b)
Answer briefly the questions that the passage follows:
| Caliban: | I prithee let me bring thee where crabs grow, And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts, Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset. I’ll bring thee To clust’ring filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me? |
- To whom is Caliban speaking these lines? [1]
- Briefly describe the circumstance under which he had met them. [2]
- Who does he think they are? Why? [2]
- To which other person had Caliban shown such a slavish attitude? What had the result been? [2]
- How do his present listeners respond to his words? [2]
- Give the meanings of the following words as they are used in the context of the passage: [1]
snare, marmoset
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[10]1. (c)
Answer briefly the questions that the passage follows:
| Ariel: | Thy thoughts I cleave to. What’s thy pleasure? |
| Prospero: | Spirit, we must prepare to meet with Caliban. |
| Ariel: | Ay, my commander. When I presented Ceres I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear’d Lest I might anger thee. |
| Prospero: | Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets? |
- For whom is the term varlets being used? [1]
- What conical behaviour of theirs does Ariel narrate now? [2]
- Where had these people been going? Why? [2]
- Where did Ariel leave them eventually? What did they do then? [2]
- What does Prospero tell Ariel to do? Why? [2]
- Give the meaning of the following words as they are used in the context of the passage: [1]
cleave, varlets
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CANDIDA - George Bernard Shaw
[30]2. | Choose two ofthe passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions which follow:[10]2. (a)
Answer briefly the questions that the passage follows:
| Morell: | (thoughtfully) Hm! Time for him to take another look at Candida before she grows out of his knowledge. (He resigns himself to the inevitable, and goes out). Lexy looks after him with beaming worship. Miss Garnett, not being able to shake Lexy, relieves her feelings by worrying the typewriter. |
| Lexy: | What a good man! What a thorough loving soul he is! (He takes Morell’s place at the table, making himself very comfortable as he takes out a cigaret). |
| Proserpine: | (impatiently, pulling the letter she has been working at off the typewriter and folding it) Oh, a man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. |
| Lexy: | (shocked) Oh, Miss Prossy! |
- Who is Morell talking about? How does he react when he gets to know about the arrival of this person? [1]
- What advice has Morell given Lexy about marriage? [2]
- What does Proserpine say further to express her displeasure? [2]
- When Lexy expresses unhappiness at Proserpine’s feelings against Candida, how does Prossy defend herself? [2]
- Judging by Lexy’s disbelief, how does Proserpine condemn men’s ideas about women? [2]
- How does Lexy voice his regret then? [1]
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[10]2. (b)
Answer briefly the questions that the passage follows:
| Marchbanks: | (stopping her mysteriously) Hush! I go about in search of love; and I find it in unmeasured stores in the bosoms of others. But when I try to ask for it, this horrible shyness strangles me; and I stand dumb, or worse than dumb, saying meaningless things: foolish lies. And I see the affection I am longing for given to dogs and cats and pet birds, because they come and ask for it. (Almost whispering) It must be asked for: it is like a ghost: it cannot speak unless it is first spoken to. (At his usual pitch, but with deep melancholy) All the love in the world is longing to speak; only it dare not, because it is shy! shy! shy! That is the world’s tragedy. (With a deep sigh, he sits in the visitors’ chair and buries his face in his hands.) |
| Proserpine: | (amazed, but keeping her wits about her: her point of honor in encounters with strange young men) Wicked people get over that shyness occasionally, don’t they? |
- Where are Marchbanks and Proserpine? [1]
- How does Marchbanks offend Proserpine? [2]
- What are Marchbanks’ ideas of love? [2]
- What is ‘like a ghost’? Why has he used this reference? [2]
- What does Marchbanks tell about his shyness to Proserpine? [2]
- Does Marchbanks agree with Proserpine when she says that wicked people do not feel shy? [1]
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